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    rwsem_is_locked() tests ->activity without locks, so we should always keep · d2ce5671
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    ->activity consistent.  However, the code in __rwsem_do_wake() breaks this
    rule, it updates ->activity after _all_ readers waken up, this may give
    some reader a wrong ->activity value, thus cause rwsem_is_locked() behaves
    wrong.
    
    Quote from Andrew:
    
    "
    - we have one or more processes sleeping in down_read(), waiting for access.
    
    - we wake one or more processes up without altering ->activity
    
    - they start to run and they do rwsem_is_locked().  This incorrectly
      returns "false", because the waker process is still crunching away in
      __rwsem_do_wake().
    
    - the waker now alters ->activity, but it was too late.
    "
    
    So we need get a spinlock to protect this.  And rwsem_is_locked() should
    not block, thus we use spin_trylock_irqsave().
    Reported-by: default avatarBrian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
    Cc: Ben Woodard <bwoodard@llnl.gov>
    Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarWANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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