Re: [tip:core/locking] locking/mutexes: Unlock the mutex without the wait_lock
From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Mar 12 2014 - 08:24:59 EST
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 05:41:23AM -0700, tip-bot for Jason Low wrote:
> kernel/locking/mutex.c | 8 ++++----
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/locking/mutex.c b/kernel/locking/mutex.c
> index 82dad2c..dc3d6f2 100644
> --- a/kernel/locking/mutex.c
> +++ b/kernel/locking/mutex.c
> @@ -671,10 +671,6 @@ __mutex_unlock_common_slowpath(atomic_t *lock_count, int nested)
> struct mutex *lock = container_of(lock_count, struct mutex, count);
> unsigned long flags;
>
> - spin_lock_mutex(&lock->wait_lock, flags);
> - mutex_release(&lock->dep_map, nested, _RET_IP_);
> - debug_mutex_unlock(lock);
> -
> /*
> * some architectures leave the lock unlocked in the fastpath failure
> * case, others need to leave it locked. In the later case we have to
> @@ -683,6 +679,10 @@ __mutex_unlock_common_slowpath(atomic_t *lock_count, int nested)
> if (__mutex_slowpath_needs_to_unlock())
> atomic_set(&lock->count, 1);
>
> + spin_lock_mutex(&lock->wait_lock, flags);
> + mutex_release(&lock->dep_map, nested, _RET_IP_);
> + debug_mutex_unlock(lock);
> +
> if (!list_empty(&lock->wait_list)) {
> /* get the first entry from the wait-list: */
> struct mutex_waiter *waiter =
OK, so this patch generates:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 139 at /usr/src/linux-2.6/kernel/locking/mutex-debug.c:82 debug_mutex_unlock+0x155/0x180()
DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(lock->owner != current)
for kernels with CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES=y
And that makes sense, because as soon as we release the lock a new owner
can come in.
One would think that !__mutex_slowpath_needs_to_unlock() implementations
suffer the same, but for DEBUG we fall back to mutex-null.h which has an
unconditional 1 for that.
How about something like the below; will test after lunch.
---
Subject: locking/mutex: Fix debug checks
The mutex debug code requires the mutex to be unlocked after doing the
debug checks, otherwise it can find inconsistent state.
Fixes: 1d8fe7dc8078 ("locking/mutexes: Unlock the mutex without the wait_lock")
Almost-Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/locking/mutex-debug.c | 6 ++++++
kernel/locking/mutex.c | 7 +++++++
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/locking/mutex-debug.c b/kernel/locking/mutex-debug.c
index faf6f5b53e77..e1191c996c59 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/mutex-debug.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/mutex-debug.c
@@ -83,6 +83,12 @@ void debug_mutex_unlock(struct mutex *lock)
DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(!lock->wait_list.prev && !lock->wait_list.next);
mutex_clear_owner(lock);
+
+ /*
+ * __mutex_slowpath_needs_to_unlock() is explicitly 0 for debug
+ * mutexes so that we can do it here after we've verified state.
+ */
+ atomic_set(&lock->count, 1);
}
void debug_mutex_init(struct mutex *lock, const char *name,
diff --git a/kernel/locking/mutex.c b/kernel/locking/mutex.c
index 26c96142caac..e6fa88b64b17 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/mutex.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/mutex.c
@@ -34,6 +34,13 @@
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES
# include "mutex-debug.h"
# include <asm-generic/mutex-null.h>
+/*
+ * Must be 0 for the debug case so we do not do the unlock outside of the
+ * wait_lock region. debug_mutex_unlock() will do the actual unlock in this
+ * case.
+ */
+# undef __mutex_slowpath_needs_to_unlock
+# define __mutex_slowpath_needs_to_unlock() 0
#else
# include "mutex.h"
# include <asm/mutex.h>
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