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authorSebastian Huber <sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de>2014-04-15 16:20:17 +0200
committerSebastian Huber <sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de>2014-04-16 09:07:33 +0200
commit33d0666d02832f63dfd035c7ac9890b4397a1fdc (patch)
treec963937feb2dce85acaa27cb4663bb05fc1fbd43 /cpukit/score/src/threaddispatch.c
parentbsp/qoriq: SMP support for IRQ support (diff)
downloadrtems-33d0666d02832f63dfd035c7ac9890b4397a1fdc.tar.bz2
score: Critical fix for SMP
The _Scheduler_SMP_Allocate_processor() and _Thread_Dispatch() exchange information without locks. Make sure we use the right load/store ordering.
Diffstat (limited to 'cpukit/score/src/threaddispatch.c')
-rw-r--r--cpukit/score/src/threaddispatch.c13
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/cpukit/score/src/threaddispatch.c b/cpukit/score/src/threaddispatch.c
index 40a2efbb82..9e3f86e23b 100644
--- a/cpukit/score/src/threaddispatch.c
+++ b/cpukit/score/src/threaddispatch.c
@@ -97,9 +97,20 @@ void _Thread_Dispatch( void )
#else
while ( per_cpu->dispatch_necessary ) {
#endif
- heir = per_cpu->heir;
per_cpu->dispatch_necessary = false;
+
+#if defined( RTEMS_SMP )
+ /*
+ * It is critical that we first update the dispatch necessary and then the
+ * read the heir so that we don't miss an update by
+ * _Scheduler_SMP_Allocate_processor().
+ */
+ _Atomic_Fence( ATOMIC_ORDER_SEQ_CST );
+#endif
+
+ heir = per_cpu->heir;
per_cpu->executing = heir;
+
#if defined( RTEMS_SMP )
executing->is_executing = false;
heir->is_executing = true;