[PATCH] Make RCU task_struct safe for oprofile
Applying RCU to the task structure broke oprofile, because
free_task_notify() can now be called from softirq. This means that the
task_mortuary lock must be acquired with irq disabled in order to avoid
intermittent self-deadlock. Since irq is now disabled, the critical
section within process_task_mortuary() has been restructured to be O(1) in
order to maximize scalability and minimize realtime latency degradation.
Kudos to Wu Fengguang for finding this problem!
CC: Wu Fengguang <[email protected]>
Cc: Philippe Elie <[email protected]>
Cc: John Levon <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>