From: Steven Rostedt on
On Fri, 2010-07-09 at 15:55 -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
> Apologies, mangled a rebase and this patch had bits of 4/4 in it.
> Corrected below:
>
>
> >From f40b8e684df6ed2b1ba9167cad3922ab43f4a717 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Darren Hart <dvhltc(a)us.ibm.com>
> Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 17:07:10 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH 3/4 V2] futex: free_pi_state outside of hb->lock sections
>
> free_pi_state() calls kfree() and might sleep. To prepare for raw hb->locks,
> get the calls to free_pi_state() out of the hb->lock() sections.
>
> Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc(a)us.ibm.com>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx(a)linutronix.de>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz(a)infradead.org>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu>
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet(a)gmail.com>
> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur(a)redhat.com>
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt(a)goodmis.org>
> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault(a)gmx.de>
> ---
> kernel/futex.c | 8 +++++---
> 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
> index a6cec32..2cd58a2 100644
> --- a/kernel/futex.c
> +++ b/kernel/futex.c
> @@ -1339,7 +1339,6 @@ retry_private:

This is why I always add a space before labels. I have no idea what
function this was in.

> } else if (ret) {
> /* -EDEADLK */
> this->pi_state = NULL;
> - free_pi_state(pi_state);

Where do we free the pi state here?

-- Steve

> goto out_unlock;
> }
> }
> @@ -1483,16 +1482,19 @@ retry:
> */
> static void unqueue_me_pi(struct futex_q *q)
> {
> + struct futex_pi_state *pi_state = NULL;
> +
> WARN_ON(plist_node_empty(&q->list));
> plist_del(&q->list, &q->list.plist);
>
> BUG_ON(!q->pi_state);
> - free_pi_state(q->pi_state);
> + pi_state = q->pi_state;
> q->pi_state = NULL;
>
> spin_unlock(q->lock_ptr);
> -
> drop_futex_key_refs(&q->key);
> +
> + free_pi_state(pi_state);
> }
>
> /*


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