From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1966FC433FF for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2019 15:39:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D44D92171F for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2019 15:39:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729151AbfHAPjm (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Aug 2019 11:39:42 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:53002 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726756AbfHAPjm (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Aug 2019 11:39:42 -0400 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.11]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 426F9A9D99; Thu, 1 Aug 2019 15:39:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dhcp-27-174.brq.redhat.com (unknown [10.43.17.136]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 71F1C60471; Thu, 1 Aug 2019 15:39:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by dhcp-27-174.brq.redhat.com (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1000 oleg@redhat.com; Thu, 1 Aug 2019 17:39:42 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2019 17:39:36 +0200 From: Oleg Nesterov To: Thomas Gleixner Cc: LKML , x86@kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , Sebastian Siewior , Anna-Maria Gleixner , Steven Rostedt , Julia Cartwright , Paul McKenney , Frederic Weisbecker , John Stultz , Andy Lutomirski , "Paul E. McKenney" , kvm@vger.kernel.org, Radim Krcmar , Paolo Bonzini Subject: Re: [patch 4/5] posix-cpu-timers: Defer timer handling to task_work Message-ID: <20190801153936.GD31538@redhat.com> References: <20190801143250.370326052@linutronix.de> <20190801143658.074833024@linutronix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20190801143658.074833024@linutronix.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.11 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.30]); Thu, 01 Aug 2019 15:39:42 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 08/01, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > +static void __run_posix_cpu_timers(struct task_struct *tsk) > +{ > + /* FIXME: Init it proper in fork or such */ > + init_task_work(&tsk->cpu_timer_work, posix_cpu_timers_work); > + task_work_add(tsk, &tsk->cpu_timer_work, true); > +} What if update_process_times/run_posix_cpu_timers is called again before this task does task_work_run() ? somehow it should check that ->cpu_timer_work is not already queued... Or suppose that this is called when task_work_run() executes this cpu_timer_work. Looks like you need another flag checked by __run_posix_cpu_timers() and cleare in posix_cpu_timers_work() ? Oleg.