summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>2010-03-24 18:34:10 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-04-02 20:12:03 +0200
commit0017d735092844118bef006696a750a0e4ef6ebd (patch)
tree8ed1540aaeb63da726f93da12950a8eaa0e0a3e0 /Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt
parent9084bb8246ea935b98320554229e2f371f7f52fa (diff)
sched: Fix TASK_WAKING vs fork deadlock
Oleg noticed a few races with the TASK_WAKING usage on fork. - since TASK_WAKING is basically a spinlock, it should be IRQ safe - since we set TASK_WAKING (*) without holding rq->lock it could be there still is a rq->lock holder, thereby not actually providing full serialization. (*) in fact we clear PF_STARTING, which in effect enables TASK_WAKING. Cure the second issue by not setting TASK_WAKING in sched_fork(), but only temporarily in wake_up_new_task() while calling select_task_rq(). Cure the first by holding rq->lock around the select_task_rq() call, this will disable IRQs, this however requires that we push down the rq->lock release into select_task_rq_fair()'s cgroup stuff. Because select_task_rq_fair() still needs to drop the rq->lock we cannot fully get rid of TASK_WAKING. Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt')
0 files changed, 0 insertions, 0 deletions