On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 05:28:25PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 17:13:33 -0400
> Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 17:06:02 -0400
> > Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 15:43:25 -0500
> > > Corey Minyard <cminyard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > I show that patch is already applied at
> > > >
> > > > 1921ea799b7dc561c97185538100271d88ee47db
> > > > sched/completion: Fix a lockup in wait_for_completion()
> > > >
> > > > git describe --contains 1921ea799b7dc561c97185538100271d88ee47db
> > > > v4.19.37-rt20~1
> > > >
> > > > So I'm not sure what is going on.
> > >
> > > Bah, I'm replying to the wrong commit that I'm having issues with.
> > >
> > > I searched your name to find the patch that is of trouble, and picked
> > > this one.
> > >
> > > I'll go find the problem patch, sorry for the noise on this one.
> > >
> >
> > No, I did reply to the right email, but it wasn't the top patch I was
> > having issues with. It was the patch I replied to:
> >
> > This change below that Sebastian marked as stable-rt is what is causing
> > me an issue. Not the patch that started the thread.
> >
>
> In fact, my system doesn't boot with this commit in 5.0-rt.
>
> If I revert 90e1b18eba2ae4a729 ("swait: Delete the task from after a
> wakeup occured") the machine boots again.
>
> Sebastian, I think that's a bad commit, please revert it.
Yeah. d_wait_lookup() does not use __SWAITQUEUE_INITIALIZER() to
intitialize it's queue item, but uses swake_up_all(), so it goes
into an infinite loop since it won't remove the item because remove
isn't set.
I'd suspect there are other places this is the case.
-corey
>
> Thanks!
>
> -- Steve
>
> >
> >
> > > Now.. that will fix it, but I think it is also wrong.
> > >
> > > The problem being that it violates FIFO, something that might be more
> > > important on -RT than elsewhere.
> > >
> > > The regular wait API seems confused/inconsistent when it uses
> > > autoremove_wake_function and default_wake_function, which doesn't help,
> > > but we can easily support this with swait -- the problematic thing is
> > > the custom wake functions, we musn't do that.
> > >
> > > (also, mingo went and renamed a whole bunch of wait_* crap and didn't do
> > > the same to swait_ so now its named all different :/)
> > >
> > > Something like the below perhaps.
> > >
> > > ---
> > > diff --git a/include/linux/swait.h b/include/linux/swait.h
> > > index 73e06e9986d4..f194437ae7d2 100644
> > > --- a/include/linux/swait.h
> > > +++ b/include/linux/swait.h
> > > @@ -61,11 +61,13 @@ struct swait_queue_head {
> > > struct swait_queue {
> > > struct task_struct *task;
> > > struct list_head task_list;
> > > + unsigned int remove;
> > > };
> > >
> > > #define __SWAITQUEUE_INITIALIZER(name) { \
> > > .task = current, \
> > > .task_list = LIST_HEAD_INIT((name).task_list), \
> > > + .remove = 1, \
> > > }
> > >
> > > #define DECLARE_SWAITQUEUE(name) \
> > > diff --git a/kernel/sched/swait.c b/kernel/sched/swait.c
> > > index e83a3f8449f6..86974ecbabfc 100644
> > > --- a/kernel/sched/swait.c
> > > +++ b/kernel/sched/swait.c
> > > @@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ void swake_up_locked(struct swait_queue_head *q)
> > >
> > > curr = list_first_entry(&q->task_list, typeof(*curr), task_list);
> > > wake_up_process(curr->task);
> > > - list_del_init(&curr->task_list);
> > > + if (curr->remove)
> > > + list_del_init(&curr->task_list);
> > > }
> > > EXPORT_SYMBOL(swake_up_locked);
> > >
> > > @@ -57,7 +58,8 @@ void swake_up_all(struct swait_queue_head *q)
> > > curr = list_first_entry(&tmp, typeof(*curr), task_list);
> > >
> > > wake_up_state(curr->task, TASK_NORMAL);
> > > - list_del_init(&curr->task_list);
> > > + if (curr->remove)
> > > + list_del_init(&curr->task_list);
> > >
> > > if (list_empty(&tmp))
> > > break;
> >
>
