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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>,
	xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com, mingo@elte.hu, jaxboe@fusionio.com,
	npiggin@gmail.com, rusty@rustcorp.com.au,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: call_function_many: fix list delete vs add race
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 11:22:44 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1296519764.2349.325.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1296508677.26581.84.camel@laptop>

On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 22:17 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> That's wrong:
> 
>  ->foo =
>  LOCK
>  UNLOCK
>  ->bar =
> 
> can be re-ordered as:
> 
>  LOCK
>  ->bar =
>  ->foo =
>  UNLOCK

Can it ? I though UNLOCK had a write barrier semantic ? It does on power
at least :-) It should have since it shall prevent stores inside the
lock region to pass the store of the unlock itself anyways.

So yes, ->bar = can leak into the lock, as can ->foo =, but they can't
be re-ordered vs. each other because the implied barrier will keep ->foo
= in the same "domain" as the unlock itself.

Or do other archs do something really nasty here that don't provide this
guarantee ?

Cheers,
Ben.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-02-01  0:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-12  4:07 [PATCH] smp_call_function_many SMP race Anton Blanchard
2011-01-17 18:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-18 21:05   ` Milton Miller
2011-01-18 21:06     ` [PATCH 2/2] consolidate writes in smp_call_funtion_interrupt Milton Miller
2011-01-27 16:22       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-27 21:59         ` Milton Miller
2011-01-29  0:20           ` call_function_many: fix list delete vs add race Milton Miller
2011-01-31  7:21             ` Mike Galbraith
2011-01-31 20:26               ` [PATCH] smp_call_function_many: handle concurrent clearing of mask Milton Miller
2011-02-01  3:15                 ` Mike Galbraith
2011-01-31 10:27             ` call_function_many: fix list delete vs add race Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-31 20:26               ` Milton Miller
2011-01-31 20:39                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-31 21:17             ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-31 21:36               ` Milton Miller
2011-02-01  0:22               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2011-02-01  1:39                 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-02-01  2:18                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-02-01  2:43                     ` Linus Torvalds
2011-02-01  4:45                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-02-01  5:46                         ` Linus Torvalds
2011-02-01  6:18                           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-02-01 14:13                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-02-01  6:16                       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
     [not found]             ` <ipi-list-reply@mdm.bga.com>
2011-02-01  7:12               ` [PATCH 1/3 v2] " Milton Miller
2011-02-01 22:00                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-02-01 22:00                   ` Milton Miller
2011-02-02  4:17                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-02-06 23:51                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-03-15 19:27                         ` [PATCH 0/4 v3] smp_call_function_many issues from review Milton Miller
2011-03-15 20:22                           ` Luck, Tony
2011-03-15 20:32                             ` Dimitri Sivanich
2011-03-15 20:39                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-03-16 17:55                           ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-16 18:13                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-03-17  3:15                           ` Mike Galbraith
2011-02-07  8:12                       ` [PATCH 1/3 v2] call_function_many: fix list delete vs add race Mike Galbraith
2011-02-08 19:36                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-08-21  6:17                           ` Mike Galbraith
2011-02-02  6:22                     ` Mike Galbraith
2011-02-01  7:12               ` [PATCH 2/3 v2] smp_call_function_many: handle concurrent clearing of mask Milton Miller
2011-03-15 19:27               ` [PATCH 2/4 v3] call_function_many: add missing ordering Milton Miller
2011-03-16 12:06                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-03-15 19:27               ` [PATCH 1/4 v3] call_function_many: fix list delete vs add race Milton Miller
2011-03-15 19:27               ` [PATCH 4/4 v3] smp_call_function_interrupt: use typedef and %pf Milton Miller
2011-03-15 19:27               ` [PATCH 3/4 v3] smp_call_function_many: handle concurrent clearing of mask Milton Miller
2011-03-15 22:32                 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-03-16  7:52                 ` Jan Beulich
2011-01-18 21:07     ` [PATCH 1/2] smp_call_function_many SMP race Milton Miller
2011-01-20  0:41       ` Andrew Morton

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