sched: fix __set_task_cpu() SMP race
Grant Wilson has reported rare SCHED_FAIR_USER crashes on his quad-core system, which crashes can only be explained via runqueue corruption. there is a narrow SMP race in __set_task_cpu(): after ->cpu is set up to a new value, task_rq_lock(p, ...) can be successfuly executed on another CPU. We must ensure that updates of per-task data have been completed by this moment. this bug has been hiding in the Linux scheduler for an eternity (we never had any explicit barrier for task->cpu in set_task_cpu() - so the bug was introduced in 2.5.1), but only became visible via set_task_cfs_rq() being accidentally put after the task->cpu update. It also probably needs a sufficiently out-of-order CPU to trigger. Reported-by: Grant Wilson <grant.wilson@zen.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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