[tip:irq/core] sched: Switch wait_task_inactive to schedule_hrtimeout()

From: tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
Date: Sat Feb 26 2011 - 11:23:37 EST


Commit-ID: 8eb90c30e0e815a1308828352eabd03ca04229dd
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/8eb90c30e0e815a1308828352eabd03ca04229dd
Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:52:21 +0000
Committer: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 20:24:22 +0100

sched: Switch wait_task_inactive to schedule_hrtimeout()

When we force thread hard and soft interrupts the startup of ksoftirqd
would hang in kthread_bind() when wait_task_inactive() calls
schedule_timeout_uninterruptible() because there is no softirq yet
which will wake us up.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
LKML-Reference: <20110223234956.677109139@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched.c | 5 ++++-
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 18d38e4..66ca5d9 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -2224,7 +2224,10 @@ unsigned long wait_task_inactive(struct task_struct *p, long match_state)
* yield - it could be a while.
*/
if (unlikely(on_rq)) {
- schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1);
+ ktime_t to = ktime_set(0, NSEC_PER_SEC/HZ);
+
+ set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
+ schedule_hrtimeout(&to, HRTIMER_MODE_REL);
continue;
}

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