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Chanho Min b888a5f713 ALSA: pcm: Fix starvation on down_write_nonblock()
Commit 67ec1072b0 ("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: 67ec1072b0 ("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>
2018-11-29 08:15:19 +01:00
arch Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-11-03 18:25:17 -07:00
block for-linus-20181102 2018-11-02 11:25:48 -07:00
certs
crypto KEYS: asym_tpm: Add support for the sign operation [ver #2] 2018-10-26 09:30:47 +01:00
Documentation This pull request contains updates for UBIFS: 2018-11-04 14:46:04 -08:00
drivers vga_switcheroo: Fix missing gpu_bound call at audio client registration 2018-11-05 14:56:21 +01:00
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fs This pull request contains updates for UBIFS: 2018-11-04 14:46:04 -08:00
include ASoC: Fixes for v4.20 2018-11-27 16:06:42 +01:00
init memblock: stop using implicit alignment to SMP_CACHE_BYTES 2018-10-31 08:54:16 -07:00
ipc ipc: IPCMNI limit check for semmni 2018-10-31 08:54:14 -07:00
kernel Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-11-03 18:37:09 -07:00
lib Merge branch 'work.afs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2018-11-01 19:58:52 -07:00
LICENSES This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome 2018-10-24 18:01:11 +01:00
mm memory_hotplug: cond_resched in __remove_pages 2018-11-03 10:09:38 -07:00
net NFS client bugfixes for Linux 4.20 2018-11-04 08:20:09 -08:00
samples VFIO updates for v4.20 2018-10-31 11:01:38 -07:00
scripts Kbuild updates for v4.20 (2nd) 2018-11-03 10:47:33 -07:00
security + Features/Improvements 2018-11-02 10:04:26 -07:00
sound ALSA: pcm: Fix starvation on down_write_nonblock() 2018-11-29 08:15:19 +01:00
tools Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-11-03 18:25:17 -07:00
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virt Revert "mm, mmu_notifier: annotate mmu notifiers with blockable invalidate callbacks" 2018-10-26 16:25:19 -07:00
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.