linux-kernel - [patch 3/7] itimers: Prepare for PREEMPT

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Message-Id: <20190730223828.690771827@linutronix.de>
Date:   Wed, 31 Jul 2019 00:33:51 +0200
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@...utronix.de>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Julia Cartwright <julia@...com>
Subject: [patch 3/7] itimers: Prepare for PREEMPT_RT

Use the hrtimer_cancel_wait_running() synchronization mechanism to prevent
priority inversion and live locks on PREEMPT_RT.

As a benefit the retry loop gains the missing cpu_relax() on !RT.

[ tglx: Split out of combo patch ]

Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@...utronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
---
 kernel/time/itimer.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/kernel/time/itimer.c
+++ b/kernel/time/itimer.c
@@ -213,6 +213,7 @@ int do_setitimer(int which, struct itime
 		/* We are sharing ->siglock with it_real_fn() */
 		if (hrtimer_try_to_cancel(timer) < 0) {
 			spin_unlock_irq(&tsk->sighand->siglock);
+			hrtimer_cancel_wait_running(timer);
 			goto again;
 		}
 		expires = timeval_to_ktime(value->it_value);