From: Darren Hart Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:30:48 +0000 (-0700) Subject: futex: Move drop_futex_key_refs out of spinlock'ed region X-Git-Tag: upstream/snapshot3+hdmi~16629^2~5 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=89061d3d58e1f0742139605dc6a7950aa1ecc019;p=platform%2Fadaptation%2Frenesas_rcar%2Frenesas_kernel.git futex: Move drop_futex_key_refs out of spinlock'ed region When requeuing tasks from one futex to another, the reference held by the requeued task to the original futex location needs to be dropped eventually. Dropping the reference may ultimately lead to a call to "iput_final" and subsequently call into filesystem- specific code - which may be non-atomic. It is therefore safer to defer this drop operation until after the futex_hash_bucket spinlock has been dropped. Originally-From: Helge Bahmann Signed-off-by: Darren Hart Cc: Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Dinakar Guniguntala Cc: John Stultz Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich Cc: John Kacur LKML-Reference: <4AD7A298.5040802@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c index 06938e5..642f3bb 100644 --- a/kernel/futex.c +++ b/kernel/futex.c @@ -1029,7 +1029,6 @@ static inline void requeue_pi_wake_futex(struct futex_q *q, union futex_key *key, struct futex_hash_bucket *hb) { - drop_futex_key_refs(&q->key); get_futex_key_refs(key); q->key = *key; @@ -1227,6 +1226,7 @@ retry_private: */ if (ret == 1) { WARN_ON(pi_state); + drop_count++; task_count++; ret = get_futex_value_locked(&curval2, uaddr2); if (!ret) @@ -1305,6 +1305,7 @@ retry_private: if (ret == 1) { /* We got the lock. */ requeue_pi_wake_futex(this, &key2, hb2); + drop_count++; continue; } else if (ret) { /* -EDEADLK */