linux-kernel - Re: [bisected] system hang after boot

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Date:   Mon, 27 Nov 2017 14:13:36 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Cc:     Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
        Sebastian Ott <sebott@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [bisected] system hang after boot

On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 01:10:31PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:

> break_lock should be annotated (at least) with READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE, which
> should prevent that from happening.

This code long predates all that new fangled stuff ;-)