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| author | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2006-02-01 03:05:08 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-02-01 08:53:12 -0800 |
| commit | bc1978d404befacd272d0321ef749cc3192e488b (patch) | |
| tree | 4ec8c7de7df1052e5f9b87a77fc3a80bc67e587d /kernel/itimer.c | |
| parent | 853609b61ef88b414ffd1613741aa59894334320 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-bc1978d404befacd272d0321ef749cc3192e488b.tar.gz lwn-bc1978d404befacd272d0321ef749cc3192e488b.zip | |
[PATCH] hrtimers: fixup itimer conversion
The itimer conversion removed the locking which protects the timer and
variables in the shared signal structure. Steven Rostedt found the problem in
the latest -rt patches.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/itimer.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/itimer.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/itimer.c b/kernel/itimer.c index c2c05c4ff28d..6433d0685506 100644 --- a/kernel/itimer.c +++ b/kernel/itimer.c @@ -49,9 +49,11 @@ int do_getitimer(int which, struct itimerval *value) switch (which) { case ITIMER_REAL: + spin_lock_irq(&tsk->sighand->siglock); value->it_value = itimer_get_remtime(&tsk->signal->real_timer); value->it_interval = ktime_to_timeval(tsk->signal->it_real_incr); + spin_unlock_irq(&tsk->sighand->siglock); break; case ITIMER_VIRTUAL: read_lock(&tasklist_lock); @@ -150,8 +152,14 @@ int do_setitimer(int which, struct itimerval *value, struct itimerval *ovalue) switch (which) { case ITIMER_REAL: +again: + spin_lock_irq(&tsk->sighand->siglock); timer = &tsk->signal->real_timer; - hrtimer_cancel(timer); + /* We are sharing ->siglock with it_real_fn() */ + if (hrtimer_try_to_cancel(timer) < 0) { + spin_unlock_irq(&tsk->sighand->siglock); + goto again; + } if (ovalue) { ovalue->it_value = itimer_get_remtime(timer); ovalue->it_interval @@ -162,6 +170,7 @@ int do_setitimer(int which, struct itimerval *value, struct itimerval *ovalue) expires = timeval_to_ktime(value->it_value); if (expires.tv64 != 0) hrtimer_start(timer, expires, HRTIMER_REL); + spin_unlock_irq(&tsk->sighand->siglock); break; case ITIMER_VIRTUAL: nval = timeval_to_cputime(&value->it_value); |