linux-kernel - [tip:irq/core] sched: Switch wait_task_inactive to schedule

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Message-ID: <tip-8eb90c30e0e815a1308828352eabd03ca04229dd@git.kernel.org>
Date:	Sat, 26 Feb 2011 16:23:17 GMT
From:	tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hpa@...or.com, mingo@...hat.com,
	peterz@...radead.org, tglx@...utronix.de
Subject: [tip:irq/core] sched: Switch wait_task_inactive to schedule_hrtimeout()

Commit-ID:  8eb90c30e0e815a1308828352eabd03ca04229dd
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/8eb90c30e0e815a1308828352eabd03ca04229dd
Author:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
AuthorDate: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:52:21 +0000
Committer:  Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CommitDate: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 20:24:22 +0100

sched: Switch wait_task_inactive to schedule_hrtimeout()

When we force thread hard and soft interrupts the startup of ksoftirqd
would hang in kthread_bind() when wait_task_inactive() calls
schedule_timeout_uninterruptible() because there is no softirq yet
which will wake us up.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20110223234956.677109139@...utronix.de>
---
 kernel/sched.c |    5 ++++-
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 18d38e4..66ca5d9 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -2224,7 +2224,10 @@ unsigned long wait_task_inactive(struct task_struct *p, long match_state)
 		 * yield - it could be a while.
 		 */
 		if (unlikely(on_rq)) {
-			schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1);
+			ktime_t to = ktime_set(0, NSEC_PER_SEC/HZ);
+
+			set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
+			schedule_hrtimeout(&to, HRTIMER_MODE_REL);
 			continue;
 		}
 
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