Pinning down a blocked task to extract diagnostics

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Wed Mar 04 2020 - 19:50:51 EST


Hello!

Suppose that I need to extract diagnostics information from a blocked
task, but that I absolutely cannot tolerate this task awakening in the
midst of this extraction process. Is the following code the right way
to make this work given a task "t"?

raw_spin_lock_irq(&t->pi_lock);
if (t->on_rq) {
/* Task no longer blocked, so ignore it. */
} else {
/* Extract consistent diagnostic information. */
}
raw_spin_unlock_irq(&t->pi_lock);

It looks like all the wakeup paths acquire ->pi_lock, but I figured I
should actually ask...

Thanx, Paul