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Most updates to wd_smp_cpus_pending are under lock except the watchdog interrupt bit clear. This can race with non-atomic RMW updates to the mask under lock, which can happen in two instances: Firstly, if another CPU detects this one is stuck, removes it from the mask, mask becomes empty and is re-filled with non-atomic stores. This is okay because it would re-fill the mask with this CPU's bit clear anyway (because this CPU is now stuck), so it doesn't matter that the bit clear update got "lost". Add a comment for this. Secondly, if another CPU detects a different CPU is stuck and removes it from the pending mask with a non-atomic store to bytes which also include the bit of this CPU. This case can result in the bit clear being lost and the end result being the bit is set. This should be so rare it hardly matters, but to make things simpler to reason about just avoid the non-atomic access for that case. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211110025056.2084347-3-npiggin@gmail.com
Linux kernel
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be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.