dump_stack: avoid the livelock of the dump_lock
In the current code, we use the atomic_cmpxchg() to serialize the output
of the dump_stack(), but this implementation suffers the thundering herd
problem. We have observed such kind of livelock on a Marvell cn96xx
board(24 cpus) when heavily using the dump_stack() in a kprobe handler.
Actually we can let the competitors to wait for the releasing of the
lock before jumping to atomic_cmpxchg(). This will definitely mitigate
the thundering herd problem. Thanks Linus for the suggestion.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191030031637.6025-1-haokexin@gmail.com
Fixes: b58d977432
("dump_stack: serialize the output from dump_stack()")
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hao <haokexin@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
parent
a31631302a
commit
5cbf2fff3b
|
@ -106,7 +106,12 @@ retry:
|
|||
was_locked = 1;
|
||||
} else {
|
||||
local_irq_restore(flags);
|
||||
cpu_relax();
|
||||
/*
|
||||
* Wait for the lock to release before jumping to
|
||||
* atomic_cmpxchg() in order to mitigate the thundering herd
|
||||
* problem.
|
||||
*/
|
||||
do { cpu_relax(); } while (atomic_read(&dump_lock) != -1);
|
||||
goto retry;
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
Loading…
Reference in New Issue