linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] TASK_DEAD task is able to be woken up in special condition

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Date:	Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:32:23 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Yasunori Goto <y-goto@...fujitsu.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Hiroyuki KAMEZAWA <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Motohiro Kosaki <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Linux Kernel ML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] TASK_DEAD task is able to be woken up in special condition

On Wed, 2012-01-25 at 18:43 +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> And this time I do not understand your reply.

Hmm, I wouldn't either, I think I got ->on_cpu and ->on_rq confused. Let
me try again.

So since we never call schedule() the p->on_rq thing will always be
true. This means we don't need to consider all the icky ttwu after that,
it also means the whole thing is inside ->pi_lock.

So we only have to consider the exact case Yasunori-San illustrated, and
waiting on ->pi_lock is sufficient.

However I think your proposal:

>                 for (;;) {
>                         tsk->state = TASK_DEAD;
>                         schedule();
>                 }

should equally work, if we hit the race and call schedule() with ->state
= TASK_RUNNING, we'll simply loop and try again observing the TASK_DEAD
on the second+ go.

Now I prefer your solution since it doesn't add anything to the exit
path.
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