4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Chris Wilson <ch...@chris-wilson.co.uk> commit 0422e83d84ae24b933e4b0d4c1e0f0b4ae8a0a3b upstream. Recursive locking for ww_mutexes was originally conceived as an exception. However, it is heavily used by the DRM atomic modesetting code. Currently, the recursive deadlock is checked after we have queued up for a busy-spin and as we never release the lock, we spin until kicked, whereupon the deadlock is discovered and reported. A simple solution for the now common problem is to move the recursive deadlock discovery to the first action when taking the ww_mutex. Suggested-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankho...@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <ch...@chris-wilson.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <pet...@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankho...@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464293297-19777-1-git-send-email-ch...@chris-wilson.co.uk Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> --- kernel/locking/mutex.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/locking/mutex.c +++ b/kernel/locking/mutex.c @@ -486,9 +486,6 @@ __ww_mutex_lock_check_stamp(struct mutex if (!hold_ctx) return 0; - if (unlikely(ctx == hold_ctx)) - return -EALREADY; - if (ctx->stamp - hold_ctx->stamp <= LONG_MAX && (ctx->stamp != hold_ctx->stamp || ctx > hold_ctx)) { #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES @@ -514,6 +511,12 @@ __mutex_lock_common(struct mutex *lock, unsigned long flags; int ret; + if (use_ww_ctx) { + struct ww_mutex *ww = container_of(lock, struct ww_mutex, base); + if (unlikely(ww_ctx == READ_ONCE(ww->ctx))) + return -EALREADY; + } + preempt_disable(); mutex_acquire_nest(&lock->dep_map, subclass, 0, nest_lock, ip);
