Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86, ticketlock: spin_unlock_wait() can livelock

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> But we do not need to wait for arch_spin_is_locked() == F. If it is
> locked we only need to wait until the current owner drops this lock.
> So we could simply spin until old_head != lock->tickets.head in this
> case, but .head can overflow and thus we can't check "unlocked" only
> once before the main loop.

Ack. Looks like a good idea. Can you point to the report that you
think this might be the cause of?

                    Linus
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