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Amerigo Wang 29671f22a8 rwsem: fix rwsem_is_locked() bugs
rwsem_is_locked() tests ->activity without locks, so we should always keep
->activity consistent.  However, the code in __rwsem_do_wake() breaks this
rule, it updates ->activity after _all_ readers waken up, this may give
some reader a wrong ->activity value, thus cause rwsem_is_locked() behaves
wrong.

Quote from Andrew:

"
- we have one or more processes sleeping in down_read(), waiting for access.

- we wake one or more processes up without altering ->activity

- they start to run and they do rwsem_is_locked().  This incorrectly
  returns "false", because the waker process is still crunching away in
  __rwsem_do_wake().

- the waker now alters ->activity, but it was too late.
"

So we need get a spinlock to protect this.  And rwsem_is_locked() should
not block, thus we use spin_trylock_irqsave().

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: simplify code]
Reported-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Cc: Ben Woodard <bwoodard@llnl.gov>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 08:53:26 -08:00
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acpi Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq 2009-12-11 15:59:23 -08:00
asm-generic WARN_ONCE(): use bool for boolean flag 2009-12-15 08:53:25 -08:00
crypto crypto: hash - Remove legacy hash/digest code 2009-10-19 12:53:37 +09:00
drm drm/nouveau: Add DRM driver for NVIDIA GPUs 2009-12-11 21:29:34 +10:00
keys RxRPC: Use uX/sX rather than uintX_t/intX_t types 2009-09-16 00:01:13 -07:00
linux rwsem: fix rwsem_is_locked() bugs 2009-12-15 08:53:26 -08:00
math-emu
media V4L/DVB (13540): ir-common: Cleanup get key evdev code 2009-12-05 18:42:22 -02:00
mtd
net Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu 2009-12-14 09:58:24 -08:00
pcmcia pcmcia: CodingStyle fixes 2009-12-07 22:23:40 +01:00
rdma trivial: fix typo "to to" in multiple files 2009-09-21 15:14:55 +02:00
rxrpc
scsi Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6 2009-12-09 19:42:25 -08:00
sound Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2009-12-09 19:43:33 -08:00
trace Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-12-11 20:49:09 -08:00
video Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2009-12-09 19:43:33 -08:00
xen xen: move Xen-testing predicates to common header 2009-11-04 08:47:24 -08:00
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