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locking/ww_mutex/test: Make sure we bail out instead of livelock

I've seen what appears to be livelocks in the stress_inorder_work() function, and looking at the code it is clear we can have a case where we continually retry acquiring the locks and never check to see if we have passed the specified timeout. This patch reworks that function so we always check the timeout before iterating through the loop again. I believe others may have hit this previously here: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/895ef450-4fb3-5d29-a6ad-790657106a5a@intel.com/

John Stultz committed 3 years ago

Commit cfa92b61 parent bccdd801 file · +5 −4Browse files

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kernel/locking/test-ww_mutex.c+5−4
@@ -465,17 +465,18 @@ retry: · 464 unmodified lines
465 ww_mutex_unlock(&locks[order[n]]);465 ww_mutex_unlock(&locks[order[n]]);
466 466
467 if (err == -EDEADLK) {467 if (err == -EDEADLK) {
468 ww_mutex_lock_slow(&locks[order[contended]], &ctx);468 if (!time_after(jiffies, stress->timeout)) {
469 goto retry;469 ww_mutex_lock_slow(&locks[order[contended]], &ctx);
470 goto retry;
471 }
470 }472 }
471 473
474 ww_acquire_fini(&ctx);
472 if (err) {475 if (err) {
473 pr_err_once("stress (%s) failed with %d\n",476 pr_err_once("stress (%s) failed with %d\n",
474 __func__, err);477 __func__, err);
475 break;478 break;
476 }479 }
477
478 ww_acquire_fini(&ctx);
479 } while (!time_after(jiffies, stress->timeout));480 } while (!time_after(jiffies, stress->timeout));
480 481
481 kfree(order);482 kfree(order);

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