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authorAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>2009-11-29 16:34:48 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-11-29 22:03:04 +0100
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core: Fix user return notifier on fork()
fork() clones all thread_info flags, including TIF_USER_RETURN_NOTIFY; if the new task is first scheduled on a cpu which doesn't have user return notifiers set, this causes user return notifiers to trigger without any way of clearing itself. This is easy to trigger with a forky workload on the host in parallel with kvm, resulting in a cpu in an endless loop on the verge of returning to userspace. Fix by dropping the TIF_USER_RETURN_NOTIFY immediately after fork. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1259505288-16559-1-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/user-return-notifier.h7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/user-return-notifier.h b/include/linux/user-return-notifier.h
index b6ac056291d7..9c4a445bb43c 100644
--- a/include/linux/user-return-notifier.h
+++ b/include/linux/user-return-notifier.h
@@ -26,6 +26,11 @@ static inline void propagate_user_return_notify(struct task_struct *prev,
void fire_user_return_notifiers(void);
+static inline void clear_user_return_notifier(struct task_struct *p)
+{
+ clear_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_USER_RETURN_NOTIFY);
+}
+
#else
struct user_return_notifier {};
@@ -37,6 +42,8 @@ static inline void propagate_user_return_notify(struct task_struct *prev,
static inline void fire_user_return_notifiers(void) {}
+static inline void clear_user_return_notifier(struct task_struct *p) {}
+
#endif
#endif