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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>2006-09-29 02:01:09 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-09-29 09:18:20 -0700
commit29b884921634e1e01cbd276e1c9b8fc07a7e4a90 (patch)
tree951fce8626715b1ad26ca81bec9002cfcb8242af /kernel
parente8106b941ceab68cc5ff713df7b1276484554584 (diff)
downloadlinux-29b884921634e1e01cbd276e1c9b8fc07a7e4a90.tar.gz
[PATCH] set EXIT_DEAD state in do_exit(), not in schedule()
schedule() checks PF_DEAD on every context switch and sets ->state = EXIT_DEAD
to ensure that the exiting task will be deactivated.  Note that this EXIT_DEAD
is in fact a "random" value, we can use any bit except normal TASK_XXX values.

It is better to set this state in do_exit() along with PF_DEAD flag and remove
that check in schedule().

We are safe wrt concurrent try_to_wake_up() (for example ptrace, tkill), it
can not change task's ->state: the 'state' argument of try_to_wake_up() can't
have EXIT_DEAD bit.  And in case when try_to_wake_up() sees a stale value of
->state == TASK_RUNNING it will do nothing.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/exit.c1
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched.c3
2 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 4a280856acd2..3d759c98fb11 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -957,6 +957,7 @@ fastcall NORET_TYPE void do_exit(long code)
 	preempt_disable();
 	BUG_ON(tsk->flags & PF_DEAD);
 	tsk->flags |= PF_DEAD;
+	tsk->state = EXIT_DEAD;
 
 	schedule();
 	BUG();
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 155a33da7aa7..e1646b044b69 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -3348,9 +3348,6 @@ need_resched_nonpreemptible:
 
 	spin_lock_irq(&rq->lock);
 
-	if (unlikely(prev->flags & PF_DEAD))
-		prev->state = EXIT_DEAD;
-
 	switch_count = &prev->nivcsw;
 	if (prev->state && !(preempt_count() & PREEMPT_ACTIVE)) {
 		switch_count = &prev->nvcsw;