From: Brian Behlendorf Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 21:14:53 +0000 (-0700) Subject: splat atomic:64-bit: Create thread outside spin lock X-Git-Tag: spl-0.7.12~348^2~1 X-Git-Url: https://git.proxmox.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b8296bf3e664f1e583335c2ca3287199eb4e3863;p=mirror_spl.git splat atomic:64-bit: Create thread outside spin lock The Fedora 3.6 debug kernel identified the following issue where we create a thread under a spin lock. This isn't safe because sleeping could result in a deadlock. Therefore the lock is changed to a mutex so it's safe to sleep. BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slub.c:930 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 10583, name: splat 1 lock held by splat/10583: Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf --- diff --git a/module/splat/splat-atomic.c b/module/splat/splat-atomic.c index cdb3353..efb0157 100644 --- a/module/splat/splat-atomic.c +++ b/module/splat/splat-atomic.c @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ typedef enum { typedef struct atomic_priv { unsigned long ap_magic; struct file *ap_file; - spinlock_t ap_lock; + struct mutex ap_lock; wait_queue_head_t ap_waitq; volatile uint64_t ap_atomic; volatile uint64_t ap_atomic_exited; @@ -69,10 +69,10 @@ splat_atomic_work(void *priv) ap = (atomic_priv_t *)priv; ASSERT(ap->ap_magic == SPLAT_ATOMIC_TEST_MAGIC); - spin_lock(&ap->ap_lock); + mutex_lock(&ap->ap_lock); op = ap->ap_op; wake_up(&ap->ap_waitq); - spin_unlock(&ap->ap_lock); + mutex_unlock(&ap->ap_lock); splat_vprint(ap->ap_file, SPLAT_ATOMIC_TEST1_NAME, "Thread %d successfully started: %lu/%lu\n", op, @@ -142,13 +142,13 @@ splat_atomic_test1(struct file *file, void *arg) ap.ap_magic = SPLAT_ATOMIC_TEST_MAGIC; ap.ap_file = file; - spin_lock_init(&ap.ap_lock); + mutex_init(&ap.ap_lock); init_waitqueue_head(&ap.ap_waitq); ap.ap_atomic = SPLAT_ATOMIC_INIT_VALUE; ap.ap_atomic_exited = 0; for (i = 0; i < SPLAT_ATOMIC_COUNT_64; i++) { - spin_lock(&ap.ap_lock); + mutex_lock(&ap.ap_lock); ap.ap_op = i; thr = (kthread_t *)thread_create(NULL, 0, splat_atomic_work, @@ -156,14 +156,14 @@ splat_atomic_test1(struct file *file, void *arg) minclsyspri); if (thr == NULL) { rc = -ESRCH; - spin_unlock(&ap.ap_lock); + mutex_unlock(&ap.ap_lock); break; } /* Prepare to wait, the new thread will wake us once it * has made a copy of the unique private passed data */ prepare_to_wait(&ap.ap_waitq, &wait, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE); - spin_unlock(&ap.ap_lock); + mutex_unlock(&ap.ap_lock); schedule(); }