Re: [PATCH-tip 0/5] locking/locktorture: Fix locktorture ww_mutex test problems

From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH-tip 0/5] locking/locktorture: Fix locktorture ww_mutex test problems
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 12:16:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210319111629.GB4029764@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210318172814.4400-1-longman@redhat.com>

* Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> wrote:

> This is a follow-up patch series for the previous patchset on fixing
> locktorture ww_mutex test problem [1]. The first 3 patches of that
> series were merged into tip. It turns out that the last one of the
> three wasn't quite right. So this patch series revert the last patch.
> 
> The rests of the patch series fix the ww_mutex testing problem in
> locktorture as well as removing the DEFINE_WW_MUTEX() macro from
> include/linux/ww_mutex.h.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210316153119.13802-1-longman@redhat.com/
> 
> Waiman Long (5):
>   locking/ww_mutex: Revert "Treat ww_mutex_lock() like a trylock"
>   locking/locktorture: Fix false positive circular locking splat in
>     ww_mutex test
>   locking/ww_mutex: Remove DEFINE_WW_MUTEX() macro
>   locking/locktorture: Pass thread id to lock/unlock functions
>   locking/locktorture: locking/locktorture: Fix incorrect use of
>     ww_acquire_ctx in ww_mutex test

Applied, thanks Waiman.

I kept these two fixes in locking/urgent, for a v5.12 merge:

  bee645788e07: ("locking/ww_mutex: Fix acquire/release imbalance in ww_acquire_init()/ww_acquire_fini()")
  5de2055d31ea: ("locking/ww_mutex: Simplify use_ww_ctx & ww_ctx handling")

As this bug could affect actual ww_mutex users.

And queued up these four in locking/core, for a v5.13 merge:

  8c52cca04f97: ("locking/locktorture: Fix incorrect use of ww_acquire_ctx in ww_mutex test")
  aa3a5f31877e: ("locking/locktorture: Pass thread id to lock/unlock functions")
  5261ced47f8e: ("locking/ww_mutex: Remove DEFINE_WW_MUTEX() macro")
  2ea55bbba23e: ("locking/locktorture: Fix false positive circular locking splat in ww_mutex test")

As these bugs are basically limited to a debugging facility.

( But we could also merge them into v5.12, if you think it's 
  justified. No strong opinions either way. )

Thanks,

	Ingo