The patch titled sched: fix cond_resched_softirq() offset has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was sched-fix-cond_resched_softirq-offset.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: sched: fix cond_resched_softirq() offset From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> Remove the __resched_legal() check: it is conceptually broken. The biggest problem it had is that it can mask buggy cond_resched() calls. A cond_resched() call is only legal if we are not in an atomic context, with two narrow exceptions: - if the system is booting - a reacquire_kernel_lock() down() done while PREEMPT_ACTIVE is set But __resched_legal() hid this and just silently returned whenever these primitives were called from invalid contexts. (Same goes for cond_resched_locked() and cond_resched_softirq()). Furthermore, the __legal_resched(0) call was buggy in that it caused unnecessarily long softirq latencies via cond_resched_softirq(). (which is only called from softirq-off sections, hence the code did nothing.) The fix is to resurrect the efficiency of the might_sleep checks and to only allow the narrow exceptions. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- kernel/sched.c | 18 ++++-------------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff -puN kernel/sched.c~sched-fix-cond_resched_softirq-offset kernel/sched.c --- a/kernel/sched.c~sched-fix-cond_resched_softirq-offset +++ a/kernel/sched.c @@ -4617,17 +4617,6 @@ asmlinkage long sys_sched_yield(void) return 0; } -static inline int __resched_legal(int expected_preempt_count) -{ -#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT - if (unlikely(preempt_count() != expected_preempt_count)) - return 0; -#endif - if (unlikely(system_state != SYSTEM_RUNNING)) - return 0; - return 1; -} - static void __cond_resched(void) { #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP @@ -4647,7 +4636,8 @@ static void __cond_resched(void) int __sched cond_resched(void) { - if (need_resched() && __resched_legal(0)) { + if (need_resched() && !(preempt_count() & PREEMPT_ACTIVE) && + system_state == SYSTEM_RUNNING) { __cond_resched(); return 1; } @@ -4673,7 +4663,7 @@ int cond_resched_lock(spinlock_t *lock) ret = 1; spin_lock(lock); } - if (need_resched() && __resched_legal(1)) { + if (need_resched() && system_state == SYSTEM_RUNNING) { spin_release(&lock->dep_map, 1, _THIS_IP_); _raw_spin_unlock(lock); preempt_enable_no_resched(); @@ -4689,7 +4679,7 @@ int __sched cond_resched_softirq(void) { BUG_ON(!in_softirq()); - if (need_resched() && __resched_legal(0)) { + if (need_resched() && system_state == SYSTEM_RUNNING) { raw_local_irq_disable(); _local_bh_enable(); raw_local_irq_enable(); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from mingo@xxxxxxx are use-correct-macros-in-raid-code-not-raw-asm.patch use-correct-macros-in-raid-code-not-raw-asm-include.patch acpi-i686-x86_64-fix-laptop-bootup-hang-in-init_acpi.patch revert-i386-fix-the-verify_quirk_intel_irqbalance.patch revert-x86_64-mm-add-genapic_force.patch revert-x86_64-mm-fix-the-irqbalance-quirk-for-e7320-e7520-e7525.patch convert-i386-pda-code-to-use-%fs.patch 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