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authorAmerigo Wang <[email protected]>2009-12-14 18:00:21 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>2009-12-15 08:53:26 -0800
commit29671f22a8b6522db3b126a3fdfb208759ce46e3 (patch)
treec3c434fc07aae30c401fe7662b8e1399b98ffdc2 /tools/perf/scripts/python
parent118d52da1816471ac875bb9f1ee51737e82b1d71 (diff)
rwsem: fix rwsem_is_locked() bugs
rwsem_is_locked() tests ->activity without locks, so we should always keep ->activity consistent. However, the code in __rwsem_do_wake() breaks this rule, it updates ->activity after _all_ readers waken up, this may give some reader a wrong ->activity value, thus cause rwsem_is_locked() behaves wrong. Quote from Andrew: " - we have one or more processes sleeping in down_read(), waiting for access. - we wake one or more processes up without altering ->activity - they start to run and they do rwsem_is_locked(). This incorrectly returns "false", because the waker process is still crunching away in __rwsem_do_wake(). - the waker now alters ->activity, but it was too late. " So we need get a spinlock to protect this. And rwsem_is_locked() should not block, thus we use spin_trylock_irqsave(). [[email protected]: simplify code] Reported-by: Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]> Cc: Ben Woodard <[email protected]> Cc: David Howells <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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