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authorDmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>2007-10-15 17:00:13 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2007-10-15 17:00:13 +0200
commit08ec3df5109e0555da5b9deb4382fd29733c852c (patch)
tree4739cd8a9b37b9d5482f88db3c8cdc78b07a8a98 /kernel/sched_fair.c
parent647e7cac2d215fb8890f79252d7eaee3d6743d66 (diff)
sched: fix __pick_next_entity()
The thing is that __pick_next_entity() must never be called when first_fair(cfs_rq) == NULL. It wouldn't be a problem, should 'run_node' be the very first field of 'struct sched_entity' (and it's the second). The 'nr_running != 0' check is _not_ enough, due to the fact that 'current' is not within the tree. Generic paths are ok (e.g. schedule() as put_prev_task() is called previously)... I'm more worried about e.g. migration_call() -> CPU_DEAD_FROZEN -> migrate_dead_tasks()... if 'current' == rq->idle, no problems.. if it's one of the SCHED_NORMAL tasks (or imagine, some other use-cases in the future -- i.e. we should not make outer world dependent on internal details of sched_fair class) -- it may be "Houston, we've got a problem" case. it's +16 bytes to the ".text". Another variant is to make 'run_node' the first data member of 'struct sched_entity' but an additional check (se ! = NULL) is still needed in pick_next_entity(). Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sched_fair.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched_fair.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched_fair.c b/kernel/sched_fair.c
index 1f14b56d0d0..fa78686ec22 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched_fair.c
@@ -600,9 +600,12 @@ set_next_entity(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se)
static struct sched_entity *pick_next_entity(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
{
- struct sched_entity *se = __pick_next_entity(cfs_rq);
+ struct sched_entity *se = NULL;
- set_next_entity(cfs_rq, se);
+ if (first_fair(cfs_rq)) {
+ se = __pick_next_entity(cfs_rq);
+ set_next_entity(cfs_rq, se);
+ }
return se;
}