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SubjectRe: [patch 05/15] Generic Mutex Subsystem, mutex-core.patch

* Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> wrote:

> > + spin_lock(&lock->wait_lock);
> > + __add_waiter(lock, waiter, ti, task __IP__);
> > + set_task_state(task, task_state);
>
> I can't understand why __mutex_lock_common() does xchg() after adding
> the waiter to the ->wait_list. We are holding ->wait_lock, we can't
> race with __mutex_unlock_nonatomic() - it calls wake_up() and sets
> ->count under this spinlock.

we must make sure that the drop has not been dropped meanwhile, on the
way in, between the fastpath-unlock atomic op, and the xchg() here.

Ingo
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