On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 12:48:05AM +0000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> In article <20030211181807.A1261@in.ibm.com>,
> Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> >With 2.5.60, dcachebench no more completes. All threads
> >go to sleep as below. Last time I tested was with an intermediated BK diff
> >(diff-bk-030204-2.5.59) and it was working fine.
>
> This should be fixed in the current BK tree. And for the non-BK-users,
> here's the relevant changeset..
>
> Linus
Yes.. this fixes the dcachebench problem.
Thanks,
Maneesh
> ---
> # This is a BitKeeper generated patch for the following project:
> # Project Name: Linux kernel tree
> # This patch format is intended for GNU patch command version 2.5 or higher.
> # This patch includes the following deltas:
> # ChangeSet 1.997.1.20 -> 1.997.1.21
> # kernel/signal.c 1.67 -> 1.68
> #
> # The following is the BitKeeper ChangeSet Log
> # --------------------------------------------
> # 03/02/11 torvalds@home.transmeta.com 1.997.1.21
> # If we set TIF_SIGPENDING for SIGCONT, we have to wake up any sleeping
> # tasks (even if we don't otherwise need to wake anything up), since
> # otherwise later signals would see that signals are already pending and
> # wouldn't cause wakeups.
> # --------------------------------------------
> #
> diff -Nru a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
> --- a/kernel/signal.c Tue Feb 11 12:13:43 2003
> +++ b/kernel/signal.c Tue Feb 11 12:13:43 2003
> @@ -619,6 +619,7 @@
> rm_from_queue(SIG_KERNEL_STOP_MASK, &p->signal->shared_pending);
> t = p;
> do {
> + unsigned int state;
> rm_from_queue(SIG_KERNEL_STOP_MASK, &t->pending);
>
> /*
> @@ -635,9 +636,12 @@
> * Wake up the stopped thread _after_ setting
> * TIF_SIGPENDING
> */
> - if (!sigismember(&t->blocked, SIGCONT))
> + state = TASK_STOPPED;
> + if (!sigismember(&t->blocked, SIGCONT)) {
> set_tsk_thread_flag(t, TIF_SIGPENDING);
> - wake_up_state(t, TASK_STOPPED);
> + state |= TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE;
> + }
> + wake_up_state(t, state);
>
> t = next_thread(t);
> } while (t != p);
>
> -
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