From 2ad654bc5e2b211e92f66da1d819e47d79a866f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zefan Li Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 09:41:02 +0800 Subject: cpuset: PF_SPREAD_PAGE and PF_SPREAD_SLAB should be atomic flags When we change cpuset.memory_spread_{page,slab}, cpuset will flip PF_SPREAD_{PAGE,SLAB} bit of tsk->flags for each task in that cpuset. This should be done using atomic bitops, but currently we don't, which is broken. Tetsuo reported a hard-to-reproduce kernel crash on RHEL6, which happened when one thread tried to clear PF_USED_MATH while at the same time another thread tried to flip PF_SPREAD_PAGE/PF_SPREAD_SLAB. They both operate on the same task. Here's the full report: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/19/230 To fix this, we make PF_SPREAD_PAGE and PF_SPREAD_SLAB atomic flags. v4: - updated mm/slab.c. (Fengguang Wu) - updated Documentation. Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Miao Xie Cc: Kees Cook Fixes: 950592f7b991 ("cpusets: update tasks' page/slab spread flags in time") Cc: # 2.6.31+ Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa Signed-off-by: Zefan Li Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo --- include/linux/cpuset.h | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/cpuset.h') diff --git a/include/linux/cpuset.h b/include/linux/cpuset.h index ade2390ffe92..6e39c9bb0dae 100644 --- a/include/linux/cpuset.h +++ b/include/linux/cpuset.h @@ -93,12 +93,12 @@ extern int cpuset_slab_spread_node(void); static inline int cpuset_do_page_mem_spread(void) { - return current->flags & PF_SPREAD_PAGE; + return task_spread_page(current); } static inline int cpuset_do_slab_mem_spread(void) { - return current->flags & PF_SPREAD_SLAB; + return task_spread_slab(current); } extern int current_cpuset_is_being_rebound(void); -- cgit