Fix: workqueue: futex wait: handle spurious futex wakeups
Observed issue
==============
The workqueue thread futex_wait() returns with a workqueue->futex state
of -1, which is unexpected. In this situation, the workqueue thread is
observed to use 99% of CPU as workqueue->futex values are decremented to
very low negative values while the workqueue is empty.
This issue will cause spurious unexpected high CPU use, but will not
lead to data corruption.
Cause
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From futex(5):
FUTEX_WAIT
Returns 0 if the caller was woken up. Note that a wake-up can
also be caused by common futex usage patterns in unrelated code
that happened to have previously used the futex word's memory
location (e.g., typical futex-based implementations of Pthreads
mutexes can cause this under some conditions). Therefore, call‐
ers should always conservatively assume that a return value of 0
can mean a spurious wake-up, and use the futex word's value
(i.e., the user-space synchronization scheme) to decide whether
to continue to block or not.
Solution
========
We therefore need to validate whether the value differs from -1 in
user-space after the call to FUTEX_WAIT returns 0.
Known drawbacks
===============
None.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Change-Id: Id024e7d3b2dab75d30fc01280fd27e5f2d8af0d1
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