[PATCH 4.14 36/67] ALSA: pcm: Fix starvation on down_write_nonblock()

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-12-11T16:07:04Z

From: Chanho Min <chanho.min@lge.com>

commit b888a5f713e4d17faaaff24316585a4eb07f35b7 upstream.

Commit 67ec1072b053 ("ALSA: pcm: Fix rwsem deadlock for non-atomic PCM
stream") fixes deadlock for non-atomic PCM stream. But, This patch
causes antother stuck.
If writer is RT thread and reader is a normal thread, the reader
thread will be difficult to get scheduled. It may not give chance to
release readlocks and writer gets stuck for a long time if they are
pinned to single cpu.

The deadlock described in the previous commit is because the linux
rwsem queues like a FIFO. So, we might need non-FIFO writelock, not
non-block one.

My suggestion is that the writer gives reader a chance to be scheduled
by using the minimum msleep() instaed of spinning without blocking by
writer. Also, The *_nonblock may be changed to *_nonfifo appropriately
to this concept.
In terms of performance, when trylock is failed, this minimum periodic
msleep will have the same performance as the tick-based
schedule()/wake_up_q().

[ Although this has a fairly high performance penalty, the relevant
code path became already rare due to the previous commit ("ALSA:
pcm: Call snd_pcm_unlink() conditionally at closing"). That is, now
this unconditional msleep appears only when using linked streams,
and this must be a rare case. So we accept this as a quick
workaround until finding a more suitable one -- tiwai ]

Fixes: 67ec1072b053 ("ALSA: pcm: Fix rwsem deadlock for non-atomic PCM stream")
Suggested-by: Wonmin Jung <wonmin.jung@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Chanho Min <chanho.min@lge.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
sound/core/pcm_native.c | 11 ++++++-----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/sound/core/pcm_native.c
+++ b/sound/core/pcm_native.c
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
#include <sound/timer.h>
#include <sound/minors.h>
#include <linux/uio.h>
+#include <linux/delay.h>

#include "pcm_local.h"

@@ -91,12 +92,12 @@ static DECLARE_RWSEM(snd_pcm_link_rwsem)
* and this may lead to a deadlock when the code path takes read sem
* twice (e.g. one in snd_pcm_action_nonatomic() and another in
* snd_pcm_stream_lock()). As a (suboptimal) workaround, let writer to
- * spin until it gets the lock.
+ * sleep until all the readers are completed without blocking by writer.
*/
-static inline void down_write_nonblock(struct rw_semaphore *lock)
+static inline void down_write_nonfifo(struct rw_semaphore *lock)
{
while (!down_write_trylock(lock))
- cond_resched();
+ msleep(1);
}

/**
@@ -1935,7 +1936,7 @@ static int snd_pcm_link(struct snd_pcm_s
res = -ENOMEM;
goto _nolock;
}
- down_write_nonblock(&snd_pcm_link_rwsem);
+ down_write_nonfifo(&snd_pcm_link_rwsem);
write_lock_irq(&snd_pcm_link_rwlock);
if (substream->runtime->status->state == SNDRV_PCM_STATE_OPEN ||
substream->runtime->status->state != substream1->runtime->status->state ||
@@ -1982,7 +1983,7 @@ static int snd_pcm_unlink(struct snd_pcm
struct snd_pcm_substream *s;
int res = 0;

- down_write_nonblock(&snd_pcm_link_rwsem);
+ down_write_nonfifo(&snd_pcm_link_rwsem);
write_lock_irq(&snd_pcm_link_rwlock);
if (!snd_pcm_stream_linked(substream)) {
res = -EALREADY;