We're going to make might_sleep() test for TASK_RUNNING, because blocking without TASK_RUNNING will destroy the task state by setting it to TASK_RUNNING. There are a few occasions where its 'valid' to call blocking primitives (and mutex_lock in particular) and not have TASK_RUNNING, typically such cases are right before we set TASK_RUNNING anyhow. Robustify the code by not assuming this; this has the beneficial side effect of allowing optional code emission for fixing the above might_sleep() false positives. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) --- kernel/locking/mutex.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/locking/mutex.c +++ b/kernel/locking/mutex.c @@ -378,8 +378,14 @@ static bool mutex_optimistic_spin(struct * reschedule now, before we try-lock the mutex. This avoids getting * scheduled out right after we obtained the mutex. */ - if (need_resched()) + if (need_resched()) { + /* + * We _should_ have TASK_RUNNING here, but just in case + * we do not, make it so, otherwise we might get stuck. + */ + __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING); schedule_preempt_disabled(); + } return false; } -- 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/