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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-02-28 10:23:41 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-02-28 10:23:41 -0800
commit2531216f236cb2a1f39ffa12a4a9339541e52191 (patch)
tree74ca94a99a00ebca463ca67458b8099728cece15 /kernel
parent6556a6743549defc32e5f90ee2cb1ecd833a44c3 (diff)
parent0970d2992dfd7d5ec2c787417cf464f01eeaf42a (diff)
Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: Fix race between ttwu() and task_rq_lock() sched: Fix SMT scheduler regression in find_busiest_queue() sched: Fix sched_mv_power_savings for !SMT kernel/sched.c: Suppress unused var warning
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched.c86
1 files changed, 58 insertions, 28 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 9d163f83e5c..caf54e1eef6 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -946,16 +946,33 @@ static inline void finish_lock_switch(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *prev)
#endif /* __ARCH_WANT_UNLOCKED_CTXSW */
/*
+ * Check whether the task is waking, we use this to synchronize against
+ * ttwu() so that task_cpu() reports a stable number.
+ *
+ * We need to make an exception for PF_STARTING tasks because the fork
+ * path might require task_rq_lock() to work, eg. it can call
+ * set_cpus_allowed_ptr() from the cpuset clone_ns code.
+ */
+static inline int task_is_waking(struct task_struct *p)
+{
+ return unlikely((p->state == TASK_WAKING) && !(p->flags & PF_STARTING));
+}
+
+/*
* __task_rq_lock - lock the runqueue a given task resides on.
* Must be called interrupts disabled.
*/
static inline struct rq *__task_rq_lock(struct task_struct *p)
__acquires(rq->lock)
{
+ struct rq *rq;
+
for (;;) {
- struct rq *rq = task_rq(p);
+ while (task_is_waking(p))
+ cpu_relax();
+ rq = task_rq(p);
raw_spin_lock(&rq->lock);
- if (likely(rq == task_rq(p)))
+ if (likely(rq == task_rq(p) && !task_is_waking(p)))
return rq;
raw_spin_unlock(&rq->lock);
}
@@ -972,10 +989,12 @@ static struct rq *task_rq_lock(struct task_struct *p, unsigned long *flags)
struct rq *rq;
for (;;) {
+ while (task_is_waking(p))
+ cpu_relax();
local_irq_save(*flags);
rq = task_rq(p);
raw_spin_lock(&rq->lock);
- if (likely(rq == task_rq(p)))
+ if (likely(rq == task_rq(p) && !task_is_waking(p)))
return rq;
raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rq->lock, *flags);
}
@@ -2413,14 +2432,27 @@ static int try_to_wake_up(struct task_struct *p, unsigned int state,
__task_rq_unlock(rq);
cpu = select_task_rq(p, SD_BALANCE_WAKE, wake_flags);
- if (cpu != orig_cpu)
+ if (cpu != orig_cpu) {
+ /*
+ * Since we migrate the task without holding any rq->lock,
+ * we need to be careful with task_rq_lock(), since that
+ * might end up locking an invalid rq.
+ */
set_task_cpu(p, cpu);
+ }
- rq = __task_rq_lock(p);
+ rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
+ raw_spin_lock(&rq->lock);
update_rq_clock(rq);
+ /*
+ * We migrated the task without holding either rq->lock, however
+ * since the task is not on the task list itself, nobody else
+ * will try and migrate the task, hence the rq should match the
+ * cpu we just moved it to.
+ */
+ WARN_ON(task_cpu(p) != cpu);
WARN_ON(p->state != TASK_WAKING);
- cpu = task_cpu(p);
#ifdef CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
schedstat_inc(rq, ttwu_count);
@@ -2668,7 +2700,13 @@ void wake_up_new_task(struct task_struct *p, unsigned long clone_flags)
set_task_cpu(p, cpu);
#endif
- rq = task_rq_lock(p, &flags);
+ /*
+ * Since the task is not on the rq and we still have TASK_WAKING set
+ * nobody else will migrate this task.
+ */
+ rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
+ raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&rq->lock, flags);
+
BUG_ON(p->state != TASK_WAKING);
p->state = TASK_RUNNING;
update_rq_clock(rq);
@@ -4130,12 +4168,23 @@ find_busiest_queue(struct sched_group *group, enum cpu_idle_type idle,
continue;
rq = cpu_rq(i);
- wl = weighted_cpuload(i) * SCHED_LOAD_SCALE;
- wl /= power;
+ wl = weighted_cpuload(i);
+ /*
+ * When comparing with imbalance, use weighted_cpuload()
+ * which is not scaled with the cpu power.
+ */
if (capacity && rq->nr_running == 1 && wl > imbalance)
continue;
+ /*
+ * For the load comparisons with the other cpu's, consider
+ * the weighted_cpuload() scaled with the cpu power, so that
+ * the load can be moved away from the cpu that is potentially
+ * running at a lower capacity.
+ */
+ wl = (wl * SCHED_LOAD_SCALE) / power;
+
if (wl > max_load) {
max_load = wl;
busiest = rq;
@@ -7156,27 +7205,8 @@ int set_cpus_allowed_ptr(struct task_struct *p, const struct cpumask *new_mask)
struct rq *rq;
int ret = 0;
- /*
- * Since we rely on wake-ups to migrate sleeping tasks, don't change
- * the ->cpus_allowed mask from under waking tasks, which would be
- * possible when we change rq->lock in ttwu(), so synchronize against
- * TASK_WAKING to avoid that.
- *
- * Make an exception for freshly cloned tasks, since cpuset namespaces
- * might move the task about, we have to validate the target in
- * wake_up_new_task() anyway since the cpu might have gone away.
- */
-again:
- while (p->state == TASK_WAKING && !(p->flags & PF_STARTING))
- cpu_relax();
-
rq = task_rq_lock(p, &flags);
- if (p->state == TASK_WAKING && !(p->flags & PF_STARTING)) {
- task_rq_unlock(rq, &flags);
- goto again;
- }
-
if (!cpumask_intersects(new_mask, cpu_active_mask)) {
ret = -EINVAL;
goto out;