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From: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>,
	Ben Woodard <bwoodard@llnl.gov>, Stable Team <stable@kernel.org>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] rwsem: fix rwsem_is_locked() bug
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:30:42 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AC99292.5060502@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9705.1254400470@redhat.com>

David Howells wrote:
> 
> Your patch would probably be better as:
> 
> -	woken = 0;
> +	woken = ++sem->activity;
> 	while (waiter->flags & RWSEM_WAITING_FOR_READ) {
> 		struct list_head *next = waiter->list.next;
> 
> 		list_del(&waiter->list);
> 		tsk = waiter->task;
> 		smp_mb();
> 		waiter->task = NULL;
> 		wake_up_process(tsk);
> 		put_task_struct(tsk);
> 		woken++;
> 		if (list_empty(&sem->wait_list))
> 			break;
> 		waiter = list_entry(next, struct rwsem_waiter, list);
> 	}
> 
> -	sem->activity += woken;
> +	sem->activity = woken;

FYI, this seems wrong, probably even worse than what it is now.
I tried this change, it breaks portmap.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-10-05  6:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-30  3:19 [Patch] rwsem: fix rwsem_is_locked() bug Amerigo Wang
2009-09-30 23:08 ` Andrew Morton
2009-10-05  3:23   ` Amerigo Wang
2009-10-01 12:34 ` David Howells
2009-10-05  3:26   ` Amerigo Wang
2009-10-05  6:30   ` Amerigo Wang [this message]
2009-10-05 12:58     ` David Howells

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