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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, roland@redhat.com, mingo@elte.hu,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] wait_task_inactive: don't consider task->nivcsw
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:37:32 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080727113732.GA178@tv-sign.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200807260245.m6Q2jwB4012297@imap1.linux-foundation.org>

If wait_task_inactive() returns success the task was deactivated.
In that case schedule() always increments ->nvcsw which alone can
be used as a "generation counter".

If the next call returns the same number, we can be sure that the
task was unscheduled. Otherwise, because we know that .on_rq == 0
again, ->nvcsw should have been changed in between.

Q: perhaps it is better to do "ncsw = (p->nvcsw << 1) | 1" ? This
decreases the possibility of "was it unscheduled" false positive
when ->nvcsw == 0.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>

--- LINUS/kernel/sched.c~	2008-07-27 14:46:03.000000000 +0400
+++ LINUS/kernel/sched.c	2008-07-27 14:55:12.000000000 +0400
@@ -1922,11 +1922,8 @@ unsigned long wait_task_inactive(struct 
 		running = task_running(rq, p);
 		on_rq = p->se.on_rq;
 		ncsw = 0;
-		if (!match_state || p->state == match_state) {
-			ncsw = p->nivcsw + p->nvcsw;
-			if (unlikely(!ncsw))
-				ncsw = 1;
-		}
+		if (!match_state || p->state == match_state)
+			ncsw = p->nvcsw ?: 1;
 		task_rq_unlock(rq, &flags);
 
 		/*


       reply	other threads:[~2008-07-27 11:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200807260245.m6Q2jwB4012297@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-27 11:37 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2008-07-27 19:55   ` Roland McGrath
2008-07-27 12:15 ` Q: wait_task_inactive() and !CONFIG_SMP && CONFIG_PREEMPT Oleg Nesterov
2008-07-27 16:51   ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-27 20:05   ` Roland McGrath
2008-07-28 12:57     ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-07-28 23:39       ` Roland McGrath
2008-07-29 12:21         ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-08-01  1:27           ` Roland McGrath
2008-08-01 11:49             ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-08-01 21:22               ` Roland McGrath
2008-07-27 12:42 ` [PATCH] kthread_bind: use wait_task_inactive(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE) Oleg Nesterov

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