Re: [RFC/RFT PATCH v3] sched: automated per tty task groups

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Tue Nov 16 2010 - 21:14:45 EST


On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 20:31 -0500, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 02:25:50PM -0700, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
> > +++ linux-2.6/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
> > @@ -3160,6 +3160,7 @@ static void __proc_set_tty(struct task_s
> > put_pid(tsk->signal->tty_old_pgrp);
> > tsk->signal->tty = tty_kref_get(tty);
> > tsk->signal->tty_old_pgrp = NULL;
> > + sched_autogroup_create_attach(tsk);
> > }
> >
>
> This is a bit of a problem, as it's called in_atomic context and kmalloc's
> under GFP_KERNEL (which can sleep.) This results in sleep-under-spinlock
> prints when CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP=y.

Yeah, I got another report about that today.

-Mike

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