Re: [patch 2/2] rtmutex: Avoid pointless requeueing in the deadlock detection chain walk

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

On Thu, 15 May 2014, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 14 May 2014 20:03:27 -0000
> Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> 
> > In case the dead lock detector is enabled we follow the lock chain to
> > the end in rt_mutex_adjust_prio_chain, even if we could stop earlier
> > due to the priority/waiter constellation.
> 
> I'm assuming that we want to detect deadlocks for all futex calls
> even when CONFIG_DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES is set?
> 
> In kernel/locking/rtmutex_common.h:
> 
> #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
> # include "rtmutex-debug.h"
> #else
> # include "rtmutex.h"
> #endif
> 
> In kernel/locking/rtmutex.h:
> 
> #define debug_rt_mutex_detect_deadlock(w,d)             (d)
> 
> In kernel/locking/rtmutex.h:
> 
> static inline int debug_rt_mutex_detect_deadlock(struct rt_mutex_waiter *waiter,
>                                                  int detect)
> {
>         return (waiter != NULL);
> }
> 
> Shouldn't that be: return detect || waiter != NULL;
> 

No. We do not care about whether the caller handed in detect or not.

> 
> I know this a separate issue from this patch series, but it's
> something that I just noticed.

It's not really intuitive. We might make the call sites hand in
constants. RTMUTEX_DETECT_DEADLOCK, RTMUTEX_IGNORE_DEADLOCK or
something like that and switch it depending on
CONFIG_DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES.

Thanks,

	tglx