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The<br />failure was detected on IA64 but may also occur on other architectures.<br /><br />On IA64, locks are released using a "st.rel" instruction. This ensures that<br />preceding "stores" are visible before the lock is released but does NOT prevent<br />a "store" that follows the "st.rel" from becoming visible before the "st.rel".<br /><br />The failure I saw is a task that owned a futex_q resumed prematurely and<br />was context-switch off of the cpu. The task's switch_stack occupied the same<br />space as the futex_q. The store to q->lock_ptr in futex_wait()overwrote the <br />ar.bspstore in the switch_stack. When the task resumed, it ran with a corrupted <br />ar.bspstore. Things went downhill from there.<br /><br />Without the fix, the application fails roughly every 10 minutes. With<br />the fix, it ran over 16 hours without a failure.<br /><br />----<br />Fix a memory ordering problem that occurs on IA64. The "store" to q->lock_ptr<br />in wake_futex() can become visible before wake_up_all() clears the lock in the<br />futex_q.<br /><br /><br /><br /> Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Index: linux/kernel/futex.c<br />===================================================================<br />--- linux.orig/kernel/futex.c 2005-12-24 15:09:23.381357908 -0600<br />+++ linux/kernel/futex.c 2005-12-24 15:14:26.362119396 -0600<br />@@ -262,15 +262,18 @@ static void wake_futex(struct futex_q *q<br /> list_del_init(&q->list);<br /> if (q->filp)<br /> send_sigio(&q->filp->f_owner, q->fd, POLL_IN);<br />- /*<br />- * The lock in wake_up_all() is a crucial memory barrier after the<br />- * list_del_init() and also before assigning to q->lock_ptr.<br />- */<br /> wake_up_all(&q->waiters);<br />+<br /> /*<br /> * The waiting task can free the futex_q as soon as this is written,<br /> * without taking any locks. This must come last.<br />+ *<br />+ * A memory barrier is required here to prevent the following store<br />+ * to lock_ptr from getting ahead of the wakeup. Clearing the lock<br />+ * at the end of wake_up_all() is not a write barrier on all<br />+ * architectures.<br /> */<br />+ smp_wmb();<br /> q->lock_ptr = NULL;<br /> }<br /> <br />-<br />To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in<br />the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org<br />More majordomo info at <a href="http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html">http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html</a><br />Please read the FAQ at <a href="http://www.tux.org/lkml/">http://www.tux.org/lkml/</a><br /></pre></td><td width="32" rowspan="2" class="c" valign="top"><img src="/images/icornerr.gif" width="32" height="32" alt="\" /></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="bottom"> 聽 </td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="bottom">聽</td><td class="c" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 0px"><img src="/images/bcornerl.gif" width="32" height="32" alt="\" /></td><td class="c">聽</td><td class="c" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 0px"><img src="/images/bcornerr.gif" width="32" height="32" alt="/" /></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" colspan="2"> 聽 </td><td class="lm">Last update: 2005-12-27 17:33 聽聽 [from the cache]<br />漏2003-2020 <a href="http://blog.jasper.es/"><span itemprop="editor">Jasper Spaans</span></a>|hosted at <a href="https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=9a8e99d24cf9">Digital Ocean</a> and my Meterkast|<a href="http://blog.jasper.es/categories.html#lkml-ref">Read the blog</a></td><td>聽</td></tr></table><script language="javascript" src="/js/styleswitcher.js" type="text/javascript"></script></body></html>