[PATCH 04/13] locking/rt-mutex: Flush block plug on __down_read()

From: Tom Zanussi
Date: Mon Apr 08 2019 - 15:14:30 EST


4.14.109-rt58-rc1 stable review patch.
If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Scott Wood <swood@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 0d5d32425a0cab4a282dd79fc953d76a3ab17072 ]

__down_read() bypasses the rtmutex frontend to call
rt_mutex_slowlock_locked() directly, and thus it needs to call
blk_schedule_flush_flug() itself.

Cc: stable-rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <swood@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Conflicts:
kernel/locking/rwsem-rt.c
---
kernel/locking/rtmutex.c | 2 +-
kernel/locking/rwsem-rt.c | 9 +++++++++
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c b/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
index 2cf515877b8e..1177f2815040 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
@@ -1946,7 +1946,7 @@ rt_mutex_fastlock(struct rt_mutex *lock, int state,
* If rt_mutex blocks, the function sched_submit_work will not call
* blk_schedule_flush_plug (because tsk_is_pi_blocked would be true).
* We must call blk_schedule_flush_plug here, if we don't call it,
- * a deadlock in device mapper may happen.
+ * a deadlock in I/O may happen.
*/
if (unlikely(blk_needs_flush_plug(current)))
blk_schedule_flush_plug(current);
diff --git a/kernel/locking/rwsem-rt.c b/kernel/locking/rwsem-rt.c
index 26991ddb6c5a..dbdde2476b1c 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/rwsem-rt.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/rwsem-rt.c
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
/*
*/
+#include <linux/blkdev.h>
#include <linux/rwsem.h>
#include <linux/sched/debug.h>
#include <linux/sched/signal.h>
@@ -86,6 +87,14 @@ void __sched __down_read(struct rw_semaphore *sem)

if (__down_read_trylock(sem))
return;
+ /*
+ * If rt_mutex blocks, the function sched_submit_work will not call
+ * blk_schedule_flush_plug (because tsk_is_pi_blocked would be true).
+ * We must call blk_schedule_flush_plug here, if we don't call it,
+ * a deadlock in I/O may happen.
+ */
+ if (unlikely(blk_needs_flush_plug(current)))
+ blk_schedule_flush_plug(current);

might_sleep();
raw_spin_lock_irq(&m->wait_lock);
--
2.14.1