[PATCH] pi-futex: set PF_EXITING without taking ->pi_lock

[Oleg Nesterov]

It is a bit annoying that do_exit() takes ->pi_lock to set PF_EXITING.
All we need is to synchronize with lookup_pi_state() which saw this task
without PF_EXITING under ->pi_lock.

Change do_exit() to use spin_unlock_wait().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>

--- t/kernel/exit.c~PF_EXIT	2007-06-19 17:09:15.000000000 +0400
+++ t/kernel/exit.c	2007-07-21 15:34:13.000000000 +0400
@@ -908,13 +908,13 @@ fastcall NORET_TYPE void do_exit(long co
 		schedule();
 	}
 
+	tsk->flags |= PF_EXITING;
 	/*
 	 * tsk->flags are checked in the futex code to protect against
 	 * an exiting task cleaning up the robust pi futexes.
 	 */
-	spin_lock_irq(&tsk->pi_lock);
-	tsk->flags |= PF_EXITING;
-	spin_unlock_irq(&tsk->pi_lock);
+	smp_mb();
+	spin_unlock_wait(&tsk->pi_lock);
 
 	if (unlikely(in_atomic()))
 		printk(KERN_INFO "note: %s[%d] exited with preempt_count %d\n",

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