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| author | Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> | 2015-01-30 12:14:24 +0300 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2015-02-18 18:57:10 +0300 |
| commit | 49e4b2bcf7b812e985e65b6c8a0255b1520a6e7e (patch) | |
| tree | 72b8d5e9e0ce330251a310e05b5633fc8f505371 /kernel/locking/rwsem-spinlock.c | |
| parent | a21294644623ee41034db60e93aaebed4db0e57b (diff) | |
| download | linux-49e4b2bcf7b812e985e65b6c8a0255b1520a6e7e.tar.xz | |
locking/rwsem: Document barrier need when waking tasks
The need for the smp_mb() in __rwsem_do_wake() should be
properly documented. Applies to both xadd and spinlock
variants.
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1422609267-15102-3-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/locking/rwsem-spinlock.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/locking/rwsem-spinlock.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/locking/rwsem-spinlock.c b/kernel/locking/rwsem-spinlock.c index 2555ae15ec14..3a5048572065 100644 --- a/kernel/locking/rwsem-spinlock.c +++ b/kernel/locking/rwsem-spinlock.c @@ -85,6 +85,13 @@ __rwsem_do_wake(struct rw_semaphore *sem, int wakewrite) list_del(&waiter->list); tsk = waiter->task; + /* + * Make sure we do not wakeup the next reader before + * setting the nil condition to grant the next reader; + * otherwise we could miss the wakeup on the other + * side and end up sleeping again. See the pairing + * in rwsem_down_read_failed(). + */ smp_mb(); waiter->task = NULL; wake_up_process(tsk); |