[PATCH] arm64: cmpwait: Clear event register before arming exclusive monitor
Catalin Marinas
catalin.marinas at arm.com
Wed May 16 04:22:09 PDT 2018
On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 01:56:32PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> When waiting for a cacheline to change state in cmpwait, we may immediately
> wake-up the first time around the outer loop if the event register was
> already set (for example, because of the event stream).
>
> Avoid these spurious wakeups by explicitly clearing the event register
> before loading the cacheline and setting the exclusive monitor.
>
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
Queued for 4.18. Thanks.
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Catalin
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