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author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2014-08-04 06:10:23 -0700 |
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committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2014-09-07 16:27:22 -0700 |
commit | 3f95aa81d265223fdb13ea2b59883766a05adbdf (patch) | |
tree | 5b6d2c42aaf8b20397bd09c0ac31738618f57046 /CREDITS | |
parent | 53c6d4edf874d3cbc031a53738c6cba9277faea5 (diff) | |
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rcu: Make TASKS_RCU handle tasks that are almost done exiting
Once a task has passed exit_notify() in the do_exit() code path, it
is no longer on the task lists, and is therefore no longer visible
to rcu_tasks_kthread(). This means that an almost-exited task might
be preempted while within a trampoline, and this task won't be waited
on by rcu_tasks_kthread(). This commit fixes this bug by adding an
srcu_struct. An exiting task does srcu_read_lock() just before calling
exit_notify(), and does the corresponding srcu_read_unlock() after
doing the final preempt_disable(). This means that rcu_tasks_kthread()
can do synchronize_srcu() to wait for all mostly-exited tasks to reach
their final preempt_disable() region, and then use synchronize_sched()
to wait for those tasks to finish exiting.
Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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