On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 01:20:29PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 06:18:20PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > On 04/26, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > >
> > > For the others, I think we want to do something like the below. I still
> > > need to look at TASK_TRACED, which I suspect is also special,
> >
> > ptrace_freeze_traced() and ptrace_unfreeze_traced() should be fine, but
> > ptrace_stop() wants set_special_state() too, I think.
>
> Thanks for going through that, I'll update the patch.
Something like so then... I'll go write me some Changelog.
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index b3d697f3b573..51f46704e566 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -112,17 +112,38 @@ struct task_group;
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP
+/*
+ * Special states are those that do not use the normal wait-loop pattern. See
+ * the comment with set_special_state().
+ */
+#define is_special_task_state(state) \
+ ((state) == TASK_DEAD || \
+ (state) == TASK_STOPPED || \
+ (state) == TASK_TRACED)
+
#define __set_current_state(state_value) \
do { \
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(is_special_task_state(state)); \
current->task_state_change = _THIS_IP_; \
current->state = (state_value); \
} while (0)
+
#define set_current_state(state_value) \
do { \
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(is_special_task_state(state)); \
current->task_state_change = _THIS_IP_; \
smp_store_mb(current->state, (state_value)); \
} while (0)
+#define set_special_state(state_value) \
+ do { \
+ unsigned long flags; /* may shadow */ \
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(!is_special_task_state(state_value)); \
+ raw_spin_lock_irqsave(¤t->pi_lock, flags); \
+ current->task_state_change = _THIS_IP_; \
+ current->state = (state_value); \
+ raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(¤t->pi_lock, flags); \
+ } while (0)
#else
/*
* set_current_state() includes a barrier so that the write of current->state
@@ -144,8 +165,8 @@ struct task_group;
*
* The above is typically ordered against the wakeup, which does:
*
- * need_sleep = false;
- * wake_up_state(p, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
+ * need_sleep = false;
+ * wake_up_state(p, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
*
* Where wake_up_state() (and all other wakeup primitives) imply enough
* barriers to order the store of the variable against wakeup.
@@ -154,12 +175,33 @@ struct task_group;
* once it observes the TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE store the waking CPU can issue a
* TASK_RUNNING store which can collide with __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING).
*
- * This is obviously fine, since they both store the exact same value.
+ * However, with slightly different timing the wakeup TASK_RUNNING store can
+ * also collide with the TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE store. Loosing that store is not
+ * a problem either because that will result in one extra go around the loop
+ * and our @cond test will save the day.
*
* Also see the comments of try_to_wake_up().
*/
-#define __set_current_state(state_value) do { current->state = (state_value);
} while (0)
-#define set_current_state(state_value) smp_store_mb(current->state,
(state_value))
+#define __set_current_state(state_value) \
+ current->state = (state_value)
+
+#define set_current_state(state_value) \
+ smp_store_mb(current->state, (state_value))
+
+/*
+ * set_special_state() should be used for those states when the blocking task
+ * can not use the regular condition based wait-loop. In that case we must
+ * serialize against wakeups such that any possible in-flight TASK_RUNNING
stores
+ * will not collide with our state change.
+ */
+#define set_special_state(state_value) \
+ do { \
+ unsigned long flags; /* may shadow */ \
+ raw_spin_lock_irqsave(¤t->pi_lock, flags); \
+ current->state = (state_value); \
+ raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(¤t->pi_lock, flags); \
+ } while (0)
+
#endif
/* Task command name length: */
diff --git a/include/linux/sched/signal.h b/include/linux/sched/signal.h
index a7ce74c74e49..113d1ad1ced7 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(¤t->sighand->siglock);
if (current->jobctl & JOBCTL_STOP_DEQUEUED)
- __set_current_state(TASK_STOPPED);
+ set_special_state(TASK_STOPPED);
spin_unlock_irq(¤t->sighand->siglock);
schedule();
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 5e10aaeebfcc..3898a8047c11 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -3498,23 +3498,8 @@ static void __sched notrace __schedule(bool preempt)
void __noreturn do_task_dead(void)
{
- /*
- * The setting of TASK_RUNNING by try_to_wake_up() may be delayed
- * when the following two conditions become true.
- * - There is race condition of mmap_sem (It is acquired by
- * exit_mm()), and
- * - SMI occurs before setting TASK_RUNINNG.
- * (or hypervisor of virtual machine switches to other guest)
- * As a result, we may become TASK_RUNNING after becoming TASK_DEAD
- *
- * To avoid it, we have to wait for releasing tsk->pi_lock which
- * is held by try_to_wake_up()
- */
- raw_spin_lock_irq(¤t->pi_lock);
- raw_spin_unlock_irq(¤t->pi_lock);
-
/* Causes final put_task_struct in finish_task_switch(): */
- __set_current_state(TASK_DEAD);
+ set_special_state(TASK_DEAD);
/* Tell freezer to ignore us: */
current->flags |= PF_NOFREEZE;
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index d4ccea599692..564ee214e80a 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -1968,7 +1968,7 @@ static void ptrace_stop(int exit_code, int why, int
clear_code, siginfo_t *info)
* atomic with respect to siglock and should be done after the arch
* hook as siglock is released and regrabbed across it.
*/
- set_current_state(TASK_TRACED);
+ set_special_state(TASK_TRACED);
current->last_siginfo = info;
current->exit_code = exit_code;
@@ -2176,7 +2176,7 @@ static bool do_signal_stop(int signr)
if (task_participate_group_stop(current))
notify = CLD_STOPPED;
- __set_current_state(TASK_STOPPED);
+ set_special_state(TASK_STOPPED);
spin_unlock_irq(¤t->sighand->siglock);
/*
