This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    locking/mutex: Disable optimistic spinning on some architectures

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.6.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From 01698736c59ec0ef7db9aa25785868ebd5637e12 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 19:53:16 +0200
Subject: locking/mutex: Disable optimistic spinning on some architectures

commit 4badad352a6bb202ec68afa7a574c0bb961e5ebc upstream.

The optimistic spin code assumes regular stores and cmpxchg() play nice;
this is found to not be true for at least: parisc, sparc32, tile32,
metag-lock1, arc-!llsc and hexagon.

There is further wreckage, but this in particular seemed easy to
trigger, so blacklist this.

Opt in for known good archs.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Mikulas Patocka <[email protected]>
Cc: David Miller <[email protected]>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <[email protected]>
Cc: James Bottomley <[email protected]>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <[email protected]>
Cc: Jason Low <[email protected]>
Cc: Waiman Long <[email protected]>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: John David Anglin <[email protected]>
Cc: James Hogan <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
Cc: Russell King <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Link: 
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <[email protected]>
---
 arch/arm/Kconfig     | 1 +
 arch/arm64/Kconfig   | 1 +
 arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 1 +
 arch/sparc/Kconfig   | 1 +
 arch/x86/Kconfig     | 1 +
 kernel/Kconfig.locks | 5 ++++-
 6 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index 31e1f44..b3d400d 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ config ARM
        select ARCH_HAS_TICK_BROADCAST if GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST
        select ARCH_HAVE_CUSTOM_GPIO_H
        select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_PARPORT
+       select ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW
        select ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF
        select ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
        select BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT if MMU
diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index 6d4dd22..bf0ed5d 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ config ARM64
        def_bool y
        select ARCH_HAS_ATOMIC64_DEC_IF_POSITIVE
        select ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF
+       select ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW
        select ARCH_WANT_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB
        select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
        select ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index b44b52c..ab43fa3 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ config PPC
        select OLD_SIGACTION if PPC32
        select HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
        select HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK
+       select ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW

 config GENERIC_CSUM
        def_bool CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
diff --git a/arch/sparc/Kconfig b/arch/sparc/Kconfig
index 6c95f4d..94cd9c1 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/sparc/Kconfig
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ config SPARC64
        select ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
        select HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT
        select NO_BOOTMEM
+       select ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW

 config ARCH_DEFCONFIG
        string
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 9e31880..9562fc3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ config X86
        select RTC_LIB
        select HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
        select HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK if X86_64
+       select ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW

 config INSTRUCTION_DECODER
        def_bool y
diff --git a/kernel/Kconfig.locks b/kernel/Kconfig.locks
index d2b32ac..ecee67a 100644
--- a/kernel/Kconfig.locks
+++ b/kernel/Kconfig.locks
@@ -220,6 +220,9 @@ config INLINE_WRITE_UNLOCK_IRQRESTORE

 endif

+config ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW
+       bool
+
 config MUTEX_SPIN_ON_OWNER
        def_bool y
-       depends on SMP && !DEBUG_MUTEXES
+       depends on SMP && !DEBUG_MUTEXES && ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW
--
1.9.1

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