linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sched/deadline/rtmutex: Fix a PI crash for deadline tasks

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Message-ID: <570876A3.3000704@redhat.com>
Date:	Sat, 9 Apr 2016 11:27:31 +0800
From:	Xunlei Pang <xpang@...hat.com>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@....com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched/deadline/rtmutex: Fix a PI crash for deadline tasks

On 2016/04/09 at 03:28, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Apr 2016 15:15:42 -0400
> Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
>
>> From what I understand, the slowfn() modifies the task pi_list (or
>> rbtree, as it is today). As this is an unlock, the task being woken
>> (the next one to grab the lock) is removed from the previous task's pi
>> list.
>>
>> In rt_mutex_adjust_prio(current) I see it simply grabs current's
>> pi_lock and calls __rt_mutex_adjust_prio(current). This calls
>> rt_mutex_getprio(current) which returns current's normal prio if it
>> doesn't have any pi waiters, or it looks at the top pi waiter on the
>> tasks list and returns that. Which wouldn't be the task on wake_q,
>> otherwise we wouldn't be deboosting in the first place.
>>
> OK, I now see that the your previous patch is changing what I'm looking
> at :-) This is what happens when you go away and try to catch up on
> email and not read the emails by threads. I see the
> rt_mutex_adjust_prio() is being changed.
>
> I'll go back and look at your previous patch (as I looked at that while
> traveling and didn't think too hard about it).

Sorry for that, I should add more comments about it, will add more next version.

Regards,
Xunlei

>
> -- Steve