On 04/18/2017 06:46 AM, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> Just curious, any particular reason you want to backport this patch?
>
> because nobody understands why it actually helped.
While working with a customer we found this patch and it did solve the
original reporters' problem and matched the issue reported by Vladimir.
>
> and please note that this patch is buggy, fixed by dfd01f0260
> "sched/wait: Fix the signal handling fix"
Ah, thanks, I missed that one!
Since Peter's fix is on top of this change, how should we proceed with
the stable-4.1 kernel? Alex, do you still actively maintain linux-4.1.y?
>
> Oleg.
>
> On 04/12, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>>
>> From: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit 68985633bccb6066bf1803e316fbc6c1f5b796d6 ]
>>
>> Vladimir reported getting RCU stall warnings and bisected it back to
>> commit:
>>
>> 743162013d40 ("sched: Remove proliferation of wait_on_bit() action
>> functions")
>>
>> That commit inadvertently reversed the calls to schedule() and
>> signal_pending(),
>> thereby not handling the case where the signal receives while we sleep.
>>
>> Reported-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.mur...@arm.com>
>> Tested-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.mur...@arm.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <pet...@infradead.org>
>> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
>> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efa...@gmx.de>
>> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
>> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
>> Cc: mark.rutl...@arm.com
>> Cc: ne...@suse.de
>> Cc: o...@redhat.com
>> Fixes: 743162013d40 ("sched: Remove proliferation of wait_on_bit() action
>> functions")
>> Fixes: cbbce8220949 ("SCHED: add some "wait..on_bit...timeout()"
>> interfaces.")
>> Link:
>> http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151201130404.gl3...@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
>> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
>> ---
>> kernel/sched/wait.c | 16 ++++++++--------
>> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/sched/wait.c b/kernel/sched/wait.c
>> index 852143a79f36..e0bb7e6c4fb0 100644
>> --- a/kernel/sched/wait.c
>> +++ b/kernel/sched/wait.c
>> @@ -583,18 +583,18 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(wake_up_atomic_t);
>>
>> __sched int bit_wait(struct wait_bit_key *word)
>> {
>> - if (signal_pending_state(current->state, current))
>> - return 1;
>> schedule();
>> + if (signal_pending(current))
>> + return -EINTR;
>> return 0;
>> }
>> EXPORT_SYMBOL(bit_wait);
>>
>> __sched int bit_wait_io(struct wait_bit_key *word)
>> {
>> - if (signal_pending_state(current->state, current))
>> - return 1;
>> io_schedule();
>> + if (signal_pending(current))
>> + return -EINTR;
>> return 0;
>> }
>> EXPORT_SYMBOL(bit_wait_io);
>> @@ -602,11 +602,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(bit_wait_io);
>> __sched int bit_wait_timeout(struct wait_bit_key *word)
>> {
>> unsigned long now = ACCESS_ONCE(jiffies);
>> - if (signal_pending_state(current->state, current))
>> - return 1;
>> if (time_after_eq(now, word->timeout))
>> return -EAGAIN;
>> schedule_timeout(word->timeout - now);
>> + if (signal_pending(current))
>> + return -EINTR;
>> return 0;
>> }
>> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(bit_wait_timeout);
>> @@ -614,11 +614,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(bit_wait_timeout);
>> __sched int bit_wait_io_timeout(struct wait_bit_key *word)
>> {
>> unsigned long now = ACCESS_ONCE(jiffies);
>> - if (signal_pending_state(current->state, current))
>> - return 1;
>> if (time_after_eq(now, word->timeout))
>> return -EAGAIN;
>> io_schedule_timeout(word->timeout - now);
>> + if (signal_pending(current))
>> + return -EINTR;
>> return 0;
>> }
>> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(bit_wait_io_timeout);
>> --
>> 2.12.1
>>
>
--
Florian
