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| author | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2016-11-30 21:04:45 +0000 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2016-12-02 11:13:57 +0100 |
| commit | 84d82ec5b9046ecdf16031d3e93a66ef50257402 (patch) | |
| tree | 716c8ca677edf6cc92677f7a647cdd9bfa641af9 /kernel/locking | |
| parent | b5016e8203003c44264ec88fe2276ff54a51f689 (diff) | |
locking/rtmutex: Explain locking rules for rt_mutex_proxy_unlock()/init_proxy_locked()
While debugging the unlock vs. dequeue race which resulted in state
corruption of futexes the lockless nature of rt_mutex_proxy_unlock()
caused some confusion.
Add commentry to explain why it is safe to do this lockless. Add matching
comments to rt_mutex_init_proxy_locked() for completeness sake.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161130210030.591941927@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/locking')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/locking/rtmutex.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c b/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c index 6e6cab7ac12f..2f443ed2320a 100644 --- a/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c +++ b/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c @@ -1619,11 +1619,15 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__rt_mutex_init); * rt_mutex_init_proxy_locked - initialize and lock a rt_mutex on behalf of a * proxy owner * - * @lock: the rt_mutex to be locked + * @lock: the rt_mutex to be locked * @proxy_owner:the task to set as owner * * No locking. Caller has to do serializing itself - * Special API call for PI-futex support + * + * Special API call for PI-futex support. This initializes the rtmutex and + * assigns it to @proxy_owner. Concurrent operations on the rtmutex are not + * possible at this point because the pi_state which contains the rtmutex + * is not yet visible to other tasks. */ void rt_mutex_init_proxy_locked(struct rt_mutex *lock, struct task_struct *proxy_owner) @@ -1637,10 +1641,14 @@ void rt_mutex_init_proxy_locked(struct rt_mutex *lock, /** * rt_mutex_proxy_unlock - release a lock on behalf of owner * - * @lock: the rt_mutex to be locked + * @lock: the rt_mutex to be locked * * No locking. Caller has to do serializing itself - * Special API call for PI-futex support + * + * Special API call for PI-futex support. This merrily cleans up the rtmutex + * (debugging) state. Concurrent operations on this rt_mutex are not + * possible because it belongs to the pi_state which is about to be freed + * and it is not longer visible to other tasks. */ void rt_mutex_proxy_unlock(struct rt_mutex *lock, struct task_struct *proxy_owner) |