Will Deacon 534be1d5a2 ARM: 6194/1: change definition of cpu_relax() for ARM11MPCore ... Linux expects that if a CPU modifies a memory location, then that modification will eventually become visible to other CPUs in the system. On an ARM11MPCore processor, loads are prioritised over stores so it is possible for a store operation to be postponed if a polling loop immediately follows it. If the variable being polled indirectly depends on the outstanding store [for example, another CPU may be polling the variable that is pending modification] then there is the potential for deadlock if interrupts are disabled. This deadlock occurs in the KGDB testsuire when executing on an SMP ARM11MPCore configuration. This patch changes the definition of cpu_relax() to smp_mb() for ARMv6 cores, forcing a flushing of the write buffer on SMP systems before the next load takes place. If the Kernel is not compiled for SMP support, this will expand to a barrier() as before. Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>		2010-07-01 10:13:52 +01:00
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asm	ARM: 6194/1: change definition of cpu_relax() for ARM11MPCore	2010-07-01 10:13:52 +01:00