Commit ecf7d01c authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Ingo Molnar
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sched/core: Fix an SMP ordering race in try_to_wake_up() vs. schedule()

Oleg noticed that its possible to falsely observe p->on_cpu == 0 such
that we'll prematurely continue with the wakeup and effectively run p on
two CPUs at the same time.

Even though the overlap is very limited; the task is in the middle of
being scheduled out; it could still result in corruption of the
scheduler data structures.

        CPU0                            CPU1

        set_current_state(...)

        <preempt_schedule>
          context_switch(X, Y)
            prepare_lock_switch(Y)
              Y->on_cpu = 1;
            finish_lock_switch(X)
              store_release(X->on_cpu, 0);

                                        try_to_wake_up(X)
                                          LOCK(p->pi_lock);

                                          t = X->on_cpu; // 0

          context_switch(Y, X)
            prepare_lock_switch(X)
              X->on_cpu = 1;
            finish_lock_switch(Y)
              store_releas...
parent b75a2253
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