Re: [PATCH] ALSA: pcm: Fix starvation on down_write_nonblock()

From: kbuild test robot
Date: Sat Nov 24 2018 - 06:13:08 EST


Hi Chanho,

I love your patch! Yet something to improve:

[auto build test ERROR on sound/for-next]
[also build test ERROR on v4.20-rc3 next-20181123]
[if your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, please drop us a note to help improve the system]

url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Chanho-Min/ALSA-pcm-Fix-starvation-on-down_write_nonblock/20181124-182630
base: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git for-next
config: x86_64-randconfig-x001-201846 (attached as .config)
compiler: gcc-7 (Debian 7.3.0-1) 7.3.0
reproduce:
# save the attached .config to linux build tree
make ARCH=x86_64

All errors (new ones prefixed by >>):

sound/core/pcm_native.c: In function 'down_write_nonblock':
>> sound/core/pcm_native.c:99:3: error: implicit declaration of function 'msleep' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
msleep(1);
^~~~~~
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors

vim +/msleep +99 sound/core/pcm_native.c

89
90 /* Writer in rwsem may block readers even during its waiting in queue,
91 * and this may lead to a deadlock when the code path takes read sem
92 * twice (e.g. one in snd_pcm_action_nonatomic() and another in
93 * snd_pcm_stream_lock()). As a (suboptimal) workaround, let writer to
94 * spin until it gets the lock.
95 */
96 static inline void down_write_nonblock(struct rw_semaphore *lock)
97 {
98 while (!down_write_trylock(lock))
> 99 msleep(1);
100 }
101

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