[Dle-develop] [PATCH -tip v2 2/2] x86: Issue at least one memory barrier in stop_machine_text_poke().

[Masami H. <mhi...@re...>]

Fix stop_machine_text_poke() to issue smp_mb() before exiting waiting
loop, and use cpu_relax() for waiting.

Changes in v2:
 - Don't use ACCESS_ONCE().

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhi...@re...>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mat...@ef...>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@el...>
Cc: Jason Baron <jb...@re...>
---

 arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
index 635e4f4..3a4bf35 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
@@ -597,8 +597,8 @@ static int __kprobes stop_machine_text_poke(void *data)
 		wrote_text = 1;
 	} else {
 		while (!wrote_text)
-			smp_rmb();
-		sync_core();
+			cpu_relax();
+		smp_mb();	/* Load wrote_text before following execution */
 	}
 
 	flush_icache_range((unsigned long)tpp->addr,


-- 
Masami Hiramatsu
e-mail: mhi...@re...