Re: [RFC PATCH 6/9] sched: Treat try_to_block_task with pending signal as wakeup

Nam Cao
2025-04-15T11:05:01Z

On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 12:31:12PM +0200, Gabriele Monaco wrote:
> Mmh, that's a good point.
> The thing is: this happens when the signal is generated while we are
> scheduling (on different CPUs), so we take a short-cut and put the task
> to running directly.
> This thing is already racy, so we may or may not see the waking/wakeup.
>
> Now probably waking shouldn't be there for the reason you said, but I'm
> not sure a wakeup not following a waking would be correct either.
> I might be missing something here, though.

I'm not familiar with signal and sched, so I don't have anything more to
add, sorry.

I presume this is to make the srs monitor works? Perhaps it is possible to
modify the model so that this patch is not required? Let me stare at srs,
maybe I will have something..

Nam