linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/9] perf_counter: fix update

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Date:	Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:28:37 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9] perf_counter: fix update_userpage()

On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 20:21 +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Peter Zijlstra writes:
> 
> > The below might work:
> > 
> >   u32 seq;
> >   s64 count;
> > 
> > again:
> >   seq = pc->lock;
> > 
> >   if (unlikely(seq & 1)) {
> 
> I don't believe we can ever see this condition, since pc->lock is
> updated in the kernel either at interrupt level on the cpu this task
> is running on, or in the kernel in the context of this task.  So this
> userspace code can never run in the middle of the kernel updating
> things.

Colour me paranoid ;-)
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