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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.


             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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