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Commit 54cf809b authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Linus Torvalds
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locking,qspinlock: Fix spin_is_locked() and spin_unlock_wait()



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qspinlock suffers from the fact that the _Q_LOCKED_VAL store is
unordered inside the ACQUIRE of the lock.

And while this is not a problem for the regular mutual exclusive
critical section usage of spinlocks, it breaks creative locking like:

	spin_lock(A)			spin_lock(B)
	spin_unlock_wait(B)		if (!spin_is_locked(A))
	do_something()			  do_something()

In that both CPUs can end up running do_something at the same time,
because our _Q_LOCKED_VAL store can drop past the spin_unlock_wait()
spin_is_locked() loads (even on x86!!).

To avoid making the normal case slower, add smp_mb()s to the less used
spin_unlock_wait() / spin_is_locked() side of things to avoid this
problem.

Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarDavidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Reported-by: default avatarGiovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org   # v4.2 and later
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent b99a9e87
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