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Message-ID: <20130621124431.GA11224@amd.pavel.ucw.cz>
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 14:44:32 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To: Vitalii Demianets <vitas@...factor.kiev.ua>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
"Hans J. Koch" <hjk@...sjkoch.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH char-misc-next] UIO: Fix concurrency issue
On Thu 2013-06-20 16:36:00, Vitalii Demianets wrote:
> In a SMP case there was a race condition issue between
> uio_pdrv_genirq_irqcontrol() running on one CPU and irq handler on another
> CPU. Fix it by spin_locking shared resources access inside irq handler.
> Also:
> - Change disable_irq to disable_irq_nosync to avoid deadlock, because
> disable_irq waits for the completion of the irq handler;
> - Change atomic bit-manipulation routines to their non-atomic counterparts
> as we already are guarding the code by spinlock.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vitalii Demianets <vitas@...factor.kiev.ua>
Sounds good.
Reviewed-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
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