Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.2.9-rt17

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 19:28 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 13:23 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > So basically what you tried to do was just set the owner of the lock to
> > have the priority of the task that wants the lock, until it releases it?
> > But by doing it without having this task sleep? 
> 
> No, by having it sleep ;-)
> 

That was the second part of my email.

> So you do the full PI sleeping lock thing, except you return fail if you
> loose the acquisition race on wakeup and you mark this waiter as
> 'special'.
> 
> Then on every rt_mutex block you have to do a deadlock analysis on the
> PI blocking chain (preferably shared with PI boost traversal of said
> chain), during that scan you collect all special tagged waiters.
> 
> If you find a deadlock, wake all these special waiters and have them
> return -EDEADLK.
> 
> I guess you could also do the full spin_deadlock() and do away with the
> try part and purely rely on the deadlock detection.

But do you release the lock first? For example, we have:

@@ -410,7 +411,7 @@ static inline struct dentry *dentry_kill
        if (inode && !spin_trylock(&inode->i_lock)) {
 relock:
                seq_spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
-               cpu_relax();
+               cpu_chill();
                return dentry; /* try again with same dentry */
        }

By doing the test at the trylock, we can easily hit the deadlock,
because we still hold dentry->d_lock. But by moving the block to the
cpu_chill(), then we are less likely to hit the deadlock.

Perhaps call it, cpu_chill_on_lock().

-- Steve