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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2020-03-21 12:26:00 +0100
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2020-03-21 16:00:24 +0100
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completion: Use simple wait queues
completion uses a wait_queue_head_t to enqueue waiters. wait_queue_head_t contains a spinlock_t to protect the list of waiters which excludes it from being used in truly atomic context on a PREEMPT_RT enabled kernel. The spinlock in the wait queue head cannot be replaced by a raw_spinlock because: - wait queues can have custom wakeup callbacks, which acquire other spinlock_t locks and have potentially long execution times - wake_up() walks an unbounded number of list entries during the wake up and may wake an unbounded number of waiters. For simplicity and performance reasons complete() should be usable on PREEMPT_RT enabled kernels. completions do not use custom wakeup callbacks and are usually single waiter, except for a few corner cases. Replace the wait queue in the completion with a simple wait queue (swait), which uses a raw_spinlock_t for protecting the waiter list and therefore is safe to use inside truly atomic regions on PREEMPT_RT. There is no semantical or functional change: - completions use the exclusive wait mode which is what swait provides - complete() wakes one exclusive waiter - complete_all() wakes all waiters while holding the lock which protects the wait queue against newly incoming waiters. The conversion to swait preserves this behaviour. complete_all() might cause unbound latencies with a large number of waiters being woken at once, but most complete_all() usage sites are either in testing or initialization code or have only a really small number of concurrent waiters which for now does not cause a latency problem. Keep it simple for now. The fixup of the warning check in the USB gadget driver is just a straight forward conversion of the lockless waiter check from one waitqueue type to the other. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200321113242.317954042@linutronix.de
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