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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-08-06 09:48:31 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-08-06 09:48:31 -0700
commitc87985a3ce723995fc7b25e598238d67154108a1 (patch)
treee60def1b77c25c1d74180f62e8a5603f9826f209 /kernel/sched/sched.h
parentd155255a344c417acad74156654295a2964e6b81 (diff)
parent0d7614f09c1ebdbaa1599a5aba7593f147bf96ee (diff)
Merge tty-next into 3.6-rc1
This handles the merge issue in: arch/um/drivers/line.c arch/um/drivers/line.h And resolves the duplicate patches that were in both trees do to the tty-next branch not getting merged into 3.6-rc1. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sched/sched.h')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/sched.h23
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index 55844f24435..c35a1a7dd4d 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -538,22 +538,19 @@ extern int group_balance_cpu(struct sched_group *sg);
/*
* Return the group to which this tasks belongs.
*
- * We use task_subsys_state_check() and extend the RCU verification with
- * pi->lock and rq->lock because cpu_cgroup_attach() holds those locks for each
- * task it moves into the cgroup. Therefore by holding either of those locks,
- * we pin the task to the current cgroup.
+ * We cannot use task_subsys_state() and friends because the cgroup
+ * subsystem changes that value before the cgroup_subsys::attach() method
+ * is called, therefore we cannot pin it and might observe the wrong value.
+ *
+ * The same is true for autogroup's p->signal->autogroup->tg, the autogroup
+ * core changes this before calling sched_move_task().
+ *
+ * Instead we use a 'copy' which is updated from sched_move_task() while
+ * holding both task_struct::pi_lock and rq::lock.
*/
static inline struct task_group *task_group(struct task_struct *p)
{
- struct task_group *tg;
- struct cgroup_subsys_state *css;
-
- css = task_subsys_state_check(p, cpu_cgroup_subsys_id,
- lockdep_is_held(&p->pi_lock) ||
- lockdep_is_held(&task_rq(p)->lock));
- tg = container_of(css, struct task_group, css);
-
- return autogroup_task_group(p, tg);
+ return p->sched_task_group;
}
/* Change a task's cfs_rq and parent entity if it moves across CPUs/groups */