Gaurav reports that commit: 85f1abe0019f ("kthread, sched/wait: Fix kthread_parkme() completion issue") isn't working for him. Because of the following race: > controller Thread CPUHP Thread > takedown_cpu > kthread_park > kthread_parkme > Set KTHREAD_SHOULD_PARK > smpboot_thread_fn > set Task interruptible > > > wake_up_process > if (!(p->state & state)) > goto out; > > Kthread_parkme > SET TASK_PARKED > schedule > raw_spin_lock(&rq->lock) > ttwu_remote > waiting for __task_rq_lock > context_switch > > finish_lock_switch > > > > Case TASK_PARKED > kthread_park_complete > > > SET Running Furthermore, Oleg noticed that the whole scheduler TASK_PARKED handling is buggered because the TASK_DEAD thing is done with preemption disabled, the current code can still complete early on preemption :/ So basically revert that earlier fix and go with a variant of the alternative mentioned in the commit. Promote TASK_PARKED to special state to avoid the store-store issue on task->state leading to the WARN in kthread_unpark() -> __kthread_bind(). But in addition, add wait_task_inactive() to kthread_park() to ensure the task really is PARKED when we return from kthread_park(). This avoids the whole kthread still gets migrated nonsense -- although it would be really good to get this done differently. Cc: Oleg Nesterov Reported-by: Gaurav Kohli Fixes: 85f1abe0019f ("kthread, sched/wait: Fix kthread_parkme() completion issue") Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) --- include/linux/kthread.h | 1 - include/linux/sched.h | 2 +- kernel/kthread.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------ kernel/sched/core.c | 31 +++++++++++-------------------- 4 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-) --- a/include/linux/kthread.h +++ b/include/linux/kthread.h @@ -62,7 +62,6 @@ void *kthread_probe_data(struct task_str int kthread_park(struct task_struct *k); void kthread_unpark(struct task_struct *k); void kthread_parkme(void); -void kthread_park_complete(struct task_struct *k); int kthreadd(void *unused); extern struct task_struct *kthreadd_task; --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ struct task_group; * the comment with set_special_state(). */ #define is_special_task_state(state) \ - ((state) & (__TASK_STOPPED | __TASK_TRACED | TASK_DEAD)) + ((state) & (__TASK_STOPPED | __TASK_TRACED | TASK_PARKED | TASK_DEAD)) #define __set_current_state(state_value) \ do { \ --- a/kernel/kthread.c +++ b/kernel/kthread.c @@ -177,9 +177,20 @@ void *kthread_probe_data(struct task_str static void __kthread_parkme(struct kthread *self) { for (;;) { - set_current_state(TASK_PARKED); + /* + * TASK_PARKED is a special state; we must serialize against + * possible pending wakeups to avoid store-store collisions on + * task->state. + * + * Such a collision might possibly result in the task state + * changin from TASK_PARKED and us failing the + * wait_task_inactive() in kthread_park(). + */ + set_special_state(TASK_PARKED); if (!test_bit(KTHREAD_SHOULD_PARK, &self->flags)) break; + + complete_all(&self->parked); schedule(); } __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING); @@ -191,11 +202,6 @@ void kthread_parkme(void) } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kthread_parkme); -void kthread_park_complete(struct task_struct *k) -{ - complete_all(&to_kthread(k)->parked); -} - static int kthread(void *_create) { /* Copy data: it's on kthread's stack */ @@ -461,6 +467,9 @@ void kthread_unpark(struct task_struct * reinit_completion(&kthread->parked); clear_bit(KTHREAD_SHOULD_PARK, &kthread->flags); + /* + * __kthread_parkme() will either see !SHOULD_PARK or get the wakeup. + */ wake_up_state(k, TASK_PARKED); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kthread_unpark); @@ -487,7 +496,16 @@ int kthread_park(struct task_struct *k) set_bit(KTHREAD_SHOULD_PARK, &kthread->flags); if (k != current) { wake_up_process(k); + /* + * Wait for __kthread_parkme() to complete(), this means we + * _will_ have TASK_PARKED and are about to call schedule(). + */ wait_for_completion(&kthread->parked); + /* + * Now wait for that schedule() to complete and the task to + * get scheduled out. + */ + WARN_ON_ONCE(!wait_task_inactive(k, TASK_PARKED)); } return 0; --- a/kernel/sched/core.c +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c @@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ */ #include "sched.h" -#include #include #include @@ -2701,28 +2700,20 @@ static struct rq *finish_task_switch(str membarrier_mm_sync_core_before_usermode(mm); mmdrop(mm); } - if (unlikely(prev_state & (TASK_DEAD|TASK_PARKED))) { - switch (prev_state) { - case TASK_DEAD: - if (prev->sched_class->task_dead) - prev->sched_class->task_dead(prev); - - /* - * Remove function-return probe instances associated with this - * task and put them back on the free list. - */ - kprobe_flush_task(prev); + if (unlikely(prev_state == TASK_DEAD)) { + if (prev->sched_class->task_dead) + prev->sched_class->task_dead(prev); - /* Task is done with its stack. */ - put_task_stack(prev); + /* + * Remove function-return probe instances associated with this + * task and put them back on the free list. + */ + kprobe_flush_task(prev); - put_task_struct(prev); - break; + /* Task is done with its stack. */ + put_task_stack(prev); - case TASK_PARKED: - kthread_park_complete(prev); - break; - } + put_task_struct(prev); } tick_nohz_task_switch();