Re: [PATCH RT v3 3/5] sched: migrate_dis/enable: Use rt_invol_sleep

From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Date: Tue Sep 24 2019 - 12:05:59 EST


On 2019-09-24 10:47:36 [-0500], Scott Wood wrote:
> When the stop machine finishes it will do a wake_up_process() via
> complete(). Since this does not pass WF_LOCK_SLEEPER, saved_state will be
> cleared, and you'll have TASK_RUNNING when you get to other_func() and
> schedule(), regardless of whether CPU1 sends wake_up() -- so this change
> doesn't actually accomplish anything.

True, I completely missed that part.

> While as noted in the other thread I don't think these spurious wakeups are
> a huge problem, we could avoid them by doing stop_one_cpu_nowait() and then
> schedule() without messing with task state. Since we're stopping our own
> cpu, it should be guaranteed that the stopper has finished by the time we
> exit schedule().

I remember loosing a state can be a problem. Lets say it is not "just"
TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE -> TASK_RUNNING which sounds harmless but it is
__TASK_TRACED and you lose it as part of unlocking siglock.

> -Scott

Sebastian