On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 11:36:37AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > So now explain why the cpu_relax() hack that arm did doesn't work for > you?
So below is the patch I think you want; if not explain in detail how this is wrong. diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/processor.h index af34afbc32d9..e59773de6528 100644 --- a/arch/mips/include/asm/processor.h +++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/processor.h @@ -386,7 +386,17 @@ unsigned long get_wchan(struct task_struct *p); #define KSTK_ESP(tsk) (task_pt_regs(tsk)->regs[29]) #define KSTK_STATUS(tsk) (task_pt_regs(tsk)->cp0_status) +#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_LOONGSON3 +/* + * Loongson-3 has a CPU bug where the store buffer gets starved when stuck in a + * read loop. Since spin loops of any kind should have a cpu_relax() in them, + * force a store-buffer flush from cpu_relax() such that any pending writes + * will become available as expected. + */ +#define cpu_relax() smp_mb() +#else #define cpu_relax() barrier() +#endif /* * Return_address is a replacement for __builtin_return_address(count)
