[tip:sched/urgent] sched/core: Allow kthreads to fall back to online && !active cpus

From: tip-bot for Tejun Heo
Date: Fri Jun 24 2016 - 05:01:21 EST


Commit-ID: feb245e304f343cf5e4f9123db36354144dce8a4
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/feb245e304f343cf5e4f9123db36354144dce8a4
Author: Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 15:35:04 -0400
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 08:26:53 +0200

sched/core: Allow kthreads to fall back to online && !active cpus

During CPU hotplug, CPU_ONLINE callbacks are run while the CPU is
online but not active. A CPU_ONLINE callback may create or bind a
kthread so that its cpus_allowed mask only allows the CPU which is
being brought online. The kthread may start executing before the CPU
is made active and can end up in select_fallback_rq().

In such cases, the expected behavior is selecting the CPU which is
coming online; however, because select_fallback_rq() only chooses from
active CPUs, it determines that the task doesn't have any viable CPU
in its allowed mask and ends up overriding it to cpu_possible_mask.

CPU_ONLINE callbacks should be able to put kthreads on the CPU which
is coming online. Update select_fallback_rq() so that it follows
cpu_online() rather than cpu_active() for kthreads.

Reported-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Gautham R. Shenoy <ego@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Abdul Haleem <abdhalee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: kernel-team@xxxxxx
Cc: linuxppc-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160616193504.GB3262@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/core.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 4135ac8..51d7105 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -1536,7 +1536,9 @@ static int select_fallback_rq(int cpu, struct task_struct *p)
for (;;) {
/* Any allowed, online CPU? */
for_each_cpu(dest_cpu, tsk_cpus_allowed(p)) {
- if (!cpu_active(dest_cpu))
+ if (!(p->flags & PF_KTHREAD) && !cpu_active(dest_cpu))
+ continue;
+ if (!cpu_online(dest_cpu))
continue;
goto out;
}