On 02/13, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> On 02/13, Raghavendra K T wrote:
> >
> > @@ -772,7 +773,8 @@ __visible void kvm_lock_spinning(struct arch_spinlock *lock, __ticket_t want)
> > * check again make sure it didn't become free while
> > * we weren't looking.
> > */
> > - if (ACCESS_ONCE(lock->tickets.head) == want) {
> > + head = READ_ONCE(lock->tickets.head);
> > + if (__tickets_equal(head, want)) {
> > add_stats(TAKEN_SLOW_PICKUP, 1);
> > goto out;
>
> This is off-topic, but with or without this change perhaps it makes sense
> to add smp_mb__after_atomic(). It is nop on x86, just to make this code
> more understandable for those (for me ;) who can never remember even the
> x86 rules.
Not that I think you should do this in v5, so please ignore.
Oleg.
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