From 774a1221e862b343388347bac9b318767336b20b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tejun Heo Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 18:52:51 -0800 Subject: module, async: async_synchronize_full() on module init iff async is used If the default iosched is built as module, the kernel may deadlock while trying to load the iosched module on device probe if the probing was running off async. This is because async_synchronize_full() at the end of module init ends up waiting for the async job which initiated the module loading. async A modprobe 1. finds a device 2. registers the block device 3. request_module(default iosched) 4. modprobe in userland 5. load and init module 6. async_synchronize_full() Async A waits for modprobe to finish in request_module() and modprobe waits for async A to finish in async_synchronize_full(). Because there's no easy to track dependency once control goes out to userland, implementing properly nested flushing is difficult. For now, make module init perform async_synchronize_full() iff module init has queued async jobs as suggested by Linus. This avoids the described deadlock because iosched module doesn't use async and thus wouldn't invoke async_synchronize_full(). This is hacky and incomplete. It will deadlock if async module loading nests; however, this works around the known problem case and seems to be the best of bad options. For more details, please refer to the following thread. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1420814 Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Reported-by: Alex Riesen Tested-by: Ming Lei Tested-by: Alex Riesen Cc: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/sched.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux/sched.h') diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index 206bb089c06b..6fc8f45de4e9 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -1810,6 +1810,7 @@ extern void thread_group_cputime_adjusted(struct task_struct *p, cputime_t *ut, #define PF_MEMALLOC 0x00000800 /* Allocating memory */ #define PF_NPROC_EXCEEDED 0x00001000 /* set_user noticed that RLIMIT_NPROC was exceeded */ #define PF_USED_MATH 0x00002000 /* if unset the fpu must be initialized before use */ +#define PF_USED_ASYNC 0x00004000 /* used async_schedule*(), used by module init */ #define PF_NOFREEZE 0x00008000 /* this thread should not be frozen */ #define PF_FROZEN 0x00010000 /* frozen for system suspend */ #define PF_FSTRANS 0x00020000 /* inside a filesystem transaction */ -- cgit v1.2.3 From 910ffdb18a6408e14febbb6e4b6840fd2c928c82 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:47:41 +0100 Subject: ptrace: introduce signal_wake_up_state() and ptrace_signal_wake_up() Cleanup and preparation for the next change. signal_wake_up(resume => true) is overused. None of ptrace/jctl callers actually want to wakeup a TASK_WAKEKILL task, but they can't specify the necessary mask. Turn signal_wake_up() into signal_wake_up_state(state), reintroduce signal_wake_up() as a trivial helper, and add ptrace_signal_wake_up() which adds __TASK_TRACED. This way ptrace_signal_wake_up() can work "inside" ptrace_request() even if the tracee doesn't have the TASK_WAKEKILL bit set. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/sched.h | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux/sched.h') diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index 6fc8f45de4e9..d2112477ff5e 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -2714,7 +2714,16 @@ static inline void thread_group_cputime_init(struct signal_struct *sig) extern void recalc_sigpending_and_wake(struct task_struct *t); extern void recalc_sigpending(void); -extern void signal_wake_up(struct task_struct *t, int resume_stopped); +extern void signal_wake_up_state(struct task_struct *t, unsigned int state); + +static inline void signal_wake_up(struct task_struct *t, bool resume) +{ + signal_wake_up_state(t, resume ? TASK_WAKEKILL : 0); +} +static inline void ptrace_signal_wake_up(struct task_struct *t, bool resume) +{ + signal_wake_up_state(t, resume ? __TASK_TRACED : 0); +} /* * Wrappers for p->thread_info->cpu access. No-op on UP. -- cgit v1.2.3