linux/kernel/sched
Peter Zijlstra e194fab8d7 sched: Fix race in task_group()
commit 8323f26ce3 upstream.

Stefan reported a crash on a kernel before a3e5d1091c ("sched:
Don't call task_group() too many times in set_task_rq()"), he
found the reason to be that the multiple task_group()
invocations in set_task_rq() returned different values.

Looking at all that I found a lack of serialization and plain
wrong comments.

The below tries to fix it using an extra pointer which is
updated under the appropriate scheduler locks. Its not pretty,
but I can't really see another way given how all the cgroup
stuff works.

Reported-and-tested-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340364965.18025.71.camel@twins
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-10-02 10:30:35 -07:00
..
auto_group.c sched: Clean up parameter passing of proc_sched_autogroup_set_nice() 2012-03-02 12:23:49 +01:00
auto_group.h
clock.c
core.c sched: Fix race in task_group() 2012-10-02 10:30:35 -07:00
cpupri.c
cpupri.h
debug.c sched: Remove sched_switch 2012-01-27 13:28:53 +01:00
fair.c sched: Fix more load-balancing fallout 2012-04-26 12:54:52 +02:00
features.h sched: Fix more load-balancing fallout 2012-04-26 12:54:52 +02:00
idle_task.c sched/nohz: Rewrite and fix load-avg computation -- again 2012-07-19 08:58:56 -07:00
Makefile
rt.c sched/rt: Improve pick_next_highest_task_rt() 2012-03-27 14:52:12 +02:00
sched.h sched: Fix race in task_group() 2012-10-02 10:30:35 -07:00
stats.c sched: Remove sched_switch 2012-01-27 13:28:53 +01:00
stats.h
stop_task.c