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1 files changed, 16 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
index 294294c71ba4..d880296245c5 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ static __always_inline void clear_pending_set_locked(struct qspinlock *lock)
* @tail : The new queue tail code word
* Return: The previous queue tail code word
*
- * xchg(lock, tail)
+ * xchg(lock, tail), which heads an address dependency
*
* p,*,* -> n,*,* ; prev = xchg(lock, node)
*/
@@ -379,6 +379,14 @@ queue:
tail = encode_tail(smp_processor_id(), idx);
node += idx;
+
+ /*
+ * Ensure that we increment the head node->count before initialising
+ * the actual node. If the compiler is kind enough to reorder these
+ * stores, then an IRQ could overwrite our assignments.
+ */
+ barrier();
+
node->locked = 0;
node->next = NULL;
pv_init_node(node);
@@ -408,16 +416,15 @@ queue:
*/
if (old & _Q_TAIL_MASK) {
prev = decode_tail(old);
+
/*
- * The above xchg_tail() is also a load of @lock which generates,
- * through decode_tail(), a pointer.
- *
- * The address dependency matches the RELEASE of xchg_tail()
- * such that the access to @prev must happen after.
+ * We must ensure that the stores to @node are observed before
+ * the write to prev->next. The address dependency from
+ * xchg_tail is not sufficient to ensure this because the read
+ * component of xchg_tail is unordered with respect to the
+ * initialisation of @node.
*/
- smp_read_barrier_depends();
-
- WRITE_ONCE(prev->next, node);
+ smp_store_release(&prev->next, node);
pv_wait_node(node, prev);
arch_mcs_spin_lock_contended(&node->locked);