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From: Matthias Bonne <lemonlime51@gmail.com>
To: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>,
	Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com>,
	kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Question on mutex code
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 05:40:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5506509F.1040108@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150315221018.GA25881@debian>

On 03/16/15 00:10, Rabin Vincent wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 11:49:07PM +0200, Matthias Bonne wrote:
>> So the counter is set to 1 before taking the spinlock, which I think
>> might cause the race. Did I miss something?
>
> Yes, you miss the fact that __mutex_slowpath_needs_to_unlock() is 0 for
> the CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES case:
>
>   #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES
>   # include "mutex-debug.h"
>   # include <asm-generic/mutex-null.h>
>   /*
>    * Must be 0 for the debug case so we do not do the unlock outside of the
>    * wait_lock region. debug_mutex_unlock() will do the actual unlock in this
>    * case.
>    */
>   # undef __mutex_slowpath_needs_to_unlock
>   # define  __mutex_slowpath_needs_to_unlock()	0
>

Right, I overlooked this part. Thanks to both of you for the
clarifications.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-16  3:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <54F64E10.7050801@gmail.com>
2015-03-10 13:03 ` Question on mutex code Yann Droneaud
2015-03-10 14:59   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2015-03-14 23:08     ` Matthias Bonne
2015-03-14 23:05   ` Matthias Bonne
2015-03-15  1:03     ` Davidlohr Bueso
2015-03-15  1:09       ` Davidlohr Bueso
2015-03-15 21:49         ` Matthias Bonne
2015-03-15 22:10           ` Rabin Vincent
2015-03-16  3:40             ` Matthias Bonne [this message]
2015-03-15 22:18           ` Davidlohr Bueso
2015-03-15 22:23             ` Davidlohr Bueso

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