Merge branch 'linus' into x86/asm, to pick up recent fixes

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 3d91b63dd2f6..0b6238f18da2 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -2016,6 +2016,28 @@ try_to_wake_up(struct task_struct *p, unsigned int state, int wake_flags)
 	success = 1; /* we're going to change ->state */
 	cpu = task_cpu(p);
 
+	/*
+	 * Ensure we load p->on_rq _after_ p->state, otherwise it would
+	 * be possible to, falsely, observe p->on_rq == 0 and get stuck
+	 * in smp_cond_load_acquire() below.
+	 *
+	 * sched_ttwu_pending()                 try_to_wake_up()
+	 *   [S] p->on_rq = 1;                  [L] P->state
+	 *       UNLOCK rq->lock  -----.
+	 *                              \
+	 *				 +---   RMB
+	 * schedule()                   /
+	 *       LOCK rq->lock    -----'
+	 *       UNLOCK rq->lock
+	 *
+	 * [task p]
+	 *   [S] p->state = UNINTERRUPTIBLE     [L] p->on_rq
+	 *
+	 * Pairs with the UNLOCK+LOCK on rq->lock from the
+	 * last wakeup of our task and the schedule that got our task
+	 * current.
+	 */
+	smp_rmb();
 	if (p->on_rq && ttwu_remote(p, wake_flags))
 		goto stat;