From 9198f6edfd9ced74fd90b238d5a354aeac89bdfa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jason Low Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 23:45:31 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] locking/rwsem: Fix lock optimistic spinning when owner is not running Ming reported soft lockups occurring when running xfstest due to the following tip:locking/core commit: b3fd4f03ca0b ("locking/rwsem: Avoid deceiving lock spinners") When doing optimistic spinning in rwsem, threads should stop spinning when the lock owner is not running. While a thread is spinning on owner, if the owner reschedules, owner->on_cpu returns false and we stop spinning. However, this commit essentially caused the check to get ignored because when we break out of the spin loop due to !on_cpu, we continue spinning if sem->owner != NULL. This patch fixes this by making sure we stop spinning if the owner is not running. Furthermore, just like with mutexes, refactor the code such that we don't have separate checks for owner_running(). This makes it more straightforward in terms of why we exit the spin on owner loop and we would also avoid needing to "guess" why we broke out of the loop to make this more readable. Reported-and-tested-by: Ming Lei Signed-off-by: Jason Low Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Dave Jones Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Michel Lespinasse Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Sasha Levin Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Tim Chen Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1425714331.2475.388.camel@j-VirtualBox Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-format-patch failed