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authorDaniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>2014-01-17 10:04:02 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2014-02-10 16:17:04 +0100
commite5fc66119ec97054eefc83f173a7ee9e133c3c3a (patch)
treee3bdb0ae5b92a625cef73ec37470b5bf7c040931 /kernel/sched
parentb4f2ab43615e5b36c48fffa99f26aca381839ac6 (diff)
downloadlinux-e5fc66119ec97054eefc83f173a7ee9e133c3c3a.tar.bz2
sched: Fix race in idle_balance()
The scheduler main function 'schedule()' checks if there are no more tasks on the runqueue. Then it checks if a task should be pulled in the current runqueue in idle_balance() assuming it will go to idle otherwise. But idle_balance() releases the rq->lock in order to look up the sched domains and takes the lock again right after. That opens a window where another cpu may put a task in our runqueue, so we won't go to idle but we have filled the idle_stamp, thinking we will. This patch closes the window by checking if the runqueue has been modified but without pulling a task after taking the lock again, so we won't go to idle right after in the __schedule() function. Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Cc: alex.shi@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389949444-14821-2-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sched')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/fair.c7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 428bc9d2c383..5ebc6817c036 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -6589,6 +6589,13 @@ void idle_balance(struct rq *this_rq)
raw_spin_lock(&this_rq->lock);
+ /*
+ * While browsing the domains, we released the rq lock.
+ * A task could have be enqueued in the meantime
+ */
+ if (this_rq->nr_running && !pulled_task)
+ return;
+
if (pulled_task || time_after(jiffies, this_rq->next_balance)) {
/*
* We are going idle. next_balance may be set based on