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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2011-05-30 13:34:51 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2011-05-31 10:01:48 +0200
commitd72bce0e67e8afc6eb959f656013cbb577426f1e (patch)
tree9c93d4df9aa895d6f2f555e0cf50e7ae5ebaded4 /kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
parent55922c9d1b84b89cb946c777fddccb3247e7df2c (diff)
downloadlinux-d72bce0e67e8afc6eb959f656013cbb577426f1e.tar.bz2
rcu: Cure load woes
Commit cc3ce5176d83 (rcu: Start RCU kthreads in TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE state) fudges a sleeping task' state, resulting in the scheduler seeing a TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE task going to sleep, but a TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE task waking up. The result is unbalanced load calculation. The problem that patch tried to address is that the RCU threads could stay in UNINTERRUPTIBLE state for quite a while and triggering the hung task detector due to on-demand wake-ups. Cure the problem differently by always giving the tasks at least one wake-up once the CPU is fully up and running, this will kick them out of the initial UNINTERRUPTIBLE state and into the regular INTERRUPTIBLE wait state. [ The alternative would be teaching kthread_create() to start threads as INTERRUPTIBLE but that needs a tad more thought. ] Reported-by: Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306755291.1200.2872.camel@twins Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/rcutree_plugin.h')
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcutree_plugin.h11
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
index a767b7dac365..c8bff3099a89 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
+++ b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
@@ -1295,7 +1295,6 @@ static int __cpuinit rcu_spawn_one_boost_kthread(struct rcu_state *rsp,
if (IS_ERR(t))
return PTR_ERR(t);
raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&rnp->lock, flags);
- set_task_state(t, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
rnp->boost_kthread_task = t;
raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rnp->lock, flags);
sp.sched_priority = RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO;
@@ -1303,6 +1302,12 @@ static int __cpuinit rcu_spawn_one_boost_kthread(struct rcu_state *rsp,
return 0;
}
+static void __cpuinit rcu_wake_one_boost_kthread(struct rcu_node *rnp)
+{
+ if (rnp->boost_kthread_task)
+ wake_up_process(rnp->boost_kthread_task);
+}
+
#else /* #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_BOOST */
static void rcu_initiate_boost(struct rcu_node *rnp, unsigned long flags)
@@ -1326,6 +1331,10 @@ static int __cpuinit rcu_spawn_one_boost_kthread(struct rcu_state *rsp,
return 0;
}
+static void __cpuinit rcu_wake_one_boost_kthread(struct rcu_node *rnp)
+{
+}
+
#endif /* #else #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_BOOST */
#ifndef CONFIG_SMP