Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip into next

Pull core locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - reduced/streamlined smp_mb__*() interface that allows more usecases
     and makes the existing ones less buggy, especially in rarer
     architectures

   - add rwsem implementation comments

   - bump up lockdep limits"

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (33 commits)
  rwsem: Add comments to explain the meaning of the rwsem's count field
  lockdep: Increase static allocations
  arch: Mass conversion of smp_mb__*()
  arch,doc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,xtensa: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,x86: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,tile: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,sparc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,sh: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,score: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,s390: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,powerpc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,parisc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,openrisc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,mn10300: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,mips: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,metag: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,m68k: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,m32r: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,ia64: Convert smp_mb__*()
  ...

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/ia64/include/uapi/asm/cmpxchg.h b/arch/ia64/include/uapi/asm/cmpxchg.h
index 4f37dbb..f35109b 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/include/uapi/asm/cmpxchg.h
+++ b/arch/ia64/include/uapi/asm/cmpxchg.h
@@ -118,6 +118,15 @@ extern long ia64_cmpxchg_called_with_bad_pointer(void);
 #define cmpxchg_rel(ptr, o, n)	\
 	ia64_cmpxchg(rel, (ptr), (o), (n), sizeof(*(ptr)))
 
+/*
+ * Worse still - early processor implementations actually just ignored
+ * the acquire/release and did a full fence all the time.  Unfortunately
+ * this meant a lot of badly written code that used .acq when they really
+ * wanted .rel became legacy out in the wild - so when we made a cpu
+ * that strictly did the .acq or .rel ... all that code started breaking - so
+ * we had to back-pedal and keep the "legacy" behavior of a full fence :-(
+ */
+
 /* for compatibility with other platforms: */
 #define cmpxchg(ptr, o, n)	cmpxchg_acq((ptr), (o), (n))
 #define cmpxchg64(ptr, o, n)	cmpxchg_acq((ptr), (o), (n))