On Wed, 4 Jun 2014, Brad Mouring wrote: > On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 08:02:16PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > I'll fixup the check so it wont break the real deadlock case and queue > > it. > > How would the change break the real deadlock case? > > /* 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. So we want this: Index: tip/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c =================================================================== --- tip.orig/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c +++ tip/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c @@ -375,6 +375,26 @@ static int rt_mutex_adjust_prio_chain(st * walk, we detected a deadlock. */ 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 && + rt_mutex_owner(lock) != top_task) { + /* Release the old owner */ + raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&task->pi_lock, flags); + put_task_struct(task); + + /* Move to the new owner */ + task = rt_mutex_owner(lock); + get_task_struct(task); + + /* Let's try this again */ + raw_spin_unlock(&lock->wait_lock); + goto retry; + } + debug_rt_mutex_deadlock(deadlock_detect, orig_waiter, lock); raw_spin_unlock(&lock->wait_lock); ret = deadlock_detect ? -EDEADLK : 0; -- 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