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If the spinlock "next" ticket wraps around between the initial LDR and the cmpxchg in the LSE version of spin_trylock, then we can erroneously think that we have successfuly acquired the lock because we only check whether the next ticket return by the cmpxchg is equal to the owner ticket in our updated lock word. This patch fixes the issue by performing a full 32-bit check of the lock word when trying to determine whether or not the CASA instruction updated memory. Reported-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.