Re: [RFC][PATCH] sched: Fix race in task_group()

[Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 03:48:35PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Here's one that's actually compile tested (with the right CONFIG_foo
> enabled) and I fixed the autogroup lockdep splat.
> 
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> Subject: sched: Fix race in task_group()
> From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:36:05 +0200
> 
> Stefan reported a crash on a kernel before a3e5d1091c1 ("sched: Don't
> call task_group() too many times in set_task_rq()"), he found the reason
> to be that the multiple task_group() invocations in set_task_rq()
> returned different values.

Hmm... short of intertwining locking further I don't think we can
solve this in prettier way.  So, yeah, looks good to me from cgroup
POV.

> Looking at all that I found a lack of serialization and plain wrong
> comments.
> 
> The below tries to fix it using an extra pointer which is updated under
> the appropriate scheduler locks. Its not pretty, but I can't really see
> another way given how all the cgroup stuff works.

BTW your patch is whitespace broken.  Seems like QP encoded.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun