sched/core: Provide sched_rtmutex() and expose sched work helpers
schedule() invokes sched_submit_work() before scheduling and sched_update_worker() afterwards to ensure that queued block requests are flushed and the (IO)worker machineries can instantiate new workers if required. This avoids deadlocks and starvation. With rt_mutexes this can lead to subtle problem: When rtmutex blocks current::pi_blocked_on points to the rtmutex it blocks on. When one of the functions in sched_submit/resume_work() contends on a rtmutex based lock then that would corrupt current::pi_blocked_on. Make it possible to let rtmutex issue the calls outside of the slowpath, i.e. when it is guaranteed that current::pi_blocked_on is NULL, by: - Exposing sched_submit_work() and moving the task_running() condition into schedule() - Renamimg sched_update_worker() to sched_resume_work() and exposing it too. - Providing sched_rtmutex() which just does the inner loop of scheduling until need_resched() is not longer set. Split out the loop so this does not create yet another copy. Signed-off-by:Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230427111937.2745231-2-bigeasy@linutronix.de Signed-off-by:
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
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