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authorDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>2015-04-20 11:32:26 +1000
committerDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>2015-04-20 13:05:20 +1000
commit2c33ce009ca2389dbf0535d0672214d09738e35e (patch)
tree6186a6458c3c160385d794a23eaf07c786a9e61b /kernel/locking/rwsem-spinlock.c
parentcec32a47010647e8b0603726ebb75b990a4057a4 (diff)
parent09d51602cf84a1264946711dd4ea0dddbac599a1 (diff)
Merge Linus master into drm-next
The merge is clean, but the arm build fails afterwards, due to API changes in the regulator tree. I've included the patch into the merge to fix the build. Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/locking/rwsem-spinlock.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/locking/rwsem-spinlock.c7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/locking/rwsem-spinlock.c b/kernel/locking/rwsem-spinlock.c
index 2555ae15ec14..3a5048572065 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/rwsem-spinlock.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/rwsem-spinlock.c
@@ -85,6 +85,13 @@ __rwsem_do_wake(struct rw_semaphore *sem, int wakewrite)
list_del(&waiter->list);
tsk = waiter->task;
+ /*
+ * Make sure we do not wakeup the next reader before
+ * setting the nil condition to grant the next reader;
+ * otherwise we could miss the wakeup on the other
+ * side and end up sleeping again. See the pairing
+ * in rwsem_down_read_failed().
+ */
smp_mb();
waiter->task = NULL;
wake_up_process(tsk);