Re: Patch: linux-2.5.8-pre1/kernel/exit.c change caused BUG() at boot time

[Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>]

Roger Larsson wrote:
> 
> ...
> How about doing:
> 
> asmlinkage void preempt_schedule(void)
> {
>         unsigned long saved_state;
> 
>         if (unlikely(preempt_get_count()))
>                 return;
> 
>         preempt_disable(); /* or use an atomic operation */
>         saved_state = current->state;
>         current->state = TASK_RUNNING;
>         preempt_enable_no_resched(); /* we are scheduling anyway... */
>         schedule();

Interrupt occurs, puts this task in state TASK_RUNNING.

>         current->state = saved_state;

whoops.  We went back into TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE.

> }
> 

We could fix this with changes to schedule(), but that's
not nice.   Another approach would be:

preempt_schedule()
{
	current->state2 = current->state;
	current->state = TASK_RUNNING;
	schedule();
	current->state = current->state2;
}

and wake_up() would do:

	tsk->state = TASK_RUNNING;
	tsk->state2 = TASK_RUNNING;

With the appropriate locking, memory barriers and other
relevant goo I think this would work...

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