This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled binder: Use wake up hint for synchronous transactions. to my char-misc git tree which can be found at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git in the char-misc-linus branch. The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.) The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the next -rc kernel release. If you have any questions about this process, please let me know. >From 00b40d613352c623aaae88a44e5ded7c912909d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Riley Andrews <riandrews@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 12:01:37 -0700 Subject: binder: Use wake up hint for synchronous transactions. Use wake_up_interruptible_sync() to hint to the scheduler binder transactions are synchronous wakeups. Disable preemption while waking to avoid ping-ponging on the binder lock. Signed-off-by: Todd Kjos <tkjos@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Omprakash Dhyade <odhyade@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.4+ Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/android/binder.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/android/binder.c b/drivers/android/binder.c index 9393924ae8e8..f7665c31feca 100644 --- a/drivers/android/binder.c +++ b/drivers/android/binder.c @@ -2200,8 +2200,12 @@ static void binder_transaction(struct binder_proc *proc, list_add_tail(&t->work.entry, target_list); tcomplete->type = BINDER_WORK_TRANSACTION_COMPLETE; list_add_tail(&tcomplete->entry, &thread->todo); - if (target_wait) - wake_up_interruptible(target_wait); + if (target_wait) { + if (reply || !(t->flags & TF_ONE_WAY)) + wake_up_interruptible_sync(target_wait); + else + wake_up_interruptible(target_wait); + } return; err_translate_failed: -- 2.13.3