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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2016-01-12 11:01:12 +0100
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2016-01-12 11:01:12 +0100
commit1f16f116b01c110db20ab808562c8b8bc3ee3d6e (patch)
tree44db563f64cf5f8d62af8f99a61e2b248c44ea3a /kernel/locking/osq_lock.c
parent03724ac3d48f8f0e3caf1d30fa134f8fd96c94e2 (diff)
parentf9eccf24615672896dc13251410c3f2f33a14f95 (diff)
Merge branches 'clockevents/4.4-fixes' and 'clockevents/4.5-fixes' of http://git.linaro.org/people/daniel.lezcano/linux into timers/urgent
Pull in fixes from Daniel Lezcano: - Fix the vt8500 timer leading to a system lock up when dealing with too small delta (Roman Volkov) - Select the CLKSRC_MMIO when the fsl_ftm_timer is enabled with COMPILE_TEST (Daniel Lezcano) - Prevent to compile timers using the 'iomem' API when the architecture has not HAS_IOMEM set (Richard Weinberger)
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/locking/osq_lock.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/locking/osq_lock.c8
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/locking/osq_lock.c b/kernel/locking/osq_lock.c
index d092a0c9c2d4..05a37857ab55 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/osq_lock.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/osq_lock.c
@@ -93,10 +93,12 @@ bool osq_lock(struct optimistic_spin_queue *lock)
node->cpu = curr;
/*
- * ACQUIRE semantics, pairs with corresponding RELEASE
- * in unlock() uncontended, or fastpath.
+ * We need both ACQUIRE (pairs with corresponding RELEASE in
+ * unlock() uncontended, or fastpath) and RELEASE (to publish
+ * the node fields we just initialised) semantics when updating
+ * the lock tail.
*/
- old = atomic_xchg_acquire(&lock->tail, curr);
+ old = atomic_xchg(&lock->tail, curr);
if (old == OSQ_UNLOCKED_VAL)
return true;