Re: [PATCH v2] tty: fix stall caused by missing memory barrier in drivers/tty/n_tty.c

[Peter Hurley]

On 10/09/2015 01:28 PM, Peter Hurley wrote:
> Tatsukawa-san,
> 
> I would still like to root-cause the reported stall; is the reported
> stall resolved if smp_mb() is added before the waitqueue_active()
> in __receive_buf()?

Nevermind, I see it now.

The store to commit_head is deferred until after the load of read_wait->next;
a full memory barrier would properly order the store before the load but,
since that is roughly equivalent to taking the spin lock for the wake up anyway,
it makes sense to just always do the wakeup.

Thanks again.

Regards,
Peter Hurley
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