[PATCH RFC 11/15] arm/futex: UP futex_atomic_op_inuser() relies on disabled preemption

From: David Hildenbrand
Date: Wed May 06 2015 - 13:52:56 EST


The !CONFIG_SMP implementation of futex_atomic_op_inuser() seems to rely
on disabled preemption to guarantee mutual exclusion.

>From commit e589ed23dd27:
"For UP it's enough to disable preemption to ensure mutual exclusion..."
>From the code itself:
"!SMP, we can work around lack of atomic ops by disabling preemption"

Let's make this explicit, to prepare for pagefault_disable() not
touching preemption anymore.

Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <dahi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm/include/asm/futex.h | 10 ++++++++--
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/futex.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/futex.h
index 255bfd1..5eed828 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/futex.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/futex.h
@@ -127,7 +127,10 @@ futex_atomic_op_inuser (int encoded_op, u32 __user *uaddr)
if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, uaddr, sizeof(u32)))
return -EFAULT;

- pagefault_disable(); /* implies preempt_disable() */
+#ifndef CONFIG_SMP
+ preempt_disable();
+#endif
+ pagefault_disable();

switch (op) {
case FUTEX_OP_SET:
@@ -149,7 +152,10 @@ futex_atomic_op_inuser (int encoded_op, u32 __user *uaddr)
ret = -ENOSYS;
}

- pagefault_enable(); /* subsumes preempt_enable() */
+ pagefault_enable();
+#ifndef CONFIG_SMP
+ preempt_enable();
+#endif

if (!ret) {
switch (cmp) {
--
2.1.4

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