On 04/17/2014 11:58 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 11:03:57AM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
+static __always_inline void
+clear_pending_set_locked(struct qspinlock *lock, u32 val)
+{
+       struct __qspinlock *l = (void *)lock;
+
+       ACCESS_ONCE(l->locked_pending) = 1;
+}
@@ -157,8 +251,13 @@ static inline int trylock_pending(struct qspinlock *lock, 
u32 *pval)
         * we're pending, wait for the owner to go away.
         *
         * *,1,1 ->  *,1,0
+        *
+        * this wait loop must be a load-acquire such that we match the
+        * store-release that clears the locked bit and create lock
+        * sequentiality; this because not all try_clear_pending_set_locked()
+        * implementations imply full barriers.
You renamed the function referred in the above comment.


Sorry, will fix the comments.

-Longman

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