summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/kernel/kthread.c
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorBen Segall <bsegall@google.com>2015-04-06 15:28:10 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2015-10-22 14:43:20 -0700
commitc04b33c93dc0c566b02ac573528bb82ac6065666 (patch)
tree5bc76235d47c7bb4768fda50559c6915274002d8 /kernel/kthread.c
parent7983297d99ea11152a76420d4325f5d1925e2547 (diff)
sched/fair: Prevent throttling in early pick_next_task_fair()
commit 54d27365cae88fbcc853b391dcd561e71acb81fa upstream. The optimized task selection logic optimistically selects a new task to run without first doing a full put_prev_task(). This is so that we can avoid a put/set on the common ancestors of the old and new task. Similarly, we should only call check_cfs_rq_runtime() to throttle eligible groups if they're part of the common ancestry, otherwise it is possible to end up with no eligible task in the simple task selection. Imagine: /root /prev /next /A /B If our optimistic selection ends up throttling /next, we goto simple and our put_prev_task() ends up throttling /prev, after which we're going to bug out in set_next_entity() because there aren't any tasks left. Avoid this scenario by only throttling common ancestors. Reported-by: Mohammed Naser <mnaser@vexxhost.com> Reported-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> Signed-off-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com> [ munged Changelog ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Roman Gushchin <klamm@yandex-team.ru> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: pjt@google.com Fixes: 678d5718d8d0 ("sched/fair: Optimize cgroup pick_next_task_fair()") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/xm26wq1oswoq.fsf@sword-of-the-dawn.mtv.corp.google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/kthread.c')
0 files changed, 0 insertions, 0 deletions