Commit c847f142 authored by Paul E. McKenney's avatar Paul E. McKenney

rcu: Avoid misordering in nocb_leader_wait()

The NOCB follower wakeup ordering depends on the store to the tail
pointer happening before the wakeup.  However, because atomic_long_add()
does not return a value, it does not provide ordering guarantees, and
the locking in wake_up() only guarantees that the store will happen
before the unlock, which might be too late.  Even though this is only a
theoretical issue, this commit adds a smp_mb__after_atomic() after the
final atomic_long_add() to provide the needed ordering guarantee.
Reported-by: default avatarAmit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: default avatarPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
parent 1772947b
......@@ -2306,6 +2306,7 @@ static void nocb_leader_wait(struct rcu_data *my_rdp)
atomic_long_add(rdp->nocb_gp_count, &rdp->nocb_follower_count);
atomic_long_add(rdp->nocb_gp_count_lazy,
&rdp->nocb_follower_count_lazy);
smp_mb__after_atomic(); /* Store *tail before wakeup. */
if (rdp != my_rdp && tail == &rdp->nocb_follower_head) {
/*
* List was empty, wake up the follower.
......
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