Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756443Ab0DWTpJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:45:09 -0400 Received: from e3.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.143]:41516 "EHLO e3.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756016Ab0DWTng (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:43:36 -0400 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: mingo@elte.hu, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca, josh@joshtriplett.org, dvhltc@us.ibm.com, niv@us.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, dhowells@redhat.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, Peter Zijlstra , "Paul E. McKenney" Subject: [PATCH v2.6.34-rc5 01/12] rcu: Fix RCU lockdep splat in set_task_cpu on fork path Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:43:19 -0700 Message-Id: <1272051810-11249-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.0 In-Reply-To: <20100423194255.GE2589@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20100423194255.GE2589@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1675 Lines: 47 From: Peter Zijlstra Add an RCU read-side critical section to suppress this false positive. Located-by: Eric Paris Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- kernel/sched.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c index de0bd26..3c2a54f 100644 --- a/kernel/sched.c +++ b/kernel/sched.c @@ -323,6 +323,15 @@ static inline struct task_group *task_group(struct task_struct *p) /* Change a task's cfs_rq and parent entity if it moves across CPUs/groups */ static inline void set_task_rq(struct task_struct *p, unsigned int cpu) { + /* + * Strictly speaking this rcu_read_lock() is not needed since the + * task_group is tied to the cgroup, which in turn can never go away + * as long as there are tasks attached to it. + * + * However since task_group() uses task_subsys_state() which is an + * rcu_dereference() user, this quiets CONFIG_PROVE_RCU. + */ + rcu_read_lock(); #ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED p->se.cfs_rq = task_group(p)->cfs_rq[cpu]; p->se.parent = task_group(p)->se[cpu]; @@ -332,6 +341,7 @@ static inline void set_task_rq(struct task_struct *p, unsigned int cpu) p->rt.rt_rq = task_group(p)->rt_rq[cpu]; p->rt.parent = task_group(p)->rt_se[cpu]; #endif + rcu_read_unlock(); } #else -- 1.7.0 -- 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/