From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753571Ab2GPQgc (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jul 2012 12:36:32 -0400 Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.23]:57068 "HELO mailout-de.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752976Ab2GPQg3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jul 2012 12:36:29 -0400 X-Authenticated: #14349625 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+ngj4DPCmnlokoYf8OPMMF1gpTeiCRRy7JNETgEy GcdmEkmSpDpCOE Message-ID: <1342456567.7659.97.camel@marge.simpson.net> Subject: Re: 3.4.4-rt13: btrfs + xfstests 006 = BOOM.. and a bonus rt_mutex deadlock report for absolutely free! From: Mike Galbraith To: Steven Rostedt Cc: Chris Mason , "Chris L. Mason" , "linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org" , LKML , linux-fsdevel , Thomas Gleixner Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 18:36:07 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1342455968.7659.93.camel@marge.simpson.net> References: <1342072060.7338.102.camel@marge.simpson.net> <20120713125043.GH30128@shiny> <1342260883.7368.30.camel@marge.simpson.net> <20120715175612.GF25961@shiny.int.fusionio.com> <1342404140.7659.27.camel@marge.simpson.net> <1342454547.5410.3.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> <1342455968.7659.93.camel@marge.simpson.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2012-07-16 at 18:26 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Mon, 2012-07-16 at 12:02 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-07-16 at 04:02 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > > > > Great, thanks! I got stuck in bug land on Friday. You mentioned > > > > performance problems earlier on Saturday, did this improve performance? > > > > > > Yeah, the read_trylock() seems to improve throughput. That's not > > > heavily tested, but it certainly looks like it does. No idea why. > > > > Ouch, you just turned the rt_read_lock() into a spin lock. If a higher > > priority process preempted a lower priority process that holds the same > > lock, it will deadlock. > > Hm, how, it's doing cpu_chill()? 'course PI is toast, so *poof*. Since just enabling the lockdep bits seems to fix it up, maybe that's the patchlet to submit (less is more). -Mike