linux-stable/include/linux/rwsem-spinlock.h
Amerigo Wang 29671f22a8 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().

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: simplify code]
Reported-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Cc: Ben Woodard <bwoodard@llnl.gov>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 08:53:26 -08:00

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/* rwsem-spinlock.h: fallback C implementation
*
* Copyright (c) 2001 David Howells (dhowells@redhat.com).
* - Derived partially from ideas by Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
* - Derived also from comments by Linus
*/
#ifndef _LINUX_RWSEM_SPINLOCK_H
#define _LINUX_RWSEM_SPINLOCK_H
#ifndef _LINUX_RWSEM_H
#error "please don't include linux/rwsem-spinlock.h directly, use linux/rwsem.h instead"
#endif
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
#include <linux/list.h>
#ifdef __KERNEL__
#include <linux/types.h>
struct rwsem_waiter;
/*
* the rw-semaphore definition
* - if activity is 0 then there are no active readers or writers
* - if activity is +ve then that is the number of active readers
* - if activity is -1 then there is one active writer
* - if wait_list is not empty, then there are processes waiting for the semaphore
*/
struct rw_semaphore {
__s32 activity;
spinlock_t wait_lock;
struct list_head wait_list;
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
struct lockdep_map dep_map;
#endif
};
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
# define __RWSEM_DEP_MAP_INIT(lockname) , .dep_map = { .name = #lockname }
#else
# define __RWSEM_DEP_MAP_INIT(lockname)
#endif
#define __RWSEM_INITIALIZER(name) \
{ 0, __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(name.wait_lock), LIST_HEAD_INIT((name).wait_list) \
__RWSEM_DEP_MAP_INIT(name) }
#define DECLARE_RWSEM(name) \
struct rw_semaphore name = __RWSEM_INITIALIZER(name)
extern void __init_rwsem(struct rw_semaphore *sem, const char *name,
struct lock_class_key *key);
#define init_rwsem(sem) \
do { \
static struct lock_class_key __key; \
\
__init_rwsem((sem), #sem, &__key); \
} while (0)
extern void __down_read(struct rw_semaphore *sem);
extern int __down_read_trylock(struct rw_semaphore *sem);
extern void __down_write(struct rw_semaphore *sem);
extern void __down_write_nested(struct rw_semaphore *sem, int subclass);
extern int __down_write_trylock(struct rw_semaphore *sem);
extern void __up_read(struct rw_semaphore *sem);
extern void __up_write(struct rw_semaphore *sem);
extern void __downgrade_write(struct rw_semaphore *sem);
extern int rwsem_is_locked(struct rw_semaphore *sem);
#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
#endif /* _LINUX_RWSEM_SPINLOCK_H */