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-rw-r--r--kernel/locking/lockdep.c2
-rw-r--r--kernel/locking/lockdep_proc.c2
-rw-r--r--kernel/locking/osq_lock.c8
3 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
index deae3907ac1e..60ace56618f6 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
* Started by Ingo Molnar:
*
* Copyright (C) 2006,2007 Red Hat, Inc., Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
- * Copyright (C) 2007 Red Hat, Inc., Peter Zijlstra <pzijlstr@redhat.com>
+ * Copyright (C) 2007 Red Hat, Inc., Peter Zijlstra
*
* this code maps all the lock dependencies as they occur in a live kernel
* and will warn about the following classes of locking bugs:
diff --git a/kernel/locking/lockdep_proc.c b/kernel/locking/lockdep_proc.c
index d83d798bef95..dbb61a302548 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/lockdep_proc.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/lockdep_proc.c
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
* Started by Ingo Molnar:
*
* Copyright (C) 2006,2007 Red Hat, Inc., Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
- * Copyright (C) 2007 Red Hat, Inc., Peter Zijlstra <pzijlstr@redhat.com>
+ * Copyright (C) 2007 Red Hat, Inc., Peter Zijlstra
*
* Code for /proc/lockdep and /proc/lockdep_stats:
*
diff --git a/kernel/locking/osq_lock.c b/kernel/locking/osq_lock.c
index d092a0c9c2d4..05a37857ab55 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/osq_lock.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/osq_lock.c
@@ -93,10 +93,12 @@ bool osq_lock(struct optimistic_spin_queue *lock)
node->cpu = curr;
/*
- * ACQUIRE semantics, pairs with corresponding RELEASE
- * in unlock() uncontended, or fastpath.
+ * We need both ACQUIRE (pairs with corresponding RELEASE in
+ * unlock() uncontended, or fastpath) and RELEASE (to publish
+ * the node fields we just initialised) semantics when updating
+ * the lock tail.
*/
- old = atomic_xchg_acquire(&lock->tail, curr);
+ old = atomic_xchg(&lock->tail, curr);
if (old == OSQ_UNLOCKED_VAL)
return true;