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The RT specific R/W semaphore implementation used to restrict the number of readers to one, because a writer cannot block on multiple readers and inherit its priority or budget. The single reader restricting was painful in various ways: - Performance bottleneck for multi-threaded applications in the page fault path (mmap sem) - Progress blocker for drivers which are carefully crafted to avoid the potential reader/writer deadlock in mainline. The analysis of the writer code paths shows that properly written RT tasks should not take them. Syscalls like mmap(), file access which take mmap sem write locked have unbound latencies, which are completely unrelated to mmap sem. Other R/W sem users like graphics drivers are not suitable for RT tasks either. So there is little risk to hurt RT tasks when the RT rwsem implementation is done in the following way: - Allow concurrent readers - Make writers block until the last reader left the critical section. This blocking is not subject to priority/budget inheritance. - Readers blocked on a writer inherit their priority/budget in the normal way. There is a drawback with this scheme: R/W semaphores become writer unfair though the applications which have triggered writer starvation (mostly on mmap_sem) in the past are not really the typical workloads running on a RT system. So while it's unlikely to hit writer starvation, it's possible. If there are unexpected workloads on RT systems triggering it, the problem has to be revisited. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210815211303.016885947@linutronix.de |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
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.