sched: Fix race in migrate_swap_stop()

There is a subtle race in migrate_swap, when task P, on CPU A, decides to swap
places with task T, on CPU B.

Task P:
  - call migrate_swap
Task T:
  - go to sleep, removing itself from the runqueue
Task P:
  - double lock the runqueues on CPU A & B
Task T:
  - get woken up, place itself on the runqueue of CPU C
Task P:
  - see that task T is on a runqueue, and pretend to remove it
    from the runqueue on CPU B

Now CPUs B & C both have corrupted scheduler data structures.

This patch fixes it, by holding the pi_lock for both of the tasks
involved in the migrate swap. This prevents task T from waking up,
and placing itself onto another runqueue, until after migrate_swap
has released all locks.

This means that, when migrate_swap checks, task T will be either
on the runqueue where it was originally seen, or not on any
runqueue at all. Migrate_swap deals correctly with of those cases.

Tested-by: Joe Mario <jmario@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: hannes@cmpxchg.org
Cc: aarcange@redhat.com
Cc: srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131010181722.GO13848@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 4aa0b10889d0..813dd61a9b43 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -1448,15 +1448,6 @@ static inline void put_numa_group(struct numa_group *grp)
 		kfree_rcu(grp, rcu);
 }
 
-static void double_lock(spinlock_t *l1, spinlock_t *l2)
-{
-	if (l1 > l2)
-		swap(l1, l2);
-
-	spin_lock(l1);
-	spin_lock_nested(l2, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING);
-}
-
 static void task_numa_group(struct task_struct *p, int cpupid, int flags,
 			int *priv)
 {