[PATCH] s390: spinlock corner case
authorHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Sat, 3 Sep 2005 22:58:05 +0000 (15:58 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@evo.osdl.org>
Mon, 5 Sep 2005 07:06:29 +0000 (00:06 -0700)
On s390 the lock value used for spinlocks consists of the lower 32 bits of the
PSW that holds the lock.  If this address happens to be on a four gigabyte
boundary the lock is left unlocked.  This allows other cpus to grab the same
lock and enter a lock protected code path concurrently.  In theory this can
happen if the vmalloc area for the code of a module crosses a 4 GB boundary.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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