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Commit 2b232e0c authored by Chris Wilson's avatar Chris Wilson Committed by Ingo Molnar
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locking/ww_mutex: Replace cpu_relax() with cond_resched() for tests



When busy-spinning on a ww_mutex_trylock(), we depend upon the other
thread advancing and releasing the lock. This can not happen on a single
CPU unless we relinquish it:

  [ ] NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [kworker/0:1:18]
  ...
  [ ] Call Trace:
  [ ]  mutex_trylock()
  [ ]  test_mutex_work+0x31/0x56
  [ ]  process_one_work+0x1b4/0x2f9
  [ ]  worker_thread+0x1b0/0x27c
  [ ]  kthread+0xd1/0xd3
  [ ]  ret_from_fork+0x19/0x30

Reported-by: default avatarFengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: f2a5fec1 ("locking/ww_mutex: Begin kselftests for ww_mutex")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170228094011.2595-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent e2679aec
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