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authorJason Low <jason.low2@hpe.com>2016-05-20 15:19:36 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-06-03 12:06:10 +0200
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locking/mutex: Set and clear owner using WRITE_ONCE()
The mutex owner can get read and written to locklessly. Use WRITE_ONCE when setting and clearing the owner field in order to avoid optimizations such as store tearing. This avoids situations where the owner field gets written to with multiple stores and another thread could concurrently read and use a partially written owner value. Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hpe.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Acked-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hpe.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hpe.com> Cc: Terry Rudd <terry.rudd@hpe.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463782776.2479.9.camel@j-VirtualBox Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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