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[v2,4/5] lib/stack: reload head when pop fails

Message ID 20200925174340.10014-5-steven.lariau@arm.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Marchand
Headers
Series lib/stack: improve lockfree C11 implementation |

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ci/checkpatch success coding style OK

Commit Message

Steven Lariau Sept. 25, 2020, 5:43 p.m. UTC 
  List head must be loaded right before continue (when failed to
find the new head).
Without this, one thread might keep trying and failing to pop items
without ever loading the new correct head.

Fixes: 7e6e609939a8 ("stack: add C11 atomic implementation")
Cc: gage.eads@intel.com
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Steven Lariau <steven.lariau@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Dharmik Thakkar <dharmik.thakkar@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.wang@arm.com>
Acked-by: Gage Eads <gage.eads@intel.com>
---
 lib/librte_stack/rte_stack_lf_c11.h | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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Patch

diff --git a/lib/librte_stack/rte_stack_lf_c11.h b/lib/librte_stack/rte_stack_lf_c11.h
index 2bc639419..adb9f590d 100644
--- a/lib/librte_stack/rte_stack_lf_c11.h
+++ b/lib/librte_stack/rte_stack_lf_c11.h
@@ -133,8 +133,10 @@  __rte_stack_lf_pop_elems(struct rte_stack_lf_list *list,
 		/* If NULL was encountered, the list was modified while
 		 * traversing it. Retry.
 		 */
-		if (i != num)
+		if (i != num) {
+			old_head = list->head;
 			continue;
+		}
 
 		new_head.top = tmp;
 		new_head.cnt = old_head.cnt + 1;