From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754423Ab1AUPKF (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Jan 2011 10:10:05 -0500 Received: from canuck.infradead.org ([134.117.69.58]:36822 "EHLO canuck.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754035Ab1AUPJ4 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Jan 2011 10:09:56 -0500 Subject: Re: Bug in scheduler when using rt_mutex From: Peter Zijlstra To: Yong Zhang Cc: Mike Galbraith , samu.p.onkalo@nokia.com, mingo@elte.hu, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , tglx , Steven Rostedt In-Reply-To: <20110121150323.GC6051@zhy> References: <1295499568.8027.30.camel@marge.simson.net> <1295503938.8027.59.camel@marge.simson.net> <1295512625.8027.88.camel@marge.simson.net> <1295518047.8027.104.camel@marge.simson.net> <1295608136.28776.266.camel@laptop> <20110121122412.GA5071@zhy> <1295617258.28776.274.camel@laptop> <20110121150323.GC6051@zhy> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 16:10:27 +0100 Message-ID: <1295622627.28776.295.camel@laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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.