Commit 3765996e authored by Xuan Zhuo's avatar Xuan Zhuo Committed by David S. Miller
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napi: fix race inside napi_enable

The process will cause napi.state to contain NAPI_STATE_SCHED and
not in the poll_list, which will cause napi_disable() to get stuck.

The prefix "NAPI_STATE_" is removed in the figure below, and
NAPI_STATE_HASHED is ignored in napi.state.

                      CPU0       |                   CPU1       | napi.state
===============================================================================
napi_disable()                   |                              | SCHED | NPSVC
napi_enable()                    |                              |
{                                |                              |
    smp_mb__before_atomic();     |                              |
    clear_bit(SCHED, &n->state); |                              | NPSVC
                                 | napi_schedule_prep()         | SCHED | NPSVC
                                 | napi_poll()                  |
                                 |   napi_complete_done()       |
                          ...
parent e30cd812
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