linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cpuset: current_cpuset_is_being

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Date:	Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:00:56 -0800
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	Miao Xie <miaox@...fujitsu.com>, Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpuset: current_cpuset_is_being_rebound() need rcu lock

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 09:03:03AM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 02:46:15PM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> > > rcu lockdep detected cpuset have wrong rcu usage.
> > > the fixing is trivial. but I wonder why don't cpuset_being_rebound assignment
> > > and read need a memory barrier pairing?
> > 
> > The fix is in -tip, commit 99ee4ca746dda71326db7645463b4075ac1d665c.
> > 
> > This is an initialization-time use of rcu_dereference(), so no other
> > task has a reference to this data.  Hence it is constant.  Other uses
> > of this code operate on shared data structures, which might change at
> > any time.
> 
> thanks. I haven't notice such commit.
> 
> I think you are talking about task_cs(current) accessing and you are right
> in such point.
> but I'm talking cpuset_being_rebound global variable.
> 
> update_tasks_nodemask() has following code
> 
> static void update_tasks_nodemask(struct cpuset *cs, const nodemask_t *oldmem,
>                                  struct ptr_heap *heap)
> {
>         cpuset_being_rebound = cs;		/* start transaction */
>         cgroup_scan_tasks(&scan);
>         cpuset_being_rebound = NULL;		/* end transaction */
> }

Hmmm...  What commit are you looking at in what tree?  I instead see
a much larger function body for update_tasks_nodemask().  I am looking
in a number of places, including 522dba7134d6b2e5821d3457f7941ec34f668e6d
in Linus's git tree.

							Thanx, Paul
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