Re: [PATCH RT 1/2] tasklet: Address a race resulting in double-enqueue

From: Ramon Fried
Date: Tue Jun 09 2020 - 12:38:41 EST




On June 9, 2020 7:34:46 PM GMT+03:00, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On 2020-06-09 11:17:53 [-0500], Tom Zanussi wrote:
>> Hi Sebastian,
>Hi Tom,
>
>> I did find a problem with the patch when configured as !SMP since in
>> that case the RUN flag is never set (will send a patch for that
>> shortly), but that wouldn't be the case here.
>
>How?
>
>| #if defined(CONFIG_SMP) || defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT_FULL)
>| static inline int tasklet_trylock(struct tasklet_struct *t)
>| {
>| return !test_and_set_bit(TASKLET_STATE_RUN, &(t)->state);
>| }
>
>I can't tell from the backtrace if he runs with RT or without but I
>assumed RT. But yes, for !SMP && !RT it would explain it.
PREEMT_FULL is enabled.
I'm working on getting symbols for this trace, this is a crash kernel so everything is stripped naked.
Thanks, Ramon
>
>> It would help to be able to reproduce it, but I haven't been able to
>> yet.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>Sebastian

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