From: peterz@infradead.org (Peter Zijlstra)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [BUG] "sched: Remove rq->lock from the first half of ttwu()" locks up on ARM
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 12:32:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1306405979.1200.63.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=XbTXQsu3jUEvQyCfBy6-aRnqSpw@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 15:29 +0800, Yong Zhang wrote:
> > Figuring out why the existing condition failed
>
> Seems 'current' will change before/after switch_to since it's derived from
> sp register.
> So that means if interrupt come before we switch sp, 'p == current' will
> catch it, but if interrupt comes after we switch sp, we will lose a wake up.
Well, loosing a wakeup isn't the problem here (although it would be a
problem), the immediate problem is that we're getting stuck
(life-locked) in that while (p->on_cpu) loop.
But yes, I think that explains it, if the interrupts hits
context_switch() after current was changed but before clearing
p->on_cpu, we would life-lock in interrupt context.
Now we could of course go add in_interrupt() checks there, but that
would make this already fragile path more interesting, so I think I'll
stick with the proposed patch -- again provided it actually works.
Marc, any word on that?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-26 10:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-24 18:13 [BUG] "sched: Remove rq->lock from the first half of ttwu()" locks up on ARM Marc Zyngier
2011-05-24 21:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-24 21:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-25 12:23 ` Marc Zyngier
2011-05-25 17:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-25 21:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-26 7:29 ` Yong Zhang
2011-05-26 10:32 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2011-05-26 11:02 ` Marc Zyngier
2011-05-26 11:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-26 12:21 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-26 12:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-26 12:31 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-05-26 12:37 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-26 12:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-26 13:36 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-05-26 14:45 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-05-27 12:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-27 17:55 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-05-27 19:41 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-05-27 20:52 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-05-28 13:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-31 11:08 ` Michal Simek
2011-05-31 13:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-31 13:37 ` Michal Simek
2011-05-31 13:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-31 14:08 ` Michal Simek
2011-05-31 14:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-29 10:21 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-05-29 10:26 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-05-29 12:01 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-05-29 13:19 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-05-29 21:21 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-05-29 9:51 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-06-06 10:29 ` Pavel Machek
2011-05-26 14:56 ` Marc Zyngier
2011-05-26 15:45 ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-05-26 15:59 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-26 16:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-26 16:20 ` Marc Zyngier
2011-05-26 16:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-27 8:01 ` Marc Zyngier
2011-05-26 16:22 ` Marc Zyngier
2011-05-26 17:04 ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-05-26 17:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-26 17:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-26 17:49 ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-05-27 7:01 ` Yong Zhang
2011-05-27 15:23 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2011-05-27 15:29 ` Marc Zyngier
2011-05-27 15:30 ` Santosh Shilimkar
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