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Commit ce36f2f3 authored by Oleg Nesterov's avatar Oleg Nesterov Committed by Paul E. McKenney
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rcu: More info about potential deadlocks with rcu_read_unlock()



The comment above rcu_read_unlock() explains the potential deadlock
if the caller holds one of the locks taken by rt_mutex_unlock() paths,
but it is not clear from this documentation that any lock which can
be taken from interrupt can lead to deadlock as well and we need to
take rt_mutex_lock() into account too.

The problem is that rt_mutex_lock() takes wait_lock without disabling
irqs, and thus an interrupt taking some LOCK can obviously race with
rcu_read_unlock_special() called with the same LOCK held.

Signed-off-by: default avatarOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
parent b6331ae8
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