Commit-ID:  a125ecc16453a4fe0ba865c7df87b9c722991fdf
Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/a125ecc16453a4fe0ba865c7df87b9c722991fdf
Author:     Anna-Maria Gleixner <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 00:33:50 +0200
Committer:  Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
CommitDate: Thu, 1 Aug 2019 20:51:23 +0200

timerfd: Prepare for PREEMPT_RT

Use the hrtimer_cancel_wait_running() synchronization mechanism to prevent
priority inversion and live locks on PREEMPT_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]>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]


---
 fs/timerfd.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/timerfd.c b/fs/timerfd.c
index 6a6fc8aa1de7..48305ba41e3c 100644
--- a/fs/timerfd.c
+++ b/fs/timerfd.c
@@ -471,7 +471,11 @@ static int do_timerfd_settime(int ufd, int flags,
                                break;
                }
                spin_unlock_irq(&ctx->wqh.lock);
-               cpu_relax();
+
+               if (isalarm(ctx))
+                       hrtimer_cancel_wait_running(&ctx->t.alarm.timer);
+               else
+                       hrtimer_cancel_wait_running(&ctx->t.tmr);
        }
 
        /*

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