Re: [patch V3 48/64] locking/ww_mutex: Add RT priority to W/W order

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Fri Aug 06 2021 - 07:50:41 EST


On Fri, Aug 06 2021 at 12:48, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 05, 2021 at 05:13:48PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> static inline bool
>> +__ww_ctx_less(struct ww_acquire_ctx *a, struct ww_acquire_ctx *b)
>> {
>> +/*
>> + * Can only do the RT prio for WW_RT because task->prio isn't stable due to PI,
>> + * so the wait_list ordering will go wobbly. rt_mutex re-queues the waiter and
>> + * isn't affected by this.
>> + */
>> +#ifdef WW_RT
>> + /* kernel prio; less is more */
>> + int a_prio = a->task->prio;
>> + int b_prio = b->task->prio;
>> +
>> + if (dl_prio(a_prio) || dl_prio(b_prio)) {
>
> Whoever wrote this was an idiot :-) Both should be rt_prio().

Along with the idiot who picked that up and stared at it for quite some
time.