From 29b884921634e1e01cbd276e1c9b8fc07a7e4a90 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 02:01:09 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] set EXIT_DEAD state in do_exit(), not in schedule() schedule() checks PF_DEAD on every context switch and sets ->state = EXIT_DEAD to ensure that the exiting task will be deactivated. Note that this EXIT_DEAD is in fact a "random" value, we can use any bit except normal TASK_XXX values. It is better to set this state in do_exit() along with PF_DEAD flag and remove that check in schedule(). We are safe wrt concurrent try_to_wake_up() (for example ptrace, tkill), it can not change task's ->state: the 'state' argument of try_to_wake_up() can't have EXIT_DEAD bit. And in case when try_to_wake_up() sees a stale value of ->state == TASK_RUNNING it will do nothing. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/exit.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'kernel/exit.c') diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index 4a280856acd..3d759c98fb1 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -957,6 +957,7 @@ fastcall NORET_TYPE void do_exit(long code) preempt_disable(); BUG_ON(tsk->flags & PF_DEAD); tsk->flags |= PF_DEAD; + tsk->state = EXIT_DEAD; schedule(); BUG(); -- cgit v1.2.3