Commit 8e31108b authored by Andrew Morton's avatar Andrew Morton Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Fix memory ordering problem in wake_futex()

Fix a memory ordering problem that occurs on IA64. The "store" to q->lock_ptr
in wake_futex() can become visible before wake_up_all() clears the lock in the
futex_q.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Acked-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 6003a93e
......@@ -270,7 +270,13 @@ static void wake_futex(struct futex_q *q)
/*
* The waiting task can free the futex_q as soon as this is written,
* without taking any locks. This must come last.
*
* A memory barrier is required here to prevent the following store
* to lock_ptr from getting ahead of the wakeup. Clearing the lock
* at the end of wake_up_all() does not prevent this store from
* moving.
*/
wmb();
q->lock_ptr = NULL;
}
......
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