[34-longterm 092/260] rcu: apply RCU protection to wake_affine()

Paul Gortmaker
2011-01-02T07:22:59Z

From: Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com>

commit f3b577dec1f2ce32d2db6d2ca6badff7002512af upstream.

The task_group() function returns a pointer that must be protected
by either RCU, the ->alloc_lock, or the cgroup lock (see the
rcu_dereference_check() in task_subsys_state(), which is invoked by
task_group()). The wake_affine() function currently does none of these,
which means that a concurrent update would be within its rights to free
the structure returned by task_group(). Because wake_affine() uses this
structure only to compute load-balancing heuristics, there is no reason
to acquire either of the two locks.

Therefore, this commit introduces an RCU read-side critical section that
starts before the first call to task_group() and ends after the last use
of the "tg" pointer returned from task_group(). Thanks to Li Zefan for
pointing out the need to extend the RCU read-side critical section from
that proposed by the original patch.

Signed-off-by: Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
---
kernel/sched_fair.c | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched_fair.c b/kernel/sched_fair.c
index 461d312..94993ac 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched_fair.c
@@ -1272,6 +1272,7 @@ static int wake_affine(struct sched_domain *sd, struct task_struct *p, int sync)
* effect of the currently running task from the load
* of the current CPU:
*/
+ rcu_read_lock();
if (sync) {
tg = task_group(current);
weight = current->se.load.weight;
@@ -1297,6 +1298,7 @@ static int wake_affine(struct sched_domain *sd, struct task_struct *p, int sync)
balanced = !this_load ||
100*(this_load + effective_load(tg, this_cpu, weight, weight)) <=
imbalance*(load + effective_load(tg, prev_cpu, 0, weight));
+ rcu_read_unlock();

/*
* If the currently running task will sleep within
--
1.7.3.3