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| author | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2012-01-25 11:08:40 +0100 |
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| committer | Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> | 2015-01-16 18:12:11 -0500 |
| commit | d1079d4b19818fc61e651050fcd9c7befed44187 (patch) | |
| tree | a218304548d1a387f9c8cb310aa68f9a544af1bc /fs | |
| parent | ca62dd22a9881a98537c28d6fc8e7c7116e7adca (diff) | |
| download | linux-rt-d1079d4b19818fc61e651050fcd9c7befed44187.tar.gz | |
timer-fd: Prevent live lock
If hrtimer_try_to_cancel() requires a retry, then depending on the
priority setting te retry loop might prevent timer callback completion
on RT. Prevent that by waiting for completion on RT, no change for a
non RT kernel.
Reported-by: Sankara Muthukrishnan <sankara.m@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable-rt@vger.kernel.org
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/timerfd.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/timerfd.c b/fs/timerfd.c index 32b644f03690..1844c9733e44 100644 --- a/fs/timerfd.c +++ b/fs/timerfd.c @@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ static int do_timerfd_settime(int ufd, int flags, if (hrtimer_try_to_cancel(&ctx->tmr) >= 0) break; spin_unlock_irq(&ctx->wqh.lock); - cpu_relax(); + hrtimer_wait_for_timer(&ctx->tmr); } /* |