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authorPaul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>2011-08-16 17:46:46 -0700
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2011-09-28 21:38:43 -0700
commit5342e269b2b58ee0b0b4168a94087faaa60d0567 (patch)
tree77467d64948328e506f06eaf5a719de7fade4b83 /kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
parent06ae115a1d551cd952d80df06eaf8b5153351875 (diff)
rcu: Permit rt_mutex_unlock() with irqs disabled
Create a separate lockdep class for the rt_mutex used for RCU priority boosting and enable use of rt_mutex_lock() with irqs disabled. This prevents RCU priority boosting from falling prey to deadlocks when someone begins an RCU read-side critical section in preemptible state, but releases it with an irq-disabled lock held. Unfortunately, the scheduler's runqueue and priority-inheritance locks still must either completely enclose or be completely enclosed by any overlapping RCU read-side critical section. This version removes a redundant local_irq_restore() noted by Yong Zhang. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/rcutree_plugin.h')
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcutree_plugin.h5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
index d3127e8764cb..28422767d854 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
+++ b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
@@ -1149,6 +1149,8 @@ static void rcu_initiate_boost_trace(struct rcu_node *rnp)
#endif /* #else #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_TRACE */
+static struct lock_class_key rcu_boost_class;
+
/*
* Carry out RCU priority boosting on the task indicated by ->exp_tasks
* or ->boost_tasks, advancing the pointer to the next task in the
@@ -1211,6 +1213,9 @@ static int rcu_boost(struct rcu_node *rnp)
*/
t = container_of(tb, struct task_struct, rcu_node_entry);
rt_mutex_init_proxy_locked(&mtx, t);
+ /* Avoid lockdep false positives. This rt_mutex is its own thing. */
+ lockdep_set_class_and_name(&mtx.wait_lock, &rcu_boost_class,
+ "rcu_boost_mutex");
t->rcu_boost_mutex = &mtx;
raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rnp->lock, flags);
rt_mutex_lock(&mtx); /* Side effect: boosts task t's priority. */