Re: Patch Upstream: cputimer: Cure lock inversion

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 11:39:14AM -0400, Gregs git-bot wrote:
> commit: bcd5cff7216f9b2de0a148cc355eac199dc6f1cf
> From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:50:30 +0200
> Subject: cputimer: Cure lock inversion
> 
> There's a lock inversion between the cputimer->lock and rq->lock;
> notably the two callchains involved are:
> 
>  update_rlimit_cpu()
>    sighand->siglock
>    set_process_cpu_timer()
>      cpu_timer_sample_group()
>        thread_group_cputimer()
>          cputimer->lock
>          thread_group_cputime()
>            task_sched_runtime()
>              ->pi_lock
>              rq->lock
> 
>  scheduler_tick()
>    rq->lock
>    task_tick_fair()
>      update_curr()
>        account_group_exec()
>          cputimer->lock
> 
> Where the first one is enabling a CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID timer, and
> the second one is keeping up-to-date.
> 
> This problem was introduced by e8abccb7193 ("posix-cpu-timers: Cure
> SMP accounting oddities").

There is no such patch in Linus's tree that I can find.  So, what
problem is this really trying to cure here and what kernel did it show
up in?

confused,

greg k-h