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SubjectRe: [tip:locking/core] sched/wait: Fix signal handling in bit wait helpers
On 11/12/15 11:39, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 03:30:33AM -0800, Paul Turner wrote:
>
>>> Blergh, all I've managed to far is to confuse myself further. Even
>>> something like the original (+- the EINTR) should work when we consider
>>> the looping, even when mixed with an occasional spurious wakeup.
>>>
>>>
>>> int bit_wait()
>>> {
>>> if (signal_pending_state(current->state, current))
>>> return -EINTR;
>>> schedule();
>>> }
>
> So I asked Vladimir to test that (simply changing the return from 1 to
> -EINTR) and it made his fail much less likely but it still failed in the
> same way.
>
> So I'm fairly sure I'm still missing something :/
>
>> Hugh asked me about this after seeing a crash, here's another exciting
>> way in which the current code breaks -- this one actually quite
>> serious:
>
> Yep, this got reported by Jan and I did kick myself for that.
>
>> Peter's proposed follow-up above looks strictly more correct. We need
>> to evaluate the potential existence of a signal, *after* we return
>> from schedule, but in the context of the state which we previously
>> _entered_ schedule() on.
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
>
> Right, its maybe a bit overkill, but at this point I'm a tad
> conservative/paranoid.
>
> Vladimir, Jan could you both please that patch?
>
> lkml.kernel.org/r/20151208104712.GJ6356@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
>

By this time my test has been run ~500 times without any stalls. I'll
keep running overnight (just in case), but I think that patch can be
marked as tested.

Cheers
Vladimir

>
> Thanks!
>
>



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