Commit 1e40c2ed authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Ingo Molnar

mutex: Fix/document access-once assumption in mutex_can_spin_on_owner()

mutex_can_spin_on_owner() is technically broken in that it would
in theory allow the compiler to load lock->owner twice, seeing a
pointer first time and a NULL pointer the second time.

Linus pointed out that a compiler has to be seriously broken to
not compile this correctly - but nevertheless this change
is correct as it will better document the implementation.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: default avatarDavidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Acked-by: default avatarWaiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Acked-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130719183101.GA20909@twins.programming.kicks-ass.netSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent c4be9cb4
......@@ -209,11 +209,13 @@ int mutex_spin_on_owner(struct mutex *lock, struct task_struct *owner)
*/
static inline int mutex_can_spin_on_owner(struct mutex *lock)
{
struct task_struct *owner;
int retval = 1;
rcu_read_lock();
if (lock->owner)
retval = lock->owner->on_cpu;
owner = ACCESS_ONCE(lock->owner);
if (owner)
retval = owner->on_cpu;
rcu_read_unlock();
/*
* if lock->owner is not set, the mutex owner may have just acquired
......
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