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locking/rwbase: Mitigate indefinite writer starvation

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On PREEMPT_RT, rw_semaphore and rwlock_t locks are unfair to writers.
Readers can indefinitely acquire the lock unless the writer fully acquired
the lock, which might never happen if there is always a reader in the
critical section owning the lock.

Mel Gorman reported that since LTP-20220121 the dio_truncate test case
went from having 1 reader to having 16 readers and that number of readers
is sufficient to prevent the down_write ever succeeding while readers
exist. Eventually the test is killed after 30 minutes as a failure.

Mel proposed a timeout to limit how long a writer can be blocked until
the reader is forced into the slowpath.

Thomas argued that there is no added value by providing this timeout.  From
a PREEMPT_RT point of view, there are no critical rw_semaphore or rwlock_t
locks left where the reader must be preferred.

Mitigate indefinite writer starvation by forcing the READER into the
slowpath once the WRITER attempts to acquire the lock.

Reported-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/877cwbq4cq.ffs@tglx
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230321161140.HMcQEhHb@linutronix.de
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 2023-03-21 17:11:40 +01:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
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kernel/locking/rwbase_rt.c
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@ -72,15 +72,6 @@ static int __sched __rwbase_read_lock(struct rwbase_rt *rwb,
int ret;
raw_spin_lock_irq(&rtm->wait_lock);
/*
* Allow readers, as long as the writer has not completely
* acquired the semaphore for write.
*/
if (atomic_read(&rwb->readers) != WRITER_BIAS) {
atomic_inc(&rwb->readers);
raw_spin_unlock_irq(&rtm->wait_lock);
return 0;
}
/*
* Call into the slow lock path with the rtmutex->wait_lock