UBUNTU: SAUCE: (no-up) s390: fix rwlock implementation
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1761674
Description: kernel: fix rwlock implementation
Symptom: Kernel hangs, due to deadlock on an rwlock.
Problem: With upstream commit
94232a4332de ("s390/rwlock: improve writer
fairness") rwlock writer fairness was supposed to be
implemented. If a writer tries to take an rwlock it sets
unconditionally the writer bit within the lock word and waits
until all readers have released the lock. This however can lead
to a deadlock since rwlocks can be taken recursively by readers.
If e.g. CPU 0 holds the lock as a reader, and CPU 1 wants to
write-lock the lock, then CPU 1 sets the writer bit and
afterwards busy waits for CPU 0 to release the lock. If now CPU 0
tries to read-lock the lock again (recursively) it will also busy
wait until CPU 1 removes the writer bit, which will never happen,
since it waits for the first reader on CPU 0 to release the lock.
Solution: Revert the rwlock writer fairness semantics again.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>