On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 04:53:19PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jan 2019, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 02:44:10PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 12:23:21PM +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote: > > > > > > > And indeed, if I run only this test case in an endless loop and do > > > > some parallel work (like kernel compile) it currently seems to be > > > > possible to reproduce the warning: > > > > > > > > while true; do time ./testrun.sh nptl/tst-robustpi8 --direct ; done > > > > > > > > within the build directory of glibc (2.28). > > > > > > Right; so that reproduces for me. > > > > > > After staring at all that for a while; trying to remember how it all > > > worked (or supposed to work rather), I became suspiscous of commit: > > > > > > 56222b212e8e ("futex: Drop hb->lock before enqueueing on the rtmutex") > > > > > > And indeed, when I revert that; the above reproducer no longer works (as > > > in, it no longer triggers in minutes and has -- so far -- held up for an > > > hour+ or so). > > Right after staring long enough at it, the commit simply forgot to give > __rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock() the same treatment as it gave to > rt_mutex_wait_proxy_lock(). > > Patch below cures that. With your patch the kernel warning doesn't occur anymore. So if this is supposed to be the fix feel free to add: Tested-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx> However now I see every now and then the following failure from the same test case: tst-robustpi8: ../nptl/pthread_mutex_lock.c:425: __pthread_mutex_lock_full: Assertion `INTERNAL_SYSCALL_ERRNO (e, __err) != ESRCH || !robust' failed. /* ESRCH can happen only for non-robust PI mutexes where the owner of the lock died. */ assert (INTERNAL_SYSCALL_ERRNO (e, __err) != ESRCH || !robust); I just verified that this happened also without your patch, I just didn't see it since I started my tests with panic_on_warn=1 and the warning triggered always earlier. So, this seems to be something different.