From cd781d0ce8cb4d491910833c5eec90f150432da3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2021 23:27:41 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] sched/wakeup: Introduce the TASK_RTLOCK_WAIT state bit RT kernels have an extra quirk for try_to_wake_up() to handle task state preservation across periods of blocking on a 'sleeping' spin/rwlock. For this to function correctly and under all circumstances try_to_wake_up() must be able to identify whether the wakeup is lock related or not and whether the task is waiting for a lock or not. The original approach was to use a special wake_flag argument for try_to_wake_up() and just use TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE for the tasks wait state and the try_to_wake_up() state argument. This works in principle, but due to the fact that try_to_wake_up() cannot determine whether the task is waiting for an RT lock wakeup or for a regular wakeup it's suboptimal. RT kernels save the original task state when blocking on an RT lock and restore it when the lock has been acquired. Any non lock related wakeup is checked against the saved state and if it matches the saved state is set to running so that the wakeup is not lost when the state is restored. While the necessary logic for the wake_flag based solution is trivial, the downside is that any regular wakeup with TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE in the state argument set will wake the task despite the fact that it is still blocked on the lock. That's not a fatal problem as the lock wait has do deal with spurious wakeups anyway, but it introduces unnecessary latencies. Introduce the TASK_RTLOCK_WAIT state bit which will be set when a task blocks on an RT lock. The lock wakeup will use wake_up_state(TASK_RTLOCK_WAIT), so both the waiting state and the wakeup state are distinguishable, which avoids spurious wakeups and allows better analysis. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210815211302.144989915@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- include/linux/sched.h | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index ec8d07d88641..9a9f606b02cd 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -95,7 +95,9 @@ struct task_group; #define TASK_WAKING 0x0200 #define TASK_NOLOAD 0x0400 #define TASK_NEW 0x0800 -#define TASK_STATE_MAX 0x1000 +/* RT specific auxilliary flag to mark RT lock waiters */ +#define TASK_RTLOCK_WAIT 0x1000 +#define TASK_STATE_MAX 0x2000 /* Convenience macros for the sake of set_current_state: */ #define TASK_KILLABLE (TASK_WAKEKILL | TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE) -- 2.20.1