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authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2012-10-16 15:03:14 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-01-11 09:06:58 -0800
commitcd924e960d3c2ae1654109b5b9e88cec334f7126 (patch)
treeed7bec78c3e2930df0c86d44aae32d2c4dddb23f /arch
parent475261dbbf5d85e1a298886385d859ada787ae1f (diff)
freezer: add missing mb's to freezer_count() and freezer_should_skip()
commit dd67d32dbc5de299d70cc9e10c6c1e29ffa56b92 upstream. A task is considered frozen enough between freezer_do_not_count() and freezer_count() and freezers use freezer_should_skip() to test this condition. This supposedly works because freezer_count() always calls try_to_freezer() after clearing %PF_FREEZER_SKIP. However, there currently is nothing which guarantees that freezer_count() sees %true freezing() after clearing %PF_FREEZER_SKIP when freezing is in progress, and vice-versa. A task can escape the freezing condition in effect by freezer_count() seeing !freezing() and freezer_should_skip() seeing %PF_FREEZER_SKIP. This patch adds smp_mb()'s to freezer_count() and freezer_should_skip() such that either %true freezing() is visible to freezer_count() or !PF_FREEZER_SKIP is visible to freezer_should_skip(). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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