From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760829Ab2J2Um6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Oct 2012 16:42:58 -0400 Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([71.74.56.122]:18478 "EHLO hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758034Ab2J2Uiy (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Oct 2012 16:38:54 -0400 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=KcBQQHkD c=1 sm=0 a=rXTBtCOcEpjy1lPqhTCpEQ==:17 a=mNMOxpOpBa8A:10 a=Ciwy3NGCPMMA:10 a=aoZvHmGWlIkA:10 a=5SG0PmZfjMsA:10 a=bbbx4UPp9XUA:10 a=meVymXHHAAAA:8 a=CTwjezZmBa0A:10 a=pGLkceISAAAA:8 a=VwQbUJbxAAAA:8 a=Z4Rwk6OoAAAA:8 a=20KFwNOVAAAA:8 a=9AzMRrQhAAAA:8 a=NufY4J3AAAAA:8 a=KKAkSRfTAAAA:8 a=JfrnYn6hAAAA:8 a=ftUzEednAAAA:8 a=sozttTNsAAAA:8 a=EUspDBNiAAAA:8 a=VnNF1IyMAAAA:8 a=fh4mg5NFAAAA:8 a=tIUAx5PBRMPXGw7DjpwA:9 a=MSl-tDqOz04A:10 a=LI9Vle30uBYA:10 a=jbrJJM5MRmoA:10 a=jEp0ucaQiEUA:10 a=SxxB86fLhQ4A:10 a=re9sYKne76oA:10 a=WwgC8nHKvroA:10 a=3Rfx1nUSh_UA:10 a=QwxQZocgbLcA:10 a=x2szoZtqnggA:10 a=IG2fH9E8heMA:10 a=Im-eZXwrtqoA:10 a=jeBq3FmKZ4MA:10 a=Zh68SRI7RUMA:10 a=rRWrysgYYCEnThtW:21 a=29rl4z0T0Ui5jKLx:21 a=rXTBtCOcEpjy1lPqhTCpEQ==:117 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Originating-IP: 74.67.115.198 Message-Id: <20121029203850.313831205@goodmis.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.60-1 Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 16:27:36 -0400 From: Steven Rostedt To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Andrew Morton , Thomas Gleixner , Peter Zijlstra , Clark Williams , Frederic Weisbecker , Li Zefan , Ingo Molnar , "Paul E. McKenney" , Mike Galbraith , Alessio Igor Bogani , Avi Kivity , Chris Metcalf , Christoph Lameter , Daniel Lezcano , Geoff Levand , Gilad Ben Yossef , Hakan Akkan , Kevin Hilman , Max Krasnyansky , Stephen Hemminger , Sven-Thorsten Dietrich Subject: [PATCH 25/32] sched: Update rq clock on tickless CPUs before calling check_preempt_curr() References: <20121029202711.062749374@goodmis.org> Content-Disposition: inline; filename=0025-sched-Update-rq-clock-on-tickless-CPUs-before-callin.patch Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Frederic Weisbecker check_preempt_wakeup() of fair class needs an uptodate sched clock value to update runtime stats of the current task. When a task is woken up, activate_task() is usually called right before ttwu_do_wakeup() unless the task is already in the runqueue. In this case we need to update the rq clock manually in case the CPU runs tickless because ttwu_do_wakeup() calls check_preempt_wakeup(). Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Avi Kivity Cc: Chris Metcalf Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Daniel Lezcano Cc: Geoff Levand Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef Cc: Hakan Akkan Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Kevin Hilman Cc: Max Krasnyansky Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephen Hemminger Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich Cc: Thomas Gleixner --- kernel/sched/core.c | 17 ++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c index f0fa54d..320abee 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/core.c +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c @@ -1353,6 +1353,12 @@ static int ttwu_remote(struct task_struct *p, int wake_flags) rq = __task_rq_lock(p); if (p->on_rq) { + /* + * Ensure check_preempt_curr() won't deal with a stale value + * of rq clock if the CPU is tickless. BTW do we actually need + * check_preempt_curr() to be called here? + */ + update_nohz_rq_clock(rq); ttwu_do_wakeup(rq, p, wake_flags); ret = 1; } @@ -1530,8 +1536,17 @@ static void try_to_wake_up_local(struct task_struct *p) if (!(p->state & TASK_NORMAL)) goto out; - if (!p->on_rq) + if (!p->on_rq) { ttwu_activate(rq, p, ENQUEUE_WAKEUP); + } else { + /* + * Even if the task is on the runqueue we still + * need to ensure check_preempt_curr() won't + * deal with a stale rq clock value on a tickless + * CPU + */ + update_nohz_rq_clock(rq); + } ttwu_do_wakeup(rq, p, 0); ttwu_stat(p, smp_processor_id(), 0); -- 1.7.10.4