xen: use stronger barrier after unlocking lock
We need to have a stronger barrier between releasing the lock and checking for any waiting spinners. A compiler barrier is not sufficient because the CPU's ordering rules do not prevent the read xl->spinners from happening before the unlock assignment, as they are different memory locations. We need to have an explicit barrier to enforce the write-read ordering to different memory locations. Because of it, I can't bring up > 4 HVM guests on one SMP machine. [ Code and commit comments expanded -J ] [ Impact: avoid deadlock when using Xen PV spinlocks ] Signed-off-by: Yang Xiaowei <xiaowei.yang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
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