Sebastian Andrzej Siewior b0fdc01354 sched/core: Schedule new worker even if PI-blocked ...

If a task is PI-blocked (blocking on sleeping spinlock) then we don't want to
schedule a new kworker if we schedule out due to lock contention because !RT
does not do that as well. A spinning spinlock disables preemption and a worker
does not schedule out on lock contention (but spin).

On RT the RW-semaphore implementation uses an rtmutex so
tsk_is_pi_blocked() will return true if a task blocks on it. In this case we
will now start a new worker which may deadlock if one worker is waiting on
progress from another worker. Since a RW-semaphore starts a new worker on !RT,
we should do the same on RT.

XFS is able to trigger this deadlock.

Allow to schedule new worker if the current worker is PI-blocked.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190816160626.12742-1-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

2019-08-19 10:57:26 +02:00

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