Re: + sched-fix-raciness-in-runqueue_is_locked.patch added to -mm tree

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 11:55 -0700, akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote:
> The patch titled
>      sched(): fix raciness in runqueue_is_locked()
> has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
>      sched-fix-raciness-in-runqueue_is_locked.patch
> 
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> ------------------------------------------------------
> Subject: sched(): fix raciness in runqueue_is_locked()
> From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> 
> runqueue_is_locked() is unavoidably racy due to a poor interface design. 
> It does
> 
> 	cpu = get_cpu()
> 	ret = some_perpcu_thing(cpu);
> 	put_cpu(cpu);
> 	return ret;
> 
> Its return value is unreliable.
> 
> Fix.
> 
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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