From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753300Ab2L2Qnr (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Dec 2012 11:43:47 -0500 Received: from mail-we0-f178.google.com ([74.125.82.178]:65359 "EHLO mail-we0-f178.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753247Ab2L2Qnm (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Dec 2012 11:43:42 -0500 From: Frederic Weisbecker To: LKML Cc: Frederic Weisbecker , Alessio Igor Bogani , Andrew Morton , Chris Metcalf , Christoph Lameter , Geoff Levand , Gilad Ben Yossef , Hakan Akkan , Ingo Molnar , "Paul E. McKenney" , Paul Gortmaker , Peter Zijlstra , Steven Rostedt , Thomas Gleixner Subject: [PATCH 12/27] sched: Update rq clock on nohz CPU before migrating tasks Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 17:42:51 +0100 Message-Id: <1356799386-4212-13-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.5.4 In-Reply-To: <1356799386-4212-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> References: <1356799386-4212-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Because the sched_class::put_prev_task() callback of rt and fair classes are referring to the rq clock to update their runtime statistics. A CPU running in tickless mode may carry a stale value. We need to update it there. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Chris Metcalf Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Geoff Levand Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef Cc: Hakan Akkan Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Paul Gortmaker Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Thomas Gleixner --- kernel/sched/core.c | 6 ++++++ kernel/sched/sched.h | 7 +++++++ 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c index bfac40f..2fcbb03 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/core.c +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c @@ -4894,6 +4894,12 @@ static void migrate_tasks(unsigned int dead_cpu) */ rq->stop = NULL; + /* + * ->put_prev_task() need to have an up-to-date value + * of rq->clock[_task] + */ + update_nohz_rq_clock(rq); + for ( ; ; ) { /* * There's this thread running, bail when that's the only diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h index fc88644..f24d91e 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/sched.h +++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include "cpupri.h" @@ -963,6 +964,12 @@ static inline void dec_nr_running(struct rq *rq) extern void update_rq_clock(struct rq *rq); +static inline void update_nohz_rq_clock(struct rq *rq) +{ + if (tick_nohz_full_cpu(cpu_of(rq))) + update_rq_clock(rq); +} + extern void activate_task(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags); extern void deactivate_task(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags); -- 1.7.5.4