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From: oleg@redhat.com (Oleg Nesterov)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [BUG] "sched: Remove rq->lock from the first half of ttwu()" locks up on ARM
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 17:45:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110526154508.GA13788@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1306412511.1200.90.camel@twins>

On 05/26, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
>  static void ttwu_queue(struct task_struct *p, int cpu)
>  {
> @@ -2631,17 +2650,17 @@ try_to_wake_up(struct task_struct *p, un
>  	while (p->on_cpu) {
>  #ifdef __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW
>  		/*
> -		 * If called from interrupt context we could have landed in the
> -		 * middle of schedule(), in this case we should take care not
> -		 * to spin on ->on_cpu if p is current, since that would
> -		 * deadlock.
> +		 * In case the architecture enables interrupts in
> +		 * context_switch(), we cannot busy wait, since that
> +		 * would lead to live-locks when an interrupt hits and
> +		 * tries to wake up @prev. So bail and do a complete
> +		 * remote wakeup.
>  		 */
> -		if (p == current) {
> -			ttwu_queue(p, cpu);
> +		if (ttwu_activate_remote(p, wake_flags))

Stupid question. Can't we fix this problem if we do

	-	if (p == current)
	+	if (cpu == raw_smp_processor_id())

?

I forgot the rules... but iirc task_cpu(p) can't be changed under us?

Oleg.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-05-26 15:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-24 18:13 [BUG] "sched: Remove rq->lock from the first half of ttwu()" locks up on ARM Marc Zyngier
2011-05-24 21:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-24 21:39   ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-25 12:23     ` Marc Zyngier
2011-05-25 17:08   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-25 21:15     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-26  7:29       ` Yong Zhang
2011-05-26 10:32         ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-26 11:02           ` Marc Zyngier
2011-05-26 11:32             ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-26 12:21               ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-26 12:26                 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-26 12:31                   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-05-26 12:37                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-26 12:50                     ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-26 13:36                       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-05-26 14:45                       ` Catalin Marinas
2011-05-27 12:06                         ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-27 17:55                           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-05-27 19:41                           ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-05-27 20:52                           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-05-28 13:13                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-31 11:08                               ` Michal Simek
2011-05-31 13:22                                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-31 13:37                                   ` Michal Simek
2011-05-31 13:52                                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-31 14:08                                       ` Michal Simek
2011-05-31 14:29                                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-29 10:21                             ` Catalin Marinas
2011-05-29 10:26                               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-05-29 12:01                                 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-05-29 13:19                                   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-05-29 21:21                                     ` Catalin Marinas
2011-05-29  9:51                           ` Catalin Marinas
2011-06-06 10:29                           ` Pavel Machek
2011-05-26 14:56                 ` Marc Zyngier
2011-05-26 15:45                 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2011-05-26 15:59                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-26 16:09                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-26 16:20                       ` Marc Zyngier
2011-05-26 16:32                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-27  8:01                           ` Marc Zyngier
2011-05-26 16:22                       ` Marc Zyngier
2011-05-26 17:04                       ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-05-26 17:17                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-26 17:23                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-26 17:49                             ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-05-27  7:01                             ` Yong Zhang
2011-05-27 15:23                             ` Santosh Shilimkar
2011-05-27 15:29                               ` Marc Zyngier
2011-05-27 15:30                                 ` Santosh Shilimkar

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