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Commit 2548d546 authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Ingo Molnar
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nohz/full, sched/rt: Fix missed tick-reenabling bug in sched_can_stop_tick()



Chris Metcalf reported a that sched_can_stop_tick() sometimes fails to
re-enable the tick.

His observed problem is that rq->cfs.nr_running can be 1 even though
there are multiple runnable CFS tasks. This happens in the cgroup
case, in which case cfs.nr_running is the number of runnable entities
for that level.

If there is a single runnable cgroup (which can have an arbitrary
number of runnable child entries itself) rq->cfs.nr_running will be 1.

However, looking at that function I think there's more problems with it.

It seems to assume that if there's FIFO tasks, those will run. This is
incorrect. The FIFO task can have a lower prio than an RR task, in which
case the RR task will run.

So the whole fifo_nr_running test seems misplaced, it should go after
the rr_nr_running tests. That is, only if !rr_nr_running, can we use
fifo_nr_running like this.

Reported-by: default avatarChris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>
Tested-by: default avatarChris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>
Fixes: 76d92ac3 ("sched: Migrate sched to use new tick dependency mask model")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160421160315.GK24771@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 02da2d72
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