sched/fair: Fix calc_cfs_shares() fixed point arithmetics width confusion
Commit: fde7d22e ("sched/fair: Fix overly small weight for interactive group entities") did something non-obvious but also did it buggy yet latent. The problem was exposed for real by a later commit in the v4.7 merge window: 2159197d ("sched/core: Enable increased load resolution on 64-bit kernels") ... after which tg->load_avg and cfs_rq->load.weight had different units (10 bit fixed point and 20 bit fixed point resp.). Add a comment to explain the use of cfs_rq->load.weight over the 'natural' cfs_rq->avg.load_avg and add scale_load_down() to correct for the difference in unit. Since this is (now, as per a previous commit) the only user of calc_tg_weight(), collapse it. The effects of this bug should be randomly inconsistent SMP-balancing of cgroups workloads. Reported-by: Jirka Hladky <jhladky@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Fixes: 2159197d ("sched/core: Enable increased load resolution on 64-bit kernels") Fixes: fde7d22e ("sched/fair: Fix overly small weight for interactive group entities") Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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