Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: restart_syscall: use freezable blocking call | Date | Tue, 31 Mar 2015 01:39:07 +0200 |
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On Monday, March 30, 2015 03:43:51 PM Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 11:07:35 +0000 (GMT) Maninder Singh <maninder1.s@samsung.com> wrote: > > > Hello All, > > > > Avoid waking up every thread sleeping in a restart_syscall call during suspend and resume by calling a freezable blocking call. > > Previous patches modified the freezer to avoid sending wakeups to threads that are blocked in freezable blocking calls. > > Ref: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/1/424 > > We have faced similiar issue of sleep fail when calling restart() system call in stress testing. > > > > Patch :- > > Subject: restart_syscall: use freezable blocking call > > Avoid waking up every thread sleeping in a restart_syscall call during > > suspend and resume by calling a freezable blocking call. Previous > > patches modified the freezer to avoid sending wakeups to threads > > that are blocked in freezable blocking calls. > > This patch is rather mucked up - tabs replaced with spaces, apparently > mangled text in the changelog. > > Thomas is having a bit of time off, so I fixed most of that up and > queued the patch in -mm for some testing. Hopefully Thomas and/or > Rafael will be able to comment? > > > From: Maninder Singh <maninder1.s@samsung.com> > Subject: kernel/time/hrtimer.c: restart_syscall: use freezable blocking call > > Avoid waking up every thread sleeping in a restart_syscall call during > suspend and resume by calling a freezable blocking call. Previous patches > modified the freezer to avoid sending wakeups to threads that are blocked > in freezable blocking calls. > > Ref: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/1/424 > > Backtrace: > [<c03e3924>] (__schedule+0x0/0x5d8) from [<c03e3f88>] (schedule+0x8c/0x90) > [<c03e3efc>] (schedule+0x0/0x90) from [<c03e3150>] (schedule_hrtimeout_range_clock+0xdc/0x110) > [<c03e3074>] (schedule_hrtimeout_range_clock+0x0/0x110) from [<c03e31a0>] (schedule_hrtimeout_range+0x1c/0x20) > r9:d16c9be0 r8:8b7d9c2c r7:00000000 r6:00000000 r5:d16c8028 > [<c03e3184>] (schedule_hrtimeout_range+0x0/0x20) from [<c015778c>] (poll_schedule_timeout+0x48/0x6c) > [<c0157744>] (poll_schedule_timeout+0x0/0x6c) from [<c0158994>] (do_sys_poll+0x2c8/0x378) r5:d16c9f78 r4:00000000 > [<c01586cc>] (do_sys_poll+0x0/0x378) from [<c0158a84>] (do_restart_poll+0x40/0x5c) > [<c0158a44>] (do_restart_poll+0x0/0x5c) from [<c005710c>] (sys_restart_syscall+0x2c/0x30) r4:fffffe7a > [<c00570e0>] (sys_restart_syscall+0x0/0x30) from [<c001a180>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x48) > > > Signed-off-by: Yogesh Gaur <yn.gaur <at> samsung.com> > Signed-off-by: Amit Arora <amit.arora <at> samsung.com> > Reviewed-by : Ajeet Yadav <ajeet.y <at> samsung.com> > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> > Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> > --- > > kernel/time/hrtimer.c | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff -puN kernel/time/hrtimer.c~restart_syscall-use-freezable-blocking-call kernel/time/hrtimer.c > --- a/kernel/time/hrtimer.c~restart_syscall-use-freezable-blocking-call > +++ a/kernel/time/hrtimer.c > @@ -1767,7 +1767,7 @@ schedule_hrtimeout_range_clock(ktime_t * > * A NULL parameter means "infinite" > */ > if (!expires) { > - schedule(); > + freezable_schedule(); > return -EINTR; > } > > @@ -1781,7 +1781,7 @@ schedule_hrtimeout_range_clock(ktime_t * > t.task = NULL; > > if (likely(t.task)) > - schedule(); > + freezable_schedule(); > > hrtimer_cancel(&t.timer); > destroy_hrtimer_on_stack(&t.timer); > _ >
-- I speak only for myself. Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.
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