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() call in completion_done() with spin_lock() followed immediately by spin_unlock(). This should be safe from a performance perspective because the lock will be held only the wakeup happens really quickly. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/sched/completion.c | 9 ++------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched/completion.c b/kernel/sched/completion.c index 53f9558fa925..3e66712e1964 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/completion.c +++ b/kernel/sched/completion.c @@ -307,14 +307,9 @@ bool completion_done(struct completion *x) * If ->done, we need to wait for complete() to release ->wait.lock * otherwise we can end up freeing the completion before complete() * is done referencing it. - * - * The RMB pairs with complete()'s RELEASE of ->wait.lock and orders - * the loads of ->done and ->wait.lock such that we cannot observe - * the lock before complete() acquires it while observing the ->done - * after it's acquired the lock. */ - smp_rmb(); - spin_unlock_wait(&x->wait.lock); + spin_lock_irq(&x->wait.lock); + spin_unlock_irq(&x->wait.lock); return true; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(completion_done); -- 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
