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-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/core.c14
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index c7552869d5c4..4c6ceff3855e 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -6827,7 +6827,17 @@ static void proxy_migrate_task(struct rq *rq, struct rq_flags *rf,
* Find runnable lock owner to proxy for mutex blocked donor
*
* Follow the blocked-on relation:
- * task->blocked_on -> mutex->owner -> task...
+ *
+ * ,-> task
+ * | | blocked-on
+ * | v
+ * blocked_donor | mutex
+ * | | owner
+ * | v
+ * `-- task
+ *
+ * and set the blocked_donor relation, this latter is used by the mutex
+ * code to find which (blocked) task to hand-off to.
*
* Lock order:
*
@@ -6969,6 +6979,7 @@ find_proxy_task(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *donor, struct rq_flags *rf)
* rq, therefore holding @rq->lock is sufficient to
* guarantee its existence, as per ttwu_remote().
*/
+ owner->blocked_donor = p;
}
WARN_ON_ONCE(owner && !owner->on_rq);
return owner;
@@ -7125,6 +7136,7 @@ pick_again:
clear_task_blocked_on(prev, NULL);
rq_set_donor(rq, next);
+ next->blocked_donor = NULL;
if (unlikely(next->is_blocked && next->blocked_on)) {
next = find_proxy_task(rq, next, &rf);
if (!next) {