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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: vatsa <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: sched: only update rq->clock while holding rq->lock
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:37:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1224095843.28131.13.camel@twins> (raw)

Vatsa,

you said someone would send a patch to this effect, I don't want to
steal credit, but I think this patch is better posted sooner rather than
later.

---

Subject: sched: only update rq->clock while holding rq->lock
From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Date: Wed Oct 15 20:30:26 CEST 2008

Vatsa noticed rq->clock going funny and tracked it down to an update_rq_clock()
outside a rq->lock section.

This is a problem because things like double_rq_lock() update the rq->clock
value for both rqs. Therefore disabling interrupts isn't strong enough.

Reported-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
---
 kernel/sched.c |    6 +-----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sched.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c
@@ -4448,12 +4448,8 @@ need_resched_nonpreemptible:
 	if (sched_feat(HRTICK))
 		hrtick_clear(rq);
 
-	/*
-	 * Do the rq-clock update outside the rq lock:
-	 */
-	local_irq_disable();
+	spin_lock_irq(&rq->lock);
 	update_rq_clock(rq);
-	spin_lock(&rq->lock);
 	clear_tsk_need_resched(prev);
 
 	if (prev->state && !(preempt_count() & PREEMPT_ACTIVE)) {



             reply	other threads:[~2008-10-15 18:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-15 18:37 Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2008-10-16  2:32 ` sched: only update rq->clock while holding rq->lock Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2008-10-16  8:29   ` Peter Zijlstra

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