Re: [BUG] TASK_DEAD task is able to be woken up in special condition

KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-12-28T21:07:55Z

(12/26/11 12:11 PM), Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 12/26, Yasunori Goto wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> IIRC, this was already discussed a bit. Say, try_to_wake_up(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE)
>>> can wakeup a TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE task if it temporary sets INTERRUPTIBLE but
>>> doesn't call schedule() in this state.
>>
>> Oleg-san,
>>
>> Could you point the discussion?
>> I don't understand yet how it occurred...
>
> Suppose that the task T does
>
> set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
>
> set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
> schedule();
>
> try_to_wake_up(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE) in between can observe this task
> in TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE state. Then it can set RUNNING/WAKING after T
> sets ->state = TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE.
>
> For example, this is possibly if T simply does wait_event() twice when
> the the 1st wait_event() doesn't sleep.
>
> Basically this is the same race you described, but I think you found
> the case when we can't tolerate the spurious wakeup.

Hi

I looked at scheduler code today briefly. now I'm afraid following code
have similar race.

if (task_contributes_to_load(p))
rq->nr_uninterruptible--;

Can't following schenario be happen?

CPU0 CPU1
--------------------------------------------------------
deactivate_task()
task->state = TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE;
activate_task()
rq->nr_uninterruptible--;

schedule()
deactivate_task()
rq->nr_uninterruptible++;

Totally, nr_uninterruptible wasn't incremented.

I'm still not sure. I need to read more sched code.