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authorGlenn Elliott <gelliott@cs.unc.edu>2013-02-11 22:48:51 -0500
committerGlenn Elliott <gelliott@cs.unc.edu>2013-02-11 22:48:51 -0500
commitc063e088be8e1bcbb6a76b8cd087f8dc8b6923b2 (patch)
tree4450780888858cfbb0d042605035db689c3eedbe /include/asm-i386/module.h
parent40d12009bd0c3515c5bfee5425bd80f58cdd7b73 (diff)
BUG FIX: Support DGLs with PRIOQ_MUTEXwip-prioq-dgl
First 'working' implementation of DGLs with PRIOQ_MUTEX. (All other code prior was work-in-progress.) General approach: Because of priority queue order, PRIOQ_MUTEX DGLs must be *acquired* atomically. This means that a task cannot acquire an available PRIOQ_MUTEX if another PRIOQ_MUTEX is not available at the same time. Requests are buffered in PRIOQ_MUTEX and the resource 'idles'-- that is, the mutex owner is NULL, but there are waiting tasks for the resource. Several notes/side-effects: 1) A high-priority task that idles a resource can effectively block lower-priority tasks from acquiring that resource. This is because the low-prio task cannot skip ahead of the high-prio task in the priority queue. 2) Priority inheritance from nesting can cause the low-prioity task in #1 to jump over the high-priority task and acquire the resource. This means that any task blocked on a DGL that receives an increase in priority while blocked on the DGL must trigger a re-eval of the locks it can take. If the resources can be acquired, then the task needs to be woken up! <<<<< Lock acquisition via inheritance is entirely new and weird! >>>>> 3) A similar case for #2 exists for priorty decreases (example: this can happen when a task loses a donor) while it is blocked on a PRIOQ_MUTEX. The high-priority task described in #1 can change and become a lower- priority task. Every idle lock (mutex owner is NULL) on which the task losing priority must be revaluated--- it is possible that the (possible) new head on the priority queue can take the lock. Note: This affects BOTH singular and DGL resource requests, while the case described in #2 only affects DGL requests (because a singular request at the head of the priority queue will never idle a resource).
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