From cf2592f59c0e8ed4308adbdb2e0a88655379d579 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:52:37 +0100 Subject: softlockup: ensure the task has been switched out once When we check if a task has been switched out since the last scan, we might have a race condition on the following scenario: - the task is freshly created and scheduled - it puts its state to TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE and is not yet switched out - check_hung_task() scans this task and will report a false positive because t->nvcsw + t->nivcsw == t->last_switch_count == 0 Add a check for such cases. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Acked-by: Mandeep Singh Baines Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/hung_task.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/hung_task.c b/kernel/hung_task.c index 0c924de58cb2..022a4927b785 100644 --- a/kernel/hung_task.c +++ b/kernel/hung_task.c @@ -72,7 +72,13 @@ static void check_hung_task(struct task_struct *t, unsigned long timeout) { unsigned long switch_count = t->nvcsw + t->nivcsw; - if (t->flags & PF_FROZEN) + /* + * Ensure the task is not frozen. + * Also, when a freshly created task is scheduled once, changes + * its state to TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE without having ever been + * switched out once, it musn't be checked. + */ + if (unlikely(t->flags & PF_FROZEN || !switch_count)) return; if (switch_count != t->last_switch_count) { -- cgit v1.2.3-58-ga151