itimers: Prepare for PREEMPT_RT

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]> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
kawasaki · Aug 1, 2019 · c7e6d70 · c7e6d70
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diff --git a/kernel/time/itimer.c b/kernel/time/itimer.c
@@ -213,6 +213,7 @@ int do_setitimer(int which, struct itimerval *value, struct itimerval *ovalue)
 		/* 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);