On 2011-09-18 17:10, Philippe Gerum wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-09-18 at 16:34 +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> On 2011-09-18 16:02, Philippe Gerum wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 22:39 +0200, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
>>>> On 09/16/2011 10:13 PM, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
>>>>> On 09/11/2011 04:29 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>>>> On 2011-09-11 16:24, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
>>>>>>> On 09/11/2011 12:50 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> just looked into the hrescnt issue again, specifically the corner case
>>>>>>>> of a shadow thread switching from real-time policy to SCHED_OTHER.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Doing this while holding a mutex looks invalid.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Looking at POSIX e.g., is there anything in the spec that makes this
>>>>>> invalid? If the kernel preserves or established proper priority
>>>>>> boosting, I do not see what could break in principle.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It is nothing I would design into some app, but we should somehow handle
>>>>>> it (doc update or code adjustments).
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If we do not do it, the current code is valid.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Except for its dependency on XNOTHER which is not updated on RT->NORMAL
>>>>>> transitions.
>>>>>
>>>>> The fact that this update did not take place made the code work. No
>>>>> negative rescnt could happen with that code.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyway, here is a patch to allow switching back from RT to NORMAL, but
>>>>> send a SIGDEBUG to a thread attempting to release a mutex while its
>>>>> counter is already 0. We end up avoiding a big chunk of code that would
>>>>> have been useful for a really strange corner case.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Here comes version 2:
>>>> diff --git a/include/nucleus/sched-idle.h b/include/nucleus/sched-idle.h
>>>> index 6399a17..417170f 100644
>>>> --- a/include/nucleus/sched-idle.h
>>>> +++ b/include/nucleus/sched-idle.h
>>>> @@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ extern struct xnsched_class xnsched_class_idle;
>>>> static inline void __xnsched_idle_setparam(struct xnthread *thread,
>>>> const union xnsched_policy_param *p)
>>>> {
>>>> + if (xnthread_test_state(thread, XNSHADOW))
>>>> + xnthread_clear_state(thread, XNOTHER);
>>>> thread->cprio = p->idle.prio;
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/include/nucleus/sched-rt.h b/include/nucleus/sched-rt.h
>>>> index 71f655c..cc1cefa 100644
>>>> --- a/include/nucleus/sched-rt.h
>>>> +++ b/include/nucleus/sched-rt.h
>>>> @@ -86,6 +86,12 @@ static inline void __xnsched_rt_setparam(struct
>>>> xnthread *thread,
>>>> const union xnsched_policy_param *p)
>>>> {
>>>> thread->cprio = p->rt.prio;
>>>> + if (xnthread_test_state(thread, XNSHADOW)) {
>>>> + if (thread->cprio)
>>>> + xnthread_clear_state(thread, XNOTHER);
>>>> + else
>>>> + xnthread_set_state(thread, XNOTHER);
>>>> + }
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> static inline void __xnsched_rt_getparam(struct xnthread *thread,
>>>> diff --git a/ksrc/nucleus/pod.c b/ksrc/nucleus/pod.c
>>>> index 9a02e80..d19999f 100644
>>>> --- a/ksrc/nucleus/pod.c
>>>> +++ b/ksrc/nucleus/pod.c
>>>> @@ -1896,16 +1896,6 @@ int __xnpod_set_thread_schedparam(struct xnthread
>>>> *thread,
>>>> xnsched_putback(thread);
>>>>
>>>> #ifdef CONFIG_XENO_OPT_PERVASIVE
>>>> - /*
>>>> - * A non-real-time shadow may upgrade to real-time FIFO
>>>> - * scheduling, but the latter may never downgrade to
>>>> - * SCHED_NORMAL Xenomai-wise. In the valid case, we clear
>>>> - * XNOTHER to reflect the change. Note that we keep handling
>>>> - * non real-time shadow specifics in higher code layers, not
>>>> - * to pollute the core scheduler with peculiarities.
>>>> - */
>>>> - if (sched_class == &xnsched_class_rt && sched_param->rt.prio > 0)
>>>> - xnthread_clear_state(thread, XNOTHER);
>>>> if (propagate) {
>>>> if (xnthread_test_state(thread, XNRELAX))
>>>> xnshadow_renice(thread);
>>>> diff --git a/ksrc/nucleus/sched-sporadic.c b/ksrc/nucleus/sched-sporadic.c
>>>> index fd37c21..ffc9bab 100644
>>>> --- a/ksrc/nucleus/sched-sporadic.c
>>>> +++ b/ksrc/nucleus/sched-sporadic.c
>>>> @@ -258,6 +258,8 @@ static void xnsched_sporadic_setparam(struct xnthread
>>>> *thread,
>>>> }
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> + if (xnthread_test_state(thread, XNSHADOW))
>>>> + xnthread_clear_state(thread, XNOTHER);
>>>> thread->cprio = p->pss.current_prio;
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/ksrc/nucleus/sched-tp.c b/ksrc/nucleus/sched-tp.c
>>>> index 43a548e..a2af1d3 100644
>>>> --- a/ksrc/nucleus/sched-tp.c
>>>> +++ b/ksrc/nucleus/sched-tp.c
>>>> @@ -100,6 +100,8 @@ static void xnsched_tp_setparam(struct xnthread
>>>> *thread,
>>>> {
>>>> struct xnsched *sched = thread->sched;
>>>>
>>>> + if (xnthread_test_state(thread, XNSHADOW))
>>>> + xnthread_clear_state(thread, XNOTHER);
>>>> thread->tps = &sched->tp.partitions[p->tp.ptid];
>>>> thread->cprio = p->tp.prio;
>>>> }
>>>> diff --git a/ksrc/nucleus/synch.c b/ksrc/nucleus/synch.c
>>>> index b956e46..47bc0c5 100644
>>>> --- a/ksrc/nucleus/synch.c
>>>> +++ b/ksrc/nucleus/synch.c
>>>> @@ -684,9 +684,13 @@ xnsynch_release_thread(struct xnsynch *synch, struct
>>>> xnthread *lastowner)
>>>>
>>>> XENO_BUGON(NUCLEUS, !testbits(synch->status, XNSYNCH_OWNER));
>>>>
>>>> - if (xnthread_test_state(lastowner, XNOTHER))
>>>> - xnthread_dec_rescnt(lastowner);
>>>> - XENO_BUGON(NUCLEUS, xnthread_get_rescnt(lastowner) < 0);
>>>> + if (xnthread_test_state(lastowner, XNOTHER)) {
>>>> + if (xnthread_get_rescnt(lastowner) == 0)
>>>> + xnshadow_send_sig(lastowner, SIGDEBUG,
>>>> + SIGDEBUG_MIGRATE_PRIOINV, 1);
>>>> + else
>>>> + xnthread_dec_rescnt(lastowner);
>>>> + }
>>>> lastownerh = xnthread_handle(lastowner);
>>>>
>>>> if (use_fastlock &&
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Agreed, the logic of this patch sounds right. Switching from -rt to -nrt
>>> while holding a -rt mutex is pathological behavior. We don't have to
>>> support apps implementing voluntary priority inversion.
>>>
>>
>> No concerns either.
>>
>> Now we just need
>>
>> diff --git a/ksrc/nucleus/shadow.c b/ksrc/nucleus/shadow.c
>> index 21cc191..27bc829 100644
>> --- a/ksrc/nucleus/shadow.c
>> +++ b/ksrc/nucleus/shadow.c
>> @@ -2756,9 +2756,12 @@ static inline void do_setsched_event(struct
>> task_struct *p, int priority)
>> union xnsched_policy_param param;
>> struct xnsched *sched;
>>
>> - if (!thread || p->policy != SCHED_FIFO)
>> + if (!thread)
>> return;
>>
>> + if (p->policy == SCHED_FIFO)
> ^^
> inverted?Of course. Jan
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