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Commit 9ccdbde1 authored by Will Deacon's avatar Will Deacon Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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arm64: futex: Bound number of LDXR/STXR loops in FUTEX_WAKE_OP



commit 03110a5c upstream.

Our futex implementation makes use of LDXR/STXR loops to perform atomic
updates to user memory from atomic context. This can lead to latency
problems if we end up spinning around the LL/SC sequence at the expense
of doing something useful.

Rework our futex atomic operations so that we return -EAGAIN if we fail
to update the futex word after 128 attempts. The core futex code will
reschedule if necessary and we'll try again later.

Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Fixes: 6170a974 ("arm64: Atomic operations")
Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 0f4ef8fb
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