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Commit 76d62f24 authored by John Stultz's avatar John Stultz Committed by Kees Cook
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pstore: Switch pmsg_lock to an rt_mutex to avoid priority inversion

Wei Wang reported seeing priority inversion caused latencies
caused by contention on pmsg_lock, and suggested it be switched
to a rt_mutex.

I was initially hesitant this would help, as the tasks in that
trace all seemed to be SCHED_NORMAL, so the benefit would be
limited to only nice boosting.

However, another similar issue was raised where the priority
inversion was seen did involve a blocked RT task so it is clear
this would be helpful in that case.

Cc: Wei Wang <wvw@google.com>
Cc: Midas Chien<midaschieh@google.com>
Cc: Connor O'Brien <connoro@google.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton@enomsg.org>
Cc: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: kernel-team@android.com
Fixes: 9d5438f4

 ("pstore: Add pmsg - user-space accessible pstore object")
Reported-by: default avatarWei Wang <wvw@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221214231834.3711880-1-jstultz@google.com
parent e6b84274
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