From: Tony Luck Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:46:16 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Fix spinaphore down_spin() X-Git-Tag: v2.6.34.2~13 X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cdfd88c2377e95b46a8d990de84af1b6ce8c0cd6;p=karo-tx-linux.git Fix spinaphore down_spin() commit b70f4e85bfc4d7000036355b714a92d5c574f1be upstream. Typo in down_spin() meant it only read the low 32 bits of the "serve" value, instead of the full 64 bits. This results in the system hanging when the values in ticket/serve get larger than 32-bits. A big enough system running the right test can hit this in a just a few hours. Broken since 883a3acf5b0d4782ac35981227a0d094e8b44850 [IA64] Re-implement spinaphores using ticket lock concepts Reported via IRC by Bjorn Helgaas Signed-off-by: Tony Luck Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/arch/ia64/mm/tlb.c b/arch/ia64/mm/tlb.c index 5dfd916e9ea6..7b3cdc6c6d91 100644 --- a/arch/ia64/mm/tlb.c +++ b/arch/ia64/mm/tlb.c @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ static inline void down_spin(struct spinaphore *ss) ia64_invala(); for (;;) { - asm volatile ("ld4.c.nc %0=[%1]" : "=r"(serve) : "r"(&ss->serve) : "memory"); + asm volatile ("ld8.c.nc %0=[%1]" : "=r"(serve) : "r"(&ss->serve) : "memory"); if (time_before(t, serve)) return; cpu_relax();