Re: [RFC][PATCH 3/3] ipc/sem: Rework wakeup scheme

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 21:32 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > +static void wake_up_sem_queue_prepare(struct wake_list_head *wake_list,
> > >                             struct sem_queue *q, int error)
> > >   {
> > > +   struct task_struct *p = ACCESS_ONCE(q->sleeper);
> > >
> > > +   get_task_struct(p);
> > > +   q->status = error;
> > > +   /*
> > > +    * implies a full barrier
> > > +    */
> > > +   wake_list_add(wake_list, p);
> > > +   put_task_struct(p);
> > >   }
> 
> > I think the get_task_struct()/put_task_struct is not necessary:
> > Just do the wake_list_add() before writing q->status:
> > wake_list_add() is identical to list_add_tail(&q->simple_list, pt).
> > [except that it contains additional locking, which doesn't matter here]

OK, I can't read properly.. so the problem with doing the
wake_list_add() before the write is that the wakeup can actually happen
before the write in case p already had a wakeup queued.

So far there isn't anybody else (except futexes) using this that could
intersect with the wakeups.. but still it leaves me uneasy.