From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> This commit fixes a misplaced data re-read in the typesafe code. The reason that this was not noticed is that this is a performance test with no writers, so a mismatch could not occur. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/rcu/refscale.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/rcu/refscale.c b/kernel/rcu/refscale.c index 91a0fd0d4d9a..750a63e99539 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/refscale.c +++ b/kernel/rcu/refscale.c @@ -655,12 +655,12 @@ static void typesafe_delay_section(const int nloops, const int udl, const int nd goto retry; } un_delay(udl, ndl); + b = READ_ONCE(rtsp->a); // Remember, seqlock read-side release can fail. if (!rts_release(rtsp, start)) { rcu_read_unlock(); goto retry; } - b = READ_ONCE(rtsp->a); WARN_ONCE(a != b, "Re-read of ->a changed from %u to %u.\n", a, b); b = rtsp->b; rcu_read_unlock(); -- 2.34.1