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Commit 8323f26c authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Ingo Molnar
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sched: Fix race in task_group()

Stefan reported a crash on a kernel before a3e5d109

 ("sched:
Don't call task_group() too many times in set_task_rq()"), he
found the reason to be that the multiple task_group()
invocations in set_task_rq() returned different values.

Looking at all that I found a lack of serialization and plain
wrong comments.

The below tries to fix it using an extra pointer which is
updated under the appropriate scheduler locks. Its not pretty,
but I can't really see another way given how all the cgroup
stuff works.

Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarStefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340364965.18025.71.camel@twins


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 88b8dac0
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