On s390 the lock value used for spinlocks consists of the lower 32 bits of the
PSW that holds the lock. If this address happens to be on a four gigabyte
boundary the lock is left unlocked. This allows other cpus to grab the same
lock and enter a lock protected code path concurrently. In theory this can
happen if the vmalloc area for the code of a module crosses a 4 GB boundary.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
