Will Deacon bd3ec28fb6 arm64: futex: Bound number of LDXR/STXR loops in FUTEX_WAKE_OP
commit 03110a5cb2161690ae5ac04994d47ed0cd6cef75 upstream.

Our futex implementation makes use of LDXR/STXR loops to perform atomic
updates to user memory from atomic context. This can lead to latency
problems if we end up spinning around the LL/SC sequence at the expense
of doing something useful.

Rework our futex atomic operations so that we return -EAGAIN if we fail
to update the futex word after 128 attempts. The core futex code will
reschedule if necessary and we'll try again later.

Fixes: 6170a97460db ("arm64: Atomic operations")
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
[bwh: Backported to 4.9: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-03-30 14:41:42 +02:00
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2020-12-29 13:45:00 +01:00