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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: dmorris@metavize.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6.2] Badness in futex_wait revisited
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 21:27:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040216212758.437af444.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040217051911.6AC112C066@lists.samba.org>

Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
>
> -	if (likely(!list_empty(&q.list)))
>  +	if (likely(!list_empty(&q.list))) {
>  +		current->flags |= PF_FUTEX_DEBUG;
>   		time = schedule_timeout(time);
>  +		current->flags &= ~PF_FUTEX_DEBUG;
>  +	}
>   	__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
>   
>   	/*
>  diff -urpN --exclude TAGS -X /home/rusty/devel/kernel/kernel-patches/current-dontdiff --minimal .6375-linux-2.6.3-rc3-bk1/kernel/sched.c .6375-linux-2.6.3-rc3-bk1.updated/kernel/sched.c
>  --- .6375-linux-2.6.3-rc3-bk1/kernel/sched.c	2004-02-15 18:17:22.000000000 +1100
>  +++ .6375-linux-2.6.3-rc3-bk1.updated/kernel/sched.c	2004-02-17 12:02:24.000000000 +1100
>  @@ -658,6 +658,14 @@ static int try_to_wake_up(task_t * p, un
>   	long old_state;
>   	runqueue_t *rq;
>   
>  +	if ((p->flags & PF_FUTEX_DEBUG)
>  +	    && !(current->flags & PF_FUTEX_DEBUG)) {
>  +		printk("%s %i waking %s: %i %i\n",
>  +		       current->comm, (int)in_interrupt(),
>  +		       p->comm, p->tgid, p->pid);
>  +		WARN_ON(1);
>  +	}
>  +

If the schedule_timeout() expires then this wakeup will occur from within
the timer interrupt - current could point at any old thing.  We will get
bogus warnings.



  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-17  5:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <40311703.8070309@metavize.com>
2004-02-17  4:39 ` [2.6.2] Badness in futex_wait revisited Rusty Russell
2004-02-17  5:27   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-02-18  4:14     ` Rusty Russell
2004-02-17 19:55   ` Dirk Morris
2004-03-31 16:56   ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-31 17:38     ` Dirk Morris
2004-03-31 18:32       ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-31 18:59         ` Dirk Morris
2004-04-01  2:16           ` Rusty Russell
2004-04-01  8:34             ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-01  9:24               ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-01  1:57     ` Rusty Russell
2004-02-13 21:13 Dirk Morris
2004-02-16 11:42 ` Rusty Russell

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