[PATCH] scheduler: migration_task deadlock (resend)

From: Erich Focht (focht@ess.nec.de)
Date: Wed Mar 06 2002 - 05:22:58 EST


Hi,

I'm resending this because the deadlock still exists in 2.5.6-pre2.

Regards,
Erich

---------- Resent message ----------
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 18:55:50 +0100 (MET)

Hi,

in the migration scheme included into the 2.5.6-pre1 kernel there is a
potential deadlock (which I encountered several times) in the migration
task. If interrupts are not disabled before aquiring the double rq lock
this task can be interrupted by a scheduler_tick() which will spinwait
forever.

Best regards,
Erich

diff -urN 2.5.6-pre1/kernel/sched.c 2.5.6-pre1-fix/kernel/sched.c
--- 2.5.6-pre1/kernel/sched.c Thu Feb 28 19:10:49 2002
+++ 2.5.6-pre1-fix/kernel/sched.c Thu Feb 28 19:14:29 2002
@@ -1626,9 +1626,11 @@
                 cpu_src = p->thread_info->cpu;
                 rq_src = cpu_rq(cpu_src);
 
+ local_irq_save(flags);
                 double_rq_lock(rq_src, rq_dest);
                 if (p->thread_info->cpu != cpu_src) {
                         double_rq_unlock(rq_src, rq_dest);
+ local_irq_restore(flags);
                         goto repeat;
                 }
                 if (rq_src == rq) {
@@ -1639,6 +1641,7 @@
                         }
                 }
                 double_rq_unlock(rq_src, rq_dest);
+ local_irq_restore(flags);
 
                 up(&req->sem);
         }

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