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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] PF_DEAD: cleanup usage
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 19:02:07 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4385E3FF.C99DBCF5@tv-sign.ru> (raw)

schedule() checks PF_DEAD on every context switch, and sets ->state = EXIT_DEAD
to ensure that exited task will be deactivated.

I think it is better to set EXIT_DEAD in do_exit(), along with PF_DEAD flag.

It is safe to do without task_rq() locking, because concurrent try_to_wake_up()
can't change task's ->state: the 'state' argument of try_to_wake_up() can't have
EXIT_DEAD bit. And in case when try_to_wake_up() sees stale value of ->state ==
TASK_RUNNING it will do nothing.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>

--- 2.6.15-rc2/kernel/exit.c~4_DEAD	2005-11-23 19:33:27.000000000 +0300
+++ 2.6.15-rc2/kernel/exit.c	2005-11-24 19:14:29.000000000 +0300
@@ -875,6 +875,7 @@ fastcall NORET_TYPE void do_exit(long co
 	preempt_disable();
 	BUG_ON(tsk->flags & PF_DEAD);
 	tsk->flags |= PF_DEAD;
+	tsk->state = EXIT_DEAD;
 
 	schedule();
 	BUG();
--- 2.6.15-rc2/kernel/sched.c~4_DEAD	2005-11-22 19:35:52.000000000 +0300
+++ 2.6.15-rc2/kernel/sched.c	2005-11-24 19:13:34.000000000 +0300
@@ -3000,9 +3000,6 @@ need_resched_nonpreemptible:
 
 	spin_lock_irq(&rq->lock);
 
-	if (unlikely(prev->flags & PF_DEAD))
-		prev->state = EXIT_DEAD;
-
 	switch_count = &prev->nivcsw;
 	if (prev->state && !(preempt_count() & PREEMPT_ACTIVE)) {
 		switch_count = &prev->nvcsw;

             reply	other threads:[~2005-11-24 14:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-24 16:02 Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2005-11-25  5:12 ` [PATCH 1/2] PF_DEAD: cleanup usage Ingo Molnar
2005-11-25 18:01   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-26 10:46     ` Oleg Nesterov
2005-11-26 17:55       ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-26 19:21         ` Oleg Nesterov
2005-11-26 18:47           ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-27 12:18             ` Ingo Molnar
2005-11-27 13:02             ` Oleg Nesterov
2005-11-27 11:55     ` Ingo Molnar

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