pstore: Switch pmsg_lock to an rt_mutex to avoid priority inversion
Wei Wang reported seeing priority inversion caused latencies
caused by contention on pmsg_lock, and suggested it be switched
to a rt_mutex.
I was initially hesitant this would help, as the tasks in that
trace all seemed to be SCHED_NORMAL, so the benefit would be
limited to only nice boosting.
However, another similar issue was raised where the priority
inversion was seen did involve a blocked RT task so it is clear
this would be helpful in that case.
Cc: Wei Wang <[email protected]>
Cc: Midas Chien<[email protected]>
Cc: Connor O'Brien <[email protected]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <[email protected]>
Cc: Colin Cross <[email protected]>
Cc: Tony Luck <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Fixes: 9d5438f462ab ("pstore: Add pmsg - user-space accessible pstore object")
Reported-by: Wei Wang <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]