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@@ -28,14 +28,13 @@ magic bullet for poorly designed applications, but it allows
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well-designed applications to use userspace locks in critical parts of
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an high priority thread, without losing determinism.
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-The enqueueing of the waiters into the rtmutex waiter list is done in
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+The enqueueing of the waiters into the rtmutex waiter tree is done in
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priority order. For same priorities FIFO order is chosen. For each
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rtmutex, only the top priority waiter is enqueued into the owner's
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-priority waiters list. This list too queues in priority order. Whenever
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+priority waiters tree. This tree too queues in priority order. Whenever
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the top priority waiter of a task changes (for example it timed out or
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-got a signal), the priority of the owner task is readjusted. [The
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-priority enqueueing is handled by "plists", see include/linux/plist.h
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-for more details.]
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+got a signal), the priority of the owner task is readjusted. The
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+priority enqueueing is handled by "pi_waiters".
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RT-mutexes are optimized for fastpath operations and have no internal
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locking overhead when locking an uncontended mutex or unlocking a mutex
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@@ -46,34 +45,29 @@ is used]
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The state of the rt-mutex is tracked via the owner field of the rt-mutex
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structure:
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-rt_mutex->owner holds the task_struct pointer of the owner. Bit 0 and 1
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-are used to keep track of the "owner is pending" and "rtmutex has
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-waiters" state.
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+lock->owner holds the task_struct pointer of the owner. Bit 0 is used to
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+keep track of the "lock has waiters" state.
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- owner bit1 bit0
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- NULL 0 0 mutex is free (fast acquire possible)
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- NULL 0 1 invalid state
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- NULL 1 0 Transitional state*
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- NULL 1 1 invalid state
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- taskpointer 0 0 mutex is held (fast release possible)
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- taskpointer 0 1 task is pending owner
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- taskpointer 1 0 mutex is held and has waiters
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- taskpointer 1 1 task is pending owner and mutex has waiters
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+ owner bit0
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+ NULL 0 lock is free (fast acquire possible)
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+ NULL 1 lock is free and has waiters and the top waiter
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+ is going to take the lock*
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+ taskpointer 0 lock is held (fast release possible)
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+ taskpointer 1 lock is held and has waiters**
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-Pending-ownership handling is a performance optimization:
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-pending-ownership is assigned to the first (highest priority) waiter of
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-the mutex, when the mutex is released. The thread is woken up and once
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-it starts executing it can acquire the mutex. Until the mutex is taken
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-by it (bit 0 is cleared) a competing higher priority thread can "steal"
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-the mutex which puts the woken up thread back on the waiters list.
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+The fast atomic compare exchange based acquire and release is only
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+possible when bit 0 of lock->owner is 0.
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-The pending-ownership optimization is especially important for the
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-uninterrupted workflow of high-prio tasks which repeatedly
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-takes/releases locks that have lower-prio waiters. Without this
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-optimization the higher-prio thread would ping-pong to the lower-prio
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-task [because at unlock time we always assign a new owner].
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+(*) It also can be a transitional state when grabbing the lock
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+with ->wait_lock is held. To prevent any fast path cmpxchg to the lock,
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+we need to set the bit0 before looking at the lock, and the owner may be
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+NULL in this small time, hence this can be a transitional state.
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-(*) The "mutex has waiters" bit gets set to take the lock. If the lock
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-doesn't already have an owner, this bit is quickly cleared if there are
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-no waiters. So this is a transitional state to synchronize with looking
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-at the owner field of the mutex and the mutex owner releasing the lock.
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+(**) There is a small time when bit 0 is set but there are no
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+waiters. This can happen when grabbing the lock in the slow path.
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+To prevent a cmpxchg of the owner releasing the lock, we need to
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+set this bit before looking at the lock.
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+
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+BTW, there is still technically a "Pending Owner", it's just not called
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+that anymore. The pending owner happens to be the top_waiter of a lock
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+that has no owner and has been woken up to grab the lock.
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