On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 09:43:13PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > completion uses a wait_queue_head_t to enqueue waiters. > > wait_queue_head_t contains a spinlock_t to protect the list of waiters > which excludes it from being used in truly atomic context on a PREEMPT_RT > enabled kernel. > > The spinlock in the wait queue head cannot be replaced by a raw_spinlock > because: > > - wait queues can have custom wakeup callbacks, which acquire other > spinlock_t locks and have potentially long execution times > > - wake_up() walks an unbounded number of list entries during the wake up > and may wake an unbounded number of waiters. > > For simplicity and performance reasons complete() should be usable on > PREEMPT_RT enabled kernels. > > completions do not use custom wakeup callbacks and are usually single > waiter, except for a few corner cases. > > Replace the wait queue in the completion with a simple wait queue (swait), > which uses a raw_spinlock_t for protecting the waiter list and therefore is > safe to use inside truly atomic regions on PREEMPT_RT. > > There is no semantical or functional change: > > - completions use the exclusive wait mode which is what swait provides > > - complete() wakes one exclusive waiter > > - complete_all() wakes all waiters while holding the lock which protects > the wait queue against newly incoming waiters. The conversion to swait > preserves this behaviour. > > complete_all() might cause unbound latencies with a large number of waiters > being woken at once, but most complete_all() usage sites are either in > testing or initialization code or have only a really small number of > concurrent waiters which for now does not cause a latency problem. Keep it > simple for now. > > The fixup of the warning check in the USB gadget driver is just a straight > forward conversion of the lockless waiter check from one waitqueue type to > the other. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> > --- > V2: Split out the orinoco and usb gadget parts and amended change log > --- > drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_fs.c | 2 +- > include/linux/completion.h | 8 ++++---- > kernel/sched/completion.c | 36 +++++++++++++++++++----------------- > 3 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) For USB portion: Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
