Re: [PATCH] rtmutex: ensure we wake up the top waiter

[Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>]

On 1/17/23 12:26, Wander Lairson Costa wrote:
> In task_blocked_on_lock() we save the owner, release the wait_lock and
> call rt_mutex_adjust_prio_chain(). Before we acquire the wait_lock
> again, the owner may release the lock and deboost.
Are you referring to task_blocks_on_rt_mutex(), not task_blocked_on_lock()?
>
> rt_mutex_adjust_prio_chain() acquires the wait_lock. In the requeue
> phase, waiter may be initially in the top of the queue, but after
> dequeued and requeued it may no longer be true.
>
> This scenario ends up waking the wrong task, which will verify it is no
> the top waiter and comes back to sleep. Now we have a situation in which
> no task is holding the lock but no one acquires it.
>
> We can reproduce the bug in PREEMPT_RT with stress-ng:
>
> while true; do
>      stress-ng --sched deadline --sched-period 1000000000 \
>      	    --sched-runtime 800000000 --sched-deadline \
>      	    1000000000 --mmapfork 23 -t 20
> done
>
> Signed-off-by: Wander Lairson Costa <wander@redhat.com>
> ---
>   kernel/locking/rtmutex.c | 5 +++--
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c b/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
> index 010cf4e6d0b8..728f434de2bb 100644
> --- a/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
> +++ b/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
> @@ -901,8 +901,9 @@ static int __sched rt_mutex_adjust_prio_chain(struct task_struct *task,
>   		 * then we need to wake the new top waiter up to try
>   		 * to get the lock.
>   		 */
> -		if (prerequeue_top_waiter != rt_mutex_top_waiter(lock))
> -			wake_up_state(waiter->task, waiter->wake_state);
> +		top_waiter = rt_mutex_top_waiter(lock);
> +		if (prerequeue_top_waiter != top_waiter)
> +			wake_up_state(top_waiter->task, top_waiter->wake_state);
>   		raw_spin_unlock_irq(&lock->wait_lock);
>   		return 0;
>   	}

I would say that if a rt_mutex has no owner but have waiters, we should 
always wake up the top waiter whether or not it is the current waiter. 
So what is the result of the stress-ng run above? Is it a hang? It is 
not clear from your patch description.

I am not that familiar with the rt_mutex code, I am cc'ing Thomas and 
Sebastian for their input.

Cheers,
Longman