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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2016-02-01 14:11:28 (GMT)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-02-29 09:02:41 (GMT)
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downloadlinux-920c720aa5aa3900a7f1689228fdfc2580a91e7e.tar.xz
locking/mcs: Fix mcs_spin_lock() ordering
Similar to commit b4b29f94856a ("locking/osq: Fix ordering of node initialisation in osq_lock") the use of xchg_acquire() is fundamentally broken with MCS like constructs. Furthermore, it turns out we rely on the global transitivity of this operation because the unlock path observes the pointer with a READ_ONCE(), not an smp_load_acquire(). This is non-critical because the MCS code isn't actually used and mostly serves as documentation, a stepping stone to the more complex things we've build on top of the idea. Reported-by: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Fixes: 3552a07a9c4a ("locking/mcs: Use acquire/release semantics") Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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