There is no agreed-upon definition of spin_unlock_wait()'s semantics, and it appears that all callers could do just as well with a lock/unlock pair. This commit therefore replaces the spin_unlock_wait() calls in nf_conntrack_lock() and nf_conntrack_all_lock() with spin_lock() followed immediately by spin_unlock(). These functions do not appear to be invoked on any fastpaths. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <netfilter-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <coreteam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c | 26 ++++++++------------------ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c index e847dbaa0c6b..9f997859d160 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c @@ -99,15 +99,11 @@ void nf_conntrack_lock(spinlock_t *lock) __acquires(lock) spin_lock(lock); while (unlikely(nf_conntrack_locks_all)) { spin_unlock(lock); - - /* - * Order the 'nf_conntrack_locks_all' load vs. the - * spin_unlock_wait() loads below, to ensure - * that 'nf_conntrack_locks_all_lock' is indeed held: - */ - smp_rmb(); /* spin_lock(&nf_conntrack_locks_all_lock) */ - spin_unlock_wait(&nf_conntrack_locks_all_lock); + /* Wait for nf_conntrack_locks_all_lock holder to release ... */ + spin_lock(&nf_conntrack_locks_all_lock); + spin_unlock(&nf_conntrack_locks_all_lock); spin_lock(lock); + /* ... and retry. */ } } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nf_conntrack_lock); @@ -150,17 +146,11 @@ static void nf_conntrack_all_lock(void) spin_lock(&nf_conntrack_locks_all_lock); nf_conntrack_locks_all = true; - - /* - * Order the above store of 'nf_conntrack_locks_all' against - * the spin_unlock_wait() loads below, such that if - * nf_conntrack_lock() observes 'nf_conntrack_locks_all' - * we must observe nf_conntrack_locks[] held: - */ - smp_mb(); /* spin_lock(&nf_conntrack_locks_all_lock) */ - for (i = 0; i < CONNTRACK_LOCKS; i++) { - spin_unlock_wait(&nf_conntrack_locks[i]); + /* Wait for any current holder to release lock. */ + spin_lock(&nf_conntrack_locks[i]); + spin_unlock(&nf_conntrack_locks[i]); + /* Next acquisition will see nf_conntrack_locks_all == true. */ } } -- 2.5.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html