From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:45224 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1730561AbeLKP40 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Dec 2018 10:56:26 -0500 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Wonmin Jung , Chanho Min , Takashi Iwai Subject: [PATCH 4.19 063/118] ALSA: pcm: Fix starvation on down_write_nonblock() Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 16:41:22 +0100 Message-Id: <20181211151646.780620595@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20181211151644.216668863@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20181211151644.216668863@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.19-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Chanho Min 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 Signed-off-by: Chanho Min Cc: Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- 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 #include #include +#include #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); } #define PCM_LOCK_DEFAULT 0 @@ -1967,7 +1968,7 @@ 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 || @@ -2014,7 +2015,7 @@ 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;