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<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<updated>2013-05-11T20:48:15Z</updated>
<entry>
<title>x86/mm: account for PGDIR_SIZE alignment</title>
<updated>2013-05-11T20:48:15Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jerry Hoemann</name>
<email>jerry.hoemann@hp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-30T21:15:55Z</published>
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Patch for -stable.  Function find_early_table_space removed upstream.

Fixes panic in alloc_low_page due to pgt_buf overflow during
init_memory_mapping.

find_early_table_space sizes pgt_buf based upon the size of the
memory being mapped, but it does not take into account the alignment
of the memory.  When the region being mapped spans a 512GB (PGDIR_SIZE)
alignment, a panic from alloc_low_pages occurs.

kernel_physical_mapping_init takes into account PGDIR_SIZE alignment.
This causes an extra call to alloc_low_page to be made.  This extra call
isn't accounted for by find_early_table_space and causes a kernel panic.

Change is to take into account PGDIR_SIZE alignment in find_early_table_space.

Signed-off-by: Jerry Hoemann &lt;jerry.hoemann@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>perf/x86/intel/lbr: Demand proper privileges for PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_KERNEL</title>
<updated>2013-05-11T20:48:07Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-03T12:11:25Z</published>
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commit 7cc23cd6c0c7d7f4bee057607e7ce01568925717 upstream.

We should always have proper privileges when requesting kernel
data.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: eranian@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130503121256.230745028@chello.nl
[ Fix build error reported by fengguang.wu@intel.com, propagate error code back. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-v0x9ky3ahzr6nm3c6ilwrili@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf/x86/intel/lbr: Fix LBR filter</title>
<updated>2013-05-11T20:48:07Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-03T12:11:24Z</published>
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commit 6e15eb3ba6c0249c9e8c783517d131b47db995ca upstream.

The LBR 'from' adddress is under full userspace control; ensure
we validate it before reading from it.

Note: is_module_text_address() can potentially be quite
expensive; for those running into that with high overhead
in modules optimize it using an RCU backed rb-tree.

Reported-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: eranian@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130503121256.158211806@chello.nl
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-mk8i82ffzax01cnqo829iy1q@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: fix numa distance for form0 device tree</title>
<updated>2013-05-11T20:48:06Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Vaidyanathan Srinivasan</name>
<email>svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-22T05:49:35Z</published>
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commit 7122beeee7bc1757682049780179d7c216dd1c83 upstream.

The following commit breaks numa distance setup for old powerpc
systems that use form0 encoding in device tree.

commit 41eab6f88f24124df89e38067b3766b7bef06ddb
powerpc/numa: Use form 1 affinity to setup node distance

Device tree node /rtas/ibm,associativity-reference-points would
index into /cpus/PowerPCxxxx/ibm,associativity based on form0 or
form1 encoding detected by ibm,architecture-vec-5 property.

All modern systems use form1 and current kernel code is correct.
However, on older systems with form0 encoding, the numa distance
will get hard coded as LOCAL_DISTANCE for all nodes.  This causes
task scheduling anomaly since scheduler will skip building numa
level domain (topmost domain with all cpus) if all numa distances
are same.  (value of 'level' in sched_init_numa() will remain 0)

Prior to the above commit:
((from) == (to) ? LOCAL_DISTANCE : REMOTE_DISTANCE)

Restoring compatible behavior with this patch for old powerpc systems
with device tree where numa distance are encoded as form0.

Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan &lt;svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;michael@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Emulate non privileged DSCR read and write</title>
<updated>2013-05-11T20:48:05Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-01T20:06:33Z</published>
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commit 73d2fb758e678c93bc76d40876c2359f0729b0ef upstream.

POWER8 allows read and write of the DSCR in userspace. We added
kernel emulation so applications could always use the instructions
regardless of the CPU type.

Unfortunately there are two SPRs for the DSCR and we only added
emulation for the privileged one. Add code to match the non
privileged one.

A simple test was created to verify the fix:

http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/user_dscr_test.c

Without the patch we get a SIGILL and it passes with the patch.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: Eliminate irq_mis_count counted in arch_irq_stat</title>
<updated>2013-05-08T02:51:57Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Li Fei</name>
<email>fei.li@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-26T12:50:11Z</published>
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commit f7b0e1055574ce06ab53391263b4e205bf38daf3 upstream.

With the current implementation, kstat_cpu(cpu).irqs_sum is also
increased in case of irq_mis_count increment.

So there is no need to count irq_mis_count in arch_irq_stat,
otherwise irq_mis_count will be counted twice in the sum of
/proc/stat.

Reported-by: Liu Chuansheng &lt;chuansheng.liu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Li Fei &lt;fei.li@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Liu Chuansheng &lt;chuansheng.liu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: tomoki.sekiyama.qu@hitachi.com
Cc: joe@perches.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366980611.32469.7.camel@fli24-HP-Compaq-8100-Elite-CMT-PC
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: X86 emulator: fix source operand decoding for 8bit mov[zs]x instructions</title>
<updated>2013-05-08T02:51:57Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Gleb Natapov</name>
<email>gleb@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-24T10:38:36Z</published>
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commit 660696d1d16a71e15549ce1bf74953be1592bcd3 upstream.

Source operand for one byte mov[zs]x is decoded incorrectly if it is in
high byte register. Fix that.

Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov &lt;gleb@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mmc: at91/avr32/atmel-mci: fix DMA-channel leak on module unload</title>
<updated>2013-05-08T02:51:57Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Johan Hovold</name>
<email>jhovold@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-13T16:11:59Z</published>
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commit 91cf54feecf815bec0b6a8d6d9dbd0e219f2f2cc upstream.

Fix regression introduced by commit 796211b7953 ("mmc: atmel-mci: add
pdc support and runtime capabilities detection") which removed the need
for CONFIG_MMC_ATMELMCI_DMA but kept the Kconfig-entry as well as the
compile guards around dma_release_channel() in remove(). Consequently,
DMA is always enabled (if supported), but the DMA-channel is not
released on module unload unless the DMA-config option is selected.

Remove the no longer used CONFIG_MMC_ATMELMCI_DMA option completely.

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold &lt;jhovold@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ludovic Desroches &lt;ludovic.desroches@atmel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Ball &lt;cjb@laptop.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Wrong asm register contraints in the kvm implementation</title>
<updated>2013-05-08T02:51:55Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephan Schreiber</name>
<email>info@fs-driver.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-19T22:27:12Z</published>
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commit de53e9caa4c6149ef4a78c2f83d7f5b655848767 upstream.

The Linux Kernel contains some inline assembly source code which has
wrong asm register constraints in arch/ia64/kvm/vtlb.c.

I observed this on Kernel 3.2.35 but it is also true on the most
recent Kernel 3.9-rc1.

File arch/ia64/kvm/vtlb.c:

u64 guest_vhpt_lookup(u64 iha, u64 *pte)
{
	u64 ret;
	struct thash_data *data;

	data = __vtr_lookup(current_vcpu, iha, D_TLB);
	if (data != NULL)
		thash_vhpt_insert(current_vcpu, data-&gt;page_flags,
			data-&gt;itir, iha, D_TLB);

	asm volatile (
			"rsm psr.ic|psr.i;;"
			"srlz.d;;"
			"ld8.s r9=[%1];;"
			"tnat.nz p6,p7=r9;;"
			"(p6) mov %0=1;"
			"(p6) mov r9=r0;"
			"(p7) extr.u r9=r9,0,53;;"
			"(p7) mov %0=r0;"
			"(p7) st8 [%2]=r9;;"
			"ssm psr.ic;;"
			"srlz.d;;"
			"ssm psr.i;;"
			"srlz.d;;"
			: "=r"(ret) : "r"(iha), "r"(pte):"memory");

	return ret;
}

The list of output registers is
			: "=r"(ret) : "r"(iha), "r"(pte):"memory");
The constraint "=r" means that the GCC has to maintain that these vars
are in registers and contain valid info when the program flow leaves
the assembly block (output registers).
But "=r" also means that GCC can put them in registers that are used
as input registers. Input registers are iha, pte on the example.
If the predicate p7 is true, the 8th assembly instruction
			"(p7) mov %0=r0;"
is the first one which writes to a register which is maintained by the
register constraints; it sets %0. %0 means the first register operand;
it is ret here.
This instruction might overwrite the %2 register (pte) which is needed
by the next instruction:
			"(p7) st8 [%2]=r9;;"
Whether it really happens depends on how GCC decides what registers it
uses and how it optimizes the code.

The attached patch  fixes the register operand constraints in
arch/ia64/kvm/vtlb.c.
The register constraints should be
			: "=&amp;r"(ret) : "r"(iha), "r"(pte):"memory");
The &amp; means that GCC must not use any of the input registers to place
this output register in.

This is Debian bug#702639
(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=702639).

The patch is applicable on Kernel 3.9-rc1, 3.2.35 and many other versions.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Schreiber &lt;info@fs-driver.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Wrong asm register contraints in the futex implementation</title>
<updated>2013-05-08T02:51:55Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephan Schreiber</name>
<email>info@fs-driver.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-19T22:22:27Z</published>
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commit 136f39ddc53db3bcee2befbe323a56d4fbf06da8 upstream.

The Linux Kernel contains some inline assembly source code which has
wrong asm register constraints in arch/ia64/include/asm/futex.h.

I observed this on Kernel 3.2.23 but it is also true on the most
recent Kernel 3.9-rc1.

File arch/ia64/include/asm/futex.h:

static inline int
futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic(u32 *uval, u32 __user *uaddr,
			      u32 oldval, u32 newval)
{
	if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, uaddr, sizeof(u32)))
		return -EFAULT;

	{
		register unsigned long r8 __asm ("r8");
		unsigned long prev;
		__asm__ __volatile__(
			"	mf;;					\n"
			"	mov %0=r0				\n"
			"	mov ar.ccv=%4;;				\n"
			"[1:]	cmpxchg4.acq %1=[%2],%3,ar.ccv		\n"
			"	.xdata4 \"__ex_table\", 1b-., 2f-.	\n"
			"[2:]"
			: "=r" (r8), "=r" (prev)
			: "r" (uaddr), "r" (newval),
			  "rO" ((long) (unsigned) oldval)
			: "memory");
		*uval = prev;
		return r8;
	}
}

The list of output registers is
			: "=r" (r8), "=r" (prev)
The constraint "=r" means that the GCC has to maintain that these vars
are in registers and contain valid info when the program flow leaves
the assembly block (output registers).
But "=r" also means that GCC can put them in registers that are used
as input registers. Input registers are uaddr, newval, oldval on the
example.
The second assembly instruction
			"	mov %0=r0				\n"
is the first one which writes to a register; it sets %0 to 0. %0 means
the first register operand; it is r8 here. (The r0 is read-only and
always 0 on the Itanium; it can be used if an immediate zero value is
needed.)
This instruction might overwrite one of the other registers which are
still needed.
Whether it really happens depends on how GCC decides what registers it
uses and how it optimizes the code.

The objdump utility can give us disassembly.
The futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() function is inline, so we have to
look for a module that uses the funtion. This is the
cmpxchg_futex_value_locked() function in
kernel/futex.c:

static int cmpxchg_futex_value_locked(u32 *curval, u32 __user *uaddr,
				      u32 uval, u32 newval)
{
	int ret;

	pagefault_disable();
	ret = futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic(curval, uaddr, uval, newval);
	pagefault_enable();

	return ret;
}

Now the disassembly. At first from the Kernel package 3.2.23 which has
been compiled with GCC 4.4, remeber this Kernel seemed to work:
objdump -d linux-3.2.23/debian/build/build_ia64_none_mckinley/kernel/futex.o

0000000000000230 &lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked&gt;:
      230:	0b 18 80 1b 18 21 	[MMI]       adds r3=3168,r13;;
      236:	80 40 0d 00 42 00 	            adds r8=40,r3
      23c:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      240:	0b 50 00 10 10 10 	[MMI]       ld4 r10=[r8];;
      246:	90 08 28 00 42 00 	            adds r9=1,r10
      24c:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      250:	09 00 00 00 01 00 	[MMI]       nop.m 0x0
      256:	00 48 20 20 23 00 	            st4 [r8]=r9
      25c:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      260:	08 10 80 06 00 21 	[MMI]       adds r2=32,r3
      266:	00 00 00 02 00 00 	            nop.m 0x0
      26c:	02 08 f1 52       	            extr.u r16=r33,0,61
      270:	05 40 88 00 08 e0 	[MLX]       addp4 r8=r34,r0
      276:	ff ff 0f 00 00 e0 	            movl r15=0xfffffffbfff;;
      27c:	f1 f7 ff 65
      280:	09 70 00 04 18 10 	[MMI]       ld8 r14=[r2]
      286:	00 00 00 02 00 c0 	            nop.m 0x0
      28c:	f0 80 1c d0       	            cmp.ltu p6,p7=r15,r16;;
      290:	08 40 fc 1d 09 3b 	[MMI]       cmp.eq p8,p9=-1,r14
      296:	00 00 00 02 00 40 	            nop.m 0x0
      29c:	e1 08 2d d0       	            cmp.ltu p10,p11=r14,r33
      2a0:	56 01 10 00 40 10 	[BBB] (p10) br.cond.spnt.few 2e0
&lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked+0xb0&gt;
      2a6:	02 08 00 80 21 03 	      (p08) br.cond.dpnt.few 2b0
&lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked+0x80&gt;
      2ac:	40 00 00 41       	      (p06) br.cond.spnt.few 2e0
&lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked+0xb0&gt;
      2b0:	0a 00 00 00 22 00 	[MMI]       mf;;
      2b6:	80 00 00 00 42 00 	            mov r8=r0
      2bc:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0
      2c0:	0b 00 20 40 2a 04 	[MMI]       mov.m ar.ccv=r8;;
      2c6:	10 1a 85 22 20 00 	            cmpxchg4.acq r33=[r33],r35,ar.ccv
      2cc:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      2d0:	10 00 84 40 90 11 	[MIB]       st4 [r32]=r33
      2d6:	00 00 00 02 00 00 	            nop.i 0x0
      2dc:	20 00 00 40       	            br.few 2f0
&lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked+0xc0&gt;
      2e0:	09 40 c8 f9 ff 27 	[MMI]       mov r8=-14
      2e6:	00 00 00 02 00 00 	            nop.m 0x0
      2ec:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      2f0:	0b 58 20 1a 19 21 	[MMI]       adds r11=3208,r13;;
      2f6:	20 01 2c 20 20 00 	            ld4 r18=[r11]
      2fc:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      300:	0b 88 fc 25 3f 23 	[MMI]       adds r17=-1,r18;;
      306:	00 88 2c 20 23 00 	            st4 [r11]=r17
      30c:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      310:	11 00 00 00 01 00 	[MIB]       nop.m 0x0
      316:	00 00 00 02 00 80 	            nop.i 0x0
      31c:	08 00 84 00       	            br.ret.sptk.many b0;;

The lines
      2b0:	0a 00 00 00 22 00 	[MMI]       mf;;
      2b6:	80 00 00 00 42 00 	            mov r8=r0
      2bc:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0
      2c0:	0b 00 20 40 2a 04 	[MMI]       mov.m ar.ccv=r8;;
      2c6:	10 1a 85 22 20 00 	            cmpxchg4.acq r33=[r33],r35,ar.ccv
      2cc:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
are the instructions of the assembly block.
The line
      2b6:	80 00 00 00 42 00 	            mov r8=r0
sets the r8 register to 0 and after that
      2c0:	0b 00 20 40 2a 04 	[MMI]       mov.m ar.ccv=r8;;
prepares the 'oldvalue' for the cmpxchg but it takes it from r8. This
is wrong.
What happened here is what I explained above: An input register is
overwritten which is still needed.
The register operand constraints in futex.h are wrong.

(The problem doesn't occur when the Kernel is compiled with GCC 4.6.)

The attached patch fixes the register operand constraints in futex.h.
The code after patching of it:

static inline int
futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic(u32 *uval, u32 __user *uaddr,
			      u32 oldval, u32 newval)
{
	if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, uaddr, sizeof(u32)))
		return -EFAULT;

	{
		register unsigned long r8 __asm ("r8") = 0;
		unsigned long prev;
		__asm__ __volatile__(
			"	mf;;					\n"
			"	mov ar.ccv=%4;;				\n"
			"[1:]	cmpxchg4.acq %1=[%2],%3,ar.ccv		\n"
			"	.xdata4 \"__ex_table\", 1b-., 2f-.	\n"
			"[2:]"
			: "+r" (r8), "=&amp;r" (prev)
			: "r" (uaddr), "r" (newval),
			  "rO" ((long) (unsigned) oldval)
			: "memory");
		*uval = prev;
		return r8;
	}
}

I also initialized the 'r8' var with the C programming language.
The _asm qualifier on the definition of the 'r8' var forces GCC to use
the r8 processor register for it.
I don't believe that we should use inline assembly for zeroing out a
local variable.
The constraint is
"+r" (r8)
what means that it is both an input register and an output register.
Note that the page fault handler will modify the r8 register which
will be the return value of the function.
The real fix is
"=&amp;r" (prev)
The &amp; means that GCC must not use any of the input registers to place
this output register in.

Patched the Kernel 3.2.23 and compiled it with GCC4.4:

0000000000000230 &lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked&gt;:
      230:	0b 18 80 1b 18 21 	[MMI]       adds r3=3168,r13;;
      236:	80 40 0d 00 42 00 	            adds r8=40,r3
      23c:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      240:	0b 50 00 10 10 10 	[MMI]       ld4 r10=[r8];;
      246:	90 08 28 00 42 00 	            adds r9=1,r10
      24c:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      250:	09 00 00 00 01 00 	[MMI]       nop.m 0x0
      256:	00 48 20 20 23 00 	            st4 [r8]=r9
      25c:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      260:	08 10 80 06 00 21 	[MMI]       adds r2=32,r3
      266:	20 12 01 10 40 00 	            addp4 r34=r34,r0
      26c:	02 08 f1 52       	            extr.u r16=r33,0,61
      270:	05 40 00 00 00 e1 	[MLX]       mov r8=r0
      276:	ff ff 0f 00 00 e0 	            movl r15=0xfffffffbfff;;
      27c:	f1 f7 ff 65
      280:	09 70 00 04 18 10 	[MMI]       ld8 r14=[r2]
      286:	00 00 00 02 00 c0 	            nop.m 0x0
      28c:	f0 80 1c d0       	            cmp.ltu p6,p7=r15,r16;;
      290:	08 40 fc 1d 09 3b 	[MMI]       cmp.eq p8,p9=-1,r14
      296:	00 00 00 02 00 40 	            nop.m 0x0
      29c:	e1 08 2d d0       	            cmp.ltu p10,p11=r14,r33
      2a0:	56 01 10 00 40 10 	[BBB] (p10) br.cond.spnt.few 2e0
&lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked+0xb0&gt;
      2a6:	02 08 00 80 21 03 	      (p08) br.cond.dpnt.few 2b0
&lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked+0x80&gt;
      2ac:	40 00 00 41       	      (p06) br.cond.spnt.few 2e0
&lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked+0xb0&gt;
      2b0:	0b 00 00 00 22 00 	[MMI]       mf;;
      2b6:	00 10 81 54 08 00 	            mov.m ar.ccv=r34
      2bc:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      2c0:	09 58 8c 42 11 10 	[MMI]       cmpxchg4.acq r11=[r33],r35,ar.ccv
      2c6:	00 00 00 02 00 00 	            nop.m 0x0
      2cc:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      2d0:	10 00 2c 40 90 11 	[MIB]       st4 [r32]=r11
      2d6:	00 00 00 02 00 00 	            nop.i 0x0
      2dc:	20 00 00 40       	            br.few 2f0
&lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked+0xc0&gt;
      2e0:	09 40 c8 f9 ff 27 	[MMI]       mov r8=-14
      2e6:	00 00 00 02 00 00 	            nop.m 0x0
      2ec:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      2f0:	0b 88 20 1a 19 21 	[MMI]       adds r17=3208,r13;;
      2f6:	30 01 44 20 20 00 	            ld4 r19=[r17]
      2fc:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      300:	0b 90 fc 27 3f 23 	[MMI]       adds r18=-1,r19;;
      306:	00 90 44 20 23 00 	            st4 [r17]=r18
      30c:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      310:	11 00 00 00 01 00 	[MIB]       nop.m 0x0
      316:	00 00 00 02 00 80 	            nop.i 0x0
      31c:	08 00 84 00       	            br.ret.sptk.many b0;;

Much better.
There is a
      270:	05 40 00 00 00 e1 	[MLX]       mov r8=r0
which was generated by C code r8 = 0. Below
      2b6:	00 10 81 54 08 00 	            mov.m ar.ccv=r34
what means that oldval is no longer overwritten.

This is Debian bug#702641
(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=702641).

The patch is applicable on Kernel 3.9-rc1, 3.2.23 and many other versions.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Schreiber &lt;info@fs-driver.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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