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| author | Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> | 2016-05-26 21:08:17 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2016-06-03 08:37:26 +0200 |
| commit | 0422e83d84ae24b933e4b0d4c1e0f0b4ae8a0a3b (patch) | |
| tree | 40ad29f717196c609c77b08969e02e3b06edd5fd /mm | |
| parent | 55eed755c6e30a89be3a791a6b0ad208aadd9bdc (diff) | |
locking/ww_mutex: Report recursive ww_mutex locking early
Recursive locking for ww_mutexes was originally conceived as an
exception. However, it is heavily used by the DRM atomic modesetting
code. Currently, the recursive deadlock is checked after we have queued
up for a busy-spin and as we never release the lock, we spin until
kicked, whereupon the deadlock is discovered and reported.
A simple solution for the now common problem is to move the recursive
deadlock discovery to the first action when taking the ww_mutex.
Suggested-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464293297-19777-1-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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