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author | Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> | 2010-03-15 10:10:03 +0100 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2010-04-02 20:12:01 +0200 |
commit | 897f0b3c3ff40b443c84e271bef19bd6ae885195 (patch) | |
tree | 6b969149bb59591a1c9485de405639db6c4208d6 /include/linux/stop_machine.h | |
parent | 25c2d55c00c6097e6792ebf21e31342f23b9b768 (diff) |
sched: Kill the broken and deadlockable cpuset_lock/cpuset_cpus_allowed_locked code
This patch just states the fact the cpusets/cpuhotplug interaction is
broken and removes the deadlockable code which only pretends to work.
- cpuset_lock() doesn't really work. It is needed for
cpuset_cpus_allowed_locked() but we can't take this lock in
try_to_wake_up()->select_fallback_rq() path.
- cpuset_lock() is deadlockable. Suppose that a task T bound to CPU takes
callback_mutex. If cpu_down(CPU) happens before T drops callback_mutex
stop_machine() preempts T, then migration_call(CPU_DEAD) tries to take
cpuset_lock() and hangs forever because CPU is already dead and thus
T can't be scheduled.
- cpuset_cpus_allowed_locked() is deadlockable too. It takes task_lock()
which is not irq-safe, but try_to_wake_up() can be called from irq.
Kill them, and change select_fallback_rq() to use cpu_possible_mask, like
we currently do without CONFIG_CPUSETS.
Also, with or without this patch, with or without CONFIG_CPUSETS, the
callers of select_fallback_rq() can race with each other or with
set_cpus_allowed() pathes.
The subsequent patches try to to fix these problems.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20100315091003.GA9123@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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