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* locking/mutex: Rework mutex::ownerPeter Zijlstra2016-10-251-13/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The current mutex implementation has an atomic lock word and a non-atomic owner field. This disparity leads to a number of issues with the current mutex code as it means that we can have a locked mutex without an explicit owner (because the owner field has not been set, or already cleared). This leads to a number of weird corner cases, esp. between the optimistic spinning and debug code. Where the optimistic spinning code needs the owner field updated inside the lock region, the debug code is more relaxed because the whole lock is serialized by the wait_lock. Also, the spinning code itself has a few corner cases where we need to deal with a held lock without an owner field. Furthermore, it becomes even more of a problem when trying to fix starvation cases in the current code. We end up stacking special case on special case. To solve this rework the basic mutex implementation to be a single atomic word that contains the owner and uses the low bits for extra state. This matches how PI futexes and rt_mutex already work. By having the owner an integral part of the lock state a lot of the problems dissapear and we get a better option to deal with starvation cases, direct owner handoff. Changing the basic mutex does however invalidate all the arch specific mutex code; this patch leaves that unused in-place, a later patch will remove that. Tested-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hpe.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* locking: avoid passing around 'thread_info' in mutex debugging codeLinus Torvalds2016-06-231-6/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | None of the code actually wants a thread_info, it all wants a task_struct, and it's just converting back and forth between the two ("ti->task" to get the task_struct from the thread_info, and "task_thread_info(task)" to go the other way). No semantic change. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mutex: Always clear owner field upon mutex_unlock()Chris Wilson2015-01-091-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently if DEBUG_MUTEXES is enabled, the mutex->owner field is only cleared iff debug_locks is active. This exposes a race to other users of the field where the mutex->owner may be still set to a stale value, potentially upsetting mutex_spin_on_owner() among others. References: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87955 Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1420540175-30204-1-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* locking/mutex: Fix debug_mutexesPeter Zijlstra2014-04-111-10/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | debug_mutex_unlock() would bail when !debug_locks and forgets to actually unlock. Reported-by: "Michael L. Semon" <mlsemon35@gmail.com> Reported-by: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Reported-by: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> Fixes: 6f008e72cd11 ("locking/mutex: Fix debug checks") Tested-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140410141559.GE13658@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* locking/mutex: Fix debug checksPeter Zijlstra2014-03-121-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | OK, so commit: 1d8fe7dc8078 ("locking/mutexes: Unlock the mutex without the wait_lock") generates this boot warning when CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES=y: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 139 at /usr/src/linux-2.6/kernel/locking/mutex-debug.c:82 debug_mutex_unlock+0x155/0x180() DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(lock->owner != current) And that makes sense, because as soon as we release the lock a new owner can come in... One would think that !__mutex_slowpath_needs_to_unlock() implementations suffer the same, but for DEBUG we fall back to mutex-null.h which has an unconditional 1 for that. The mutex debug code requires the mutex to be unlocked after doing the debug checks, otherwise it can find inconsistent state. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: jason.low2@hp.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140312122442.GB27965@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* mutexes: Give more informative mutex warning in the !lock->owner caseChuansheng Liu2013-12-171-1/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When mutex debugging is enabled and an imbalanced mutex_unlock() is called, we get the following, slightly confusing warning: [ 364.208284] DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(lock->owner != current) But in that case the warning is due to an imbalanced mutex_unlock() call, and the lock->owner is NULL - so the message is misleading. So improve the message by testing for this case specifically: DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(!lock->owner) Signed-off-by: Liu, Chuansheng <chuansheng.liu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1386136693.3650.48.camel@cliu38-desktop-build [ Improved the changelog, changed the patch to use !lock->owner consistently. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* locking: Move the mutex code to kernel/locking/Peter Zijlstra2013-11-061-0/+110
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-1ditvncg30dgbpvrz2bxfmke@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>