Re: [PATCH v4 28/39] unwind_user/deferred: Add deferred unwinding interface

Peter Zijlstra
2025-01-23T08:25:49Z

On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 08:05:33PM -0800, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:

> However... would it be a horrible idea for 'next' to unwind 'prev' after
> the context switch???

The idea isn't terrible, but it will be all sorta of tricky.

The big immediate problem is that the CPU doing the context switch
looses control over prev at:

__schedule()
context_switch()
finish_task_switch()
finish_task()
smp_store_release(&prev->on_cpu, 0);

And this is before we drop rq->lock.

The instruction after that store another CPU is free to claim the task
and run with it. Notably, another CPU might already be spin waiting on
that state, trying to wake the task back up.

By the time we get to a schedulable context, @prev is completely out of
bounds.