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Date:   Fri, 18 Jun 2021 17:30:47 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] net: sched: add barrier to ensure correct
 ordering for lockless qdisc
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On Thu, 17 Jun 2021 09:04:14 +0800 Yunsheng Lin wrote:
> The spin_trylock() was assumed to contain the implicit
> barrier needed to ensure the correct ordering between
> STATE_MISSED setting/clearing and STATE_MISSED checking
> in commit a90c57f2cedd ("net: sched: fix packet stuck
> problem for lockless qdisc").
> 
> But it turns out that spin_trylock() only has load-acquire
> semantic, for strongly-ordered system(like x86), the compiler
> barrier implicitly contained in spin_trylock() seems enough
> to ensure the correct ordering. But for weakly-orderly system
> (like arm64), the store-release semantic is needed to ensure
> the correct ordering as clear_bit() and test_bit() is store
> operation, see queued_spin_lock().
> 
> So add the explicit barrier to ensure the correct ordering
> for the above case.
> 
> Fixes: a90c57f2cedd ("net: sched: fix packet stuck problem for lockless qdisc")
> Signed-off-by: Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@huawei.com>

Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>