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Re: [PATCH] locking/mutex: Set and clear owner using WRITE_ONCE()

From Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] locking/mutex: Set and clear owner using WRITE_ONCE()
Date 2016-05-23 23:40 +0200
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On Mon, 23 May 2016, Jason Low wrote:

>On Fri, 2016-05-20 at 18:00 -0700, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
>> On Fri, 20 May 2016, Waiman Long wrote:
>>
>> >I think mutex-debug.h also needs similar changes for completeness.
>>
>> Maybe, but given that with debug the wait_lock is unavoidable, doesn't
>> this send the wrong message?
>
>The mutex_set_owner() and mutex_clear_owner() can still get called in
>the fastpath without the wait_lock for the debug case too correct?

The fastpath is a nop, see mutex-null:

#define __mutex_fastpath_lock(count, fail_fn)		fail_fn(count)

In anycase, if there were a fastpath, that would at least have an
ACQUIRE barrier (unless you set ->owner it before it or something
weird). But this isn't the case, so debug should be safe afaict.

Thanks,
Davidlohr

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[PATCH] locking/mutex: Set and clear owner using WRITE_ONCE() Jason Low <jason.low2@hpe.com> - 2016-05-20 00:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] locking/mutex: Set and clear owner using WRITE_ONCE() Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> - 2016-05-20 03:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] locking/mutex: Set and clear owner using WRITE_ONCE() Jason Low <jason.low2@hpe.com> - 2016-05-21 00:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] locking/mutex: Set and clear owner using WRITE_ONCE() Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> - 2016-05-21 03:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] locking/mutex: Set and clear owner using WRITE_ONCE() Waiman Long <waiman.long@hpe.com> - 2016-05-21 06:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] locking/mutex: Set and clear owner using WRITE_ONCE() Jason Low <jason.low2@hpe.com> - 2016-05-23 22:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] locking/mutex: Set and clear owner using WRITE_ONCE() Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> - 2016-05-23 23:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] locking/mutex: Set and clear owner using WRITE_ONCE() Jason Low <jason.low2@hpe.com> - 2016-05-24 00:00 +0200

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