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| author | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> | 2010-07-27 17:01:49 -0700 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2010-08-13 13:27:12 -0700 |
| commit | 2d0c3a0ab8cb33ff01afc784f0660e3a7c71586a (patch) | |
| tree | 0a3d5f2edbc6d52d94ea53885ec0839e98f329f3 /block | |
| parent | 1c843b58b153b875ef17baaffae04851f2216dbf (diff) | |
x86: Add memory modify constraints to xchg() and cmpxchg()
commit 113fc5a6e8c2288619ff7e8187a6f556b7e0d372 upstream.
xchg() and cmpxchg() modify their memory operands, not merely read
them. For some versions of gcc the "memory" clobber has apparently
dealt with the situation, but not for all.
Originally-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Palfrader <peter@palfrader.org>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <4C4F7277.8050306@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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