-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Ingo Molnar Remove the __resched_legal() check: it is conceptually broken. The biggest problem it had is that it can mask buggy cond_resched() calls. A cond_resched() call is only legal if we are not in an atomic context, with two narrow exceptions: - if the system is booting - a reacquire_kernel_lock() down() done while PREEMPT_ACTIVE is set But __resched_legal() hid this and just silently returned whenever these primitives were called from invalid contexts. (Same goes for cond_resched_locked() and cond_resched_softirq()). Furthermore, the __legal_resched(0) call was buggy in that it caused unnecessarily long softirq latencies via cond_resched_softirq(). (which is only called from softirq-off sections, hence the code did nothing.) The fix is to resurrect the efficiency of the might_sleep checks and to only allow the narrow exceptions. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds [chrisw: backport to 2.6.19.2] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright --- kernel/sched.c | 16 ++++------------ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.19.2.orig/kernel/sched.c +++ linux-2.6.19.2/kernel/sched.c @@ -4524,15 +4524,6 @@ asmlinkage long sys_sched_yield(void) return 0; } -static inline int __resched_legal(int expected_preempt_count) -{ - if (unlikely(preempt_count() != expected_preempt_count)) - return 0; - if (unlikely(system_state != SYSTEM_RUNNING)) - return 0; - return 1; -} - static void __cond_resched(void) { #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP @@ -4552,7 +4543,8 @@ static void __cond_resched(void) int __sched cond_resched(void) { - if (need_resched() && __resched_legal(0)) { + if (need_resched() && !(preempt_count() & PREEMPT_ACTIVE) && + system_state == SYSTEM_RUNNING) { __cond_resched(); return 1; } @@ -4578,7 +4570,7 @@ int cond_resched_lock(spinlock_t *lock) ret = 1; spin_lock(lock); } - if (need_resched() && __resched_legal(1)) { + if (need_resched() && system_state == SYSTEM_RUNNING) { spin_release(&lock->dep_map, 1, _THIS_IP_); _raw_spin_unlock(lock); preempt_enable_no_resched(); @@ -4594,7 +4586,7 @@ int __sched cond_resched_softirq(void) { BUG_ON(!in_softirq()); - if (need_resched() && __resched_legal(0)) { + if (need_resched() && system_state == SYSTEM_RUNNING) { raw_local_irq_disable(); _local_bh_enable(); raw_local_irq_enable(); -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/