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    rtmutex: Deboost before waking up the top waiter · 2a1c6029
    Xunlei Pang authored
    
    
    We should deboost before waking the high-priority task, such that we
    don't run two tasks with the same "state" (priority, deadline,
    sched_class, etc).
    
    In order to make sure the boosting task doesn't start running between
    unlock and deboost (due to 'spurious' wakeup), we move the deboost
    under the wait_lock, that way its serialized against the wait loop in
    __rt_mutex_slowlock().
    
    Doing the deboost early can however lead to priority-inversion if
    current would get preempted after the deboost but before waking our
    high-prio task, hence we disable preemption before doing deboost, and
    enabling it after the wake up is over.
    
    This gets us the right semantic order, but most importantly however;
    this change ensures pointer stability for the next patch, where we
    have rt_mutex_setprio() cache a pointer to the top-most waiter task.
    If we, as before this change, do the wakeup first and then deboost,
    this pointer might point into thin air.
    
    [peterz: Changelog + patch munging]
    Suggested-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarXunlei Pang <xlpang@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
    Cc: juri.lelli@arm.com
    Cc: bigeasy@linutronix.de
    Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
    Cc: jdesfossez@efficios.com
    Cc: bristot@redhat.com
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170323150216.110065320@infradead.org
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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