locking/ww_mutex: Re-check ww->ctx in the inner optimistic spin loop
In the following scenario, thread #1 should back off its attempt to lock ww1 and unlock ww2 (assuming the acquire context stamps are ordered accordingly). Thread #0 Thread #1 --------- --------- successfully lock ww2 set ww1->base.owner attempt to lock ww1 confirm ww1->ctx == NULL enter mutex_spin_on_owner set ww1->ctx What was likely to happen previously is: attempt to lock ww2 refuse to spin because ww2->ctx != NULL schedule() detect thread #0 is off CPU stop optimistic spin return -EDEADLK unlock ww2 wakeup thread #0 lock ww2 Now, we are more likely to see: detect ww1->ctx != NULL stop optimistic spin return -EDEADLK unlock ww2 successfully lock ww2 ... because thread #1 will stop its optimistic spin as soon as possible. The whole scenario is quite unlikely, since it requires thread #1 to get between thread #0 setting the owner and setting the ctx. But since we're idling here anyway, the additional check is basically free. Found by inspection. Signed-off-by: Nicolai Hähnle <Nicolai.Haehnle@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <dev@mblankhorst.nl> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1482346000-9927-10-git-send-email-nhaehnle@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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