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locking,qspinlock: Fix spin_is_locked() and spin_unlock_wait()

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qspinlock suffers from the fact that the _Q_LOCKED_VAL store is
unordered inside the ACQUIRE of the lock.

And while this is not a problem for the regular mutual exclusive
critical section usage of spinlocks, it breaks creative locking like:

	spin_lock(A)			spin_lock(B)
	spin_unlock_wait(B)		if (!spin_is_locked(A))
	do_something()			  do_something()

In that both CPUs can end up running do_something at the same time,
because our _Q_LOCKED_VAL store can drop past the spin_unlock_wait()
spin_is_locked() loads (even on x86!!).

To avoid making the normal case slower, add smp_mb()s to the less used
spin_unlock_wait() / spin_is_locked() side of things to avoid this
problem.

Reported-and-tested-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Reported-by: Giovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org   # v4.2 and later
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Peter Zijlstra 2016-05-20 18:04:36 +02:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent b99a9e8776
commit 54cf809b95
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include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h
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@ -28,7 +28,30 @@
*/
static __always_inline int queued_spin_is_locked(struct qspinlock *lock)
{
return atomic_read(&lock->val);
/*
* queued_spin_lock_slowpath() can ACQUIRE the lock before
* issuing the unordered store that sets _Q_LOCKED_VAL.
*
* See both smp_cond_acquire() sites for more detail.
*
* This however means that in code like:
*
* spin_lock(A) spin_lock(B)
* spin_unlock_wait(B) spin_is_locked(A)
* do_something() do_something()
*
* Both CPUs can end up running do_something() because the store
* setting _Q_LOCKED_VAL will pass through the loads in
* spin_unlock_wait() and/or spin_is_locked().
*
* Avoid this by issuing a full memory barrier between the spin_lock()
* and the loads in spin_unlock_wait() and spin_is_locked().
*
* Note that regular mutual exclusion doesn't care about this
* delayed store.
*/
smp_mb();
return atomic_read(&lock->val) & _Q_LOCKED_MASK;
}
/**
@ -108,6 +131,8 @@ static __always_inline void queued_spin_unlock(struct qspinlock *lock)
*/
static inline void queued_spin_unlock_wait(struct qspinlock *lock)
{
/* See queued_spin_is_locked() */
smp_mb();
while (atomic_read(&lock->val) & _Q_LOCKED_MASK)
cpu_relax();
}