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    xen: use stronger barrier after unlocking lock · 2496afbf
    Yang Xiaowei authored
    
    
    We need to have a stronger barrier between releasing the lock and
    checking for any waiting spinners.  A compiler barrier is not sufficient
    because the CPU's ordering rules do not prevent the read xl->spinners
    from happening before the unlock assignment, as they are different
    memory locations.
    
    We need to have an explicit barrier to enforce the write-read ordering
    to different memory locations.
    
    Because of it, I can't bring up > 4 HVM guests on one SMP machine.
    
    [ Code and commit comments expanded -J ]
    
    [ Impact: avoid deadlock when using Xen PV spinlocks ]
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarYang Xiaowei <xiaowei.yang@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
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