sched/core: Introduce set_special_state()

Gaurav reported a perceived problem with TASK_PARKED, which turned out
to be a broken wait-loop pattern in __kthread_parkme(), but the
reported issue can (and does) in fact happen for states that do not do
condition based sleeps.

When the 'current->state = TASK_RUNNING' store of a previous
(concurrent) try_to_wake_up() collides with the setting of a 'special'
sleep state, we can loose the sleep state.

Normal condition based wait-loops are immune to this problem, but for
sleep states that are not condition based are subject to this problem.

There already is a fix for TASK_DEAD. Abstract that and also apply it
to TASK_STOPPED and TASK_TRACED, both of which are also without
condition based wait-loop.

Reported-by: Gaurav Kohli <gkohli@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Oleg 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: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sched/signal.h b/include/linux/sched/signal.h
index a7ce74c..113d1ad 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched/signal.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/signal.h
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ static inline void kernel_signal_stop(void)
 {
 	spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
 	if (current->jobctl & JOBCTL_STOP_DEQUEUED)
-		__set_current_state(TASK_STOPPED);
+		set_special_state(TASK_STOPPED);
 	spin_unlock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
 
 	schedule();