Commit aff7385b authored by Waiman Long's avatar Waiman Long Committed by Ingo Molnar

locking/mutexes/mcs: Correct barrier usage

This patch corrects the way memory barriers are used in the MCS lock
with smp_load_acquire and smp_store_release fucnctions.  The previous
barriers could leak critical sections if mcs lock is used by itself.
It is not a problem when mcs lock is embedded in mutex but will be an
issue when the mcs_lock is used elsewhere.

The patch removes the incorrect barriers and put in correct
barriers with the pair of functions smp_load_acquire and smp_store_release.
Suggested-by: default avatarMichel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarWaiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390347353.3138.62.camel@schen9-DESKSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 270750db
......@@ -136,9 +136,12 @@ void mspin_lock(struct mspin_node **lock, struct mspin_node *node)
return;
}
ACCESS_ONCE(prev->next) = node;
smp_wmb();
/* Wait until the lock holder passes the lock down */
while (!ACCESS_ONCE(node->locked))
/*
* Wait until the lock holder passes the lock down.
* Using smp_load_acquire() provides a memory barrier that
* ensures subsequent operations happen after the lock is acquired.
*/
while (!(smp_load_acquire(&node->locked)))
arch_mutex_cpu_relax();
}
......@@ -156,8 +159,13 @@ static void mspin_unlock(struct mspin_node **lock, struct mspin_node *node)
while (!(next = ACCESS_ONCE(node->next)))
arch_mutex_cpu_relax();
}
ACCESS_ONCE(next->locked) = 1;
smp_wmb();
/*
* Pass lock to next waiter.
* smp_store_release() provides a memory barrier to ensure
* all operations in the critical section has been completed
* before unlocking.
*/
smp_store_release(&next->locked, 1);
}
/*
......
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