futex: Move drop_futex_key_refs out of spinlock'ed region
authorDarren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:30:48 +0000 (15:30 -0700)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:19:18 +0000 (10:19 +0200)
commit89061d3d58e1f0742139605dc6a7950aa1ecc019
tree4bf78b9d0834975b6e615ced614c74c67d57d52d
parent237c80c5c8fb7ec128cf2a756b550dc41ad7eac7
futex: Move drop_futex_key_refs out of spinlock'ed region

When requeuing tasks from one futex to another, the reference held
by the requeued task to the original futex location needs to be
dropped eventually.

Dropping the reference may ultimately lead to a call to
"iput_final" and subsequently call into filesystem- specific code -
which may be non-atomic.

It is therefore safer to defer this drop operation until after the
futex_hash_bucket spinlock has been dropped.

Originally-From: Helge Bahmann <hcb@chaoticmind.net>
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Dinakar Guniguntala <dino@in.ibm.com>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <sdietrich@novell.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AD7A298.5040802@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
kernel/futex.c