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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2025-07-12 03:33:43 +0000
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2025-07-14 17:16:31 +0200
commit44e4e0297c3c01987399bb9973f4d22a096a62c2 (patch)
treed68407883f45f7ed7bf9230e96c960685e7ca583 /kernel/fork.c
parentsched: Add CONFIG_SCHED_PROXY_EXEC & boot argument to enable/disable (diff)
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locking/mutex: Rework task_struct::blocked_on
Track the blocked-on relation for mutexes, to allow following this relation at schedule time. task | blocked-on v mutex | owner v task This all will be used for tracking blocked-task/mutex chains with the prox-execution patch in a similar fashion to how priority inheritance is done with rt_mutexes. For serialization, blocked-on is only set by the task itself (current). And both when setting or clearing (potentially by others), is done while holding the mutex::wait_lock. [minor changes while rebasing] [jstultz: Fix blocked_on tracking in __mutex_lock_common in error paths] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Connor O'Brien <connoro@google.com> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Tested-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250712033407.2383110-3-jstultz@google.com
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 1ee8eb11f38b..5f87f05aff4a 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -2123,9 +2123,8 @@ __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
lockdep_init_task(p);
#endif
-#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES
p->blocked_on = NULL; /* not blocked yet */
-#endif
+
#ifdef CONFIG_BCACHE
p->sequential_io = 0;
p->sequential_io_avg = 0;