commit 29b75eb2d56a714190a93d7be4525e617591077a upstream.
Commit e91467ecd1 ("bug in futex unqueue_me") introduced a barrier() in
unqueue_me() to prevent the compiler from rereading the lock pointer which
might change after a check for NULL.
Replace the barrier() with a READ_ONCE() for the following reasons:
1) READ_ONCE() is a weaker form of barrier() that affects only the specific
load operation, while barrier() is a general compiler level memory barrier.
READ_ONCE() was not available at the time when the barrier was added.
2) Aside of that READ_ONCE() is descriptive and self explainatory while a
barrier without comment is not clear to the casual reader.
No functional change.
[ tglx: Massaged changelog ]
Change-Id: I41b0f0c77dc827536685dddb60f32a31c1cde559
Signed-off-by: Jianyu Zhan <nasa4836@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Cc: dave@stgolabs.net
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: fengguang.wu@intel.com
Cc: bigeasy@linutronix.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1457314344-5685-1-git-send-email-nasa4836@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Git-repo: https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/msm
Git-commit: 1920b8a6a6ed80d3a595ff718c0a99c7d4d895c4
Signed-off-by: Srinivasa Rao Kuppala <srkupp@codeaurora.org>