Date:   Tue, 24 Jan 2023 16:52:57 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To:     Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc:     Hernan Ponce de Leon <hernan.poncedeleon@huaweicloud.com>,
        paulmck@kernel.org, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
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        jonas.oberhauser@huawei.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Hernan Ponce de Leon <hernanl.leon@huawei.com>,
        stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix data race in mark_rt_mutex_waiters
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On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 10:42:24AM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:

> I would suggest to do it as suggested by PeterZ. Instead of set_bit(),
> however, it is probably better to use atomic_long_or() like
> 
> atomic_long_or_relaxed(RT_MUTEX_HAS_WAITERS, (atomic_long_t *)&lock->owner)

That function doesn't exist, atomic_long_or() is implicitly relaxed for
not returning a value.