Re: [PATCH 0/2] xen: fix two issues in Xen pv qspinlock handling

From: Juergen Gross
Date: Mon Oct 01 2018 - 03:37:07 EST


Correcting Waiman's mail address

On 01/10/2018 09:16, Juergen Gross wrote:
> The Xen specific queue spinlock wait function has two issues which
> could result in a hanging system.
>
> They have a similar root cause of clearing a pending wakeup of a
> waiting vcpu and later going to sleep waiting for the just cleared
> wakeup event, which of course won't ever happen.
>
> Juergen Gross (2):
> xen: fix race in xen_qlock_wait()
> xen: make xen_qlock_wait() nestable
>
> arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c | 33 ++++++++++++---------------------
> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
>
> Cc: longman@xxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>