linux-kernel - [PATCH tip/core/rcu 5/9] exit: Replace spin_unlock

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Date:   Mon, 24 Jul 2017 15:13:05 -0700
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     mingo@...nel.org, jiangshanlai@...il.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com,
        josh@...htriplett.org, tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org,
        rostedt@...dmis.org, dhowells@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
        fweisbec@...il.com, oleg@...hat.com,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
        Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@...il.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 5/9] exit: Replace spin_unlock_wait() with lock/unlock pair

There is no agreed-upon definition of spin_unlock_wait()'s semantics, and
it appears that all callers could do just as well with a lock/unlock pair.
This commit therefore replaces the spin_unlock_wait() call in do_exit()
with spin_lock() followed immediately by spin_unlock().  This should be
safe from a performance perspective because the lock is a per-task lock,
and this is happening only at task-exit time.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@...il.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
---
 kernel/exit.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index c5548faa9f37..abfbcf66e5c0 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -819,7 +819,8 @@ void __noreturn do_exit(long code)
 	 * Ensure that we must observe the pi_state in exit_mm() ->
 	 * mm_release() -> exit_pi_state_list().
 	 */
-	raw_spin_unlock_wait(&tsk->pi_lock);
+	raw_spin_lock_irq(&tsk->pi_lock);
+	raw_spin_unlock_irq(&tsk->pi_lock);
 
 	if (unlikely(in_atomic())) {
 		pr_info("note: %s[%d] exited with preempt_count %d\n",
-- 
2.5.2