finish_task_switch() enables preemption, so post_schedule(rq) can be
called on the wrong (and even dead) CPU. Afaics, nothing really bad
can happen, but in this case we can wrongly clear rq->post_schedule
on that CPU. And this simply looks wrong in any case.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@yandex.ru>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141008193644.GA32055@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
asmlinkage __visible void schedule_tail(struct task_struct *prev)
__releases(rq->lock)
{
- struct rq *rq = this_rq();
+ struct rq *rq;
+ /* finish_task_switch() drops rq->lock and enables preemtion */
+ preempt_disable();
+ rq = this_rq();
finish_task_switch(rq, prev);
-
- /*
- * FIXME: do we need to worry about rq being invalidated by the
- * task_switch?
- */
post_schedule(rq);
+ preempt_enable();
if (current->set_child_tid)
put_user(task_pid_vnr(current), current->set_child_tid);