In order to call ttwu_stat() without holding rq->lock we must remove its rq argument. Since we need to change rq stats, account to the local rq instead of the task rq, this is safe since we have IRQs disabled. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand --- kernel/sched.c | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sched.c +++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c @@ -2413,10 +2413,11 @@ static void update_avg(u64 *avg, u64 sam #endif static void -ttwu_stat(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int cpu, int wake_flags) +ttwu_stat(struct task_struct *p, int cpu, int wake_flags) { #ifdef CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS int this_cpu = smp_processor_id(); + struct rq *rq = this_rq(); schedstat_inc(rq, ttwu_count); schedstat_inc(p, se.statistics.nr_wakeups); @@ -2555,9 +2556,10 @@ try_to_wake_up(struct task_struct *p, un p->on_rq = 1; out_running: ttwu_post_activation(p, rq, wake_flags); - ttwu_stat(rq, p, cpu, wake_flags); success = 1; __task_rq_unlock(rq); + + ttwu_stat(p, cpu, wake_flags); out: raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&p->pi_lock, flags); put_cpu(); @@ -2591,7 +2593,7 @@ static void try_to_wake_up_local(struct activate_task(rq, p, ENQUEUE_WAKEUP); ttwu_post_activation(p, rq, 0); - ttwu_stat(rq, p, smp_processor_id(), 0); + ttwu_stat(p, smp_processor_id(), 0); out: raw_spin_unlock(&p->pi_lock); }