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While the timeout logic provides guarantees for the waiter's forward progress, the time until a stalling waiter unblocks can still be long. The default timeout of 1/4 sec can be excessively long for some use cases. Additionally, custom timeouts may exacerbate recovery time. Introduce logic to detect common cases of deadlocks and perform quicker recovery. This is done by dividing the time from entry into the locking slow path until the timeout into intervals of 1 ms. Then, after each interval elapses, deadlock detection is performed, while also polling the lock word to ensure we can quickly break out of the detection logic and proceed with lock acquisition. A 'held_locks' table is maintained per-CPU where the entry at the bottom denotes a lock being waited for or already taken. Entries coming before it denote locks that are already held. The current CPU's table can thus be looked at to detect AA deadlocks. The tables from other CPUs can be looked at to discover ABBA situations. Finally, when a matching entry for the lock being taken on the current CPU is found on some other CPU, a deadlock situation is detected. This function can take a long time, therefore the lock word is constantly polled in each loop iteration to ensure we can preempt detection and proceed with lock acquisition, using the is_lock_released check. We set 'spin' member of rqspinlock_timeout struct to 0 to trigger deadlock checks immediately to perform faster recovery. Note: Extending lock word size by 4 bytes to record owner CPU can allow faster detection for ABBA. It is typically the owner which participates in a ABBA situation. However, to keep compatibility with existing lock words in the kernel (struct qspinlock), and given deadlocks are a rare event triggered by bugs, we choose to favor compatibility over faster detection. The release_held_lock_entry function requires an smp_wmb, while the release store on unlock will provide the necessary ordering for us. Add comments to document the subtleties of why this is correct. It is possible for stores to be reordered still, but in the context of the deadlock detection algorithm, a release barrier is sufficient and needn't be stronger for unlock's case. Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250316040541.108729-13-memxor@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.