tree ff4b3848ad3fb24a27fc30199e47a49056697f1c
parent d2045151af9da38178c6e38581d94f239dc840e5
author Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> 1554729797 +0100
committer Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 1557503595 +0200

arm64: futex: Bound number of LDXR/STXR loops in FUTEX_WAKE_OP

commit 03110a5cb2161690ae5ac04994d47ed0cd6cef75 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: 6170a97460db ("arm64: Atomic operations")
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>