aio: add missing smp_rmb() in read_events_ring
authorJeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Tue, 2 Sep 2014 17:17:00 +0000 (13:17 -0400)
committerBenjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Tue, 2 Sep 2014 19:20:03 +0000 (15:20 -0400)
commit2ff396be602f10b5eab8e73b24f20348fa2de159
treebdc814b8e0a170f1c852553230b32d888cf7fa5a
parent7be141d0554921751db103b54e9f794956aa4f65
aio: add missing smp_rmb() in read_events_ring

We ran into a case on ppc64 running mariadb where io_getevents would
return zeroed out I/O events.  After adding instrumentation, it became
clear that there was some missing synchronization between reading the
tail pointer and the events themselves.  This small patch fixes the
problem in testing.

Thanks to Zach for helping to look into this, and suggesting the fix.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
fs/aio.c