Re: [regression] boot failure on alpha, bisected

On 10/07, Al Viro wrote:

On Sun, Oct 07, 2012 at 06:55:34PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:

quoted

Hmm. I know nothing about arch/alpha and I can't understand its entry.S.
But _it seems_ to me that do_notify_resume() is called with irqs disabled.
If this is true, then imho arch/alpha should be fixed.

Before this commit task_work_run() enabled irqs, but this was the "side
effect" of spin_lock_irq/spin_unlock_irq, we should not rely on this.

Um...  There's a bunch of architectures that are in the same situation.
grep for do_notify_resume() and you'll see...

And every do_notify_resume() should be changed anyway, do_signal() and
tracehook_notify_resume() should be re-ordered.

It needs to be dealt with sanely, and actually have patches for alpha
going in that direction, but breaking a bunch of architectures is not a good
thing, obviously.  So you've bought yourself a major PITA for coming
weeks...

So perhaps the patch below until they are fixed?

--- x/kernel/task_work.c
+++ x/kernel/task_work.c

@@ -51,6 +51,9 @@ void task_work_run(void)
 	struct task_struct *task = current;
 	struct callback_head *work, *head, *next;
 
+	if (WARN_ONCE(irqs_disabled(), "notify_resume() with irqs_disabled"))
+		local_irq_enable();
+
 	for (;;) {
 		/*
 		 * work->func() can do task_work_add(), do not set