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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Race condition in 2.4 tasklet handling
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 01:04:13 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030823150413.GA32537@krispykreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030823025448.GA32547@atj.dyndns.org>


Hi,

>  Adding smp_mb__after_test_and_set_bit() at the end of
> tasklet_trylock() should remedy the situation.  As
> smp_mb__{before|after}_test_and_set_bit() don't exist yet, I'm
> attaching a patch which adds smp_mb__after_clear_bit().  The patch is
> against 2.4.21.

No, the atomic and bitop operations that return values (like
test_and_set_bit) must have barriers. Is x86 missing these?

> P.S. Please comment on the addition of
> smp_mb__{before|after}_test_and_set_bit().

Only the atomic and bitops that dont return values (set_bit, atomic_inc
etc) might require ordering depending on use.

Anton

      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-08-23 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-23  2:54 Race condition in 2.4 tasklet handling TeJun Huh
2003-08-23  4:09 ` Race condition in 2.4 tasklet handling (cli() broken?) TeJun Huh
2003-08-23  5:26   ` TeJun Huh
2003-08-23 10:28     ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-08-23 15:13       ` TeJun Huh
2003-08-23 15:37         ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-08-25  6:31           ` TeJun Huh
2003-08-25  7:23             ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-08-26  0:27               ` TeJun Huh
2003-08-23 15:56         ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-08-23 16:36           ` TeJun Huh
2003-08-24  3:27           ` TeJun Huh
2003-08-23 15:04 ` Anton Blanchard [this message]

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