From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>,
mingo@kernel.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, xlpang@redhat.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com,
jdesfossez@efficios.com, bristot@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 8/8] rtmutex: Fix PI chain order integrity
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 14:40:02 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1606271439210.4041@nanos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160627122335.GB30154@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>
On Mon, 27 Jun 2016, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 08:25:07AM +0100, Juri Lelli wrote:
> > I guess it's not that likely, but yes it could potentially happen that a
> > waiter is optimistically spinning, depletes its runtime, gets throttled
> > and then replenished when still spinning. Maybe it doesn't really make
> > sense continuing spinning in this situation, but I guess things get
> > really complicated. :-/
> >
> > Anyway, as said, I think this patch is OK. Maybe we want to add a
> > comment just to remember what situation can cause an issue if we don't
> > do this? Patch changelog would be OK as well for such a comment IMHO.
>
>
> OK, so I went to write a simple comment and ended up with the below :/
>
> While writing the comment I noticed two issues:
>
> - we update the waiter order fields while the entry is still enqueued
> on the pi_waiters tree, which is also sorted by these exact fields.
>
> - another one of these pure ->prio comparisons
>
> Please double check, there be dragons here.
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-27 12:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-07 19:56 [RFC][PATCH 0/8] PI and assorted failings Peter Zijlstra
2016-06-07 19:56 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/8] rtmutex: Deboost before waking up the top waiter Peter Zijlstra
2016-06-14 9:09 ` Juri Lelli
2016-06-14 12:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-06-14 13:20 ` Juri Lelli
2016-06-14 13:59 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-06-14 16:36 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2016-06-14 17:01 ` Juri Lelli
2016-06-14 18:22 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-06-07 19:56 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/8] sched/rtmutex/deadline: Fix a PI crash for deadline tasks Peter Zijlstra
2016-06-14 10:21 ` Juri Lelli
2016-06-14 12:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-06-14 12:53 ` Xunlei Pang
2016-06-14 13:07 ` Juri Lelli
2016-06-14 16:39 ` Juri Lelli
2016-06-14 18:42 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-06-14 20:28 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-06-15 16:14 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-06-07 19:56 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/8] sched/deadline/rtmutex: Dont miss the dl_runtime/dl_period update Peter Zijlstra
2016-06-14 10:43 ` Juri Lelli
2016-06-14 12:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-06-15 16:30 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-06-15 17:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-06-07 19:56 ` [RFC][PATCH 4/8] rtmutex: Remove rt_mutex_fastunlock() Peter Zijlstra
2016-06-15 16:43 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-06-07 19:56 ` [RFC][PATCH 5/8] rtmutex: Clean up Peter Zijlstra
2016-06-14 12:08 ` Juri Lelli
2016-06-14 12:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-06-14 12:41 ` Juri Lelli
2016-06-07 19:56 ` [RFC][PATCH 6/8] sched/rtmutex: Refactor rt_mutex_setprio() Peter Zijlstra
2016-06-14 13:14 ` Juri Lelli
2016-06-14 14:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-06-07 19:56 ` [RFC][PATCH 7/8] sched,tracing: Update trace_sched_pi_setprio() Peter Zijlstra
2016-06-07 19:56 ` [RFC][PATCH 8/8] rtmutex: Fix PI chain order integrity Peter Zijlstra
2016-06-14 17:39 ` Juri Lelli
2016-06-14 19:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-06-15 7:25 ` Juri Lelli
2016-06-27 12:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-06-27 12:40 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2016-06-28 9:05 ` Juri Lelli
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