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Documentation: kernel-locking: mutex_trylock cannot be used in interrupt context
Chapter 6 is right about mutex_trylock, but chapter 10 wasn't. This error was introduced during semaphore-to-mutex conversion of the Unreliable guide. :-) If user context which performs mutex_lock() or mutex_trylock() is preempted by interrupt context which performs mutex_trylock() on the same mutex instance, a deadlock occurs. This is because these functions do not disable local IRQs when they operate on mutex->wait_lock. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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<function>mutex_lock()</function>
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There is a <function>mutex_trylock()</function> which can be
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used inside interrupt context, as it will not sleep.
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There is a <function>mutex_trylock()</function> which does not
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sleep. Still, it must not be used inside interrupt context since
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its implementation is not safe for that.
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<function>mutex_unlock()</function> will also never sleep.
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It cannot be used in interrupt context either since a mutex
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must be released by the same task that acquired it.
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