linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 123/126] sched/core: Remove false-positive warning from wake_up

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Message-Id: <1452076655-12851-124-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com>
Date:	Wed,  6 Jan 2016 10:37:32 +0000
From:	Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com
Cc:	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>,
	"Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, oleg@...hat.com,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 123/126] sched/core: Remove false-positive warning from wake_up_process()

3.16.7-ckt22 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>

commit 119d6f6a3be8b424b200dcee56e74484d5445f7e upstream.

Because wakeups can (fundamentally) be late, a task might not be in
the expected state. Therefore testing against a task's state is racy,
and can yield false positives.

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: oleg@...hat.com
Fixes: 9067ac85d533 ("wake_up_process() should be never used to wakeup a TASK_STOPPED/TRACED task")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1448933660-23082-1-git-send-email-sasha.levin@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
---
 kernel/sched/core.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 0417f4b1a5f3..c49c16c405b7 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -1772,7 +1772,6 @@ out:
  */
 int wake_up_process(struct task_struct *p)
 {
-	WARN_ON(task_is_stopped_or_traced(p));
 	return try_to_wake_up(p, TASK_NORMAL, 0);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(wake_up_process);
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