locking/ww_mutex: Re-check ww->ctx in the inner optimistic spin loop

In the following scenario, thread #1 should back off its attempt to lock
ww1 and unlock ww2 (assuming the acquire context stamps are ordered
accordingly).

    Thread #0               Thread #1
    ---------               ---------
                            successfully lock ww2
    set ww1->base.owner
                            attempt to lock ww1
                            confirm ww1->ctx == NULL
                            enter mutex_spin_on_owner
    set ww1->ctx

What was likely to happen previously is:

    attempt to lock ww2
    refuse to spin because
      ww2->ctx != NULL
    schedule()
                            detect thread #0 is off CPU
                            stop optimistic spin
                            return -EDEADLK
                            unlock ww2
                            wakeup thread #0
    lock ww2

Now, we are more likely to see:

                            detect ww1->ctx != NULL
                            stop optimistic spin
                            return -EDEADLK
                            unlock ww2
    successfully lock ww2

... because thread #1 will stop its optimistic spin as soon as possible.

The whole scenario is quite unlikely, since it requires thread #1 to get
between thread #0 setting the owner and setting the ctx. But since we're
idling here anyway, the additional check is basically free.

Found by inspection.

Signed-off-by: Nicolai Hähnle <Nicolai.Haehnle@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <dev@mblankhorst.nl>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1482346000-9927-10-git-send-email-nhaehnle@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 29 insertions, 20 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/locking/mutex.c b/kernel/locking/mutex.c
index 43ff6110014c..41b0406069e8 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/mutex.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/mutex.c
@@ -372,11 +372,14 @@ ww_mutex_set_context_slowpath(struct ww_mutex *lock, struct ww_acquire_ctx *ctx)
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_MUTEX_SPIN_ON_OWNER
 /*
- * Look out! "owner" is an entirely speculative pointer
- * access and not reliable.
+ * Look out! "owner" is an entirely speculative pointer access and not
+ * reliable.
+ *
+ * "noinline" so that this function shows up on perf profiles.
  */
 static noinline
-bool mutex_spin_on_owner(struct mutex *lock, struct task_struct *owner)
+bool mutex_spin_on_owner(struct mutex *lock, struct task_struct *owner,
+			 struct ww_acquire_ctx *ww_ctx)
 {
 	bool ret = true;
 
@@ -399,6 +402,28 @@ bool mutex_spin_on_owner(struct mutex *lock, struct task_struct *owner)
 			break;
 		}
 
+		if (ww_ctx && ww_ctx->acquired > 0) {
+			struct ww_mutex *ww;
+
+			ww = container_of(lock, struct ww_mutex, base);
+
+			/*
+			 * If ww->ctx is set the contents are undefined, only
+			 * by acquiring wait_lock there is a guarantee that
+			 * they are not invalid when reading.
+			 *
+			 * As such, when deadlock detection needs to be
+			 * performed the optimistic spinning cannot be done.
+			 *
+			 * Check this in every inner iteration because we may
+			 * be racing against another thread's ww_mutex_lock.
+			 */
+			if (READ_ONCE(ww->ctx)) {
+				ret = false;
+				break;
+			}
+		}
+
 		cpu_relax();
 	}
 	rcu_read_unlock();
@@ -484,22 +509,6 @@ mutex_optimistic_spin(struct mutex *lock, struct ww_acquire_ctx *ww_ctx,
 	for (;;) {
 		struct task_struct *owner;
 
-		if (use_ww_ctx && ww_ctx && ww_ctx->acquired > 0) {
-			struct ww_mutex *ww;
-
-			ww = container_of(lock, struct ww_mutex, base);
-			/*
-			 * If ww->ctx is set the contents are undefined, only
-			 * by acquiring wait_lock there is a guarantee that
-			 * they are not invalid when reading.
-			 *
-			 * As such, when deadlock detection needs to be
-			 * performed the optimistic spinning cannot be done.
-			 */
-			if (READ_ONCE(ww->ctx))
-				goto fail_unlock;
-		}
-
 		/* Try to acquire the mutex... */
 		owner = __mutex_trylock_or_owner(lock);
 		if (!owner)
@@ -509,7 +518,7 @@ mutex_optimistic_spin(struct mutex *lock, struct ww_acquire_ctx *ww_ctx,
 		 * There's an owner, wait for it to either
 		 * release the lock or go to sleep.
 		 */
-		if (!mutex_spin_on_owner(lock, owner))
+		if (!mutex_spin_on_owner(lock, owner, ww_ctx))
 			goto fail_unlock;
 
 		/*