Commit 741a76b3 authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Ingo Molnar

kthread, sched/wait: Fix kthread_parkme() wait-loop

Gaurav reported a problem with __kthread_parkme() where a concurrent
try_to_wake_up() could result in competing stores to ->state which,
when the TASK_PARKED store got lost bad things would happen.

The comment near set_current_state() actually mentions this competing
store, but only mentions the case against TASK_RUNNING. This same
store, with different timing, can happen against a subsequent !RUNNING
store.

This normally is not a problem, because as per that same comment, the
!RUNNING state store is inside a condition based wait-loop:

  for (;;) {
    set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
    if (!need_sleep)
      break;
    schedule();
  }
  __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);

If we loose the (first) TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE store to a previous
(concurrent) wakeup, the schedule() will NO-OP and we'll go around the
loop once more.

The problem here is that the TASK_PARKED store is not inside the
KTHREAD_SHOULD_PARK condition wait-loop.

There is a genuine issue with sleeps that do not have a condition;
this is addressed in a subsequent patch.
Reported-by: default avatarGaurav Kohli <gkohli@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 457be908
......@@ -177,12 +177,13 @@ void *kthread_probe_data(struct task_struct *task)
static void __kthread_parkme(struct kthread *self)
{
__set_current_state(TASK_PARKED);
while (test_bit(KTHREAD_SHOULD_PARK, &self->flags)) {
for (;;) {
set_current_state(TASK_PARKED);
if (!test_bit(KTHREAD_SHOULD_PARK, &self->flags))
break;
if (!test_and_set_bit(KTHREAD_IS_PARKED, &self->flags))
complete(&self->parked);
schedule();
__set_current_state(TASK_PARKED);
}
clear_bit(KTHREAD_IS_PARKED, &self->flags);
__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
......
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