hrtimer: raise softirq unlocked to avoid circular lock dependency
The scheduler hrtimer bits in 2.6.25 introduced a circular lock
dependency in a rare code path:
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[ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
2.6.25-sched-devel.git-x86-latest.git #19
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X/2980 is trying to acquire lock:
(&rq->rq_lock_key#2){++..}, at: [<ffffffff80230146>] task_rq_lock+0x56/0xa0
but task is already holding lock:
(&cpu_base->lock){++..}, at: [<ffffffff80257ae1>] lock_hrtimer_base+0x31/0x60
which lock already depends on the new lock.
The scenario which leads to this is:
posix-timer signal is delivered
-> posix-timer is rearmed
timer is already expired in hrtimer_enqueue()
-> softirq is raised
To prevent this we need to move the raise of the softirq out of the
base->lock protected code path.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
diff --git a/kernel/hrtimer.c b/kernel/hrtimer.c
index e379ef0..dea4c91 100644
--- a/kernel/hrtimer.c
+++ b/kernel/hrtimer.c
@@ -590,7 +590,6 @@
list_add_tail(&timer->cb_entry,
&base->cpu_base->cb_pending);
timer->state = HRTIMER_STATE_PENDING;
- raise_softirq(HRTIMER_SOFTIRQ);
return 1;
default:
BUG();
@@ -633,6 +632,11 @@
return 1;
}
+static inline void hrtimer_raise_softirq(void)
+{
+ raise_softirq(HRTIMER_SOFTIRQ);
+}
+
#else
static inline int hrtimer_hres_active(void) { return 0; }
@@ -651,6 +655,7 @@
{
return 0;
}
+static inline void hrtimer_raise_softirq(void) { }
#endif /* CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS */
@@ -850,7 +855,7 @@
{
struct hrtimer_clock_base *base, *new_base;
unsigned long flags;
- int ret;
+ int ret, raise;
base = lock_hrtimer_base(timer, &flags);
@@ -884,8 +889,18 @@
enqueue_hrtimer(timer, new_base,
new_base->cpu_base == &__get_cpu_var(hrtimer_bases));
+ /*
+ * The timer may be expired and moved to the cb_pending
+ * list. We can not raise the softirq with base lock held due
+ * to a possible deadlock with runqueue lock.
+ */
+ raise = timer->state == HRTIMER_STATE_PENDING;
+
unlock_hrtimer_base(timer, &flags);
+ if (raise)
+ hrtimer_raise_softirq();
+
return ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hrtimer_start);