From a45bce49545739a940f8bd4ca85c3b7435564893 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 02:00:11 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] memory ordering in __kfifo primitives Both __kfifo_put() and __kfifo_get() have header comments stating that if there is but one concurrent reader and one concurrent writer, locking is not necessary. This is almost the case, but a couple of memory barriers are needed. Another option would be to change the header comments to remove the bit about locking not being needed, and to change the those callers who currently don't use locking to add the required locking. The attachment analyzes this approach, but the patch below seems simpler. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> --- kernel/kfifo.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/kfifo.c b/kernel/kfifo.c index 64ab045c3d9d3..5d1d907378a29 100644 --- a/kernel/kfifo.c +++ b/kernel/kfifo.c @@ -122,6 +122,13 @@ unsigned int __kfifo_put(struct kfifo *fifo, len = min(len, fifo->size - fifo->in + fifo->out); + /* + * Ensure that we sample the fifo->out index -before- we + * start putting bytes into the kfifo. + */ + + smp_mb(); + /* first put the data starting from fifo->in to buffer end */ l = min(len, fifo->size - (fifo->in & (fifo->size - 1))); memcpy(fifo->buffer + (fifo->in & (fifo->size - 1)), buffer, l); @@ -129,6 +136,13 @@ unsigned int __kfifo_put(struct kfifo *fifo, /* then put the rest (if any) at the beginning of the buffer */ memcpy(fifo->buffer, buffer + l, len - l); + /* + * Ensure that we add the bytes to the kfifo -before- + * we update the fifo->in index. + */ + + smp_wmb(); + fifo->in += len; return len; @@ -154,6 +168,13 @@ unsigned int __kfifo_get(struct kfifo *fifo, len = min(len, fifo->in - fifo->out); + /* + * Ensure that we sample the fifo->in index -before- we + * start removing bytes from the kfifo. + */ + + smp_rmb(); + /* first get the data from fifo->out until the end of the buffer */ l = min(len, fifo->size - (fifo->out & (fifo->size - 1))); memcpy(buffer, fifo->buffer + (fifo->out & (fifo->size - 1)), l); @@ -161,6 +182,13 @@ unsigned int __kfifo_get(struct kfifo *fifo, /* then get the rest (if any) from the beginning of the buffer */ memcpy(buffer + l, fifo->buffer, len - l); + /* + * Ensure that we remove the bytes from the kfifo -before- + * we update the fifo->out index. + */ + + smp_mb(); + fifo->out += len; return len; -- GitLab