There are possible NULL pointer derefs in case of kzalloc fails so fix them.
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
This patch fixes a memory leak in the "testval == 0x67" case spotted by
the Coverity checker.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
In commit e6bafba5b4, a bug was fixed that
involved converting !x & y to !(x & y). The code below shows the same
pattern, and thus should perhaps be fixed in the same way.
This is not tested and clearly changes the semantics, so it is only
something to consider.
The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)
// <smpl>
@@ expression E1,E2; @@
(
!E1 & !E2
|
- !E1 & E2
+ !(E1 & E2)
)
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
If a dma transfer is attempted for either yuv or framebuffer output, a missing
sg_init_table() call causes a kernel BUG in scatterlist.h if CONFIG_DEBUG_SG
is set.
Signed-off-by: Ian Armstrong <ian@iarmst.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
There are several parts of saa7134_board_init2() that calls tuner modules. We
should first load tuner, otherwise, the commands will fail.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
This patch fixes the following compile error with
VIDEO_VIVI=y, VIDEO_DEV=m reported by Toralf Förster:
<-- snip -->
...
LD .tmp_vmlinux1
drivers/built-in.o: In function `vivi_release':
vivi.c:(.text+0x322f5): undefined reference to `video_unregister_device'
vivi.c:(.text+0x32337): undefined reference to `video_device_release'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `vivi_open':
vivi.c:(.text+0x32845): undefined reference to `v4l2_type_names'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `vivi_init':
vivi.c:(.init.text+0x1d20): undefined reference to `video_device_alloc'
vivi.c:(.init.text+0x1d48): undefined reference to `video_register_device'
drivers/built-in.o:(.rodata+0x1b40): undefined reference to
`video_ioctl2'drivers/built-in.o:(.data+0x140c): undefined reference to
`video_device_release'
<-- snip -->
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
As the result of a previous change that delayed the loading of the firmware,
the driver can sometimes report a bogus error regarding the yuv output filter
table not being found in the firmware. This patch moves the filter table
check to ensure it's only done after the firmware has been loaded.
Signed-off-by: Ian Armstrong <ian@iarmst.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
fixes sparse warning:
drivers/media/video/bt8xx/bttv-driver.c:3391:3: warning: Initializer entry defined twice
drivers/media/video/bt8xx/bttv-driver.c:3392:3: also defined here
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
This also has some coding style fixes.
Signed-off-by: Yuri Funduryan <yurifun@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Hartmut Hackmann <hartmut.hackmann@t-online.de>
Reviewed-by: Hermann Pitton <hermann-pitton@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
unsigned long != __le32, TYVM, and unsigned char[4] is not guaranteed
to be aligned for u32.
While we are at it, sanitize sOutDW() a bit - have it take Byte_t * and
handle dereferencing internally.
NB: sWriteTxPrioByte() is almost certainly buggered on big-endian and is
missing cpu_to_le16() on assignments to *WordPtr; I've left it alone for now.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Implement support for the E-Ink Metronome controller. It provides an mmapable
interface to the controller using defio support. It was tested with a gumstix
pxa255 with Vizplex media using Xfbdev and various X clients such as xeyes,
xpdf, xloadimage.
This patch also fixes the following bug: Defio would cause a hang on write
access to the framebuffer as the page fault would be called ad-infinitum. It
fixes fb_defio by setting the mapping to be used by page_mkclean.
Signed-off-by: Jaya Kumar <jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Updates to the at91sam9 rtt-as-rtc driver:
- Bugfix: IRQ enable bits need shifting before masking with status
- Platform code to initialize wakeup bits didn't get merged; cope
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Justin Waters <justin.waters@timesys.com>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Revert commit 1ada5cba6a ("clocksource:
make clocksource watchdog cycle through online CPUs") due to the
regression reported by Gabriel C at
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/24/281
(short vesion: it makes TSC be marked as always unstable on his
machine).
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Newer MemoryStick (HG) cards and hosts support 8-bit parallel mode of
operation in addition to original 4-bit and 1-bit modes.
Signed-off-by: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
MemoryStick storage cards, when in parallel mode, send several meaningful bits
of their "INT" register as part of command response. This data is stored by
host and can be used to spare invocation of "GET_INT" TPC on each data page
transferred between host and card.
Signed-off-by: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/ufs/balloc.c: In function `ufs_change_blocknr':
fs/ufs/balloc.c:317: warning: long long unsigned int format, long unsigned int arg (arg 2)
fs/ufs/balloc.c:317: warning: long long unsigned int format, long unsigned int arg (arg 3)
sector_t is u64 and we don't know what type the architecture uses to implement
u64.
Cc: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
gcc-3.4.5 on sparc64:
drivers/md/raid5.c: In function `raid5_end_read_request':
drivers/md/raid5.c:1147: warning: long long unsigned int format, long unsigned int arg (arg 4)
drivers/md/raid5.c:1164: warning: long long unsigned int format, long unsigned int arg (arg 3)
drivers/md/raid5.c:1170: warning: long long unsigned int format, long unsigned int arg (arg 3)
sector_t is u64, and we don't know what type the architecture uses to
implement u64 (on some it is unsigned long).
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/memstick/host/jmb38x_ms.c: In function 'jmb38x_ms_transfer_data':
drivers/memstick/host/jmb38x_ms.c:294: warning: 'p_off' may be used uninitialized in this function
Cc: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
sparc32:
drivers/memstick/host/jmb38x_ms.c: In function 'jmb38x_ms_probe':
drivers/memstick/host/jmb38x_ms.c:818: error: 'DMA_32BIT_MASK' undeclared (first use in this function)
drivers/memstick/host/jmb38x_ms.c:818: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
drivers/memstick/host/jmb38x_ms.c:818: error: for each function it appears in.)
Cc: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix kernel-doc notation in mm/readahead.c.
Change ":" to ";" so that it doesn't get treated as a doc section heading.
Move the comment block ending "*/" to a line by itself so that the text on
that last line is not lost (dropped).
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
A read request outside i_size will be handled in do_generic_file_read(). So
we just return 0 to avoid getting -EIO as normal reading, let
do_generic_file_read do the rest.
At the same time we need unlock the page to avoid system stuck.
Fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10227
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Report-by: Christian Perle <chris@linuxinfotag.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix kernel-doc notation warnings in fs/.
Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/super.c:560): missing initial short description on line:
* mark_files_ro
Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/locks.c:1277): missing initial short description on line:
* lease_get_mtime
Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/locks.c:1277): missing initial short description on line:
* lease_get_mtime
Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/namei.c:1368): missing initial short description on line:
* lookup_one_len: filesystem helper to lookup single pathname component
Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/buffer.c:3221): missing initial short description on line:
* bh_uptodate_or_lock: Test whether the buffer is uptodate
Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/buffer.c:3240): missing initial short description on line:
* bh_submit_read: Submit a locked buffer for reading
Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/fs-writeback.c:30): missing initial short description on line:
* writeback_acquire: attempt to get exclusive writeback access to a device
Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/fs-writeback.c:47): missing initial short description on line:
* writeback_in_progress: determine whether there is writeback in progress
Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/fs-writeback.c:58): missing initial short description on line:
* writeback_release: relinquish exclusive writeback access against a device.
Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//include/linux/jbd.h:351): contents before sections
Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//include/linux/jbd.h:561): contents before sections
Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/jbd/transaction.c:1935): missing initial short description on line:
* void journal_invalidatepage()
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
ecryptfs_d_release() is doing a mntput before doing the dput. This patch
moves the dput before the mntput.
Thanks to Rajouri Jammu for reporting this.
Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Rajouri Jammu <rajouri.jammu@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In the process of writing up the mechanical proof of correctness for the
dynticks/preemptable-RCU interface, I noticed misplaced memory barriers in
rcu_enter_nohz() and rcu_exit_nohz().
This patch puts them in the right place and adds a comment. The key thing to
keep in mind is that rcu_enter_nohz() is -exiting- the mode that can legally
execute RCU read-side critical sections.
The memory barrier must be between any potential RCU read-side critical
sections and the increment of the per-CPU dynticks_progress_counter, and thus
must come -before- this increment. And vice versa for rcu_exit_nohz().
The locking in the scheduler is probably saving us for the moment.
Also, switch to smp_mb() - we don't need a barrier for uniprocessor kernels.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Since 4c7ffe0b9f ("fbdev: prevent drivers that
have hardware cursors from calling software cursor code") every call of
i810fb_cursor fails with -ENXIO because of a incorrect "!".
This hasn't struck until eaa0ff15c3 ("fix !
versus & precedence in various places") surrounded the expression with braces,
so that the intended behavior was inverted. That caused 'pixel waste' - the
same line of multi-colored pixels repeated over the whole screen - during
console switch.
This switches back to the original pre-4c7ffe0 behavior.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Bauer <stefan.bauer@cs.tu-chemnitz.de>
Tested-by: Stefan Bauer <stefan.bauer@cs.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix a long-standing typo (predating git) that will cause data corruption if a
journal data block needs unescaping. At the moment the wrong buffer head's
data is being unescaped.
To test this case mount a filesystem with data=journal, start creating and
deleting a bunch of files containing only JBD2_MAGIC_NUMBER (0xc03b3998), then
pull the plug on the device. Without this patch the files will contain zeros
instead of the correct data after recovery.
Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix a long-standing typo (predating git) that will cause data corruption if a
journal data block needs unescaping. At the moment the wrong buffer head's
data is being unescaped.
To test this case mount a filesystem with data=journal, start creating and
deleting a bunch of files containing only JFS_MAGIC_NUMBER (0xc03b3998), then
pull the plug on the device. Without this patch the files will contain zeros
instead of the correct data after recovery.
Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In the SYSV ipc msgctl(),semctl(),shmctl() family, if the user passed *_INFO
as the desired operation, no specific object is meant to be controlled and
only system-wide information is returned. This leads to a NULL IPC object in
the LSM hooks if the _INFO flag is given.
Avoid dereferencing this NULL pointer in Smack ipc *ctl() methods.
Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix up an error in iget removal in which romfs_lookup() making a successful
call to romfs_iget() continues through the negative/error handling (previously
the successful case jumped around the negative/error handling case):
(1) inode is initialised to NULL at the top of the function, eliminating the
need for specific negative-inode handling. This means the positive
success handling now flows straight through.
(2) Rename the labels to be clearer about what they mean.
Also make romfs_lookup()'s result variable of type long so as to avoid
32-bit/64-bit conversions with PTR_ERR() and friends.
Based upon a report and patch from Adam Richter.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There are several places where we make allocations with GFP_KERNEL while under
a transaction, which could lead to an assertion panic or lockup if under
memory pressure. This patch switches these problem areas to use GFP_NOFS to
keep these problems from happening.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
ibmpex's temperature sensors report incorrect units. Apply a conversion
factor so that tempertures report correctly. Until now, no systems seemed to
report temperatures this way, but evidently QS2x blades do.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Mark M. Hoffman" <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Enhanced the list of supported machines.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The QS2x blades ships with v2.54 of the firmware, which use the same
multiplier for all power meters.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We should always put inode we have reference to, even if quota was reenabled
in the mean time.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The check t->pid == t->pid is not the blessed way to check whether a task is a
group leader.
This is not about the code beautifulness only, but about pid namespaces fixes
- both the tgid and the pid fields on the task_struct are (slowly :( )
becoming deprecated.
Besides, the thread_group_leader() macro makes only one dereference :)
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Exposing the binary blob which is the md 'super-block' via sysfs doesn't
really fit with the whole sysfs model, and ever since commit
8118a859dc ("sysfs: fix off-by-one error
in fill_read_buffer()") it doesn't actually work at all (as the size of
the blob is often one page).
(akpm: as in, fs/sysfs/file.c:fill_read_buffer() goes BUG)
So just remove it altogether. It isn't really useful.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Correct kernel-doc function names and parameters in rmap.c.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Convert tiny-shmem.c function comments to kernel-doc. Add parameters and
convert/fix other kernel-doc in shmem.c.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix various kernel-doc notation in mm/:
filemap.c: add function short description; convert 2 to kernel-doc
fremap.c: change parameter 'prot' to @prot
pagewalk.c: change "-" in function parameters to ":"
slab.c: fix short description of kmem_ptr_validate()
swap.c: fix description & parameters of put_pages_list()
swap_state.c: fix function parameters
vmalloc.c: change "@returns" to "Returns:" since that is not a parameter
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
My group ran into a AIO process hang on a 2.6.24 kernel with the process
sleeping indefinitely in io_getevents(2) waiting for the last wakeup to come
and it never would.
We ran the tests on x86_64 SMP. The hang only occurred on a Xeon box
("Clovertown") but not a Core2Duo ("Conroe"). On the Xeon, the L2 cache isn't
shared between all eight processors, but is L2 is shared between between all
two processors on the Core2Duo we use.
My analysis of the hang is if you go down to the second while-loop
in read_events(), what happens on processor #1:
1) add_wait_queue_exclusive() adds thread to ctx->wait
2) aio_read_evt() to check tail
3) if aio_read_evt() returned 0, call [io_]schedule() and sleep
In aio_complete() with processor #2:
A) info->tail = tail;
B) waitqueue_active(&ctx->wait)
C) if waitqueue_active() returned non-0, call wake_up()
The way the code is written, step 1 must be seen by all other processors
before processor 1 checks for pending events in step 2 (that were recorded by
step A) and step A by processor 2 must be seen by all other processors
(checked in step 2) before step B is done.
The race I believed I was seeing is that steps 1 and 2 were
effectively swapped due to the __list_add() being delayed by the L2
cache not shared by some of the other processors. Imagine:
proc 2: just before step A
proc 1, step 1: adds to ctx->wait, but is not visible by other processors yet
proc 1, step 2: checks tail and sees no pending events
proc 2, step A: updates tail
proc 1, step 3: calls [io_]schedule() and sleeps
proc 2, step B: checks ctx->wait, but sees no one waiting, skips wakeup
so proc 1 sleeps indefinitely
My patch adds a memory barrier between steps A and B. It ensures that the
update in step 1 gets seen on processor 2 before continuing. If processor 1
was just before step 1, the memory barrier makes sure that step A (update
tail) gets seen by the time processor 1 makes it to step 2 (check tail).
Before the patch our AIO process would hang virtually 100% of the time. After
the patch, we have yet to see the process ever hang.
Signed-off-by: Quentin Barnes <qbarnes+linux@yahoo-inc.com>
Reviewed-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[ We should probably disallow that "if (waitqueue_active()) wake_up()"
coding pattern, because it's so often buggy wrt memory ordering ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
