Re: [BUG] TASK_DEAD task is able to be woken up in special condition

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 19:22 +0900, Yasunori Goto wrote:
> I just confirmed booting up on my box, and I would like to get rough agreement
> about this way to solve this issue at first. 

I really don't like it. It makes the ttwu path more complex and more
expensive. ttwu is one of the hottest and more complex paths in the
scheduler, it needs neither more overhead nor more complexity.

I'd really much rather put another raw_spin_unlocked_wait() in do_exit()
before we set TASK_DEAD. It probably needs an smp memory barrier too.
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