Robust Futex update

From: David Singleton
Date: Wed Oct 12 2005 - 19:00:33 EST


Ingo,
here 's a patch for 2.6.14-rc4-rt1 that fixes two things:

1) Deregister futex returns -EBUSY instead of -EINVAL if a thread tries to deregister a pthread_mutex that another thread has locked.

2) Make the fast path robust. If a pthread_mutex is only locked in user space we need to clear the owner when
the thread dies. This makes both the 'rt_mutex is locked in the kernel' and the 'pthread_mutex is only locked in user space'
paths robust.

David Index: linux-2.6.13/kernel/futex.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.13.orig/kernel/futex.c
+++ linux-2.6.13/kernel/futex.c
@@ -1354,18 +1354,25 @@ static void find_owned_futex(struct vm_a
if (uaddr == 0)
continue;

+ up(&mapping->robust_sem);
+ up_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
+ value = futex_get_user(uaddr);
+ if (this->futex_mutex.mutex_attr & FUTEX_ATTR_ROBUST)
+ value |= FUTEX_OWNER_DIED;
if (rt_mutex_owned_by(&this->futex_mutex, ti)) {
- up(&mapping->robust_sem);
- up_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
- if (this->futex_mutex.mutex_attr & FUTEX_ATTR_ROBUST) {
- value = futex_get_user(uaddr);
- value |= FUTEX_OWNER_DIED;
- futex_put_user(value, uaddr);
- }
+ futex_put_user(value, uaddr);
up_futex(&this->futex_mutex);
- down(&mapping->robust_sem);
- down_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
+ } else if ((value & FUTEX_PID) == current->pid) {
+ /*
+ * this bit is for the fast path. If the lock is only
+ * locked in user space wee need to unlock it
+ * for the exiting thread.
+ */
+ value &= ~FUTEX_PID;
+ futex_put_user(value, uaddr);
}
+ down(&mapping->robust_sem);
+ down_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
}

up(&mapping->robust_sem);
@@ -1524,7 +1531,7 @@ static int futex_deregister(unsigned lon
if (rt_mutex_owned_by(&this->futex_mutex, ti)) {
up_futex(&this->futex_mutex);
} else if (rt_mutex_owner(&this->futex_mutex) != NULL) {
- ret = -EINVAL;
+ ret = -EBUSY;
break;
}
list_del(&this->list);
Index: linux-2.6.13/include/linux/futex.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.13.orig/include/linux/futex.h
+++ linux-2.6.13/include/linux/futex.h
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
#ifndef _LINUX_FUTEX_H
#define _LINUX_FUTEX_H

-#include <linux/fs.h>
-
/* Second argument to futex syscall */


Index: linux-2.6.13/kernel/rt.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.13.orig/kernel/rt.c
+++ linux-2.6.13/kernel/rt.c
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@
#include <linux/syscalls.h>
#include <linux/interrupt.h>
#include <linux/plist.h>
+#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/futex.h>

#define CAPTURE_LOCK