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authorJani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>2019-11-15 13:17:39 +0200
committerJani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>2019-11-15 13:17:39 +0200
commite205ceeb253723f4e4bdce619844ed678ae48276 (patch)
treeb6f5e3b21f915320a86733504faf8206569b8057 /lib/dump_stack.c
parent1cdc2330e8d396c9cbebfc75fba4c94d34f80782 (diff)
parent17cc51390c141662748dbbc2fe98f3ed10f2e13e (diff)
downloadlwn-e205ceeb253723f4e4bdce619844ed678ae48276.tar.gz
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Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next-queued
Backmerge to get dfce90259d74 ("Backmerge i915 security patches from commit 'ea0b163b13ff' into drm-next") and thus 100d46bd72ec ("Merge Intel Gen8/Gen9 graphics fixes from Jon Bloomfield."). Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/dump_stack.c')
-rw-r--r--lib/dump_stack.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/dump_stack.c b/lib/dump_stack.c
index 5cff72f18c4a..33ffbf308853 100644
--- a/lib/dump_stack.c
+++ b/lib/dump_stack.c
@@ -106,7 +106,12 @@ retry:
was_locked = 1;
} else {
local_irq_restore(flags);
- cpu_relax();
+ /*
+ * Wait for the lock to release before jumping to
+ * atomic_cmpxchg() in order to mitigate the thundering herd
+ * problem.
+ */
+ do { cpu_relax(); } while (atomic_read(&dump_lock) != -1);
goto retry;
}