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Fix synchronize_irq races with IRQ handler

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As it is some callers of synchronize_irq rely on memory barriers
to provide synchronisation against the IRQ handlers.  For example,
the tg3 driver does

	tp->irq_sync = 1;
	smp_mb();
	synchronize_irq();

and then in the IRQ handler:

	if (!tp->irq_sync)
		netif_rx_schedule(dev, &tp->napi);

Unfortunately memory barriers only work well when they come in
pairs.  Because we don't actually have memory barriers on the
IRQ path, the memory barrier before the synchronize_irq() doesn't
actually protect us.

In particular, synchronize_irq() may return followed by the
result of netif_rx_schedule being made visible.

This patch (mostly written by Linus) fixes this by using spin
locks instead of memory barries on the synchronize_irq() path.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Herbert Xu 2007-10-23 11:26:25 +08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 48d2268473
commit a98ce5c6fe
1 changed files with 18 additions and 2 deletions
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kernel/irq/manage.c
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@ -29,12 +29,28 @@
void synchronize_irq(unsigned int irq)
{
struct irq_desc *desc = irq_desc + irq;
unsigned int status;
if (irq >= NR_IRQS)
return;
while (desc->status & IRQ_INPROGRESS)
cpu_relax();
do {
unsigned long flags;
/*
* Wait until we're out of the critical section. This might
* give the wrong answer due to the lack of memory barriers.
*/
while (desc->status & IRQ_INPROGRESS)
cpu_relax();
/* Ok, that indicated we're done: double-check carefully. */
spin_lock_irqsave(&desc->lock, flags);
status = desc->status;
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&desc->lock, flags);
/* Oops, that failed? */
} while (status & IRQ_INPROGRESS);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(synchronize_irq);