On Thu, Feb 06, 2025 at 02:54:25AM -0800, Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi wrote: > Currently, for rqspinlock usage, the implementation of > smp_cond_load_acquire (and thus, atomic_cond_read_acquire) are > susceptible to stalls on arm64, because they do not guarantee that the > conditional expression will be repeatedly invoked if the address being > loaded from is not written to by other CPUs. When support for > event-streams is absent (which unblocks stuck WFE-based loops every > ~100us), we may end up being stuck forever. > > This causes a problem for us, as we need to repeatedly invoke the > RES_CHECK_TIMEOUT in the spin loop to break out when the timeout > expires. > > Hardcode the implementation to the asm-generic version in rqspinlock.c > until support for smp_cond_load_acquire_timewait [0] lands upstream. > *sigh*.. this patch should go *before* patch 8. As is that's still horribly broken and I was WTF-ing because your 0/n changelog said you fixed it.
