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authorJuergen Gross <juergen.gross@ts.fujitsu.com>2011-09-17 16:35:21 +0100
committerJuergen Gross <juergen.gross@ts.fujitsu.com>2011-09-17 16:35:21 +0100
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Avoid race in schedule() when switching schedulers
Selecting the scheduler to call must be done under lock. Otherwise a race might occur when switching schedulers in a cpupool Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <juergen.gross@ts.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com> xen-unstable changeset: 23843:6684e3bafbbd xen-unstable date: Sat Sep 17 16:19:26 2011 +0100
-rw-r--r--xen/common/schedule.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/xen/common/schedule.c b/xen/common/schedule.c
index 53a1353b47..bbeef8f6f5 100644
--- a/xen/common/schedule.c
+++ b/xen/common/schedule.c
@@ -1112,7 +1112,7 @@ static void schedule(void)
{
struct vcpu *prev = current, *next = NULL;
s_time_t now = NOW();
- struct scheduler *sched = this_cpu(scheduler);
+ struct scheduler *sched;
unsigned long *tasklet_work = &this_cpu(tasklet_work_to_do);
bool_t tasklet_work_scheduled = 0;
struct schedule_data *sd;
@@ -1146,6 +1146,7 @@ static void schedule(void)
stop_timer(&sd->s_timer);
/* get policy-specific decision on scheduling... */
+ sched = this_cpu(scheduler);
next_slice = sched->do_schedule(sched, now, tasklet_work_scheduled);
next = next_slice.task;