Re: [PATCHv3 2/6] tty/ldsem: Update waiter->task before waking up reader

On (09/11/18 14:04), Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:

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for (;;) { set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);

I think that set_current_state() also executes memory barrier. Just because it accesses task state.

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• if (!waiter.task)
  

• if (!READ_ONCE(waiter.task))
  break;
  

  if (!timeout) break;

This READ_ONCE(waiter.task) looks interesting. Maybe could be moved to a loop condition

while (!READ_ONCE(waiter.task)) { ... }

-ss