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author | Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> | 2016-03-09 12:40:54 +0100 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> | 2016-03-21 10:50:48 +0100 |
commit | f75d48644c56a31731d17fa693c8175328957e1d (patch) | |
tree | d9851c52b67be05d80c69572873a18097c7b3e7b /tools/perf/scripts/python/syscall-counts.py | |
parent | e525a8622a10f714c755038e07e86d06d880b8a2 (diff) |
bitops: Do not default to __clear_bit() for __clear_bit_unlock()
__clear_bit_unlock() is a special little snowflake. While it carries the
non-atomic '__' prefix, it is specifically documented to pair with
test_and_set_bit() and therefore should be 'somewhat' atomic.
Therefore the generic implementation of __clear_bit_unlock() cannot use
the fully non-atomic __clear_bit() as a default.
If an arch is able to do better; is must provide an implementation of
__clear_bit_unlock() itself.
Specifically, this came up as a result of hackbench livelock'ing in
slab_lock() on ARC with SMP + SLUB + !LLSC.
The issue was incorrect pairing of atomic ops.
slab_lock() -> bit_spin_lock() -> test_and_set_bit()
slab_unlock() -> __bit_spin_unlock() -> __clear_bit()
The non serializing __clear_bit() was getting "lost"
80543b8e: ld_s r2,[r13,0] <--- (A) Finds PG_locked is set
80543b90: or r3,r2,1 <--- (B) other core unlocks right here
80543b94: st_s r3,[r13,0] <--- (C) sets PG_locked (overwrites unlock)
Fixes ARC STAR 9000817404 (and probably more).
Reported-by: Vineet Gupta <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Vineet Gupta <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: Helge Deller <[email protected]>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <[email protected]>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Noam Camus <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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