From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Ben Blum <bblum@google.com>, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>,
Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>,
Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>, Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>,
Paul Menage <menage@google.com>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/6] sched/cpusets fixes, more changes are needed
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:09:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100315090958.GA9116@redhat.com> (raw)
Ingo, Peter.
Unless I missed something, with or without these patches the TASK_WAKING
logic in do_fork() is very broken.
- do_fork() clears PF_STARTING and then calls wake_up_new_task()
which finally does s/WAKING/RUNNING.
But. Nobody can take rq->lock in between. This means a signal
from irq (quite possible with CLONE_THREAD) or another rt
thread which preempts us can lockup.
- the comment in wake_up_new_task says:
We still have TASK_WAKING but PF_STARTING is gone now, meaning
->cpus_allowed is stable
this is not true. Yes, nobody can take rq->lock _after_ we cleared
PF_STARTING, but it is possible that another thread took this lock
before and still holds it doing, say, sched_setaffinity().
No?
If yes. I can make a patch, but the question is: what is the point to use
TASK_WAKING in fork pathes? Can't sched_fork() set TASK_RUNNING instead?
Afaics, TASK_RUNNING can equally protect from premature wakeups but doesn't
these PF_STARTING complications.
As for this series. Please review. I don't understand how it is possible
to really test these changes.
Dear cpuset developers! Please review ;) If you don't like 6/6, please make
a better fix. I tried to make as "simple" patch as possible because I hardly
understand cpuset.c, last time I quickly read it a long ago.
Oleg.
next reply other threads:[~2010-03-15 9:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-15 9:09 Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2010-03-24 17:38 ` [PATCH 0/6] sched/cpusets fixes, more changes are needed Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-24 18:09 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-03-25 10:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-25 15:46 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-03-25 16:02 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-03-25 16:10 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-03-25 17:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-25 19:15 ` Oleg Nesterov
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