[PATCH] trace: Robustify wait loop

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 06:36:57PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> Right, I'll send the patch. 


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Subject: trace: Robustify wait loop
From: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Oct  8 18:44:26 CEST 2014

The pending nested sleep debugging triggered on the potential stale
TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE in this code.

While there, fix the loop such that we won't revert to a while(1)
yield() 'spin' loop if we ever get a spurious wakeup.

And fix the actual issue by properly terminating the 'wait' loop by
setting TASK_RUNNING.

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_events.c |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
@@ -2513,8 +2513,11 @@ static __init int event_test_thread(void
 	kfree(test_malloc);
 
 	set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
-	while (!kthread_should_stop())
+	while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
 		schedule();
+		set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
+	}
+	__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
 
 	return 0;
 }
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