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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] freezer: add missing mb's to freezer_count() and
	freezer_should_skip()
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 17:39:19 +0200
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Hi Tejun,

On 10/22, Tejun Heo wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 07:44:04PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> > We probably have another similar race. If ptrace_stop()->may_ptrace_stop()
> > returns false, the task does
> >
> > 	__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
> > 	// no mb in between
> > 	try_to_freeze();
> >
> > And this can race with task_is_stopped_or_traced() check in the same way.
> > (of course this is only theoretical).
> >
> > do_signal_stop() is probably fine, we can rely on ->siglock.
>
> Hmm....  Guess we should drop __ from set_current_state.

Yes.

Or we can change ptrace_stop() and do_signal_stop() to use freezer_do_not_count/
freezer_count and remove task_is_stopped_or_traced() from update_if_frozen()
and try_to_freeze_tasks(). But this means that do_signal_stop() will call
try_to_freeze() twice, unless we add __freezer_count() which only clears
PF_FREEZER_SKIP.

> I wonder
> whether we should just add mb to freezing()?  What do you think?

Yes, I thought about this too. I just do not know what would be better.

Oleg.