Re: [PATCH] pstore: Revert pmsg_lock back to a normal mutex

[Steven Rostedt]

On Thu, 2 Mar 2023 16:56:13 -0500
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Knowing that rcu_read_lock() keeps the tasks safe, I made the optimization
> to only grab the spinlock (and disable interrupts) once, or whenever the
> top waiter changes.

v3 as I found that there were too places to test for top waiter that had to
be removed:

(I took out the trace_printk() here).

-- Steve

diff --git a/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c b/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
index 010cf4e6d0b8..283dd8e654ef 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
@@ -1399,8 +1399,12 @@ static bool rtmutex_spin_on_owner(struct rt_mutex_base *lock,
 				  struct rt_mutex_waiter *waiter,
 				  struct task_struct *owner)
 {
+	struct rt_mutex_waiter *top_waiter;
+	struct rt_mutex_waiter *last_waiter = NULL;
+	struct task_struct *top_task = NULL;
 	bool res = true;
 
+	/* rcu_read_lock keeps task_structs around */
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	for (;;) {
 		/* If owner changed, trylock again. */
@@ -1421,11 +1425,23 @@ static bool rtmutex_spin_on_owner(struct rt_mutex_base *lock,
 		 *    for CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU=y)
 		 *  - the VCPU on which owner runs is preempted
 		 */
-		if (!owner_on_cpu(owner) || need_resched() ||
-		    !rt_mutex_waiter_is_top_waiter(lock, waiter)) {
+		if (!owner_on_cpu(owner) || need_resched()) {
 			res = false;
 			break;
 		}
+		top_waiter = rt_mutex_top_waiter(lock);
+		if (top_waiter != waiter) {
+			if (top_waiter != last_waiter) {
+				raw_spin_lock_irq(&lock->wait_lock);
+				last_waiter = rt_mutex_top_waiter(lock);
+				top_task = last_waiter->task;
+				raw_spin_unlock_irq(&lock->wait_lock);
+			}
+			if (!owner_on_cpu(top_task)) {
+				res = false;
+				break;
+			}
+		}
 		cpu_relax();
 	}
 	rcu_read_unlock();
@@ -1547,10 +1563,7 @@ static int __sched rt_mutex_slowlock_block(struct rt_mutex_base *lock,
 				break;
 		}
 
-		if (waiter == rt_mutex_top_waiter(lock))
-			owner = rt_mutex_owner(lock);
-		else
-			owner = NULL;
+		owner = rt_mutex_owner(lock);
 		raw_spin_unlock_irq(&lock->wait_lock);
 
 		if (!owner || !rtmutex_spin_on_owner(lock, waiter, owner))
@@ -1736,10 +1749,7 @@ static void __sched rtlock_slowlock_locked(struct rt_mutex_base *lock)
 		if (try_to_take_rt_mutex(lock, current, &waiter))
 			break;
 
-		if (&waiter == rt_mutex_top_waiter(lock))
-			owner = rt_mutex_owner(lock);
-		else
-			owner = NULL;
+		owner = rt_mutex_owner(lock);
 		raw_spin_unlock_irq(&lock->wait_lock);
 
 		if (!owner || !rtmutex_spin_on_owner(lock, &waiter, owner))