Re: [locking/ww_mutex] 2a0c112828 WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 18 at kernel/locking/mutex.c:305 __ww_mutex_wakeup_for_backoff

[Chris Wilson]

On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 04:11:48PM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 04:54:14PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 11:40:43PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> > > Thanks for the patch! I applied the patch on top of "locking/ww_mutex:
> > > Add kselftests for ww_mutex stress", and find no "bad unlock balance
> > > detected" but this warning. Attached is the new dmesg which is a bit
> > > large due to lots of repeated errors.
> > 
> > So with all the various patches it works for me.
> > 
> > I also have the following on top; which I did when I was looking through
> > this code trying to figure out wth was happening.
> > 
> > Chris, does this make sense to you?
> > 
> > It makes each loop a fully new 'instance', otherwise we'll never update
> > the ww_class->stamp and the threads will aways have the same order.
> 
> Sounds ok, I just thought the stamp order of the threads was
> immaterial - with each test doing a different sequence of locks and each
> being identical in behaviour, it would not matter which had priority,
> there would have be some shuffling no matter waht. However, for the
> purpose of testing, having each iteration be a new locking instance does
> make it behaviour more like a typical user.

Correcting myself, the workers didn't reorder the locks, so changing the
stamp does make the test more interesting.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre