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Commit 6b596e62 authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra
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sched: Provide rt_mutex specific scheduler helpers



With PREEMPT_RT there is a rt_mutex recursion problem where
sched_submit_work() can use an rtlock (aka spinlock_t). More
specifically what happens is:

  mutex_lock() /* really rt_mutex */
    ...
      __rt_mutex_slowlock_locked()
	task_blocks_on_rt_mutex()
          // enqueue current task as waiter
          // do PI chain walk
        rt_mutex_slowlock_block()
          schedule()
            sched_submit_work()
              ...
              spin_lock() /* really rtlock */
                ...
                  __rt_mutex_slowlock_locked()
                    task_blocks_on_rt_mutex()
                      // enqueue current task as waiter *AGAIN*
                      // *CONFUSION*

Fix this by making rt_mutex do the sched_submit_work() early, before
it enqueues itself as a waiter -- before it even knows *if* it will
wait.

[[ basically Thomas' patch but with different naming and a few asserts
   added ]]

Originally-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230908162254.999499-5-bigeasy@linutronix.de
parent de1474b4
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