Fix stop_machine_run problem with naughty real time process
authorSatoru Takeuchi <takeuchi_satoru@jp.fujitsu.com>
Mon, 16 Jul 2007 06:39:47 +0000 (23:39 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:05:41 +0000 (09:05 -0700)
stop_machine_run() does its work on "kstopmachine" thread having max
priority.  However that thread get such priority after woken up.
Therefore, in the following case ...

  - "kstopmachine" try to run on CPU1

  - There is a real time process which doesn't relinquish CPU time
    voluntary on CPU1

...  "kstopmachine" can't start to run and the CPU on which
    stop_machine_run() is runing hangs up.  To fix this problem, call
    sched_setscheduler() before waking up that thread.

Signed-off-by: Satoru Takeuchi <takeuchi_satoru@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/stop_machine.c

index fcee2a8e6da37a79a02a09a4dfaca30887098292..319821ef78afc9e0a7488cbf9b2ea1c5853b65c1 100644 (file)
@@ -93,10 +93,6 @@ static void stopmachine_set_state(enum stopmachine_state state)
 static int stop_machine(void)
 {
        int i, ret = 0;
-       struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = MAX_RT_PRIO-1 };
-
-       /* One high-prio thread per cpu.  We'll do this one. */
-       sched_setscheduler(current, SCHED_FIFO, &param);
 
        atomic_set(&stopmachine_thread_ack, 0);
        stopmachine_num_threads = 0;
@@ -189,6 +185,10 @@ struct task_struct *__stop_machine_run(int (*fn)(void *), void *data,
 
        p = kthread_create(do_stop, &smdata, "kstopmachine");
        if (!IS_ERR(p)) {
+               struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = MAX_RT_PRIO-1 };
+
+               /* One high-prio thread per cpu.  We'll do this one. */
+               sched_setscheduler(p, SCHED_FIFO, &param);
                kthread_bind(p, cpu);
                wake_up_process(p);
                wait_for_completion(&smdata.done);