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Commit 54e88fad authored by Amit K. Arora's avatar Amit K. Arora Committed by Ingo Molnar
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sched: Make sure timers have migrated before killing the migration_thread



Problem: In a stress test where some heavy tests were running along with
regular CPU offlining and onlining, a hang was observed. The system seems
to be hung at a point where migration_call() tries to kill the
migration_thread of the dying CPU, which just got moved to the current
CPU. This migration thread does not get a chance to run (and die) since
rt_throttled is set to 1 on current, and it doesn't get cleared as the
hrtimer which is supposed to reset the rt bandwidth
(sched_rt_period_timer) is tied to the CPU which we just marked dead!

Solution: This patch pushes the killing of migration thread to
"CPU_POST_DEAD" event. By then all the timers (including
sched_rt_period_timer) should have got migrated (along with other
callbacks).

Signed-off-by: default avatarAmit Arora <aarora@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <20100525132346.GA14986@amitarora.in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent 67a3e12b
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