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authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2010-04-16 23:20:00 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-04-23 11:00:28 +0200
commit4b402210486c6414fe5fbfd85934a0a22da56b04 (patch)
tree23e7052c710e0443ccd895a1000b2bdd7723ab51 /kernel
parentd5a30458a90597915977f06e79406b664a41b8ac (diff)
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mutex: Don't spin when the owner CPU is offline or other weird cases
Due to recent load-balancer changes that delay the task migration to the next wakeup, the adaptive mutex spinning ends up in a live lock when the owner's CPU gets offlined because the cpu_online() check lives before the owner running check. This patch changes mutex_spin_on_owner() to return 0 (don't spin) in any case where we aren't sure about the owner struct validity or CPU number, and if the said CPU is offline. There is no point going back & re-evaluate spinning in corner cases like that, let's just go to sleep. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1271212509.13059.135.camel@pasglop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 6af210a7de70..de0bd26e520a 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -3780,7 +3780,7 @@ int mutex_spin_on_owner(struct mutex *lock, struct thread_info *owner)
* the mutex owner just released it and exited.
*/
if (probe_kernel_address(&owner->cpu, cpu))
- goto out;
+ return 0;
#else
cpu = owner->cpu;
#endif
@@ -3790,14 +3790,14 @@ int mutex_spin_on_owner(struct mutex *lock, struct thread_info *owner)
* the cpu field may no longer be valid.
*/
if (cpu >= nr_cpumask_bits)
- goto out;
+ return 0;
/*
* We need to validate that we can do a
* get_cpu() and that we have the percpu area.
*/
if (!cpu_online(cpu))
- goto out;
+ return 0;
rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
@@ -3816,7 +3816,7 @@ int mutex_spin_on_owner(struct mutex *lock, struct thread_info *owner)
cpu_relax();
}
-out:
+
return 1;
}
#endif