sched/api: Introduce task_rcu_dereference() and try_get_task_struct()

Generally task_struct is only protected by RCU if it was found on a
RCU protected list (say, for_each_process() or find_task_by_vpid()).

As Kirill pointed out rq->curr isn't protected by RCU, the scheduler
drops the (potentially) last reference without RCU gp, this means
that we need to fix the code which uses foreign_rq->curr under
rcu_read_lock().

Add a new helper which can be used to dereference rq->curr or any
other pointer to task_struct assuming that it should be cleared or
updated before the final put_task_struct(). It returns non-NULL
only if this task can't go away before rcu_read_unlock().

( Also add try_get_task_struct() to make it easier to use this API
  correctly. )

Suggested-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
[ Updated comments; added try_get_task_struct()]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@yandex.ru>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160518170218.GY3192@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 6e42ada26345..dee41bf59e6b 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -2139,6 +2139,9 @@ static inline void put_task_struct(struct task_struct *t)
 		__put_task_struct(t);
 }
 
+struct task_struct *task_rcu_dereference(struct task_struct **ptask);
+struct task_struct *try_get_task_struct(struct task_struct **ptask);
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN
 extern void task_cputime(struct task_struct *t,
 			 cputime_t *utime, cputime_t *stime);