]> git.kernelconcepts.de Git - karo-tx-linux.git/commit
futex: Move drop_futex_key_refs out of spinlock'ed region
authorDarren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:30:48 +0000 (15:30 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:21:53 +0000 (16:21 -0800)
commit81e6fd571d574da95cf977ff3266d95a802b1820
tree170a3b05e0dfdb53169198428cfaf391812f63bd
parent6d57fbdd82f6012a4d451bacd75451928cbc29be
futex: Move drop_futex_key_refs out of spinlock'ed region

commit 89061d3d58e1f0742139605dc6a7950aa1ecc019 upstream.

When requeuing tasks from one futex to another, the reference held
by the requeued task to the original futex location needs to be
dropped eventually.

Dropping the reference may ultimately lead to a call to
"iput_final" and subsequently call into filesystem- specific code -
which may be non-atomic.

It is therefore safer to defer this drop operation until after the
futex_hash_bucket spinlock has been dropped.

Originally-From: Helge Bahmann <hcb@chaoticmind.net>
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Dinakar Guniguntala <dino@in.ibm.com>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <sdietrich@novell.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AD7A298.5040802@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
kernel/futex.c