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      rtmutex: Simplify PI algorithm and make highest prio task get lock · 8161239a
      Lai Jiangshan 提交于
      In current rtmutex, the pending owner may be boosted by the tasks
      in the rtmutex's waitlist when the pending owner is deboosted
      or a task in the waitlist is boosted. This boosting is unrelated,
      because the pending owner does not really take the rtmutex.
      It is not reasonable.
      
      Example.
      
      time1:
      A(high prio) onwers the rtmutex.
      B(mid prio) and C (low prio) in the waitlist.
      
      time2
      A release the lock, B becomes the pending owner
      A(or other high prio task) continues to run. B's prio is lower
      than A, so B is just queued at the runqueue.
      
      time3
      A or other high prio task sleeps, but we have passed some time
      The B and C's prio are changed in the period (time2 ~ time3)
      due to boosting or deboosting. Now C has the priority higher
      than B. ***Is it reasonable that C has to boost B and help B to
      get the rtmutex?
      
      NO!! I think, it is unrelated/unneed boosting before B really
      owns the rtmutex. We should give C a chance to beat B and
      win the rtmutex.
      
      This is the motivation of this patch. This patch *ensures*
      only the top waiter or higher priority task can take the lock.
      
      How?
      1) we don't dequeue the top waiter when unlock, if the top waiter
         is changed, the old top waiter will fail and go to sleep again.
      2) when requiring lock, it will get the lock when the lock is not taken and:
         there is no waiter OR higher priority than waiters OR it is top waiter.
      3) In any time, the top waiter is changed, the top waiter will be woken up.
      
      The algorithm is much simpler than before, no pending owner, no
      boosting for pending owner.
      
      Other advantage of this patch:
      1) The states of a rtmutex are reduced a half, easier to read the code.
      2) the codes become shorter.
      3) top waiter is not dequeued until it really take the lock:
         they will retain FIFO when it is stolen.
      
      Not advantage nor disadvantage
      1) Even we may wakeup multiple waiters(any time when top waiter changed),
         we hardly cause "thundering herd",
         the number of wokenup task is likely 1 or very little.
      2) two APIs are changed.
         rt_mutex_owner() will not return pending owner, it will return NULL when
                          the top waiter is going to take the lock.
         rt_mutex_next_owner() always return the top waiter.
      	                 will not return NULL if we have waiters
                               because the top waiter is not dequeued.
      
         I have fixed the code that use these APIs.
      
      need updated after this patch is accepted
      1) Document/*
      2) the testcase scripts/rt-tester/t4-l2-pi-deboost.tst
      Signed-off-by: NLai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
      LKML-Reference: <4D3012D5.4060709@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Reviewed-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      8161239a
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      [PATCH] sched: cleanup, remove task_t, convert to struct task_struct · 36c8b586
      Ingo Molnar 提交于
      cleanup: remove task_t and convert all the uses to struct task_struct. I
      introduced it for the scheduler anno and it was a mistake.
      
      Conversion was mostly scripted, the result was reviewed and all
      secondary whitespace and style impact (if any) was fixed up by hand.
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      36c8b586
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      [PATCH] lockdep: better lock debugging · 9a11b49a
      Ingo Molnar 提交于
      Generic lock debugging:
      
       - generalized lock debugging framework. For example, a bug in one lock
         subsystem turns off debugging in all lock subsystems.
      
       - got rid of the caller address passing (__IP__/__IP_DECL__/etc.) from
         the mutex/rtmutex debugging code: it caused way too much prototype
         hackery, and lockdep will give the same information anyway.
      
       - ability to do silent tests
      
       - check lock freeing in vfree too.
      
       - more finegrained debugging options, to allow distributions to
         turn off more expensive debugging features.
      
      There's no separate 'held mutexes' list anymore - but there's a 'held locks'
      stack within lockdep, which unifies deadlock detection across all lock
      classes.  (this is independent of the lockdep validation stuff - lockdep first
      checks whether we are holding a lock already)
      
      Here are the current debugging options:
      
      CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES=y
      CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC=y
      
      which do:
      
       config DEBUG_MUTEXES
                bool "Mutex debugging, basic checks"
      
       config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
               bool "Detect incorrect freeing of live mutexes"
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      9a11b49a
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