Re: [PATCH v2] introduce atomic_pointer to fix a race condition in cancelable mcs spinlocks

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 09:50:10AM -0700, Jason Low wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-06-02 at 12:00 -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> > If you write to some variable with ACCESS_ONCE and use cmpxchg or xchg at
> > the same time, you break it. ACCESS_ONCE doesn't take the hashed spinlock,
> > so, in this case, cmpxchg or xchg isn't really atomic at all.
> 
> So if the problem is using ACCESS_ONCE writes with cmpxchg and xchg at
> the same time, would the below change address this problem?

And one could use cmpxchg() or atomic_add_return(..., 0) to read a value
out.  Probably at the cost of some performance impact, though.

							Thanx, Paul

> -----
> diff --git a/kernel/locking/mcs_spinlock.c b/kernel/locking/mcs_spinlock.c
> index 838dc9e..8396721 100644
> --- a/kernel/locking/mcs_spinlock.c
> +++ b/kernel/locking/mcs_spinlock.c
> @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ bool osq_lock(struct optimistic_spin_queue **lock)
>  	if (likely(prev == NULL))
>  		return true;
> 
> -	ACCESS_ONCE(prev->next) = node;
> +	xchg(&prev->next, node);
> 
>  	/*
>  	 * Normally @prev is untouchable after the above store; because at that
> @@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ unqueue:
>  	 */
> 
>  	ACCESS_ONCE(next->prev) = prev;
> -	ACCESS_ONCE(prev->next) = next;
> +	xchg(&prev->next, next);
> 
>  	return false;
>  }
> 
> 

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