locking/mutex: Clarify that mutex_unlock(), and most other sleeping locks, can still use the lock object after it's unlocked
Clarify the mutex lock lifetime rules a bit more. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231201121808.GL3818@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
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- Detects multi-task circular deadlocks and prints out all affected
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locks and tasks (and only those tasks).
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Releasing a mutex is not an atomic operation: Once a mutex release operation
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has begun, another context may be able to acquire the mutex before the release
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operation has fully completed. The mutex user must ensure that the mutex is not
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destroyed while a release operation is still in progress - in other words,
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callers of mutex_unlock() must ensure that the mutex stays alive until
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mutex_unlock() has returned.
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Mutexes - and most other sleeping locks like rwsems - do not provide an
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implicit reference for the memory they occupy, which reference is released
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with mutex_unlock().
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[ This is in contrast with spin_unlock() [or completion_done()], which
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APIs can be used to guarantee that the memory is not touched by the
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lock implementation after spin_unlock()/completion_done() releases
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the lock. ]
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mutex_unlock() may access the mutex structure even after it has internally
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released the lock already - so it's not safe for another context to
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acquire the mutex and assume that the mutex_unlock() context is not using
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the structure anymore.
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The mutex user must ensure that the mutex is not destroyed while a
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release operation is still in progress - in other words, callers of
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mutex_unlock() must ensure that the mutex stays alive until mutex_unlock()
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has returned.
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Interfaces
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