mutex: Add a delay into the SPIN_ON_OWNER wait loop.
On arm systems the spin on owner optimization can intermittently cause a lockup that's usually as long as the waiting thread's cpu timeslice. The repeated mutex aquisitions + atomics in a single spinning thread can completely lock out the owner from releasing the kernel mutex. The owner needs to acquire a spinlock on the relase path and this spinlock can share a monitor with the other locks and atomics on the waiter path. Rate limit the waiter so that the thread releasing the mutex never is starved. Bug 23036902 Change-Id: Ie1b64275a0c6141f94faaf3e63fcbf9b5438140c Signed-off-by:Riley Andrews <riandrews@google.com> Git-commit: 84d8ce7e0025cac60a8a379a7ee3e59d640fbc03 Git-repo: https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/msm.git Signed-off-by:
Trilok Soni <tsoni@codeaurora.org>
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