Merge branch 'linux-linaro-lsk-v4.4' into linux-linaro-lsk-v4.4-android

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/locking/mcs_spinlock.h b/kernel/locking/mcs_spinlock.h
index 5b9102a47ea5..c835270f0c2f 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/mcs_spinlock.h
+++ b/kernel/locking/mcs_spinlock.h
@@ -67,7 +67,13 @@ void mcs_spin_lock(struct mcs_spinlock **lock, struct mcs_spinlock *node)
 	node->locked = 0;
 	node->next   = NULL;
 
-	prev = xchg_acquire(lock, node);
+	/*
+	 * We rely on the full barrier with global transitivity implied by the
+	 * below xchg() to order the initialization stores above against any
+	 * observation of @node. And to provide the ACQUIRE ordering associated
+	 * with a LOCK primitive.
+	 */
+	prev = xchg(lock, node);
 	if (likely(prev == NULL)) {
 		/*
 		 * Lock acquired, don't need to set node->locked to 1. Threads