From f2530dc71cf0822f90bb63ea4600caaef33a66bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 09:33:34 +0200 Subject: kthread: Prevent unpark race which puts threads on the wrong cpu The smpboot threads rely on the park/unpark mechanism which binds per cpu threads on a particular core. Though the functionality is racy: CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 unpark(T) wake_up_process(T) clear(SHOULD_PARK) T runs leave parkme() due to !SHOULD_PARK bind_to(CPU2) BUG_ON(wrong CPU) We cannot let the tasks move themself to the target CPU as one of those tasks is actually the migration thread itself, which requires that it starts running on the target cpu right away. The solution to this problem is to prevent wakeups in park mode which are not from unpark(). That way we can guarantee that the association of the task to the target cpu is working correctly. Add a new task state (TASK_PARKED) which prevents other wakeups and use this state explicitly for the unpark wakeup. Peter noticed: Also, since the task state is visible to userspace and all the parked tasks are still in the PID space, its a good hint in ps and friends that these tasks aren't really there for the moment. The migration thread has another related issue. CPU0 CPU1 Bring up CPU2 create_thread(T) park(T) wait_for_completion() parkme() complete() sched_set_stop_task() schedule(TASK_PARKED) The sched_set_stop_task() call is issued while the task is on the runqueue of CPU1 and that confuses the hell out of the stop_task class on that cpu. So we need the same synchronizaion before sched_set_stop_task(). Reported-by: Dave Jones Reported-and-tested-by: Dave Hansen Reported-and-tested-by: Borislav Petkov Acked-by: Peter Ziljstra Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat Cc: dhillf@gmail.com Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1304091635430.21884@ionos Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- include/linux/sched.h | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/sched.h') diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index d35d2b6ddbfb..e692a022527b 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -163,9 +163,10 @@ print_cfs_rq(struct seq_file *m, int cpu, struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq) #define TASK_DEAD 64 #define TASK_WAKEKILL 128 #define TASK_WAKING 256 -#define TASK_STATE_MAX 512 +#define TASK_PARKED 512 +#define TASK_STATE_MAX 1024 -#define TASK_STATE_TO_CHAR_STR "RSDTtZXxKW" +#define TASK_STATE_TO_CHAR_STR "RSDTtZXxKWP" extern char ___assert_task_state[1 - 2*!!( sizeof(TASK_STATE_TO_CHAR_STR)-1 != ilog2(TASK_STATE_MAX)+1)]; -- cgit v1.2.3