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From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
To: Scott Wood <swood@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>,
	Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>,
	Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RT v3 3/5] sched: migrate_dis/enable: Use rt_invol_sleep
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 18:05:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190924160554.5esplbmnzm4q4tew@linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1a2234884e55e5ee6df5f32f828a99c1b248933f.camel@redhat.com>

On 2019-09-24 10:47:36 [-0500], Scott Wood wrote:
> When the stop machine finishes it will do a wake_up_process() via
> complete().  Since this does not pass WF_LOCK_SLEEPER, saved_state will be
> cleared, and you'll have TASK_RUNNING when you get to other_func() and
> schedule(), regardless of whether CPU1 sends wake_up() -- so this change
> doesn't actually accomplish anything.

True, I completely missed that part.

> While as noted in the other thread I don't think these spurious wakeups are
> a huge problem, we could avoid them by doing stop_one_cpu_nowait() and then
> schedule() without messing with task state.  Since we're stopping our own
> cpu, it should be guaranteed that the stopper has finished by the time we
> exit schedule().

I remember loosing a state can be a problem. Lets say it is not "just"
TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE -> TASK_RUNNING which sounds harmless but it is
__TASK_TRACED and you lose it as part of unlocking siglock.

> -Scott

Sebastian

  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-24 16:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-11 16:57 [PATCH RT v3 0/5] RCU fixes Scott Wood
2019-09-11 16:57 ` [PATCH RT v3 1/5] rcu: Acquire RCU lock when disabling BHs Scott Wood
2019-09-12 22:09   ` Joel Fernandes
2019-09-17  7:44   ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-09-17 14:06     ` Scott Wood
2019-09-17 14:42       ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-09-17 16:12         ` Scott Wood
2019-09-23 16:41           ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-09-11 16:57 ` [PATCH RT v3 2/5] sched: Rename sleeping_lock to rt_invol_sleep Scott Wood
2019-09-17  7:52   ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-09-11 16:57 ` [PATCH RT v3 3/5] sched: migrate_dis/enable: Use rt_invol_sleep Scott Wood
2019-09-17  7:59   ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-09-17 14:06     ` Scott Wood
2019-09-23 16:59       ` Scott Wood
2019-09-23 17:52         ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-09-24 11:21           ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-09-24 13:53             ` Scott Wood
2019-09-24 15:25               ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-09-24 15:47                 ` Scott Wood
2019-09-24 16:05                   ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior [this message]
2019-09-24 16:35                     ` Scott Wood
2019-10-04 16:45                       ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-09-11 16:57 ` [PATCH RT v3 4/5] rcu: Disable use_softirq on PREEMPT_RT Scott Wood
2019-09-12 21:38   ` Joel Fernandes
2019-09-12 22:19     ` Joel Fernandes
2019-09-17  9:31     ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-09-17 14:08   ` Scott Wood
2019-09-11 16:57 ` [PATCH RT v3 5/5] rcutorture: Avoid problematic critical section nesting on RT Scott Wood
2019-09-12 22:17   ` Joel Fernandes
2019-09-16 16:55     ` Scott Wood
2019-09-17 10:07       ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-09-17 14:36         ` Scott Wood
2019-09-17 14:50           ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-09-17 16:32             ` Scott Wood
2019-09-23 16:25               ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior

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