netdev - [PATCH] sched: silence PROVE_RCU in sched

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Date:	Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:44:53 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Miles Lane <miles.lane@...il.com>
Cc:	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>,
	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, nauman@...gle.com,
	eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@...fujitsu.com>,
	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH] sched: silence PROVE_RCU in sched_fork()

Paul Menage, Li Zefan, any comments?


---
Because cgroup_fork() is ran before sched_fork() [ from copy_process() ]
and the child's pid is not yet visible the child is pinned to its
cgroup. Therefore we can silence this warning.

A nicer solution would be moving cgroup_fork() to right after
dup_task_struct() and exclude PF_STARTING from task_subsys_state().

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
---
 kernel/sched.c |    9 +++++++++
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index b697606..2e79518 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -2561,7 +2561,16 @@ void sched_fork(struct task_struct *p, int clone_flags)
 	if (p->sched_class->task_fork)
 		p->sched_class->task_fork(p);
 
+	/*
+	 * The child is not yet in the pid-hash so no cgroup attach races,
+	 * and the cgroup is pinned to this child due to cgroup_fork()
+	 * is ran before sched_fork().
+	 *
+	 * Silence PROVE_RCU.
+	 */
+	rcu_read_lock();
 	set_task_cpu(p, cpu);
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS) || defined(CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT)
 	if (likely(sched_info_on()))

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