linux/arch
Oleg Nesterov e0acd0a68e sched: fix the theoretical signal_wake_up() vs schedule() race
This is only theoretical, but after try_to_wake_up(p) was changed
to check p->state under p->pi_lock the code like

	__set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
	schedule();

can miss a signal. This is the special case of wait-for-condition,
it relies on try_to_wake_up/schedule interaction and thus it does
not need mb() between __set_current_state() and if(signal_pending).

However, this __set_current_state() can move into the critical
section protected by rq->lock, now that try_to_wake_up() takes
another lock we need to ensure that it can't be reordered with
"if (signal_pending(current))" check inside that section.

The patch is actually one-liner, it simply adds smp_wmb() before
spin_lock_irq(rq->lock). This is what try_to_wake_up() already
does by the same reason.

We turn this wmb() into the new helper, smp_mb__before_spinlock(),
for better documentation and to allow the architectures to change
the default implementation.

While at it, kill smp_mb__after_lock(), it has no callers.

Perhaps we can also add smp_mb__before/after_spinunlock() for
prepare_to_wait().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-08-13 08:19:26 -07:00
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alpha alpha: Use handle_percpu_irq for the timer interrupt 2013-07-19 13:54:26 -07:00
arc ARC: SMP build breakage 2013-07-26 15:34:22 -07:00
arm fbdev fixes: 2013-08-09 11:52:34 -07:00
arm64 arm64: Change kernel stack size to 16K 2013-07-26 13:37:29 +01:00
avr32 avr32: boards/atngw100/mrmt.c: fix building error 2013-08-08 14:16:22 +02:00
blackfin Merge branch 'cpuinit_phase2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2013-07-18 10:50:26 -07:00
c6x Merge branch 'akpm' (updates from Andrew Morton) 2013-07-03 17:12:13 -07:00
cris cris: delete __cpuinit usage from all cris files 2013-07-14 19:36:54 -04:00
frv frv: delete __cpuinit usage from all frv files 2013-07-14 19:36:55 -04:00
h8300 net: rename busy poll socket op and globals 2013-07-10 17:08:27 -07:00
hexagon hexagon: delete __cpuinit usage from all hexagon files 2013-07-14 19:36:55 -04:00
ia64 PCI: hotplug: Convert to be builtin only, not modular 2013-07-25 14:11:06 -06:00
m32r m32r: delete __cpuinit usage from all m32r files 2013-07-14 19:36:55 -04:00
m68k Merge branch 'akpm' (updates from Andrew Morton) 2013-07-03 17:12:13 -07:00
metag metag: delete __cpuinit usage from all metag files 2013-07-14 19:36:54 -04:00
microblaze Merge branch 'next' of git://git.monstr.eu/linux-2.6-microblaze 2013-07-10 10:16:07 -07:00
mips MIPS: BMIPS: fix hardware interrupt routing for boot CPU != 0 2013-08-05 13:35:18 +02:00
mn10300 net: rename busy poll socket op and globals 2013-07-10 17:08:27 -07:00
openrisc openrisc: delete __cpuinit usage from all openrisc files 2013-07-14 19:36:55 -04:00
parisc parisc: Fix interrupt routing for C8000 serial ports 2013-07-31 23:42:32 +02:00
powerpc powerpc/tm: Fix context switching TAR, PPR and DSCR SPRs 2013-08-09 18:07:12 +10:00
s390 Two fixes for s390 2013-08-11 12:11:33 -07:00
score score: delete __cpuinit usage from all score files 2013-07-14 19:36:56 -04:00
sh PCI: hotplug: Convert to be builtin only, not modular 2013-07-25 14:11:06 -06:00
sparc sparc: delete __cpuinit/__CPUINIT usage from all users 2013-07-14 19:36:52 -04:00
tile tile: delete __cpuinit usage from all tile files 2013-07-14 19:36:54 -04:00
um um: siginfo cleanup 2013-07-19 11:31:36 +02:00
unicore32 reboot: move arch/x86 reboot= handling to generic kernel 2013-07-09 10:33:29 -07:00
x86 sched: fix the theoretical signal_wake_up() vs schedule() race 2013-08-13 08:19:26 -07:00
xtensa xtensa: delete __cpuinit usage from all xtensa files 2013-07-14 19:36:56 -04:00
.gitignore
Kconfig mm: soft-dirty bits for user memory changes tracking 2013-07-03 16:07:26 -07:00