On Tue, 3 Jun 2014, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Fri, 23 May 2014 09:30:10 -0500 > "Brad Mouring" <bmouring@xxxxxx> wrote: > > /* Deadlock detection */ > > if (lock == orig_lock || rt_mutex_owner(lock) == top_task) { > > + /* > > + * If the prio chain has changed out from under us, set the task > > + * to the current owner of the lock in the current waiter and > > + * continue walking the prio chain > > + */ > > + if (rt_mutex_owner(lock) && rt_mutex_owner(lock) != task) { No, sorry. That's wrong. Your change wreckages the rt_mutex_owner(lock) == top_task test simply because in that case: (rt_mutex_owner(lock) && rt_mutex_owner(lock) != task) evaluates to true. Aside of that we need to figure out whether the lock chain changed while we dropped the locks even in the non dead lock case. Otherwise we follow up the wrong chain there. T0 blocked on L1 held by T1 T1 blocked on L2 held by T2 T2 blocked on L3 held by T3 So we walk the chain and do: T1 -> L2 -> T2 Now here we get preempted. T3 releases L3 T2 gets L3 T2 drops L3 and L2 T2 blocks on L4 held by T4 T4 blocked on L5 held by T5 So we happily boost T4 and T5. Not what we really want to do. Nasty, isn't it ? Thanks, tglx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html