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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2012-02-22 12:03:30 +0100
committerSteven Rostedt <rostedt@rostedt.homelinux.com>2012-10-26 14:42:43 -0400
commit71c6859d2993152672d45f5eb0d72f91950f5c5b (patch)
treef9ccaab8e0ace2d117986cdfa448efaa566ca4ad
parent817bc1d9f1504230d63bc5981fee7992e55a6808 (diff)
seqlock: Prevent rt starvation
If a low prio writer gets preempted while holding the seqlock write locked, a high prio reader spins forever on RT. To prevent this let the reader grab the spinlock, so it blocks and eventually boosts the writer. This way the writer can proceed and endless spinning is prevented. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: stable-rt@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/seqlock.h23
-rw-r--r--include/net/neighbour.h2
2 files changed, 24 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/seqlock.h b/include/linux/seqlock.h
index 9bb7fb735144..b911868e8ab8 100644
--- a/include/linux/seqlock.h
+++ b/include/linux/seqlock.h
@@ -177,10 +177,33 @@ typedef struct {
/*
* Read side functions for starting and finalizing a read side section.
*/
+#ifndef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT_FULL
static inline unsigned read_seqbegin(const seqlock_t *sl)
{
return read_seqcount_begin(&sl->seqcount);
}
+#else
+/*
+ * Starvation safe read side for RT
+ */
+static inline unsigned read_seqbegin(seqlock_t *sl)
+{
+ unsigned ret;
+
+repeat:
+ ret = sl->seqcount.sequence;
+ if (unlikely(ret & 1)) {
+ /*
+ * Take the lock and let the writer proceed (i.e. evtl
+ * boost it), otherwise we could loop here forever.
+ */
+ spin_lock(&sl->lock);
+ spin_unlock(&sl->lock);
+ goto repeat;
+ }
+ return ret;
+}
+#endif
static inline unsigned read_seqretry(const seqlock_t *sl, unsigned start)
{
diff --git a/include/net/neighbour.h b/include/net/neighbour.h
index 4014b623880c..9c1cb97c2750 100644
--- a/include/net/neighbour.h
+++ b/include/net/neighbour.h
@@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ struct neighbour_cb {
#define NEIGH_CB(skb) ((struct neighbour_cb *)(skb)->cb)
-static inline void neigh_ha_snapshot(char *dst, const struct neighbour *n,
+static inline void neigh_ha_snapshot(char *dst, struct neighbour *n,
const struct net_device *dev)
{
unsigned int seq;