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authorChanho Min <chanho.min@lge.com>2018-11-26 14:36:37 +0900
committerTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>2018-11-29 08:15:19 +0100
commitb888a5f713e4d17faaaff24316585a4eb07f35b7 (patch)
tree81c22c24ded0fd8da2d813aa6c0eee4c6f0c0cd3 /sound/core/pcm_native.c
parentb51abed8355e5556886623b2772fa6b7598d2282 (diff)
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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 <wonmin.jung@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Chanho Min <chanho.min@lge.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'sound/core/pcm_native.c')
-rw-r--r--sound/core/pcm_native.c11
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
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 <sound/timer.h>
#include <sound/minors.h>
#include <linux/uio.h>
+#include <linux/delay.h>
#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;