On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 03:40:03PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
> index 8dc1811..1f9b021 100644
> --- a/include/linux/sched.h
> +++ b/include/linux/sched.h
> @@ -1134,7 +1134,10 @@ struct task_struct {
>
> struct tlbflush_unmap_batch tlb_ubc;
>
> - struct rcu_head rcu;
> + union {
> + bool xxx;
> + struct rcu_head rcu;
> + };
>
> /* Cache last used pipe for splice(): */
> struct pipe_inode_info *splice_pipe;
> diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
> index a75b6a7..baacfce 100644
> --- a/kernel/exit.c
> +++ b/kernel/exit.c
> @@ -182,6 +182,11 @@ static void delayed_put_task_struct(struct rcu_head *rhp)
> put_task_struct(tsk);
> }
>
> +void call_delayed_put_task_struct(struct task_struct *p)
> +{
> + if (xchg(&p->xxx, 1))
> + call_rcu(&p->rcu, delayed_put_task_struct);
> +}
I think this is the first usage of xchg() on _Bool, also not all archs
implement xchg8()
