Patch "locking/ww_mutex: Report recursive ww_mutex locking early" has been added to the 4.6-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    locking/ww_mutex: Report recursive ww_mutex locking early

to the 4.6-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     locking-ww_mutex-report-recursive-ww_mutex-locking-early.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.6 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 0422e83d84ae24b933e4b0d4c1e0f0b4ae8a0a3b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 21:08:17 +0100
Subject: locking/ww_mutex: Report recursive ww_mutex locking early

From: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>

commit 0422e83d84ae24b933e4b0d4c1e0f0b4ae8a0a3b upstream.

Recursive locking for ww_mutexes was originally conceived as an
exception. However, it is heavily used by the DRM atomic modesetting
code. Currently, the recursive deadlock is checked after we have queued
up for a busy-spin and as we never release the lock, we spin until
kicked, whereupon the deadlock is discovered and reported.

A simple solution for the now common problem is to move the recursive
deadlock discovery to the first action when taking the ww_mutex.

Suggested-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464293297-19777-1-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 kernel/locking/mutex.c |    9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/locking/mutex.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/mutex.c
@@ -486,9 +486,6 @@ __ww_mutex_lock_check_stamp(struct mutex
 	if (!hold_ctx)
 		return 0;
 
-	if (unlikely(ctx == hold_ctx))
-		return -EALREADY;
-
 	if (ctx->stamp - hold_ctx->stamp <= LONG_MAX &&
 	    (ctx->stamp != hold_ctx->stamp || ctx > hold_ctx)) {
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES
@@ -514,6 +511,12 @@ __mutex_lock_common(struct mutex *lock,
 	unsigned long flags;
 	int ret;
 
+	if (use_ww_ctx) {
+		struct ww_mutex *ww = container_of(lock, struct ww_mutex, base);
+		if (unlikely(ww_ctx == READ_ONCE(ww->ctx)))
+			return -EALREADY;
+	}
+
 	preempt_disable();
 	mutex_acquire_nest(&lock->dep_map, subclass, 0, nest_lock, ip);
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from chris@chris-wilson.co.uk are

queue-4.6/locking-ww_mutex-report-recursive-ww_mutex-locking-early.patch