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Chanho Min committed b888a5f713e
ALSA: pcm: Fix starvation on down_write_nonblock()
Commit 67ec1072b053 ("ALSA: pcm: Fix rwsem deadlock for non-atomic PCM
stream") fixes deadlock for non-atomic PCM stream. But, This patch
causes antother stuck.
If writer is RT thread and reader is a normal thread, the reader
thread will be difficult to get scheduled. It may not give chance to
release readlocks and writer gets stuck for a long time if they are
pinned to single cpu.
The deadlock described in the previous commit is because the linux
rwsem queues like a FIFO. So, we might need non-FIFO writelock, not
non-block one.
My suggestion is that the writer gives reader a chance to be scheduled
by using the minimum msleep() instaed of spinning without blocking by
writer. Also, The *_nonblock may be changed to *_nonfifo appropriately
to this concept.
In terms of performance, when trylock is failed, this minimum periodic
msleep will have the same performance as the tick-based
schedule()/wake_up_q().
[ Although this has a fairly high performance penalty, the relevant
code path became already rare due to the previous commit ("ALSA:
pcm: Call snd_pcm_unlink() conditionally at closing"). That is, now
this unconditional msleep appears only when using linked streams,
and this must be a rare case. So we accept this as a quick
workaround until finding a more suitable one -- tiwai ]
Fixes: 67ec1072b053 ("ALSA: pcm: Fix rwsem deadlock for non-atomic PCM stream")
Suggested-by: Wonmin Jung <wonmin.jung@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Chanho Min <chanho.min@lge.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>