Re: Bug in scheduler when using rt_mutex

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 23:03 +0800, Yong Zhang wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 02:40:58PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 20:24 +0800, Yong Zhang wrote:
> > > > Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c
> > > > ===================================================================
> > > > --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sched.c
> > > > +++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c
> > > > @@ -2624,6 +2624,8 @@ void sched_fork(struct task_struct *p, i
> > > >  
> > > >       if (!rt_prio(p->prio))
> > > >               p->sched_class = &fair_sched_class;
> > > > +     else
> > > > +             p->se.vruntime = 0;
> > > 
> > > This can be moved to __sched_fork() 
> > 
> > But we cannot do it unconditionally, we want to inherit the parent's
> > ->vruntime when we're a fair task clone.
> 
> Doesn't task_fork_fair()(which is called after __sched_fork())
> take the inherit job?
> 
> Am I missing something?

Ah, indeed, we do the place_entity(.initial=1) thing there
unconditionally. For some reason I thought we relied on the inherited
vruntime.