<div dir="ltr">basically every time we try to acquire mutex there should be lock acquisition related executing thread.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Thanks,<div><br></div><div>Saurabh Gadia</div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 6:47 PM, Saurabh Gadia <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gadia@usc.edu" target="_blank">gadia@usc.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>hi,<br><br><br></div><div>Scenario: <br></div><div>thread t1: current_priority = 5, mutex acquired = m1, m2<br></div><div>thread t2: current_priority = 3, mutex_acquired = None<br><br></div><div>flow: thread t1 tries to acquire mutex m3 and thread t2 tries to acquire mutex m1 which is already acquired by thread t1 simultaneously on SMP.<br></div><div><br>Action:<br></div><div>thred t1 finds that m3 ->holder==NULL, so following code snippet of coremuteximpl.h executes on one processor:<br><br>/////<br>RTEMS_INLINE_ROUTINE int _CORE_mutex_Seize_interrupt_trylock_body(<br> CORE_mutex_Control *the_mutex,<br> Thread_Control *executing,<br> ISR_lock_Context *lock_context<br>)<br>{<br> /* disabled when you get here */<br><br> executing->Wait.return_code = CORE_MUTEX_STATUS_SUCCESSFUL;<br> if ( !_CORE_mutex_Is_locked( the_mutex ) ) {<br> the_mutex->holder = executing;<br> the_mutex->nest_count = 1;<br> if ( _CORE_mutex_Is_inherit_priority( &the_mutex->Attributes ) ||<br> _CORE_mutex_Is_priority_ceiling( &the_mutex->Attributes ) ){<br><br>#ifdef __RTEMS_STRICT_ORDER_MUTEX__<br>/* Doesn't this lead to data race. If the executing thread is holder os some other mutex and its priority is promoted by other<br>thread<br>*/<br> _Chain_Prepend_unprotected( &executing->lock_mutex,<br> &the_mutex->queue.lock_queue );<br> <b>the_mutex->queue.priority_before = executing->current_priority;</b><br>#endif<br><br> executing->resource_count++;<br> }<br><br> if ( !_CORE_mutex_Is_priority_ceiling( &the_mutex->Attributes ) ) {<br> _Thread_queue_Release( &the_mutex->Wait_queue, lock_context );<br> return 0;<br> }<br><br><br>//////<br><br></div><div>And thread t2 tries to acquire m1 and following snippet of threadchangepriority.c executes:<br></div><div><br>/////// (the_thread is holder for mutex m1 and new_priority == priority of thread t2 ==3)<br></div><div> lock = _Thread_Lock_acquire( the_thread, &lock_context );<br><br> /*<br> * For simplicity set the priority restore hint unconditionally since this is<br> * an average case optimization. Otherwise complicated atomic operations<br> * would be necessary. Synchronize with a potential read of the resource<br> * count in the filter function. See also _CORE_mutex_Surrender(),<br> * _Thread_Set_priority_filter() and _Thread_Restore_priority_filter().<br> */<br> the_thread->priority_restore_hint = true;<br> _Atomic_Fence( ATOMIC_ORDER_ACQ_REL );<br><br> /*<br> * Do not bother recomputing all the priority related information if<br> * we are not REALLY changing priority.<br> */<br> if ( ( *filter )( the_thread, &new_priority, arg ) ) {<br> uint32_t my_generation;<br><br> my_generation = the_thread->priority_generation + 1;<br> <b> the_thread->current_priority = new_priority;</b><br> the_thread->priority_generation = my_generation;<br><br> ( *the_thread->Wait.operations->priority_change )(<br> the_thread,<br> new_priority,<br> the_thread->Wait.queue<br> );<br>////<br></div><div><br></div><div>So can interleaving of highlighted code result in data race? >From my perspective and from JPF model experience this is a data race and we need to have locking on executing thread and holder thread if it exists for mutex while acquiring any mutex.<br></div><div>So for 2nd case when there is already holder we do acquire holder lock by calling <b>lock = _Thread_Lock_acquire( the_thread, &lock_context ); </b>in 2nd snippet but we should do the same on executing thread when holder==NULL in 1st code snippet.<br></div><div>Am I right? or is there something I am missing?<br></div><div><br><b></b></div><div><div><div><div><div dir="ltr">Thanks,<div><br></div><div>Saurabh Gadia</div></div></div></div>
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