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Paravirt spinlock clears slowpath flag after doing unlock. As explained by Linus currently it does: prev = *lock; add_smp(&lock->tickets.head, TICKET_LOCK_INC); /* add_smp() is a full mb() */ if (unlikely(lock->tickets.tail & TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG)) __ticket_unlock_slowpath(lock, prev); which is *exactly* the kind of things you cannot do with spinlocks, because after you've done the &q...

Paravirt spinlock clears slowpath flag after doing unlock. As explained by Linus currently it does: prev = *lock; add_smp(&lock->tickets.head, TICKET_LOCK_INC); /* add_smp() is a full mb() */ if (unlikely(lock->tickets.tail & TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG)) __ticket_unlock_slowpath(lock, prev); which is *exactly* the kind of things you cannot do with spinlocks, because after you've done the &q...

...always had to do magic special-casing for i386, but that's one of the reasons we dropped support for original 80386. So I think Raghavendra's last version (which hopefully fixes the lockup problem that Sasha reported) together with changing that add_smp(&lock->tickets.head, TICKET_LOCK_INC); if (READ_ONCE(lock->tickets.tail) & TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG) .. into something like val = xadd((&lock->ticket.head_tail, TICKET_LOCK_INC << TICKET_SHIFT); if (unlikely(val & TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG)) ... would be the right thing to do. Somebody should...

...always had to do magic special-casing for i386, but that's one of the reasons we dropped support for original 80386. So I think Raghavendra's last version (which hopefully fixes the lockup problem that Sasha reported) together with changing that add_smp(&lock->tickets.head, TICKET_LOCK_INC); if (READ_ONCE(lock->tickets.tail) & TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG) .. into something like val = xadd((&lock->ticket.head_tail, TICKET_LOCK_INC << TICKET_SHIFT); if (unlikely(val & TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG)) ... would be the right thing to do. Somebody should...

Paravirt spinlock clears slowpath flag after doing unlock. As explained by Linus currently it does: prev = *lock; add_smp(&lock->tickets.head, TICKET_LOCK_INC); /* add_smp() is a full mb() */ if (unlikely(lock->tickets.tail & TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG)) __ticket_unlock_slowpath(lock, prev); which is *exactly* the kind of things you cannot do with spinlocks, because after you've done the &qu...

Paravirt spinlock clears slowpath flag after doing unlock. As explained by Linus currently it does: prev = *lock; add_smp(&lock->tickets.head, TICKET_LOCK_INC); /* add_smp() is a full mb() */ if (unlikely(lock->tickets.tail & TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG)) __ticket_unlock_slowpath(lock, prev); which is *exactly* the kind of things you cannot do with spinlocks, because after you've done the &qu...

On 02/10, Raghavendra K T wrote: > > On 02/10/2015 06:23 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >> add_smp(&lock->tickets.head, TICKET_LOCK_INC); >> if (READ_ONCE(lock->tickets.tail) & TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG) .. >> >> into something like >> >> val = xadd((&lock->ticket.head_tail, TICKET_LOCK_INC << TICKET_SHIFT); >> if (unlikely(val & TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG)...

On 02/10, Raghavendra K T wrote: > > On 02/10/2015 06:23 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >> add_smp(&lock->tickets.head, TICKET_LOCK_INC); >> if (READ_ONCE(lock->tickets.tail) & TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG) .. >> >> into something like >> >> val = xadd((&lock->ticket.head_tail, TICKET_LOCK_INC << TICKET_SHIFT); >> if (unlikely(val & TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG)...

Paravirt spinlock clears slowpath flag after doing unlock. As explained by Linus currently it does: prev = *lock; add_smp(&lock->tickets.head, TICKET_LOCK_INC); /* add_smp() is a full mb() */ if (unlikely(lock->tickets.tail & TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG)) __ticket_unlock_slowpath(lock, prev); which is *exactly* the kind of things you cannot do with spinlocks, because after you've done the &qu...

Paravirt spinlock clears slowpath flag after doing unlock. As explained by Linus currently it does: prev = *lock; add_smp(&lock->tickets.head, TICKET_LOCK_INC); /* add_smp() is a full mb() */ if (unlikely(lock->tickets.tail & TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG)) __ticket_unlock_slowpath(lock, prev); which is *exactly* the kind of things you cannot do with spinlocks, because after you've done the &qu...

...6 Feb 2015 16:44:11 +0530 Subject: [PATCH RESEND V5] x86 spinlock: Fix memory corruption on completing completions Paravirt spinlock clears slowpath flag after doing unlock. As explained by Linus currently it does: prev = *lock; add_smp(&lock->tickets.head, TICKET_LOCK_INC); /* add_smp() is a full mb() */ if (unlikely(lock->tickets.tail & TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG)) __ticket_unlock_slowpath(lock, prev); which is *exactly* the kind of things you cannot do with spinlocks, because after you've done the &qu...

...6 Feb 2015 16:44:11 +0530 Subject: [PATCH RESEND V5] x86 spinlock: Fix memory corruption on completing completions Paravirt spinlock clears slowpath flag after doing unlock. As explained by Linus currently it does: prev = *lock; add_smp(&lock->tickets.head, TICKET_LOCK_INC); /* add_smp() is a full mb() */ if (unlikely(lock->tickets.tail & TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG)) __ticket_unlock_slowpath(lock, prev); which is *exactly* the kind of things you cannot do with spinlocks, because after you've done the &qu...

Paravirt spinlock clears slowpath flag after doing unlock. As explained by Linus currently it does: prev = *lock; add_smp(&lock->tickets.head, TICKET_LOCK_INC); /* add_smp() is a full mb() */ if (unlikely(lock->tickets.tail & TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG)) __ticket_unlock_slowpath(lock, prev); which is *exactly* the kind of things you cannot do with spinlocks, because after you've done the &q...

Paravirt spinlock clears slowpath flag after doing unlock. As explained by Linus currently it does: prev = *lock; add_smp(&lock->tickets.head, TICKET_LOCK_INC); /* add_smp() is a full mb() */ if (unlikely(lock->tickets.tail & TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG)) __ticket_unlock_slowpath(lock, prev); which is *exactly* the kind of things you cannot do with spinlocks, because after you've done the &q...

On 02/06/2015 06:49 AM, Raghavendra K T wrote: > Paravirt spinlock clears slowpath flag after doing unlock. > As explained by Linus currently it does: > prev = *lock; > add_smp(&lock->tickets.head, TICKET_LOCK_INC); > > /* add_smp() is a full mb() */ > > if (unlikely(lock->tickets.tail & TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG)) > __ticket_unlock_slowpath(lock, prev); > > > which is *exactly* the kind of things you cannot do with spinlocks,...

On 02/06/2015 06:49 AM, Raghavendra K T wrote: > Paravirt spinlock clears slowpath flag after doing unlock. > As explained by Linus currently it does: > prev = *lock; > add_smp(&lock->tickets.head, TICKET_LOCK_INC); > > /* add_smp() is a full mb() */ > > if (unlikely(lock->tickets.tail & TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG)) > __ticket_unlock_slowpath(lock, prev); > > > which is *exactly* the kind of things you cannot do with spinlocks,...

Paravirt spinlock clears slowpath flag after doing unlock. As explained by Linus currently it does: prev = *lock; add_smp(&lock->tickets.head, TICKET_LOCK_INC); /* add_smp() is a full mb() */ if (unlikely(lock->tickets.tail & TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG)) __ticket_unlock_slowpath(lock, prev); which is *exactly* the kind of things you cannot do with spinlocks, because after you've done the &q...

Paravirt spinlock clears slowpath flag after doing unlock. As explained by Linus currently it does: prev = *lock; add_smp(&lock->tickets.head, TICKET_LOCK_INC); /* add_smp() is a full mb() */ if (unlikely(lock->tickets.tail & TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG)) __ticket_unlock_slowpath(lock, prev); which is *exactly* the kind of things you cannot do with spinlocks, because after you've done the &q...

Paravirt spinlock clears slowpath flag after doing unlock. As explained by Linus currently it does: prev = *lock; add_smp(&lock->tickets.head, TICKET_LOCK_INC); /* add_smp() is a full mb() */ if (unlikely(lock->tickets.tail & TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG)) __ticket_unlock_slowpath(lock, prev); which is *exactly* the kind of things you cannot do with spinlocks, because after you've done the &qu...

Paravirt spinlock clears slowpath flag after doing unlock. As explained by Linus currently it does: prev = *lock; add_smp(&lock->tickets.head, TICKET_LOCK_INC); /* add_smp() is a full mb() */ if (unlikely(lock->tickets.tail & TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG)) __ticket_unlock_slowpath(lock, prev); which is *exactly* the kind of things you cannot do with spinlocks, because after you've done the &qu...