Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:30:24 +0200
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, fbl@redhat.com, nhorman@redhat.com,
       davem@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] tcp: race in receive part
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On 06/24, Jiri Olsa wrote:
>
> +/* The read_lock() on x86 is a full memory barrier. */
> +#define smp_mb__after_read_lock() barrier()

Just curious, why do we need barrier() ?

I must admit, personally I dislike _read_lock part. Because I think we
need a "more generic" smp_mb__{before,after}_lock() or whatever which
work for spin_lock/read_lock/write_lock.

In that case it can have more users. Btw, in fs/select.c too, see
__pollwake().

And surprise,

> --- a/fs/select.c
> +++ b/fs/select.c
> @@ -219,6 +219,10 @@ static void __pollwait(struct file *filp, wait_queue_head_t *wait_address,
>  	init_waitqueue_func_entry(&entry->wait, pollwake);
>  	entry->wait.private = pwq;
>  	add_wait_queue(wait_address, &entry->wait);
> +
> +	/* This memory barrier is paired with the smp_mb__after_read_lock
> +	 * in the sk_has_sleeper. */
> +	smp_mb();

This could be smp_mb__after_lock() too.

Oleg.

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