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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2025-09-22 15:46:27 +0200
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2025-10-29 10:29:55 +0100
commitae577ea0bc5249c483da09670f784dbc288c80b6 (patch)
treeb891c2b7b7d3b139d73d6b83467517a52a392932 /kernel/exit.c
parent52a1ec718b3eb6da29a76d05a662365a997139cc (diff)
unwind: Add comment to unwind_deferred_task_exit()
Explain why unwind_deferred_task_exit() exist and its constraints. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250924080118.893367437@infradead.org
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/exit.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/exit.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 9f74e8f1c431..5f6e78e28e8a 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -939,7 +939,6 @@ void __noreturn do_exit(long code)
tsk->exit_code = code;
taskstats_exit(tsk, group_dead);
- unwind_deferred_task_exit(tsk);
trace_sched_process_exit(tsk, group_dead);
/*
@@ -950,6 +949,12 @@ void __noreturn do_exit(long code)
* gets woken up by child-exit notifications.
*/
perf_event_exit_task(tsk);
+ /*
+ * PF_EXITING (above) ensures unwind_deferred_request() will no
+ * longer add new unwinds. While exit_mm() (below) will destroy the
+ * abaility to do unwinds. So flush any pending unwinds here.
+ */
+ unwind_deferred_task_exit(tsk);
exit_mm();