Commit e991c24d authored by Heiko Carstens's avatar Heiko Carstens Committed by Martin Schwidefsky

s390/ctl_reg: make __ctl_load a full memory barrier

We have quite a lot of code that depends on the order of the
__ctl_load inline assemby and subsequent memory accesses, like
e.g. disabling lowcore protection and the writing to lowcore.

Since the __ctl_load macro does not have memory barrier semantics, nor
any other dependencies the compiler is, theoretically, free to shuffle
code around. Or in other words: storing to lowcore could happen before
lowcore protection is disabled.

In order to avoid this class of potential bugs simply add a full
memory barrier to the __ctl_load macro.
Signed-off-by: default avatarHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
parent 49def185
......@@ -15,7 +15,9 @@
BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(addrtype) != (high - low + 1) * sizeof(long));\
asm volatile( \
" lctlg %1,%2,%0\n" \
: : "Q" (*(addrtype *)(&array)), "i" (low), "i" (high));\
: \
: "Q" (*(addrtype *)(&array)), "i" (low), "i" (high) \
: "memory"); \
}
#define __ctl_store(array, low, high) { \
......
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