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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2015-12-21 11:11:12 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2015-12-21 11:11:12 -0800
commitbfccd95e7aba73d0d3154912b17b855cb9938c50 (patch)
tree3250b7806b873170a3ff7dba0aa1664e57c5bde9 /kernel
parentMerge 4.4-rc5 into usb-next as we want those fixes here for testing (diff)
parentLinux 4.4-rc6 (diff)
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Merge 4.4-rc6 into usb-next
We want the USB and PHY fixes in here as well to make things easier for testing and development. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/locking/osq_lock.c8
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/locking/osq_lock.c b/kernel/locking/osq_lock.c
index d092a0c9c2d4..05a37857ab55 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/osq_lock.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/osq_lock.c
@@ -93,10 +93,12 @@ bool osq_lock(struct optimistic_spin_queue *lock)
node->cpu = curr;
/*
- * ACQUIRE semantics, pairs with corresponding RELEASE
- * in unlock() uncontended, or fastpath.
+ * We need both ACQUIRE (pairs with corresponding RELEASE in
+ * unlock() uncontended, or fastpath) and RELEASE (to publish
+ * the node fields we just initialised) semantics when updating
+ * the lock tail.
*/
- old = atomic_xchg_acquire(&lock->tail, curr);
+ old = atomic_xchg(&lock->tail, curr);
if (old == OSQ_UNLOCKED_VAL)
return true;