From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: "Kohli, Gaurav" <gkohli@codeaurora.org>
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, mpe@ellerman.id.au, mingo@kernel.org,
bigeasy@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org,
Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@codeaurora.org>,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] kthread/smpboot: Serialize kthread parking against wakeup
Date: Tue, 1 May 2018 12:44:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180501104459.GF12235@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180501101845.GE12217@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 12:18:45PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Aaaah... I think I've spotted a problem there. We clear SHOULD_PARK
> before we rebind, so if the thread lost the first PARKED store,
> does the completion, gets migrated, cycles through the loop and now
> observes !SHOULD_PARK and bails the wait-loop, then __kthread_bind()
> will forever wait.
Something like so perhaps...
--- a/kernel/kthread.c
+++ b/kernel/kthread.c
@@ -451,6 +451,21 @@ void kthread_unpark(struct task_struct *
{
struct kthread *kthread = to_kthread(k);
+ if (test_bit(KTHREAD_IS_PARKED)) {
+ /*
+ * Newly created kthread was parked when the CPU was offline.
+ * The binding was lost and we need to set it again.
+ */
+ if (test_bit(KTHREAD_IS_PER_CPU, &kthread->flags))
+ __kthread_bind(k, kthread->cpu, TASK_PARKED);
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Ensures the IS_PARKED load precedes the !SHOULD_PARK store.
+ * matched by the smp_mb() from test_and_set_bit() in __kthread_parkme().
+ */
+ smp_mb__before_atomic();
+
clear_bit(KTHREAD_SHOULD_PARK, &kthread->flags);
/*
* We clear the IS_PARKED bit here as we don't wait
@@ -458,15 +473,8 @@ void kthread_unpark(struct task_struct *
* park before that happens we'd see the IS_PARKED bit
* which might be about to be cleared.
*/
- if (test_and_clear_bit(KTHREAD_IS_PARKED, &kthread->flags)) {
- /*
- * Newly created kthread was parked when the CPU was offline.
- * The binding was lost and we need to set it again.
- */
- if (test_bit(KTHREAD_IS_PER_CPU, &kthread->flags))
- __kthread_bind(k, kthread->cpu, TASK_PARKED);
+ if (test_and_clear_bit(KTHREAD_IS_PARKED, &kthread->flags))
wake_up_state(k, TASK_PARKED);
- }
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kthread_unpark);
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-01 10:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-25 8:33 [PATCH v1] kthread/smpboot: Serialize kthread parking against wakeup Gaurav Kohli
2018-04-25 20:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-04-26 4:04 ` Kohli, Gaurav
2018-04-26 9:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-04-26 8:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-04-26 8:57 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-04-26 15:53 ` Kohli, Gaurav
2018-04-30 11:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-01 7:50 ` Kohli, Gaurav
2018-05-01 10:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-01 10:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-01 10:40 ` Kohli, Gaurav
2018-05-01 11:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-01 11:46 ` Kohli, Gaurav
2018-05-01 13:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-02 5:15 ` Kohli, Gaurav
2018-05-02 8:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-02 10:13 ` Kohli, Gaurav
2018-05-07 11:09 ` Kohli, Gaurav
2018-05-07 11:23 ` Kohli, Gaurav
2018-06-05 11:13 ` Kohli, Gaurav
2018-06-05 15:08 ` Oleg Nesterov
2018-06-05 15:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-06-05 15:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-06-05 16:35 ` Oleg Nesterov
2018-06-05 18:21 ` Kohli, Gaurav
2018-06-05 20:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-06-06 13:51 ` Oleg Nesterov
2018-06-06 15:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-06-06 15:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-06-06 15:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-06-06 18:59 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-06-07 8:30 ` Kohli, Gaurav
2018-05-01 10:44 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2018-04-26 16:02 ` Andrea Parri
2018-04-26 16:18 ` Oleg Nesterov
2018-04-30 11:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-04-30 11:56 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-04-28 6:43 ` [lkp-robot] [kthread/smpboot] cad8e99675: inconsistent{IN-HARDIRQ-W}->{HARDIRQ-ON-W}usage kernel test robot
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