From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
tglx@linutronix.de, oleg@redhat.com, mingo@elte.hu
Cc: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:sched/core] sched: Fix ancient race in do_exit()
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:12:02 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFyO0KxGQxYYUqmVrNqG6qVFnRT2g-kYYKtH5QG3vTnO=A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <tip-b5740f4b2cb3503b436925eb2242bc3d75cd3dfe@git.kernel.org>
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 4:03 AM, tip-bot for Yasunori Goto
<y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
>
> sched: Fix ancient race in do_exit()
Ugh.
It would be much nicer to just clear the rwsem waiter->task thing
*after* waking the task up, which would avoid this race entirely,
afaik.
Tell me, why wouldn't that work? rwsem_down_failed_common() does
/* wait to be given the lock */
for (;;) {
if (!waiter.task)
break;
...
so then we wouldn't need the task refcount crap in rwsem either etc,
and we'd get rid of all races with wakeup.
I wonder why we're clearing that whole waiter->task so early.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-28 21:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-22 0:42 [BUG] TASK_DEAD task is able to be woken up in special condition Yasunori Goto
2011-12-22 2:14 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-12-22 8:22 ` Yasunori Goto
2011-12-22 20:02 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-12-23 9:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-23 15:41 ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-12-26 8:23 ` Yasunori Goto
2011-12-26 17:11 ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-12-27 6:48 ` Yasunori Goto
2012-01-06 10:22 ` Yasunori Goto
2012-01-06 11:01 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-06 12:01 ` Yasunori Goto
2012-01-06 12:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-06 14:12 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-01-06 14:19 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-01-07 1:31 ` Yasunori Goto
2012-01-16 11:51 ` Yasunori Goto
2012-01-16 13:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-17 8:40 ` Yasunori Goto
2012-01-17 9:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-17 15:12 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-01-18 9:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-18 14:20 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-01-24 10:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-24 10:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-24 17:25 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-01-25 15:45 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-01-25 16:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-25 17:43 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-01-26 15:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-26 16:26 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-01-27 8:59 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-24 10:11 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-26 9:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-28 12:03 ` [tip:sched/core] sched: Fix ancient race in do_exit() tip-bot for Yasunori Goto
2012-01-28 21:12 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2012-01-29 16:07 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-01-29 17:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-29 18:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-29 18:59 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-01-30 16:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-06 13:48 ` [BUG] TASK_DEAD task is able to be woken up in special condition Oleg Nesterov
2011-12-28 21:07 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-01-24 10:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-24 18:01 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-01-25 6:15 ` Mike Galbraith
2012-01-26 21:24 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-01-25 10:10 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-26 20:25 ` [tip:sched/urgent] sched: Fix rq->nr_uninterruptible update race tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-27 5:20 ` Rakib Mullick
2012-01-27 8:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-27 14:11 ` Rakib Mullick
2012-01-26 21:21 ` [BUG] TASK_DEAD task is able to be woken up in special condition KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-01-27 8:21 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-26 6:52 ` Yasunori Goto
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