Fix: compat_futex should work-around futex signal-restart kernel bug
When testing liburcu on a 3.18 Linux kernel, 2-core MIPS (cpu model :
Ingenic JZRISC V4.15 FPU V0.0), we notice that a blocked sys_futex
FUTEX_WAIT returns -1, errno=ENOSYS when interrupted by a SA_RESTART
signal handler. This spurious ENOSYS behavior causes hangs in liburcu
0.9.x. Running a MIPS 3.18 kernel under a QEMU emulator exhibits the
same behavior. This might affect earlier kernels.
This issue appears to be fixed in 3.19 since commit
e967ef022 "MIPS: Fix
restart of indirect syscalls", but nevertheless, we should try to handle
this kernel bug more gracefully than a user-space hang due to unexpected
spurious ENOSYS return value.
Therefore, fallback on the "async-safe" version of compat_futex in those
situations where FUTEX_WAIT returns ENOSYS. This async-safe fallback has
the nice property of being OK to use concurrently with other FUTEX_WAKE
and FUTEX_WAIT futex() calls, because it's simply a busy-wait scheme.
The 4.2 kernel on parisc, and likely newer kernels too, are also
affected by a similar issue.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
CC: Michael Jeanson <mjeanson@efficios.com>
CC: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
CC: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
CC: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
CC: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
CC: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org