From: Chanho Min Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 05:36:37 +0000 (+0900) Subject: ALSA: pcm: Fix starvation on down_write_nonblock() X-Git-Tag: v4.20-rc6~30^2~9 X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b888a5f713e4d17faaaff24316585a4eb07f35b7;p=linux.git ALSA: pcm: Fix starvation on down_write_nonblock() Commit 67ec1072b053 ("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: 67ec1072b053 ("ALSA: pcm: Fix rwsem deadlock for non-atomic PCM stream") Suggested-by: Wonmin Jung Signed-off-by: Chanho Min Cc: Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai --- diff --git a/sound/core/pcm_native.c b/sound/core/pcm_native.c index 6afcc393113a..818dff1de545 100644 --- a/sound/core/pcm_native.c +++ b/sound/core/pcm_native.c @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include "pcm_local.h" @@ -91,12 +92,12 @@ static DECLARE_RWSEM(snd_pcm_link_rwsem); * and this may lead to a deadlock when the code path takes read sem * twice (e.g. one in snd_pcm_action_nonatomic() and another in * snd_pcm_stream_lock()). As a (suboptimal) workaround, let writer to - * spin until it gets the lock. + * sleep until all the readers are completed without blocking by writer. */ -static inline void down_write_nonblock(struct rw_semaphore *lock) +static inline void down_write_nonfifo(struct rw_semaphore *lock) { while (!down_write_trylock(lock)) - cond_resched(); + msleep(1); } #define PCM_LOCK_DEFAULT 0 @@ -1967,7 +1968,7 @@ static int snd_pcm_link(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream, int fd) res = -ENOMEM; goto _nolock; } - down_write_nonblock(&snd_pcm_link_rwsem); + down_write_nonfifo(&snd_pcm_link_rwsem); write_lock_irq(&snd_pcm_link_rwlock); if (substream->runtime->status->state == SNDRV_PCM_STATE_OPEN || substream->runtime->status->state != substream1->runtime->status->state || @@ -2014,7 +2015,7 @@ static int snd_pcm_unlink(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream) struct snd_pcm_substream *s; int res = 0; - down_write_nonblock(&snd_pcm_link_rwsem); + down_write_nonfifo(&snd_pcm_link_rwsem); write_lock_irq(&snd_pcm_link_rwlock); if (!snd_pcm_stream_linked(substream)) { res = -EALREADY;