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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-12-17 22:08:28 -0500
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-12-17 22:08:28 -0500
commitb3e0d3d7bab14f2544a3314bec53a23dc7dd2206 (patch)
tree2bd3c1c1d128e0c362655fa70a6eea02fc856f62 /kernel/locking/osq_lock.c
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parent73796d8bf27372e26c2b79881947304c14c2d353 (diff)
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Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Conflicts: drivers/net/geneve.c Here we had an overlapping change, where in 'net' the extraneous stats bump was being removed whilst in 'net-next' the final argument to udp_tunnel6_xmit_skb() was being changed. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/locking/osq_lock.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/locking/osq_lock.c8
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/locking/osq_lock.c b/kernel/locking/osq_lock.c
index d092a0c..05a3785 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/osq_lock.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/osq_lock.c
@@ -93,10 +93,12 @@ bool osq_lock(struct optimistic_spin_queue *lock)
node->cpu = curr;
/*
- * ACQUIRE semantics, pairs with corresponding RELEASE
- * in unlock() uncontended, or fastpath.
+ * We need both ACQUIRE (pairs with corresponding RELEASE in
+ * unlock() uncontended, or fastpath) and RELEASE (to publish
+ * the node fields we just initialised) semantics when updating
+ * the lock tail.
*/
- old = atomic_xchg_acquire(&lock->tail, curr);
+ old = atomic_xchg(&lock->tail, curr);
if (old == OSQ_UNLOCKED_VAL)
return true;
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