Re: [PATCH]CPU hotplug breaks wake_up_new_task

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Shaohua Li wrote:
On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 18:50 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:

Shaohua Li wrote:


I must be over considering. Ok, how does this updated one look?



Looks like you've found a race, alright. Nice work!

I think it would be preferable to do the check in kernel/fork.c,
after the tasklist lock is taken (and you'll need to rediff the
patch for the -mm tree).

It seems there is still a race between copy_process and wake_up_new_task
to me (cpu offline after copy_process). Am I missing anything?


Offlining the CPU takes the tasklist lock to migrate off tasks.
So either the CPU will be offline first, in which case the a
check in kernel/fork.c will pick that up; or the task will be
added to the tasklist first, in which case CPU hotplug should
correctly migrate it away.

I think?

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SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.

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