On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 10:31 PM, Waiman Long <long...@redhat.com> wrote:
> The percpu_rwsem_release() is called when the ownership of the embedded
> rwsem is to be transferred to another task. The new owner, however, may
> take a while to get the ownership of the lock via percpu_rwsem_acquire().
> During that period, the rwsem is now marked as writer-owned with no
> optimistic spinning.
>

Waiman,

Thanks for the fix. I will test it soon.

For this commit message I suggest that you add parts of the reproducer
found here:
https://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=152622016219975&w=2

Thanks,
Amir.

> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <long...@redhat.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/percpu-rwsem.h | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/percpu-rwsem.h b/include/linux/percpu-rwsem.h
> index b1f37a8..dd37102 100644
> --- a/include/linux/percpu-rwsem.h
> +++ b/include/linux/percpu-rwsem.h
> @@ -131,16 +131,16 @@ static inline void percpu_rwsem_release(struct 
> percpu_rw_semaphore *sem,
>                                         bool read, unsigned long ip)
>  {
>         lock_release(&sem->rw_sem.dep_map, 1, ip);
> -#ifdef CONFIG_RWSEM_SPIN_ON_OWNER
>         if (!read)
> -               sem->rw_sem.owner = NULL;
> -#endif
> +               rwsem_set_writer_owned_nospin(&sem->rw_sem);
>  }
>
>  static inline void percpu_rwsem_acquire(struct percpu_rw_semaphore *sem,
>                                         bool read, unsigned long ip)
>  {
>         lock_acquire(&sem->rw_sem.dep_map, 0, 1, read, 1, NULL, ip);
> +       if (!read)
> +               rwsem_set_writer_owned(&sem->rw_sem, current);
>  }
>
>  #endif
> --
> 1.8.3.1
>

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