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From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
To: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
	Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] llist: Fix missing memory barrier
Date: Thu,  5 Feb 2015 22:06:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1423192017-16735-1-git-send-email-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> (raw)

A smp_read_barrier_depends() appears to be missing in llist_del_first().
It should only matter for Alpha in practice. Adding it after the check
of entry against NULL allows skipping the barrier in a common case.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
CC: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
CC: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
---
 lib/llist.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/llist.c b/lib/llist.c
index f76196d..72861f3 100644
--- a/lib/llist.c
+++ b/lib/llist.c
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 #include <linux/export.h>
 #include <linux/interrupt.h>
 #include <linux/llist.h>
+#include <asm/barrier.h>
 
 
 /**
@@ -72,6 +73,12 @@ struct llist_node *llist_del_first(struct llist_head *head)
 		if (entry == NULL)
 			return NULL;
 		old_entry = entry;
+		/*
+		 * Load entry before entry->next. Matches the implicit
+		 * memory barrier before the cmpxchg in llist_add_batch(),
+		 * which ensures entry->next is stored before entry.
+		 */
+		smp_read_barrier_depends();
 		next = entry->next;
 		entry = cmpxchg(&head->first, old_entry, next);
 		if (entry == old_entry)
-- 
2.1.4


             reply	other threads:[~2015-02-06  3:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-06  3:06 Mathieu Desnoyers [this message]
2015-02-06  3:44 ` Pranith Kumar
2015-02-06 14:12   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2015-02-06 15:03     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-02-06 22:16       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2015-02-06 22:42         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-02-06 15:17     ` Peter Hurley
2015-02-06 22:18       ` Mathieu Desnoyers

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