Revision 2548d546d40c0014efdde88a53bf7896e917dcce authored by Peter Zijlstra on 21 April 2016, 16:03:15 UTC, committed by Ingo Molnar on 28 April 2016, 08:28:55 UTC
Chris Metcalf reported a that sched_can_stop_tick() sometimes fails to
re-enable the tick.

His observed problem is that rq->cfs.nr_running can be 1 even though
there are multiple runnable CFS tasks. This happens in the cgroup
case, in which case cfs.nr_running is the number of runnable entities
for that level.

If there is a single runnable cgroup (which can have an arbitrary
number of runnable child entries itself) rq->cfs.nr_running will be 1.

However, looking at that function I think there's more problems with it.

It seems to assume that if there's FIFO tasks, those will run. This is
incorrect. The FIFO task can have a lower prio than an RR task, in which
case the RR task will run.

So the whole fifo_nr_running test seems misplaced, it should go after
the rr_nr_running tests. That is, only if !rr_nr_running, can we use
fifo_nr_running like this.

Reported-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>
Tested-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>
Fixes: 76d92ac305f2 ("sched: Migrate sched to use new tick dependency mask model")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160421160315.GK24771@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Makefile -rw-r--r-- 5.4 KB
devres.c -rw-r--r-- 10.5 KB
gpio-104-dio-48e.c -rw-r--r-- 11.2 KB
gpio-104-idi-48.c -rw-r--r-- 8.1 KB
gpio-104-idio-16.c -rw-r--r-- 7.7 KB
gpio-74x164.c -rw-r--r-- 4.1 KB
gpio-74xx-mmio.c -rw-r--r-- 3.7 KB
gpio-adnp.c -rw-r--r-- 12.1 KB
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gpio-altera.c -rw-r--r-- 10.1 KB
gpio-amd8111.c -rw-r--r-- 6.8 KB
gpio-amdpt.c -rw-r--r-- 6.6 KB
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gpio-bt8xx.c -rw-r--r-- 7.7 KB
gpio-clps711x.c -rw-r--r-- 2.2 KB
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gpio-davinci.c -rw-r--r-- 16.2 KB
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gpio-ich.c -rw-r--r-- 12.8 KB
gpio-intel-mid.c -rw-r--r-- 11.1 KB
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gpio-it87.c -rw-r--r-- 9.0 KB
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gpio-octeon.c -rw-r--r-- 3.5 KB
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gpio-pch.c -rw-r--r-- 13.6 KB
gpio-pisosr.c -rw-r--r-- 4.4 KB
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gpio-sa1100.c -rw-r--r-- 5.9 KB
gpio-sch.c -rw-r--r-- 5.6 KB
gpio-sch311x.c -rw-r--r-- 10.3 KB
gpio-sodaville.c -rw-r--r-- 6.4 KB
gpio-spear-spics.c -rw-r--r-- 5.5 KB
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gpio-syscon.c -rw-r--r-- 6.7 KB
gpio-tb10x.c -rw-r--r-- 7.9 KB
gpio-tc3589x.c -rw-r--r-- 8.2 KB
gpio-tegra.c -rw-r--r-- 14.4 KB
gpio-timberdale.c -rw-r--r-- 8.1 KB
gpio-tpic2810.c -rw-r--r-- 4.0 KB
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gpio-tz1090-pdc.c -rw-r--r-- 5.8 KB
gpio-tz1090.c -rw-r--r-- 15.6 KB
gpio-ucb1400.c -rw-r--r-- 2.4 KB
gpio-vf610.c -rw-r--r-- 7.2 KB
gpio-viperboard.c -rw-r--r-- 12.1 KB
gpio-vr41xx.c -rw-r--r-- 13.1 KB
gpio-vx855.c -rw-r--r-- 7.2 KB
gpio-wm831x.c -rw-r--r-- 7.1 KB
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gpio-xgene-sb.c -rw-r--r-- 10.1 KB
gpio-xgene.c -rw-r--r-- 6.0 KB
gpio-xilinx.c -rw-r--r-- 9.8 KB
gpio-xlp.c -rw-r--r-- 11.4 KB
gpio-xtensa.c -rw-r--r-- 4.7 KB
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gpio-zynq.c -rw-r--r-- 24.2 KB
gpiolib-acpi.c -rw-r--r-- 24.5 KB
gpiolib-legacy.c -rw-r--r-- 2.4 KB
gpiolib-of.c -rw-r--r-- 11.0 KB
gpiolib-sysfs.c -rw-r--r-- 19.0 KB
gpiolib.c -rw-r--r-- 81.2 KB
gpiolib.h -rw-r--r-- 7.3 KB

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