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    locking/atomic: Fix atomic_set_release() for 'funny' architectures · 9d664c0a
    Peter Zijlstra authored
    
    
    Those architectures that have a special atomic_set implementation also
    need a special atomic_set_release(), because for the very same reason
    WRITE_ONCE() is broken for them, smp_store_release() is too.
    
    The vast majority is architectures that have spinlock hash based atomic
    implementation except hexagon which seems to have a hardware 'feature'.
    
    The spinlock based atomics should be SC, that is, none of them appear to
    place extra barriers in atomic_cmpxchg() or any of the other SC atomic
    primitives and therefore seem to rely on their spinlock implementation
    being SC (I did not fully validate all that).
    
    Therefore, the normal atomic_set() is SC and can be used at
    atomic_set_release().
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
    Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com> [for tile]
    Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
    Cc: davem@davemloft.net
    Cc: james.hogan@imgtec.com
    Cc: jejb@parisc-linux.org
    Cc: rkuo@codeaurora.org
    Cc: vgupta@synopsys.com
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170609110506.yod47flaav3wgoj5@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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