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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1609291048460.4825@nanos>
Date:   Thu, 29 Sep 2016 10:49:27 -0400 (EDT)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
cc:     mingo@...nel.org, juri.lelli@....com, rostedt@...dmis.org,
        xlpang@...hat.com, bigeasy@...utronix.de,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com,
        jdesfossez@...icios.com, bristot@...hat.com,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2 2/9] sched/rtmutex/deadline: Fix a PI crash for
 deadline tasks

On Mon, 26 Sep 2016, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> This is because rt_mutex_enqueue_pi() and rt_mutex_dequeue_pi()
> are only protected by pi_lock when operating pi waiters, while
> rt_mutex_get_top_task(), will access them with rq lock held but
> not holding pi_lock.
> 
> In order to tackle it, we introduce new "pi_top_task" pointer
> cached in task_struct, and add new rt_mutex_update_top_task()
> to update its value, it can be called by rt_mutex_setprio()
> which held both owner's pi_lock and rq lock. Thus "pi_top_task"
> can be safely accessed by enqueue_task_dl() under rq lock.

Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>

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