On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 09:00 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 02:39 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> I haven't thought of a good way yet to solve the race condition with
> dependent sleeper. (Except by turning off CONFIG_WAKEUP_TIMING :-)
>
OK, I found one simple solution. The problem stems from max_mutex being
grabbed. Since this uses the RT locks, and since tracing shouldn't
really care about PI and all that, I switched this to a
compat_semaphore, but only if CONFIG_WAKEUP_TIMING is set. This seems to
get rid of this race condition that I have.
I found more bugs, but for now this message is about this specific race.
-- Steve
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Index: linux_realtime_ernie/kernel/latency.c
===================================================================
--- linux_realtime_ernie/kernel/latency.c (revision 297)
+++ linux_realtime_ernie/kernel/latency.c (working copy)
@@ -102,7 +102,19 @@
/*
* Track maximum latencies and save the trace:
*/
+#ifdef CONFIG_WAKEUP_TIMING
+/*
+ * The WAKEUP_TIMING has a race condition, since
+ * trace_stop_sched_switched might be called with run queue locks held
+ * which eventually calls down_trylock.
+ * But the RT version of down_trylock grabs a bunch of locks that
+ * are used by rt_up. rt_up can call wake_up_process which
+ * eventually grabs a run queue lock.
+ */
+static __cacheline_aligned_in_smp COMPAT_DECLARE_MUTEX(max_mutex);
+#else
static __cacheline_aligned_in_smp DECLARE_MUTEX(max_mutex);
+#endif
/*
* Sequence count - we record it when starting a measurement and
* skip the latency if the sequence has changed - some other section
-
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