From 8a102eed9c4e1d21bad07a8fd97bd4fbf125d966 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:34:30 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] PM: Fix SMP races in the freezer Currently, to tell a task that it should go to the refrigerator, we set the PF_FREEZE flag for it and send a fake signal to it. Unfortunately there are two SMP-related problems with this approach. First, a task running on another CPU may be updating its flags while the freezer attempts to set PF_FREEZE for it and this may leave the task's flags in an inconsistent state. Second, there is a potential race between freeze_process() and refrigerator() in which freeze_process() running on one CPU is reading a task's PF_FREEZE flag while refrigerator() running on another CPU has just set PF_FROZEN for the same task and attempts to reset PF_FREEZE for it. If the refrigerator wins the race, freeze_process() will state that PF_FREEZE hasn't been set for the task and will set it unnecessarily, so the task will go to the refrigerator once again after it's been thawed. To solve first of these problems we need to stop using PF_FREEZE to tell tasks that they should go to the refrigerator. Instead, we can introduce a special TIF_*** flag and use it for this purpose, since it is allowed to change the other tasks' TIF_*** flags and there are special calls for it. To avoid the freeze_process()-refrigerator() race we can make freeze_process() to always check the task's PF_FROZEN flag after it's read its "freeze" flag. We should also make sure that refrigerator() will always reset the task's "freeze" flag after it's set PF_FROZEN for it. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Acked-by: Pavel Machek Cc: Russell King Cc: David Howells Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: "Luck, Tony" Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Paul Mundt Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/asm-i386/thread_info.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/asm-i386') diff --git a/include/asm-i386/thread_info.h b/include/asm-i386/thread_info.h index 46d32ad92082..4b187bb377b4 100644 --- a/include/asm-i386/thread_info.h +++ b/include/asm-i386/thread_info.h @@ -134,6 +134,7 @@ static inline struct thread_info *current_thread_info(void) #define TIF_MEMDIE 16 #define TIF_DEBUG 17 /* uses debug registers */ #define TIF_IO_BITMAP 18 /* uses I/O bitmap */ +#define TIF_FREEZE 19 /* is freezing for suspend */ #define _TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE (1<