On 15/02/18 11:33, Juri Lelli wrote: > On 14/02/18 17:31, Juri Lelli wrote: > > [...] > > > Still grabbing it is a no-go, as do_sched_setscheduler calls > > sched_setscheduler from inside an RCU read-side critical section. > > I was then actually thinking that trylocking might do.. not sure however > if failing with -EBUSY in the contended case is feasible (and about the > general uglyness of the solution :/). Or, as suggested by Peter in IRC, the following (which still would require conditional locking for the sysrq case). --->8--- kernel/sched/core.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c index 0d8badcf1f0f..4e9405d50cbd 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/core.c +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c @@ -4312,6 +4312,7 @@ static int __sched_setscheduler(struct task_struct *p, /* Avoid rq from going away on us: */ preempt_disable(); task_rq_unlock(rq, p, &rf); + cpuset_unlock(); if (pi) rt_mutex_adjust_pi(p); @@ -4409,10 +4410,16 @@ do_sched_setscheduler(pid_t pid, int policy, struct sched_param __user *param) rcu_read_lock(); retval = -ESRCH; p = find_process_by_pid(pid); - if (p != NULL) - retval = sched_setscheduler(p, policy, &lparam); + if (!p) { + rcu_read_unlock(); + goto exit; + } + get_task_struct(p); rcu_read_unlock(); + retval = sched_setscheduler(p, policy, &lparam); + put_task_struct(p); +exit: return retval; } @@ -4540,10 +4547,16 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(sched_setattr, pid_t, pid, struct sched_attr __user *, uattr, rcu_read_lock(); retval = -ESRCH; p = find_process_by_pid(pid); - if (p != NULL) - retval = sched_setattr(p, &attr); + if (!p) { + rcu_read_unlock(); + goto exit; + } + get_task_struct(p); rcu_read_unlock(); + retval = sched_setattr(p, &attr); + put_task_struct(p); +exit: return retval; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cgroups" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html