Re: [BUG] TASK_DEAD task is able to be woken up in special condition
From: KOSAKI Motohiro
Date: Thu Jan 26 2012 - 16:21:50 EST
2012/1/25 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Wed, 2011-12-28 at 16:07 -0500, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
>>
>> CPU0 CPU1
>> --------------------------------------------------------
>> deactivate_task()
>> task->state = TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE;
>> activate_task()
>> rq->nr_uninterruptible--;
>>
>> schedule()
>> deactivate_task()
>> rq->nr_uninterruptible++;
>>
>>
>
> Hmm, I think you're right, when CPU0 does __sched_setscheduler() on the
> task running on CPU1 and CPU1's @task is current.
>
> I think only __sched_setscheduler() is really a problem, the other
> activate/deactivate users not schedule or wakeup are __migrate_task()
> and normalize_task().
>
> __migrate_task() will only run on tasks that aren't actually running
> anywhere so the above scenario can't happen, normalize_task() is never
> used on normal systems (sysrq-n).
>
> So I guess the below cures things and cleans up a bit.. no?
Sorry for the delay. Yeah, I think this should work. (even though I
don't understand __migrate_task() detail)
Thank you!
Ack-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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