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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2008-11-25 09:59:20 +1030
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-11-26 07:58:29 +0100
commit1224e376f2a7e3c7ab19ef37099a78597978a696 (patch)
tree244bbf8c345ac70487ddcb6283c7895f6cbdb7dd /kernel/sched.c
parent3d8cbdf8650f44d95333ca645d950832a0653f35 (diff)
downloadlinux-1224e376f2a7e3c7ab19ef37099a78597978a696.tar.gz
sched: avoid stack var in move_task_off_dead_cpu, fix
Impact: locking fix

We can't call cpuset_cpus_allowed_locked() with the rq lock held.
However, the rq lock merely protects us from (1) cpu_online_mask changing
and (2) someone else changing p->cpus_allowed.

The first can't happen because we're being called from a cpu hotplug
notifier.  The second doesn't really matter: we are forcing the task off
a CPU it was affine to, so we're not doing very well anyway.

So we remove the rq lock from this path, and all is good.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sched.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched.c4
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 1aa840a9f585..3f5bfdc3d94d 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -6126,8 +6126,6 @@ static int __migrate_task_irq(struct task_struct *p, int src_cpu, int dest_cpu)
  */
 static void move_task_off_dead_cpu(int dead_cpu, struct task_struct *p)
 {
-	unsigned long flags;
-	struct rq *rq;
 	int dest_cpu;
 	/* FIXME: Use cpumask_of_node here. */
 	cpumask_t _nodemask = node_to_cpumask(cpu_to_node(dead_cpu));
@@ -6146,10 +6144,8 @@ again:
 
 	/* No more Mr. Nice Guy. */
 	if (dest_cpu >= nr_cpu_ids) {
-		rq = task_rq_lock(p, &flags);
 		cpuset_cpus_allowed_locked(p, &p->cpus_allowed);
 		dest_cpu = cpumask_any_and(cpu_online_mask, &p->cpus_allowed);
-		task_rq_unlock(rq, &flags);
 
 		/*
 		 * Don't tell them about moving exiting tasks or