Re: [PATCH 1/2] sched: Move __task_rq_{, un}lock() to kernel/sched/sched.h

From: Kirill Tkhai
Date: Tue Feb 17 2015 - 06:34:10 EST


Ð ÐÑ, 17/02/2015 Ð 12:26 +0100, Peter Zijlstra ÐÐÑÐÑ:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 12:11:16PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 01:46:51PM +0300, Kirill Tkhai wrote:
> > >
> > > Place it in sched.h, because dl_task_timer() needs it.
> > > Also remove lockdep check, which is not fit to this
> > > function.
> >
> > No, that lockdep check is valid for all current sites.
>
> Also, note that you just proved the reason we didn't have pi_lock there
> wrong the other day.
>
> As per 0f397f2c90ce ("sched/dl: Fix race in dl_task_timer()"):
>
> "The only reason we don't strictly need ->pi_lock now is because
> we're guaranteed to have p->state == TASK_RUNNING here and are
> thus free of ttwu races".
>
> And therefore we should use the full task_rq_lock() here.
>

So, we move task_rq_lock() to sched.h, and dl_task_timer() uses it?


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