Use the hrtimer_cancel_wait_running() synchronization mechanism to prevent priority inversion and live locks on PREEMPT_RT.
As a benefit the retry loop gains the missing cpu_relax() on !RT. [ tglx: Split out of combo patch ] Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Gleixner <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> --- kernel/time/itimer.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/kernel/time/itimer.c +++ b/kernel/time/itimer.c @@ -213,6 +213,7 @@ int do_setitimer(int which, struct itime /* We are sharing ->siglock with it_real_fn() */ if (hrtimer_try_to_cancel(timer) < 0) { spin_unlock_irq(&tsk->sighand->siglock); + hrtimer_cancel_wait_running(timer); goto again; } expires = timeval_to_ktime(value->it_value);

