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authorAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2009-09-19 11:55:44 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-09-20 20:00:32 +0200
commit89f19f04dc72363d912fd007a399cb10310eff6e (patch)
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sched: Fix raciness in runqueue_is_locked()
runqueue_is_locked() is unavoidably racy due to a poor interface design. It does cpu = get_cpu() ret = some_perpcu_thing(cpu); put_cpu(cpu); return ret; Its return value is unreliable. Fix. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <200909191855.n8JItiko022148@imap1.linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/sched.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 8af3d249170..cc37a3fa506 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ extern asmlinkage void schedule_tail(struct task_struct *prev);
extern void init_idle(struct task_struct *idle, int cpu);
extern void init_idle_bootup_task(struct task_struct *idle);
-extern int runqueue_is_locked(void);
+extern int runqueue_is_locked(int cpu);
extern void task_rq_unlock_wait(struct task_struct *p);
extern cpumask_var_t nohz_cpu_mask;