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Will Deacon 11dc13224c locking/qspinlock: Ensure node->count is updated before initialising node
When queuing on the qspinlock, the count field for the current CPU's head
node is incremented. This needn't be atomic because locking in e.g. IRQ
context is balanced and so an IRQ will return with node->count as it
found it.

However, the compiler could in theory reorder the initialisation of
node[idx] before the increment of the head node->count, causing an
IRQ to overwrite the initialised node and potentially corrupt the lock
state.

Avoid the potential for this harmful compiler reordering by placing a
barrier() between the increment of the head node->count and the subsequent
node initialisation.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1518528177-19169-3-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-02-13 14:50:14 +01:00
arch 2nd set of arm64 updates for 4.16: 2018-02-08 10:44:25 -08:00
block for-linus-20180204 2018-02-04 11:16:35 -08:00
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Documentation Documentation/locking/mutex-design: Update to reflect latest changes 2018-02-11 12:28:58 +01:00
drivers IOMMU Updates for Linux v4.16 2018-02-08 12:03:54 -08:00
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init membarrier: Provide core serializing command, *_SYNC_CORE 2018-02-05 21:35:03 +01:00
ipc ipc/mqueue.c: have RT tasks queue in by priority in wq_add() 2018-02-06 18:32:46 -08:00
kernel locking/qspinlock: Ensure node->count is updated before initialising node 2018-02-13 14:50:14 +01:00
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scripts - update includes for gcc 8 (Valdis Kletnieks) 2018-02-08 14:37:32 -08:00
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sound ASoC: Updates for v4.16 2018-02-07 12:11:09 -08:00
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README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.