Re: [PATCH/RFC] sched: Remove SYSTEM_RUNNING checks fromcond_resched*()

From: Anton Vorontsov
Date: Wed Jul 08 2009 - 08:03:21 EST


On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 08:24:23AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 02:50 +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> > /*
> > * It is valid to assume CPU-locality during early bootup:
> > */
> > if (system_state != SYSTEM_RUNNING)
> > goto out;
> >
> > this doesn't look right, smp_init() is called before we set
> > SYSTEM_RUNNING.
>
> The thing is, there's also ton's of code that might end up calling
> cond_resched() and co before the scheduler is fully initialized.

Hm. Speaking of cond_resched*() only, then it should be pretty
safe to convert the SYSTEM_RUNNING checks to scheduler_running,
no? scheduler_running is set after sched_init().

Something like this

diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 7c9098d..555360b 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -6561,7 +6561,7 @@ static void __cond_resched(void)
int __sched _cond_resched(void)
{
if (need_resched() && !(preempt_count() & PREEMPT_ACTIVE) &&
- system_state == SYSTEM_RUNNING) {
+ scheduler_running) {
__cond_resched();
return 1;
}
@@ -6579,7 +6579,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(_cond_resched);
*/
int cond_resched_lock(spinlock_t *lock)
{
- int resched = need_resched() && system_state == SYSTEM_RUNNING;
+ int resched = need_resched() && scheduler_running;
int ret = 0;

if (spin_needbreak(lock) || resched) {
@@ -6599,7 +6599,7 @@ int __sched cond_resched_softirq(void)
{
BUG_ON(!in_softirq());

- if (need_resched() && system_state == SYSTEM_RUNNING) {
+ if (need_resched() && scheduler_running) {
local_bh_enable();
__cond_resched();
local_bh_disable();
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