From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755884Ab1KGRMT (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Nov 2011 12:12:19 -0500 Received: from merlin.infradead.org ([205.233.59.134]:49952 "EHLO merlin.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755119Ab1KGRMR convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Nov 2011 12:12:17 -0500 Subject: Re: [GIT PULL rcu/next] RCU commits for 3.1 From: Peter Zijlstra To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: Stephane Eranian , Li Zefan , Ingo Molnar , eric.dumazet@gmail.com, shaohua.li@intel.com, ak@linux.intel.com, mhocko@suse.cz, alex.shi@intel.com, efault@gmx.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Paul Turner Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:11:06 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20111107165603.GD2332@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20111027075901.GB2313@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20111027080016.GA16885@elte.hu> <4EAA14A1.5060204@cn.fujitsu.com> <20111029182710.GG6160@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <4EAE57AF.1060706@cn.fujitsu.com> <20111031093256.GI6160@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <4EAF5B68.8090005@cn.fujitsu.com> <1320678902.18053.63.camel@twins> <1320683756.17809.28.camel@twins> <20111107165603.GD2332@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Mailer: Evolution 3.0.3- Message-ID: <1320685866.17809.31.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 08:56 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > code has a problem. > > > > yeah, task_struct is rcu-freed > > But we are not in an RCU read-side critical section, otherwise the splat > would not have happened. Or did I miss a turn in the analysis roadmap > above? I think cgroup code does get_task_struct()/put_task_struct().