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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: jeremy@goop.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	paul.gortmaker@windriver.com, hpa@zytor.com, ak@linux.intel.com,
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	mingo@redhat.com, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
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	konrad.wilk@oracle.com, dave@stgolabs.net,
	sasha.levin@oracle.com, davej@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
	waiman.long@hp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	pbonzini@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V5] x86 spinlock: Fix memory corruption on completing completions
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 21:31:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150215203159.GA8191@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150215173043.GA7471@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On 02/15, Raghavendra K T wrote:
>
> * Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [2015-02-15 11:25:44]:
>
> Resending the V5 with smp_mb__after_atomic() change without bumping up
> revision

Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>


Of course, this needs the acks from maintainers. And I agree that SLOWPATH
in .head makes xadd() in unlock() unavoidable. However I do not see how we
can avoid the locked inc if we want to eliminate read-after-unlock.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-15 20:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-15  5:55 [PATCH V5] x86 spinlock: Fix memory corruption on completing completions Raghavendra K T
2015-02-15  6:01 ` Raghavendra K T
2015-02-17 18:26   ` Sasha Levin
2015-02-15 16:17 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-02-15 17:34   ` Raghavendra K T
2015-02-15 17:30 ` Raghavendra K T
2015-02-15 20:31   ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2015-02-16 16:47   ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2015-02-17 10:03     ` Raghavendra K T

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