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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/3] drm/scheduler: Don't call wait_event_killable for signaled process.
On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 3:22 PM, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 04/24, Daniel Vetter wrote:
>>
>> wait_event_killabel doesn't check for fatal_signal_pending before calling
>> schedule, so definitely has a nice race there.
>
> This is fine. See the signal_pending_state() check in __schedule().
>
> And this doesn't differ from wait_event_interruptible(), it too doesn't
> check signal_pending(), we rely on schedule() which must not block if the
> caller is signalled/killed.
>
> The problem is that it is not clear what should fatal_signal_pending() or
> even signal_pending() mean after exit_signals().

Uh, I was totally thrown off in all the wait_event* macros and somehow
landed in the _locked variants, which all need to recheck before they
drop the lock, for efficiency reasons. See do_wait_intr().

Sorry for the confusion.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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