3.8.13.14-rt30-rc1 stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Steven Rostedt We hit another bug that was caused by switching cpu_chill() from msleep() to hrtimer_nanosleep(). This time it is a livelock. The problem is that hrtimer_nanosleep() calls schedule with the state == TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE. But these means that if a signal is pending, the scheduler wont schedule, and will simply change the current task state back to TASK_RUNNING. This nullifies the whole point of cpu_chill() in the first place. That is, if a task is spinning on a try_lock() and it preempted the owner of the lock, if it has a signal pending, it will never give up the CPU to let the owner of the lock run. I made a static function __hrtimer_nanosleep() that takes a fifth parameter "state", which determines the task state of that the nanosleep() will be in. The normal hrtimer_nanosleep() will act the same, but cpu_chill() will call the __hrtimer_nanosleep() directly with the TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE state. cpu_chill() only cares that the first sleep happens, and does not care about the state of the restart schedule (in hrtimer_nanosleep_restart). Cc: stable-rt@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Ulrich Obergfell Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior --- kernel/hrtimer.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/hrtimer.c b/kernel/hrtimer.c index 2e66fbb..9e46abe 100644 --- a/kernel/hrtimer.c +++ b/kernel/hrtimer.c @@ -1731,12 +1731,13 @@ void hrtimer_init_sleeper(struct hrtimer_sleeper *sl, struct task_struct *task) } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hrtimer_init_sleeper); -static int __sched do_nanosleep(struct hrtimer_sleeper *t, enum hrtimer_mode mode) +static int __sched do_nanosleep(struct hrtimer_sleeper *t, enum hrtimer_mode mode, + unsigned long state) { hrtimer_init_sleeper(t, current); do { - set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); + set_current_state(state); hrtimer_start_expires(&t->timer, mode); if (!hrtimer_active(&t->timer)) t->task = NULL; @@ -1780,7 +1781,8 @@ long __sched hrtimer_nanosleep_restart(struct restart_block *restart) HRTIMER_MODE_ABS); hrtimer_set_expires_tv64(&t.timer, restart->nanosleep.expires); - if (do_nanosleep(&t, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS)) + /* cpu_chill() does not care about restart state. */ + if (do_nanosleep(&t, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE)) goto out; rmtp = restart->nanosleep.rmtp; @@ -1797,8 +1799,10 @@ out: return ret; } -long hrtimer_nanosleep(struct timespec *rqtp, struct timespec __user *rmtp, - const enum hrtimer_mode mode, const clockid_t clockid) +static long +__hrtimer_nanosleep(struct timespec *rqtp, struct timespec __user *rmtp, + const enum hrtimer_mode mode, const clockid_t clockid, + unsigned long state) { struct restart_block *restart; struct hrtimer_sleeper t; @@ -1811,7 +1815,7 @@ long hrtimer_nanosleep(struct timespec *rqtp, struct timespec __user *rmtp, hrtimer_init_on_stack(&t.timer, clockid, mode); hrtimer_set_expires_range_ns(&t.timer, timespec_to_ktime(*rqtp), slack); - if (do_nanosleep(&t, mode)) + if (do_nanosleep(&t, mode, state)) goto out; /* Absolute timers do not update the rmtp value and restart: */ @@ -1838,6 +1842,12 @@ out: return ret; } +long hrtimer_nanosleep(struct timespec *rqtp, struct timespec __user *rmtp, + const enum hrtimer_mode mode, const clockid_t clockid) +{ + return __hrtimer_nanosleep(rqtp, rmtp, mode, clockid, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); +} + SYSCALL_DEFINE2(nanosleep, struct timespec __user *, rqtp, struct timespec __user *, rmtp) { @@ -1864,7 +1874,8 @@ void cpu_chill(void) unsigned int freeze_flag = current->flags & PF_NOFREEZE; current->flags |= PF_NOFREEZE; - hrtimer_nanosleep(&tu, NULL, HRTIMER_MODE_REL, CLOCK_MONOTONIC); + __hrtimer_nanosleep(&tu, NULL, HRTIMER_MODE_REL, CLOCK_MONOTONIC, + TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE); if (!freeze_flag) current->flags &= ~PF_NOFREEZE; } -- 1.8.5.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/