linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.35-rc3 deadlocks on semaphore operations

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Date:	Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:29:11 +0200
From:	Manfred Spraul <manfred@...orfullife.com>
To:	Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@...il.com>
CC:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	maciej.rutecki@...il.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.35-rc3 deadlocks on semaphore operations

Hi,

I think I found it:
Previously, queue.status was never IN_WAKEUP when the semaphore spinlock 
was held.

The last patch changes that:
Now the change from IN_WAKEUP to the final result code happens after the 
the semaphore spinlock is dropped.
Thus a task can observe IN_WAKEUP even when it acquired the semaphore 
spinlock.

As a result, semop() sometimes returned 1 (IN_WAKEUP) for a successful 
operation.

Attached is a patch that should fix the bug.

--
     Manfred

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