The patch titled kthreads: simplify migration_thread() exit path has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is kthreads-simplify-migration_thread-exit-path.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: kthreads: simplify migration_thread() exit path From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Now that kthread_stop() can be used even if the task has already exited, we can kill the "wait_to_die:" loop in migration_thread(). But we must pin rq->migration_thread after creation. Actually, I don't think CPU_UP_CANCELED or CPU_DEAD should wait for ->migration_thread exit. Perhaps we can simplify this code a bit more. migration_call() can set ->should_stop and forget about this thread. But we need a new helper in kthred.c for that. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vitaliy Gusev <vgusev@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/sched.c | 14 ++++---------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff -puN kernel/sched.c~kthreads-simplify-migration_thread-exit-path kernel/sched.c --- a/kernel/sched.c~kthreads-simplify-migration_thread-exit-path +++ a/kernel/sched.c @@ -6359,7 +6359,7 @@ static int migration_thread(void *data) if (cpu_is_offline(cpu)) { spin_unlock_irq(&rq->lock); - goto wait_to_die; + break; } if (rq->active_balance) { @@ -6385,16 +6385,7 @@ static int migration_thread(void *data) complete(&req->done); } __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING); - return 0; -wait_to_die: - /* Wait for kthread_stop */ - set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); - while (!kthread_should_stop()) { - schedule(); - set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); - } - __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING); return 0; } @@ -6800,6 +6791,7 @@ migration_call(struct notifier_block *nf rq = task_rq_lock(p, &flags); __setscheduler(rq, p, SCHED_FIFO, MAX_RT_PRIO-1); task_rq_unlock(rq, &flags); + get_task_struct(p); cpu_rq(cpu)->migration_thread = p; break; @@ -6828,6 +6820,7 @@ migration_call(struct notifier_block *nf kthread_bind(cpu_rq(cpu)->migration_thread, cpumask_any(cpu_online_mask)); kthread_stop(cpu_rq(cpu)->migration_thread); + put_task_struct(cpu_rq(cpu)->migration_thread); cpu_rq(cpu)->migration_thread = NULL; break; @@ -6837,6 +6830,7 @@ migration_call(struct notifier_block *nf migrate_live_tasks(cpu); rq = cpu_rq(cpu); kthread_stop(rq->migration_thread); + put_task_struct(rq->migration_thread); rq->migration_thread = NULL; /* Idle task back to normal (off runqueue, low prio) */ spin_lock_irq(&rq->lock); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from oleg@xxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch wait-prevent-exclusive-waiter-starvation.patch linux-next.patch pipe_rdwr_fasync-fix-the-error-handling-to-prevent-the-leak-crash.patch get_mm_hiwater_xxx-trivial-s-define-inline.patch getrusage-fill-ru_maxrss-value.patch ptrace-kill-__ptrace_detach-fix-exit_state-check.patch ptrace-simplify-ptrace_exit-ignoring_children-path.patch ptrace-simplify-ptrace_exit-ignoring_children-pathpatch-fix.patch ptrace-reintroduce-__ptrace_detach-as-a-callee-of-ptrace_exit.patch ptrace-reintroduce-__ptrace_detach-as-a-callee-of-ptrace_exit-fix.patch ptrace-fix-possible-zombie-leak-on-ptrace_detach.patch reparent_thread-dont-call-kill_orphaned_pgrp-if-task_detached.patch reparent_thread-fix-the-is-it-traced-check.patch reparent_thread-fix-a-zombie-leak-if-sbin-init-ignores-sigchld.patch forget_original_parent-cleanup-ptrace-pathes.patch kthread-dont-looking-for-a-task-in-create_kthread-2.patch kthreads-move-sched-realeted-initialization-from-kthreadd-context.patch kthreads-simplify-the-startup-synchronization.patch kthreads-rework-kthread_stop.patch kthreads-simplify-migration_thread-exit-path.patch pids-document-task_pgrp-task_session-is-not-safe-without-tasklist-rcu.patch pids-document-task_pgrp-task_session-is-not-safe-without-tasklist-rcu-fix.patch pids-improve-get_task_pid-to-fix-the-unsafe-sys_wait4-task_pgrp.patch pids-refactor-vnr-nr_ns-helpers-to-make-them-safe.patch pids-kill-now-unused-signal_struct-__pgrp-__session-and-friends.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html