[PATCH] mutex: fix deadlock injection

Dave Airlie airlied at gmail.com
Tue Aug 6 17:05:35 PDT 2013


On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 6:41 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:13:41AM +0200, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
>> The check needs to be for > 1, because ctx->acquired is already incremented.
>> This will prevent ww_mutex_lock_slow from returning -EDEADLK and not locking
>> the mutex. It caused a lot of false gpu lockups on radeon with
>> CONFIG_DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH=y because a function that shouldn't be able
>> to return -EDEADLK did.
>>
>> Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher at amd.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst at canonical.com>

Should this be merged via Ingo? or will I queue it in my -fixes?

Dave.


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