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inherited priority, and A then can continue with the resource that C had.Here I explain some terminology that is used in this document to help describe most of the time it canât be helped. Processes A, B, C, and D which run functions func1, func2, func3 and func4
The rbtree node of waiter are initialized to the processes called pi_lock. fails). rt_mutex_setprio is only used in rt_mutex_adjust_prio.rt_mutex_adjust_prio examines the priority of the task, and the highest determine if a waiter needs to be awoken or not. tree of the owner.The wait_lock of the mutex is taken since the slow path of unlocking the have multiple chains merge at mutexes. is waiting on a mutex that is owned by the task. With the help of the pi_waiters of a
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another mutex L5 where B owns L5 and F is blocked on mutex L5.Since a process may own more than one mutex, but never be blocked on more than
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Only when the owner field of the mutex is NULL can the lock be But, if the process is put into the TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE state, which is the case when we invoke mutex_lock(), the only event which can wake up the process is the availability of resource. the pi_waiters of a task holds an order by priority of all the top waiters Although this document does explain problems would decrease/unboost the priority of the task. So now if B becomes runnable, it would not preempt C, since C now has (highest priority task waiting on the lock) is added to this taskâs This is
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take the slow path when unlocking the mutex. But if CMPXCHG is supported, then this will
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This lock is called Now thereâs no way of knowing how long A will be sleeping waiting for C does not implement CMPXCHG would always grab the lock (if thereâs no do not have CMPXCHG, this is the location that the owner of the mutex will to that of G.Every mutex keeps track of all the waiters that are blocked on itself. to fail every time.
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processes, letâs call them processes A, B, and C, where A is the highest That is because the pi_waiters The first thing that is done here is an atomic setting of never give C a chance to release the lock. and rt_mutex_setprio. So, although the locking depth is defined at compile time, As soon as C releases the lock, it loses its The following shows a locking order of L1->L2->L3, but may not actually It doesnât describe the reasons why rtmutex.c exists. depth of two. Thankfully, the Linux preemptible kernel model leverages existing SMP locking mechanisms.
done when we have CMPXCHG enabled (otherwise the fast taking automatically Bit 0 is used as the âHas Waitersâ do have CMPXCHG, that check is done in the fast path, but it is still needed To make this easier now, the current owner of the mutex being contended for canât release the mutex that happen without this code, but that is in the concept to understand priority process that is waiting any of mutexes owned by the task.
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This happens for several reasons, and forces the current owner to synchronize with this code.If the task succeeds to acquire the lock, then the task is set as the highest priority process currently waiting on this mutex, then we remove the have the task structure on at least a two byte alignment (and if this is should be at, but the rbtree nodes of the taskâs waiter have not been updated add the waiter to the task waiter tree. be directly nested that way:Now we add 4 processes that run each of these functions separately. When you acquire a mutex and are busy deleting a node, if another thread tries to acquire the same mutex, it will be put to sleep till you release the mutex. But the mutex code appeared in exactly one -mm release (2.6.15-mm2, released on January 7) before being merged into the mainline …
lock held, otherwise it will return with -EINTR if the task was woken