Re: [PATCH 1/2] asm-generic: rwsem: ensure sem->cnt is only accessed via atomic_long_*

[Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>]

On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 05:28:24AM +0000, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-02-21 at 17:22 +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> > The asm-generic rwsem implementation directly acceses sem->cnt when
> > performing a __down_read_trylock operation. Whilst this is probably safe
> > on all architectures, we should stick to the atomic_long_* API and use
> > atomic_long_read instead.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
> > ---
> >  include/asm-generic/rwsem.h | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/include/asm-generic/rwsem.h b/include/asm-generic/rwsem.h
> > index bb1e2cdeb9bf..75af612f54f8 100644
> > --- a/include/asm-generic/rwsem.h
> > +++ b/include/asm-generic/rwsem.h
> > @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ static inline int __down_read_trylock(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
> >  {
> >  	long tmp;
> >  
> > -	while ((tmp = sem->count) >= 0) {
> > +	while ((tmp = atomic_long_read((atomic_long_t *)&sem->count)) >= 0) {
> 
> That's pretty ugly, how about having infinite look and just do the tmp
> assign separately from the conditional?
> 
> It also looks like a cpu_relax() could help here between iterations.

Sure, I can do these in a separate patch (this patch is just a simple fix).

> Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>

Thanks,

Will