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Commit 8fbc724c authored by Sebastian Andrzej Siewior's avatar Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Committed by Bruce Ashfield
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locking/rtmutex: Submit/resume work explicitly before/after blocking



schedule() invokes sched_submit_work() before scheduling and
sched_resume_work() 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 a 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.

Let rtmutex and the RT lock variants which are based on it invoke
sched_submit/resume_work() explicitly before and after the slowpath so
it's guaranteed that current::pi_blocked_on cannot be corrupted by blocking
on two locks.

This does not apply to the PREEMPT_RT variants of spinlock_t and rwlock_t
as their scheduling slowpath is separate and cannot invoke the work related
functions due to potential deadlocks anyway.

[ tglx: Make it explicit and symmetric. Massage changelog ]

Fixes: e17ba59b ("locking/rtmutex: Guard regular sleeping locks specific functions")
Reported-by: default avatarCrystal Wood <swood@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/4b4ab374d3e24e6ea8df5cadc4297619a6d945af.camel@redhat.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230427111937.2745231-3-bigeasy@linutronix.de
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