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* [PATCH RT 0/2] rwsem-rt: Make rwsem rt closer to mainline
@ 2014-04-09  2:47 Steven Rostedt
  2014-04-09  2:47   ` Steven Rostedt
  2014-04-09  2:47   ` Steven Rostedt
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: Steven Rostedt @ 2014-04-09  2:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel, linux-rt-users
  Cc: Thomas Gleixner, Carsten Emde, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior,
	John Kacur, Paul Gortmaker, Peter Zijlstra, H. Peter Anvin

Looking at mainline's down_read() I noticed that reader locks of rwsems
are not made to nest. In fact, they should not. Although, it may seem
fine if a down_read() nests as multiple readers can have the lock,
rwsems are fair locks. That is, if a writer were to block on a rwsem
while readers have the lock, a new reader will also block. If a reader
were to try to take the lock again while a writer was waiting, it
would block, and cause a deadlock as it has the lock its trying
to grab and wont let it go as the writer is waiting.

I also found that the rt_mutex_init() is identical in the two places
it is defined in rtmutex.h.

Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) (2):
      rwsem-rt: Do not allow readers to nest
      rtmutex: Remove duplicate rt_mutex_init()

----
 include/linux/rtmutex.h  | 12 +++---------
 include/linux/rwsem_rt.h |  1 -
 kernel/rt.c              | 37 ++++++++-----------------------------
 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

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2014-04-09  2:47 ` [PATCH RT 1/2] rwsem-rt: Do not allow readers to nest Steven Rostedt
2014-04-09  2:47   ` Steven Rostedt
2014-05-02  9:04   ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2015-02-18 19:57   ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2015-02-18 20:13     ` Steven Rostedt
2015-02-20  5:07       ` Jason Low
2015-02-25 12:15       ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2014-04-09  2:47 ` [PATCH RT 2/2] rtmutex: Remove duplicate rt_mutex_init() Steven Rostedt
2014-04-09  2:47   ` Steven Rostedt
2014-05-02  9:08   ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2014-05-02 13:12     ` Steven Rostedt
2014-05-02 13:21       ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior

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