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2005-10-24[PATCH] posix-timers: remove false BUG_ON() from run_posix_cpu_timers()Oleg Nesterov1-18/+18
do_exit() clears ->it_##clock##_expires, but nothing prevents another cpu to attach the timer to exiting process after that. After exit_notify() does 'write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock)' and before do_exit() calls 'schedule() local timer interrupt can find tsk->exit_state != 0. If that state was EXIT_DEAD (or another cpu does sys_wait4) interrupted task has ->signal == NULL. At this moment exiting task has no pending cpu timers, they were cleaned up in __exit_signal()->posix_cpu_timers_exit{,_group}(), so we can just return from irq. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-24[PATCH] posix-timers: fix cleanup_timers() and run_posix_cpu_timers() racesOleg Nesterov1-19/+10
1. cleanup_timers() sets timer->task = NULL under tasklist + ->sighand locks. That means that this code in posix_cpu_timer_del() and posix_cpu_timer_set() lock_timer(timer); if (timer->task == NULL) return; read_lock(tasklist); put_task_struct(timer->task) is racy. With this patch timer->task modified and accounted only under timer->it_lock. Sadly, this means that dead task_struct won't be freed until timer deleted or armed. 2. run_posix_cpu_timers() collects expired timers into local list under tasklist + ->sighand again. That means that posix_cpu_timer_del() should check timer->it.cpu.firing under these locks too. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-23Posix timers: limit number of timers firing at onceLinus Torvalds1-6/+14
Bursty timers aren't good for anybody, very much including latency for other programs when we trigger lots of timers in interrupt context. So set a random limit, after which we'll handle the rest on the next timer tick. Noted by Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-21Revert "Fix cpu timers exit deadlock and races"Linus Torvalds1-11/+17
Revert commit e03d13e985d48ac4885382c9e3b1510c78bd047f, to be replaced by a much nicer fix from Roland.
2005-10-19[PATCH] Fix cpu timers exit deadlock and racesRoland McGrath1-17/+11
Oleg Nesterov reported an SMP deadlock. If there is a running timer tracking a different process's CPU time clock when the process owning the timer exits, we deadlock on tasklist_lock in posix_cpu_timer_del via exit_itimers. That code was using tasklist_lock to check for a race with __exit_signal being called on the timer-target task and clearing its ->signal. However, there is actually no such race. __exit_signal will have called posix_cpu_timers_exit and posix_cpu_timers_exit_group before it does that. Those will clear those k_itimer's association with the dying task, so posix_cpu_timer_del will return early and never reach the code in question. In addition, posix_cpu_timer_del called from exit_itimers during execve or directly from timer_delete in the process owning the timer can race with an exiting timer-target task to cause a double put on timer-target task struct. Make sure we always access cpu_timers lists with sighand lock held. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-17[PATCH] posix-timers: fix task accountingOleg Nesterov1-0/+3
Make sure we release the task struct properly when releasing pending timers. release_task() does write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock), so it can't race with run_posix_cpu_timers() on any cpu. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds1-0/+1559
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!