Both expunge_all() and pipeline_send() rely on both a nil msg value and
a full barrier to guarantee the correct ordering when waking up a task.
While its counterpart at the receiving end is well documented for the
lockless recv algorithm, we still need to document these specific
smp_mb() calls.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo, per Mike]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: mroe tpyos]
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
struct msg_receiver *msr, *t;
list_for_each_entry_safe(msr, t, &msq->q_receivers, r_list) {
struct msg_receiver *msr, *t;
list_for_each_entry_safe(msr, t, &msq->q_receivers, r_list) {
+ msr->r_msg = NULL; /* initialize expunge ordering */
wake_up_process(msr->r_tsk);
wake_up_process(msr->r_tsk);
+ /*
+ * Ensure that the wakeup is visible before setting r_msg as
+ * the receiving end depends on it: either spinning on a nil,
+ * or dealing with -EAGAIN cases. See lockless receive part 1
+ * and 2 in do_msgrcv().
+ */
smp_mb();
msr->r_msg = ERR_PTR(res);
}
smp_mb();
msr->r_msg = ERR_PTR(res);
}
list_del(&msr->r_list);
if (msr->r_maxsize < msg->m_ts) {
list_del(&msr->r_list);
if (msr->r_maxsize < msg->m_ts) {
+ /* initialize pipelined send ordering */
msr->r_msg = NULL;
wake_up_process(msr->r_tsk);
msr->r_msg = NULL;
wake_up_process(msr->r_tsk);
+ smp_mb(); /* see barrier comment below */
msr->r_msg = ERR_PTR(-E2BIG);
} else {
msr->r_msg = NULL;
msq->q_lrpid = task_pid_vnr(msr->r_tsk);
msq->q_rtime = get_seconds();
wake_up_process(msr->r_tsk);
msr->r_msg = ERR_PTR(-E2BIG);
} else {
msr->r_msg = NULL;
msq->q_lrpid = task_pid_vnr(msr->r_tsk);
msq->q_rtime = get_seconds();
wake_up_process(msr->r_tsk);
+ /*
+ * Ensure that the wakeup is visible before
+ * setting r_msg, as the receiving end depends
+ * on it. See lockless receive part 1 and 2 in
+ * do_msgrcv().
+ */
smp_mb();
msr->r_msg = msg;
smp_mb();
msr->r_msg = msg;
+ /* enqueue the sender and prepare to block */
ss_add(msq, &s);
if (!ipc_rcu_getref(msq)) {
ss_add(msq, &s);
if (!ipc_rcu_getref(msq)) {