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futex: Add mutex around futex exit

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The mutex will be used in subsequent changes to replace the busy looping of
a waiter when the futex owner is currently executing the exit cleanup to
prevent a potential live lock.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191106224556.845798895@linutronix.de
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Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-06 22:55:44 +01:00
parent af8cbda2cf
commit 3f186d9748
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@@ -3698,11 +3698,22 @@ static void futex_cleanup(struct task_struct *tsk)
*/
void futex_exit_recursive(struct task_struct *tsk)
{
/* If the state is FUTEX_STATE_EXITING then futex_exit_mutex is held */
if (tsk->futex_state == FUTEX_STATE_EXITING)
mutex_unlock(&tsk->futex_exit_mutex);
tsk->futex_state = FUTEX_STATE_DEAD;
}
static void futex_cleanup_begin(struct task_struct *tsk)
{
/*
* Prevent various race issues against a concurrent incoming waiter
* including live locks by forcing the waiter to block on
* tsk->futex_exit_mutex when it observes FUTEX_STATE_EXITING in
* attach_to_pi_owner().
*/
mutex_lock(&tsk->futex_exit_mutex);
/*
* Switch the state to FUTEX_STATE_EXITING under tsk->pi_lock.
*
@@ -3726,6 +3737,11 @@ static void futex_cleanup_end(struct task_struct *tsk, int state)
* take another loop until it becomes visible.
*/
tsk->futex_state = state;
/*
* Drop the exit protection. This unblocks waiters which observed
* FUTEX_STATE_EXITING to reevaluate the state.
*/
mutex_unlock(&tsk->futex_exit_mutex);
}
void futex_exec_release(struct task_struct *tsk)