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author | Nicolai Hähnle <Nicolai.Haehnle@amd.com> | 2016-12-21 19:46:37 +0100 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2017-01-14 11:14:51 +0100 |
commit | 25f13b4040b68dfc5a2a22e7234894e718e3f4c5 (patch) | |
tree | 61365963e24cb9a5970b07e8133aa9ad0a12e406 /drivers/misc | |
parent | 427b18207a87f6306bd53a74e03dbe17392b0045 (diff) |
locking/ww_mutex: Re-check ww->ctx in the inner optimistic spin loop
In the following scenario, thread #1 should back off its attempt to lock
ww1 and unlock ww2 (assuming the acquire context stamps are ordered
accordingly).
Thread #0 Thread #1
--------- ---------
successfully lock ww2
set ww1->base.owner
attempt to lock ww1
confirm ww1->ctx == NULL
enter mutex_spin_on_owner
set ww1->ctx
What was likely to happen previously is:
attempt to lock ww2
refuse to spin because
ww2->ctx != NULL
schedule()
detect thread #0 is off CPU
stop optimistic spin
return -EDEADLK
unlock ww2
wakeup thread #0
lock ww2
Now, we are more likely to see:
detect ww1->ctx != NULL
stop optimistic spin
return -EDEADLK
unlock ww2
successfully lock ww2
... because thread #1 will stop its optimistic spin as soon as possible.
The whole scenario is quite unlikely, since it requires thread #1 to get
between thread #0 setting the owner and setting the ctx. But since we're
idling here anyway, the additional check is basically free.
Found by inspection.
Signed-off-by: Nicolai Hähnle <Nicolai.Haehnle@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <dev@mblankhorst.nl>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1482346000-9927-10-git-send-email-nhaehnle@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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