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authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>2015-07-13 18:58:30 +0300
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2015-08-03 11:57:09 +0300
commit3b3fdf10a8add87ef0050138d51bfee9ab4983df (patch)
tree77dadfabe31e5ed2ba47dd0af9009a8da6fecc8b /kernel/locking
parented2de9f74ecbbf3063d29b2334e7b455d7f35189 (diff)
downloadlinux-3b3fdf10a8add87ef0050138d51bfee9ab4983df.tar.xz
locking/pvqspinlock: Order pv_unhash() after cmpxchg() on unlock slowpath
When we unlock in __pv_queued_spin_unlock(), a failed cmpxchg() on the lock value indicates that we need to take the slow-path and unhash the corresponding node blocked on the lock. Since a failed cmpxchg() does not provide any memory-ordering guarantees, it is possible that the node data could be read before the cmpxchg() on weakly-ordered architectures and therefore return a stale value, leading to hash corruption and/or a BUG(). This patch adds an smb_rmb() following the failed cmpxchg operation, so that the unhashing is ordered after the lock has been checked. Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> [ Added more comments] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Steve Capper <Steve.Capper@arm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150713155830.GL2632@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/locking')
-rw-r--r--kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h23
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h b/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h
index 489a87884337..ab8b1bb8caa4 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h
+++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h
@@ -244,13 +244,17 @@ static void pv_wait_head(struct qspinlock *lock, struct mcs_spinlock *node)
if (!lp) { /* ONCE */
lp = pv_hash(lock, pn);
/*
- * lp must be set before setting _Q_SLOW_VAL
+ * We must hash before setting _Q_SLOW_VAL, such that
+ * when we observe _Q_SLOW_VAL in __pv_queued_spin_unlock()
+ * we'll be sure to be able to observe our hash entry.
*
- * [S] lp = lock [RmW] l = l->locked = 0
- * MB MB
- * [S] l->locked = _Q_SLOW_VAL [L] lp
+ * [S] pn->state
+ * [S] <hash> [Rmw] l->locked == _Q_SLOW_VAL
+ * MB RMB
+ * [RmW] l->locked = _Q_SLOW_VAL [L] <unhash>
+ * [L] pn->state
*
- * Matches the cmpxchg() in __pv_queued_spin_unlock().
+ * Matches the smp_rmb() in __pv_queued_spin_unlock().
*/
if (!cmpxchg(&l->locked, _Q_LOCKED_VAL, _Q_SLOW_VAL)) {
/*
@@ -306,6 +310,15 @@ __visible void __pv_queued_spin_unlock(struct qspinlock *lock)
}
/*
+ * A failed cmpxchg doesn't provide any memory-ordering guarantees,
+ * so we need a barrier to order the read of the node data in
+ * pv_unhash *after* we've read the lock being _Q_SLOW_VAL.
+ *
+ * Matches the cmpxchg() in pv_wait_head() setting _Q_SLOW_VAL.
+ */
+ smp_rmb();
+
+ /*
* Since the above failed to release, this must be the SLOW path.
* Therefore start by looking up the blocked node and unhashing it.
*/