Commit e220fdf7 authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds

More subtle SMP bugs in prepare_to_wait()/finish_wait().

This time we have a SMP memory ordering issue in prepare_to_wait(),
where we really need to make sure that subsequent tests for the
event we are waiting for can not migrate up to before the wait
queue has been set up.
parent 14c5d2d2
......@@ -125,15 +125,28 @@ void remove_wait_queue(wait_queue_head_t *q, wait_queue_t * wait)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(remove_wait_queue);
/*
* Note: we use "set_current_state()" _after_ the wait-queue add,
* because we need a memory barrier there on SMP, so that any
* wake-function that tests for the wait-queue being active
* will be guaranteed to see waitqueue addition _or_ subsequent
* tests in this thread will see the wakeup having taken place.
*
* The spin_unlock() itself is semi-permeable and only protects
* one way (it only protects stuff inside the critical region and
* stops them from bleeding out - it would still allow subsequent
* loads to move into the the critical region).
*/
void prepare_to_wait(wait_queue_head_t *q, wait_queue_t *wait, int state)
{
unsigned long flags;
__set_current_state(state);
wait->flags &= ~WQ_FLAG_EXCLUSIVE;
spin_lock_irqsave(&q->lock, flags);
if (list_empty(&wait->task_list))
__add_wait_queue(q, wait);
set_current_state(state);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&q->lock, flags);
}
......@@ -144,11 +157,11 @@ prepare_to_wait_exclusive(wait_queue_head_t *q, wait_queue_t *wait, int state)
{
unsigned long flags;
__set_current_state(state);
wait->flags |= WQ_FLAG_EXCLUSIVE;
spin_lock_irqsave(&q->lock, flags);
if (list_empty(&wait->task_list))
__add_wait_queue_tail(q, wait);
set_current_state(state);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&q->lock, flags);
}
......
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