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author | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2015-05-13 20:49:12 (GMT) |
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committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2015-05-13 20:49:12 (GMT) |
commit | 6ce47fd961fa8fb206433789d7754c73cab3b5d0 (patch) | |
tree | 2d2526d43c95232bc14bd9228f02de8fa14bd3dc /CREDITS | |
parent | a22e5f579b98f16e24b7184d01c35de26eb5a7f7 (diff) | |
download | linux-6ce47fd961fa8fb206433789d7754c73cab3b5d0.tar.xz |
rtmutex: Warn if trylock is called from hard/softirq context
rt_mutex_trylock() must be called from thread context. It can be
called from atomic regions (preemption or interrupts disabled), but
not from hard/softirq/nmi context. Add a warning to alert abusers.
The reasons for this are:
1) There is a potential deadlock in the slowpath
2) Another cpu which blocks on the rtmutex will boost the task
which allegedly locked the rtmutex, but that cannot work
because the hard/softirq context borrows the task context.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
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