From 04e2f1741d235ba599037734878d72e57cb302b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 18:05:03 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Add memory barrier semantics to wake_up() & co Oleg Nesterov and others have pointed out that on some architectures, the traditional sequence of set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); if (CONDITION) return; schedule(); is racy wrt another CPU doing CONDITION = 1; wake_up_process(p); because while set_current_state() has a memory barrier separating setting of the TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE state from reading of the CONDITION variable, there is no such memory barrier on the wakeup side. Now, wake_up_process() does actually take a spinlock before it reads and sets the task state on the waking side, and on x86 (and many other architectures) that spinlock is in fact equivalent to a memory barrier, but that is not generally guaranteed. The write that sets CONDITION could move into the critical region protected by the runqueue spinlock. However, adding a smp_wmb() to before the spinlock should now order the writing of CONDITION wrt the lock itself, which in turn is ordered wrt the accesses within the spinlock (which includes the reading of the old state). This should thus close the race (which probably has never been seen in practice, but since smp_wmb() is a no-op on x86, it's not like this will make anything worse either on the most common architecture where the spinlock already gave the required protection). Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: Dmitry Adamushko Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/sched.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c index c4bc8c210958..b387a8de26a5 100644 --- a/kernel/sched.c +++ b/kernel/sched.c @@ -1831,6 +1831,7 @@ static int try_to_wake_up(struct task_struct *p, unsigned int state, int sync) long old_state; struct rq *rq; + smp_wmb(); rq = task_rq_lock(p, &flags); old_state = p->state; if (!(old_state & state)) -- 2.34.1