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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	fbl@redhat.com, nhorman@redhat.com, davem@redhat.com,
	htejun@gmail.com, jarkao2@gmail.com, oleg@redhat.com,
	davidel@xmailserver.org, eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 2/2] memory barrier: adding smp_mb__after_lock
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:53:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A4C5983.7000501@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090702063624.GC3429@jolsa.lab.eng.brq.redhat.com>

Jiri Olsa a écrit :
> Adding smp_mb__after_lock define to be used as a smp_mb call after
> a lock.  
> 
> Making it nop for x86, since {read|write|spin}_lock() on x86 are 
> full memory barriers.
> 
> wbr,
> jirka
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>


Maybe we should remind that sk_has_helper() is always called
right after a call to read_lock() as in :

	read_lock(&sk->sk_callback_lock);
	if (sk_has_sleeper(sk))
		wake_up_interruptible_all(sk->sk_sleep);

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>

Thanks Jiri

> 
> ---
>  arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h |    3 +++
>  include/linux/spinlock.h        |    5 +++++
>  include/net/sock.h              |    2 +-
>  3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h
> index b7e5db8..39ecc5f 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h
> @@ -302,4 +302,7 @@ static inline void __raw_write_unlock(raw_rwlock_t *rw)
>  #define _raw_read_relax(lock)	cpu_relax()
>  #define _raw_write_relax(lock)	cpu_relax()
>  
> +/* The {read|write|spin}_lock() on x86 are full memory barriers. */
> +#define smp_mb__after_lock() do { } while (0)
> +
>  #endif /* _ASM_X86_SPINLOCK_H */
> diff --git a/include/linux/spinlock.h b/include/linux/spinlock.h
> index 252b245..ae053bd 100644
> --- a/include/linux/spinlock.h
> +++ b/include/linux/spinlock.h
> @@ -132,6 +132,11 @@ do {								\
>  #endif /*__raw_spin_is_contended*/
>  #endif
>  
> +/* The lock does not imply full memory barrier. */
> +#ifndef smp_mb__after_lock
> +#define smp_mb__after_lock() smp_mb()
> +#endif
> +
>  /**
>   * spin_unlock_wait - wait until the spinlock gets unlocked
>   * @lock: the spinlock in question.
> diff --git a/include/net/sock.h b/include/net/sock.h
> index 4eb8409..b3e96a4 100644
> --- a/include/net/sock.h
> +++ b/include/net/sock.h
> @@ -1280,7 +1280,7 @@ static inline int sk_has_sleeper(struct sock *sk)
>  	 *
>  	 * This memory barrier is paired in the sock_poll_wait.
>  	 */
> -	smp_mb();
> +	smp_mb__after_lock();
>  	return sk->sk_sleep && waitqueue_active(sk->sk_sleep);
>  }
>  
> --


  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-02  6:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-02  6:32 [PATCHv4 0/2] net: fix race in the receive/select Jiri Olsa
2009-07-02  6:35 ` [PATCHv4 1/2] net: adding memory barrier to the poll and receive callbacks Jiri Olsa
2009-07-02  6:55   ` Eric Dumazet
2009-07-02  6:36 ` [PATCHv4 2/2] memory barrier: adding smp_mb__after_lock Jiri Olsa
2009-07-02  6:53   ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2009-07-02 14:39     ` Davide Libenzi
2009-07-03  7:41       ` Jiri Olsa
2009-07-03  7:47         ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-07-03  7:51           ` Jiri Olsa
2009-07-03  7:50         ` Jiri Olsa

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