Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 May 2018 12:40:15 +0200 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v1] kthread/smpboot: Serialize kthread parking against wakeup |
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On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 12:18:45PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > Aaaah... I think I've spotted a problem there. We clear SHOULD_PARK > before we rebind, so if the thread lost the first PARKED store, > does the completion, gets migrated, cycles through the loop and now > observes !SHOULD_PARK and bails the wait-loop, then __kthread_bind() > will forever wait. > > Is that what you had in mind?
Another possible problem is concurrent thread_park(), if both observe !IS_PARKED, we'll end up with 2 threads waiting on the completion, but we only do a single complete().
Of course, this might not be a suppored use of the API, and I don't think this will ever actually happen. But the whole !test_bit(IS_PARKED) thing seems to suggest it is fine calling this on an already parked thread.
Confusing stuff that should be cleared up in any case.
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