Re: [RFC PATCH 01/11] locking/ww_mutex: Remove wakeups from under mutex::wait_lock

From: Waiman Long
Date: Tue Oct 04 2022 - 12:01:30 EST


On 10/3/22 17:44, Connor O'Brien wrote:
diff --git a/kernel/locking/ww_mutex.h b/kernel/locking/ww_mutex.h
index 56f139201f24..dfc174cd96c6 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/ww_mutex.h
+++ b/kernel/locking/ww_mutex.h
@@ -161,6 +161,11 @@ static inline void lockdep_assert_wait_lock_held(struct rt_mutex *lock)
#endif /* WW_RT */
+void ww_ctx_wake(struct ww_acquire_ctx *ww_ctx)
+{
+ wake_up_q(&ww_ctx->wake_q);
+}
+
/*
* Wait-Die:
* The newer transactions are killed when:
@@ -284,7 +289,7 @@ __ww_mutex_die(struct MUTEX *lock, struct MUTEX_WAITER *waiter,
#ifndef WW_RT
debug_mutex_wake_waiter(lock, waiter);
#endif
- wake_up_process(waiter->task);
+ wake_q_add(&ww_ctx->wake_q, waiter->task);
}
return true;
@@ -331,7 +336,7 @@ static bool __ww_mutex_wound(struct MUTEX *lock,
* wakeup pending to re-read the wounded state.
*/
if (owner != current)
- wake_up_process(owner);
+ wake_q_add(&ww_ctx->wake_q, owner);
return true;
}
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index ee28253c9ac0..617e737392be 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -1013,6 +1013,13 @@ void wake_up_q(struct wake_q_head *head)
wake_up_process(task);
put_task_struct(task);
}
+ /*
+ * XXX connoro: seems this is needed now that ww_ctx_wake() passes in a
+ * wake_q_head that is embedded in struct ww_acquire_ctx rather than
+ * declared locally.
+ */
+ head->first = node;
+ head->lastp = &head->first;
}

You shouldn't do wake_q_init() here in wake_up_q(). Instead, you should do it in ww_ctx_wake() right after the wake_up_q() call.

Cheers,
Longman