From: Greg KH on
2.6.32-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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Based on commit e2912009fb7b715728311b0d8fe327a1432b3f79 upstream, but
done differently as this issue is not present in .33 or .34 kernels due
to rework in this area.

If a task is in the TASK_WAITING state, then try_to_wake_up() is working
on it, and it will place it on the correct cpu.

This commit ensures that neither migrate_task() nor __migrate_task()
calls set_task_cpu(p) while p is in the TASK_WAKING state. Otherwise,
there could be two concurrent calls to set_task_cpu(p), resulting in
the task's cfs_rq being inconsistent with its cpu.

Signed-off-by: John Wright <john.wright(a)hp.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz(a)infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh(a)suse.de>

---
kernel/sched.c | 9 +++++----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -2116,12 +2116,10 @@ migrate_task(struct task_struct *p, int

/*
* If the task is not on a runqueue (and not running), then
- * it is sufficient to simply update the task's cpu field.
+ * the next wake-up will properly place the task.
*/
- if (!p->se.on_rq && !task_running(rq, p)) {
- set_task_cpu(p, dest_cpu);
+ if (!p->se.on_rq && !task_running(rq, p))
return 0;
- }

init_completion(&req->done);
req->task = p;
@@ -7167,6 +7165,9 @@ static int __migrate_task(struct task_st
/* Already moved. */
if (task_cpu(p) != src_cpu)
goto done;
+ /* Waking up, don't get in the way of try_to_wake_up(). */
+ if (p->state == TASK_WAKING)
+ goto fail;
/* Affinity changed (again). */
if (!cpumask_test_cpu(dest_cpu, &p->cpus_allowed))
goto fail;


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