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Date:   Mon, 19 Aug 2019 02:52:58 -0700
From:   tip-bot for Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <tipbot@...or.com>
To:     linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     hpa@...or.com, tglx@...utronix.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, peterz@...radead.org,
        bigeasy@...utronix.de, mingo@...nel.org
Subject: [tip:sched/urgent] sched/core: Schedule new worker even if
 PI-blocked

Commit-ID:  b0fdc01354f45d43f082025636ef808968a27b36
Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/b0fdc01354f45d43f082025636ef808968a27b36
Author:     Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
AuthorDate: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 18:06:26 +0200
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitDate: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 10:57:26 +0200

sched/core: Schedule new worker even if PI-blocked

If a task is PI-blocked (blocking on sleeping spinlock) then we don't want to
schedule a new kworker if we schedule out due to lock contention because !RT
does not do that as well. A spinning spinlock disables preemption and a worker
does not schedule out on lock contention (but spin).

On RT the RW-semaphore implementation uses an rtmutex so
tsk_is_pi_blocked() will return true if a task blocks on it. In this case we
will now start a new worker which may deadlock if one worker is waiting on
progress from another worker. Since a RW-semaphore starts a new worker on !RT,
we should do the same on RT.

XFS is able to trigger this deadlock.

Allow to schedule new worker if the current worker is PI-blocked.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190816160626.12742-1-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/sched/core.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 2b037f195473..010d578118d6 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -3904,7 +3904,7 @@ void __noreturn do_task_dead(void)
 
 static inline void sched_submit_work(struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
-	if (!tsk->state || tsk_is_pi_blocked(tsk))
+	if (!tsk->state)
 		return;
 
 	/*
@@ -3920,6 +3920,9 @@ static inline void sched_submit_work(struct task_struct *tsk)
 		preempt_enable_no_resched();
 	}
 
+	if (tsk_is_pi_blocked(tsk))
+		return;
+
 	/*
 	 * If we are going to sleep and we have plugged IO queued,
 	 * make sure to submit it to avoid deadlocks.