rt-locks: implement rt_downgrade_write
The current code of rt_downgrade_write simply does a BUG(). There are places in the kernel that uses this code, and will crash a runnning preempt-rt kernel. The rt_downgrade_write converts a rwsem held for write into a rwsem held for read without ever releasing the semaphore. In -rt, the rwsems are simply a mutex. There is nothing different between a rwsem held for write, and one held for read. The difference is that one held for read can nest. This patch changes the BUG_ON() to simply BUG if the caller is not the owner of the semaphore. This patch comes from my rt-git repo, and has been tested there. Signed-off-by:Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Clark Williams <clark.williams@gmail.com> Cc: "Luis Claudio R. Goncalves" <lclaudio@uudg.org> LKML-Reference: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0904151142420.31828@gandalf.stny.rr.com> Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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