linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH RT 0/3] RT: Fix trylock deadlock without msleep() hack

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Message-ID: <20150905085048.5cefbf5b@gandalf.local.home>
Date:	Sat, 5 Sep 2015 08:50:48 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org>,
	Carsten Emde <C.Emde@...dl.org>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
	John Kacur <jkacur@...hat.com>,
	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Clark Williams <clark.williams@...il.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH RT 0/3] RT: Fix trylock deadlock without msleep()
 hack

On Sat, 5 Sep 2015 08:18:36 -0400
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 5 Sep 2015 12:30:59 +0200 (CEST)
> Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
> > 
> > So instead of doing that proposed magic boost, we can do something
> > more straight forward:
> > 
> > retry:
> > 	lock(B);
> > 	if (!try_lock(A)) {
> > 		lock_and_drop(A, B);
> > 		unlock(A);
> > 		goto retry;
> > 	}
> > 
> > lock_and_drop() queues the task as a waiter on A, drops B and then
> > does the PI adjustment on A. 
> 
> That was my original solution, and I believe I added patches to do
> exactly that to the networking code in the past. I remember writing
> that helper function such that on non PREEMPT_RT it was a nop.

Just to point out again that I misread what you wrote. That's what I
get for responding to email 10 minutes after I get out of bed ;-)


You need to be careful about adding the waiter on A. If the owner of A
is blocked on B, the pi inheritance may detect that as a deadlock.

-- Steve
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