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Commit e5fc6611 authored by Daniel Lezcano's avatar Daniel Lezcano Committed by Ingo Molnar
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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: default avatarDaniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: alex.shi@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389949444-14821-2-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano@linaro.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent b4f2ab43
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