Re: [PATCH v2 5/8] sched,x86: Enable Turbo Boost Max Technology

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 11:09:28AM -0700, Tim Chen wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 09:59:55AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > I think there's a race here, if two tasks were to write to the sysctl
> > they'd both change the value before getting stuck on the mutex in
> > enable_sched_itmt().
> > 
> > One way around that is doing something like:
> > 
> > 
> > 	struct ctl_table t;
> > 	int val = sysctl_sched_itmt_enabled;
> > 
> > 	t = *table;
> > 	t.data = &val;
> > 
> > 	proc_dointvec_minmax(&t, ...);
> > 
> > 	/* and update the sysctl_sched_itmt_enabled value inside the mutex */
> > 	enable_sched_itmi(val);
> 
> Peter,
> 
> Since enable_sched_itmt is only used by sched_itmt_update_handler,
> I've moved the mutex locking to sched_itmt_update_handler to eliminate
> the race condition in the code path you mentioned.

That is indeed simpler. Thanks!