From abaf3f9d275b8d856ae5e47531e40c0bfeac012b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lai Jiangshan Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 16:30:01 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] rcu: Revert "Allow post-unlock reference for rt_mutex" to avoid priority-inversion The patch dfeb9765ce3c ("Allow post-unlock reference for rt_mutex") ensured rcu-boost safe even the rt_mutex has post-unlock reference. But rt_mutex allowing post-unlock reference is definitely a bug and it was fixed by the commit 27e35715df54 ("rtmutex: Plug slow unlock race"). This fix made the previous patch (dfeb9765ce3c) useless. And even worse, the priority-inversion introduced by the the previous patch still exists. rcu_read_unlock_special() { rt_mutex_unlock(&rnp->boost_mtx); /* Priority-Inversion: * the current task had been deboosted and preempted as a low * priority task immediately, it could wait long before reschedule in, * and the rcu-booster also waits on this low priority task and sleeps. * This priority-inversion makes rcu-booster can't work * as expected. */ complete(&rnp->boost_completion); } Just revert the patch to avoid it. Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- Reading git-format-patch failed