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itimers: Prepare for PREEMPT_RT 

Use the hrtimer_cancel_wait_running() synchronization mechanism to prevent
priority inversion and live locks on PREEMPT_RT.

As a benefit the retry loop gains the missing cpu_relax() on !RT.

[ tglx: Split out of combo patch ]

Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190730223828.690771827@linutronix.de
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Anna-Maria Gleixner 2019-07-31 00:33:51 +02:00 committed by Thomas Gleixner
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@ -213,6 +213,7 @@ again:
/* We are sharing ->siglock with it_real_fn() */
if (hrtimer_try_to_cancel(timer) < 0) {
spin_unlock_irq(&tsk->sighand->siglock);
hrtimer_cancel_wait_running(timer);
goto again;
}
expires = timeval_to_ktime(value->it_value);