Re: [PATCH] sched/rt: Fix rq's cpupri leak while enqueue/dequeue child RT entities

From: Kirill Tkhai
Date: Tue Dec 17 2013 - 07:08:39 EST




13.12.2013, 19:42, "Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 07:59:13PM +0400, Kirill Tkhai wrote:
>
>>  This patch touches RT group scheduling case.
>>
>>  Functions inc_rt_prio_smp() and dec_rt_prio_smp() change (global) rq's priority,
>>  while rt_rq passed to them may be not the top-level rt_rq. This is wrong, because
>>  changing of priority on a child level does not guarantee that the priority is
>>  the highest all over the rq. So, this leak makes RT balancing unusable.
>>
>>  The short example: the task having the highest priority among all rq's RT tasks
>>  (no one other task has the same priority) are waking on a throttle rt_rq.
>>  The rq's cpupri is set to the task's priority equivalent, but real
>>  rq->rt.highest_prio.curr is less.
>>
>>  The patch below fixes the problem.
>>
>>  It looks like all version have this bug, so I CC'ed stable mailing list.
>
> Yeah, I think this is right.
>
> cpupri stuff should indeed only be changed for the top level group.

Ingo, are you going to apply this patch? Or will you give any comments?
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/