linux-kernel - [PATCH] sched/core: remove get_cpu() from sched

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Fri, 6 Jul 2018 15:06:15 +0200
From:   Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH] sched/core: remove get_cpu() from sched_fork()

get_cpu() disables preemption for the entire sched_fork() function.
This get_cpu() was introduced in commit dd41f596cda0 ("sched: cfs core
code") which also invoked sched_balance_self() and this function
required preemption do be off.
Today, sched_balance_self() seems to be moved to ->task_fork callback
which is invoked while the ->pi_lock is held.
set_load_weight() could invoke reweight_task() which then via $callchain
might end up in smp_processor_id() but since `update_load' is false
this won't happen.
I didn't find any this_cpu*() or similar usage during the initialisation
of the task_struct.
The `cpu' value (from get_cpu()) is only used later in __set_task_cpu()
while the ->pi_lock lock is held.

Based on this it is possible to remove get_cpu() and use
smp_processor_id() for the `cpu' variable without breaking anything.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
---
 kernel/sched/core.c | 13 ++++---------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 78d8facba456..b6ec6ebe620d 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -2318,7 +2318,6 @@ static inline void init_schedstats(void) {}
 int sched_fork(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *p)
 {
 	unsigned long flags;
-	int cpu = get_cpu();

 	__sched_fork(clone_flags, p);
 	/*
@@ -2354,14 +2353,12 @@ int sched_fork(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *p)
 		p->sched_reset_on_fork = 0;
 	}

-	if (dl_prio(p->prio)) {
-		put_cpu();
+	if (dl_prio(p->prio))
 		return -EAGAIN;
-	} else if (rt_prio(p->prio)) {
+	else if (rt_prio(p->prio))
 		p->sched_class = &rt_sched_class;
-	} else {
+	else
 		p->sched_class = &fair_sched_class;
-	}

 	init_entity_runnable_average(&p->se);

@@ -2377,7 +2374,7 @@ int sched_fork(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *p)
 	 * We're setting the CPU for the first time, we don't migrate,
 	 * so use __set_task_cpu().
 	 */
-	__set_task_cpu(p, cpu);
+	__set_task_cpu(p, smp_processor_id());
 	if (p->sched_class->task_fork)
 		p->sched_class->task_fork(p);
 	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&p->pi_lock, flags);
@@ -2394,8 +2391,6 @@ int sched_fork(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *p)
 	plist_node_init(&p->pushable_tasks, MAX_PRIO);
 	RB_CLEAR_NODE(&p->pushable_dl_tasks);
 #endif
-
-	put_cpu();
 	return 0;
 }

-- 
2.18.0