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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2015-05-13 23:49:12 +0300
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2015-05-13 23:49:12 +0300
commit6ce47fd961fa8fb206433789d7754c73cab3b5d0 (patch)
tree2d2526d43c95232bc14bd9228f02de8fa14bd3dc /arch/arm64/include
parenta22e5f579b98f16e24b7184d01c35de26eb5a7f7 (diff)
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rtmutex: Warn if trylock is called from hard/softirq context
rt_mutex_trylock() must be called from thread context. It can be called from atomic regions (preemption or interrupts disabled), but not from hard/softirq/nmi context. Add a warning to alert abusers. The reasons for this are: 1) There is a potential deadlock in the slowpath 2) Another cpu which blocks on the rtmutex will boost the task which allegedly locked the rtmutex, but that cannot work because the hard/softirq context borrows the task context. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
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