Re: [PATCH PREEMPT RT] rt-mutex: fix deadlock in device mapper

[Mike Galbraith]

On Mon, 2017-11-20 at 11:53 +0100, Sebastian Siewior wrote:
> 
> To your question whether or not delaying IO can cause any deadlocks is
> something that I can't answer and this something that would affect !RT,
> too. I tried to add lockdep to bit-spinlocks but this does not work
> because one context acquires the lock and another does the unlock. It
> has been explained to me that no deadlocks should happen as long as
> the IO is flushed before we block/wait on a lock.

That wasn't the question (guess I didn't formulate it well).  What I
was concerned about was the possibility that the situation that caused
me to add that __migrate_disabled() qualifier might arise anew, but
with different players.

At the time, I had to add that qualifier to prevent ABBA between the
owner of q->queue_lock, who was blocked by a lock ALREADY held by the
task trying to pull its plug, who then met the locked q->queue_lock.
 Ergo the less than perfect hack to only allow pulling the plug when
NOT YET holding a spinlock.  The problem was converted spinlocks (and
added RT locks).

	-Mike