linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH 2/3] rwsem: Implement down_read

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Message-ID: <71db845efc7d44b5a7d23b0e55b3a496@AcuMS.aculab.com>
Date:   Tue, 8 Dec 2020 09:12:36 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     'Waiman Long' <longman@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
CC:     "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
        Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Bernd Edlinger <bernd.edlinger@...mail.de>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        "Christopher Yeoh" <cyeoh@....ibm.com>,
        Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>,
        "Sargun Dhillon" <sargun@...gun.me>,
        Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        "Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo" <acme@...nel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 2/3] rwsem: Implement down_read_interruptible

From: Waiman Long
> Sent: 07 December 2020 19:02
...
> > How much more difficult would it be to also add a timeout option?
> > I looked at adding one to the mutex code - and fell into a big pile
> > of replicated code.
> >
> > ISTM that one the initial locked exchange (and spin) fails a few
> > extra instructions when heading for the sleep don't really matter
> >
> Actually, I had tried that before. See
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190911150537.19527-1-longman@redhat.com/
> 
> That is for rwsem, but the same can be done for mutex. However, Peter
> didn't seem to like the idea of a timeout parameter. Anyway, it is
> certainly doable if there is a good use case for it.

'Unfortunately' my use-case if for an out-of-tree driver.

The problem I was solving is a status call blocking because
some other code is 'stuck' (probably an oops) with a mutex held.

The code used to use down_timeout() (it was written for 2.4).
When I changed to mutex_(to get optimistic spinning) I lost
the ability to do the timeouts.

	David

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