Re: [PATCH 0/6] locking/rtmutex: Avoid PI state recursion through sched_submit_work()

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Aug 16 2023 - 11:23:50 EST


On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 04:58:18PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> I've ended up with the below, but it is quite horrible.. but let me go
> stare at the futex wreckage before trying to clean things up.

OK, I think the below covers the simple case, now lets see if I can make
sense of futex_wait_requeue_pi()... :/

---
--- a/kernel/futex/pi.c
+++ b/kernel/futex/pi.c
@@ -1002,6 +1002,12 @@ int futex_lock_pi(u32 __user *uaddr, uns
goto no_block;
}

+ /*
+ * Must be done before we enqueue the waiter, here is unfortunately
+ * under the hb lock, but that *should* work.
+ */
+ rt_mutex_pre_schedule();
+
rt_mutex_init_waiter(&rt_waiter);

/*
@@ -1052,6 +1058,10 @@ int futex_lock_pi(u32 __user *uaddr, uns
if (ret && !rt_mutex_cleanup_proxy_lock(&q.pi_state->pi_mutex, &rt_waiter))
ret = 0;

+ /*
+ * Waiter is unqueued.
+ */
+ rt_mutex_post_schedule();
no_block:
/*
* Fixup the pi_state owner and possibly acquire the lock if we