I suspect that you have run into a bug I fixed in the latest
version having to do with handing off a timer from id look
up to the spin lock on the timer. I was releasing the look
up lock prior to taking the timer lock which allowed an
interrupt to sneek in there and set up a dead lock with the
interrupt code. Most likey to happen when processing
overruning timers.
This is fixed in the latest patch.
>
> I have added the tests I'm using to reproduce this issue to
> http://posixtest.sf.net. The original one where I noticed it was
> posixtestsuite/conformance/interfaces/timer_gettime/2-3.c after Jim
> Houston's bug fix. Then, I added
> posixtestsuite/conformance/interfaces/timer_settime/3-2.c and 3-3.c to help
> me get to root cause. To view the issue, you can either run
> timer_gettime/2-3.c, or change timer_settime/3-3.c to use a repeating timer
> (in nsecs). I have included the latter below.
>
> ==> One related ignorant question I had is I wanted to test this against
> your latest version (2.5.54-bk6), but when I went today to get the bk
> patches for 2.5.54, I couldn't find them. Are those only available for the
> current kernel version? That makes sense -- I should have been quicker.
> But, just wanted to check if there was another way for me to get that
> version.
Oh, you mean the kernel.org patches, yes they are only on
kernel.org until the next version. It is a rather large
patch. I suppose I could send it if you can stand MB
attachments.
I have been off line trying to bring up my new computer on
RH8.0 so I have not moved to the latest kernel as yet.
-g
>
> Additional information is below:
> kernel used = 2.5.54-bk1
> HRT patches applied =
> hrtimers-core-2.5.54-bk1-1.0.patch
> hrtimers-hrposix-2.5.54-bk1-1.0.patch
> hrtimers-i386-2.5.54-bk1-1.0.patch
> hrtimers-posix-2.5.54-bk1-1.0.patch
> hrtimers-support-2.5.52-1.0.patch
>
> Thanks.
> - Julie Fleischer
>
> timer_settime/3-3.c - with modifications to show issue
> /*
> * Copyright (c) 2002, Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
> * Created by: julie.n.fleischer REMOVE-THIS AT intel DOT com
> * This file is licensed under the GPL license. For the full content
> * of this license, see the COPYING file at the top level of this
> * source tree.
>
> * Test that if value.it_value = 0, the timer is disarmed. Test by
> * disarming a currently armed and blocked timer.
> *
> * For this test, signal SIGTOTEST will be used, clock CLOCK_REALTIME
> * will be used.
> */
>
> #include <time.h>
> #include <signal.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <unistd.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include "posixtest.h"
>
> #define TIMEREXPIRENSEC 10000000
> #define SLEEPTIME 1
>
> #define SIGTOTEST SIGALRM
>
> void handler(int signo)
> {
> printf("OK to be in once\n");
> }
>
> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
> sigset_t set;
> struct sigevent ev;
> struct sigaction act;
> timer_t tid;
> struct itimerspec its;
> struct timespec ts;
>
> ev.sigev_notify = SIGEV_SIGNAL;
> ev.sigev_signo = SIGTOTEST;
>
> if (sigemptyset(&set) != 0) {
> perror("sigemptyset() did not return success\n");
> return PTS_UNRESOLVED;
> }
>
> if (sigaddset(&set, SIGTOTEST) != 0) {
> perror("sigaddset() did not return success\n");
> return PTS_UNRESOLVED;
> }
>
> if (sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, &set, NULL) != 0) {
> perror("sigprocmask() did not return success\n");
> return PTS_UNRESOLVED;
> }
>
> if (timer_create(CLOCK_REALTIME, &ev, &tid) != 0) {
> perror("timer_create() did not return success\n");
> return PTS_UNRESOLVED;
> }
>
> /*
> * First set up timer to be blocked
> */
> its.it_interval.tv_sec = 0;
> its.it_interval.tv_nsec = 5*TIMEREXPIRENSEC;
> its.it_value.tv_sec = 0;
> its.it_value.tv_nsec = TIMEREXPIRENSEC;
>
> printf("setup first timer\n");
> if (timer_settime(tid, 0, &its, NULL) != 0) {
> perror("timer_settime() did not return success\n");
> return PTS_UNRESOLVED;
> }
>
> printf("sleep\n");
> sleep(SLEEPTIME);
> printf("awoke\n");
>
> /*
> * Second, set value.it_value = 0 and set up handler to catch
> * signal.
> */
> act.sa_handler=handler;
> act.sa_flags=0;
>
> if (sigemptyset(&act.sa_mask) == -1) {
> perror("Error calling sigemptyset\n");
> return PTS_UNRESOLVED;
> }
> if (sigaction(SIGTOTEST, &act, 0) == -1) {
> perror("Error calling sigaction\n");
> return PTS_UNRESOLVED;
> }
>
> its.it_interval.tv_sec = 0;
> its.it_interval.tv_nsec = 0;
> its.it_value.tv_sec = 0;
> its.it_value.tv_nsec = 0;
>
> printf("setup second timer\n");
> if (timer_settime(tid, 0, &its, NULL) != 0) {
> perror("timer_settime() did not return success\n");
> return PTS_UNRESOLVED;
> }
>
> printf("unblock\n");
> if (sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, &set, NULL) != 0) {
> perror("sigprocmask() did not return success\n");
> return PTS_UNRESOLVED;
> }
>
> /*
> * Ensure sleep for TIMEREXPIRE seconds not interrupted
> */
> ts.tv_sec=SLEEPTIME;
> ts.tv_nsec=0;
>
> printf("sleep again\n");
> if (nanosleep(&ts, NULL) == -1) {
> printf("nanosleep() interrupted\n");
> printf("Test FAILED\n");
> return PTS_FAIL;
> }
>
> printf("Test PASSED\n");
> return PTS_PASS;
> }
>
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