Re: Why can't I set the priority of softirq-hrt? (Re: 2.6.17-rt1)

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Thu Jun 22 2006 - 10:18:25 EST


On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 09:45 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > + * Recheck the pi chain, in case we got a priority setting
> > + *
> > + * Called from sched_setscheduler
> > + */
> > +void rt_mutex_adjust_pi(struct task_struct *task)
> > +{
> > + struct rt_mutex_waiter *waiter = task->pi_blocked_on;
> > + unsigned long flags;
>
> Hmm, what if the process wakes up here and unblocks? Since waiter is
> on the stack, you could have a nasty race here.

Thats fixed already. Moved into te pi_lock section

> > +
> > + spin_lock_irqsave(&task->pi_lock, flags);
> > +
> > + if (!waiter || waiter->list_entry.prio == task->prio) {
> > + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&task->pi_lock, flags);
> > + return;
> > + }
> > +
> > + get_task_struct(task);
> > + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&task->pi_lock, flags);
> > +
> > + rt_mutex_adjust_prio_chain(task, 0, NULL, NULL, task);
>
> Nasty nasty nasty!

What's nasty ?

tglx


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