Re: [RFC,PATCH 5/5] exec: RT sub-thread can livelock and monopolize CPU on exec

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 08/19, Roland McGrath wrote:
>
> > The group_leader can sleep before it enters exit_notify(). In that case
> > wait_task_inactive() returns, and we still need some polling to wait for
> > EXIT_ZOMBIE.
> 
> It could be a loop as now with yield.  It's still polling, but only one
> poll per wakeup of the target.

I guess I misunderstand you. Do you mean

	de_thread:

		/*
		 * Wait for the thread group leader to be a zombie.
		 * It should already be zombie at this point, most
		 * of the time.
		 */
		while (leader->exit_state != EXIT_ZOMBIE)
			wait_task_inactive(leader);

? This becomes a busy-wait loop if the leader sleeps, wait_task_inactive()
doesn't sleep/yield in this case. Not good.

> > Yes sure. But in any case I think we should avoid polling, we need some
> > notification from exit_notify().
>
> Indeed.

This means we should put something in exit_notify(), like this patch does.
It could be simplified a bit, we don't in fact need a negative ->notify_count,
we can tolerate a false wakeup. We can even skip the "thread_group_leader()"
check for the same reason.

(Of course, we can also add wait_queue_head_t to ->signal, but I don't think
 you have this in mind).

Oleg.

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