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authorGeorge McCollister <george.mccollister@gmail.com>2014-02-18 17:56:51 -0600
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2014-03-23 21:38:09 -0700
commit84bb5b645ec5a54744180a1edc5dc72adc862457 (patch)
treeb4e782d13dc84a8915e9ac833793ecddfae01724 /kernel
parent52ed96fc71877b15d1090313cc7b63264bdb466b (diff)
sched: Fix double normalization of vruntime
commit 791c9e0292671a3bfa95286bb5c08129d8605618 upstream. dequeue_entity() is called when p->on_rq and sets se->on_rq = 0 which appears to guarentee that the !se->on_rq condition is met. If the task has done set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE) without schedule() the second condition will be met and vruntime will be incorrectly adjusted twice. In certain cases this can result in the task's vruntime never increasing past the vruntime of other tasks on the CFS' run queue, starving them of CPU time. This patch changes switched_from_fair() to use !p->on_rq instead of !se->on_rq. I'm able to cause a task with a priority of 120 to starve all other tasks with the same priority on an ARM platform running 3.2.51-rt72 PREEMPT RT by writing one character at time to a serial tty (16550 UART) in a tight loop. I'm also able to verify making this change corrects the problem on that platform and kernel version. Signed-off-by: George McCollister <george.mccollister@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1392767811-28916-1-git-send-email-george.mccollister@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/fair.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 305ef886219e..c7ab8eab5427 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -5862,15 +5862,15 @@ static void switched_from_fair(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p)
struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq = cfs_rq_of(se);
/*
- * Ensure the task's vruntime is normalized, so that when its
+ * Ensure the task's vruntime is normalized, so that when it's
* switched back to the fair class the enqueue_entity(.flags=0) will
* do the right thing.
*
- * If it was on_rq, then the dequeue_entity(.flags=0) will already
- * have normalized the vruntime, if it was !on_rq, then only when
+ * If it's on_rq, then the dequeue_entity(.flags=0) will already
+ * have normalized the vruntime, if it's !on_rq, then only when
* the task is sleeping will it still have non-normalized vruntime.
*/
- if (!se->on_rq && p->state != TASK_RUNNING) {
+ if (!p->on_rq && p->state != TASK_RUNNING) {
/*
* Fix up our vruntime so that the current sleep doesn't
* cause 'unlimited' sleep bonus.