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Revision 093e5840ae76f1082633503964d035f40ed0216d authored by Sebastian Andrzej Siewior on 21 December 2015, 17:17:10 UTC, committed by Ingo Molnar on 06 January 2016, 10:01:07 UTC
In the following commit:

  7675104990ed ("sched: Implement lockless wake-queues")

we gained lockless wake-queues.

The -RT kernel managed to lockup itself with those. There could be multiple
attempts for task X to enqueue it for a wakeup _even_ if task X is already
running.

The reason is that task X could be runnable but not yet on CPU. The the
task performing the wakeup did not leave the CPU it could performe
multiple wakeups.

With the proper timming task X could be running and enqueued for a
wakeup. If this happens while X is performing a fork() then its its
child will have a !NULL `wake_q` member copied.

This is not a problem as long as the child task does not participate in
lockless wakeups :)

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 7675104990ed ("sched: Implement lockless wake-queues")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151221171710.GA5499@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Tip revision: 093e5840ae76f1082633503964d035f40ed0216d authored by Sebastian Andrzej Siewior on 21 December 2015, 17:17:10 UTC
sched/core: Reset task's lockless wake-queues on fork()
Tip revision: 093e584
check_signature.c
#include <linux/io.h>
#include <linux/export.h>

/**
 *	check_signature		-	find BIOS signatures
 *	@io_addr: mmio address to check
 *	@signature:  signature block
 *	@length: length of signature
 *
 *	Perform a signature comparison with the mmio address io_addr. This
 *	address should have been obtained by ioremap.
 *	Returns 1 on a match.
 */

int check_signature(const volatile void __iomem *io_addr,
			const unsigned char *signature, int length)
{
	while (length--) {
		if (readb(io_addr) != *signature)
			return 0;
		io_addr++;
		signature++;
	}
	return 1;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(check_signature);
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