[PATCH v8 2/2] sched/rt: Trying to push current task when target disable migrating

From: Schspa Shi
Date: Sun Aug 28 2022 - 13:04:28 EST


When the task to push disable migration, retry to push the current
running task on this CPU away, instead doing nothing for this migrate
disabled task.

CC: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Schspa Shi <schspa@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@xxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/core.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
kernel/sched/deadline.c | 9 +++++++++
kernel/sched/rt.c | 8 ++++++++
3 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index ee28253c9ac0c..056b336c29e70 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -2503,8 +2503,19 @@ int push_cpu_stop(void *arg)
if (p->sched_class->find_lock_rq)
lowest_rq = p->sched_class->find_lock_rq(p, rq);

- if (!lowest_rq)
+ if (!lowest_rq) {
+ /*
+ * The find_lock_rq function above could have released the rq
+ * lock and allow p to schedule and be preempted again, and
+ * that lowest_rq could be NULL because p now has the
+ * migrate_disable flag set and not because it could not find
+ * the lowest rq. So we must check task migration flag again.
+ */
+ if (unlikely(is_migration_disabled(p)))
+ p->migration_flags |= MDF_PUSH;
+
goto out_unlock;
+ }

// XXX validate p is still the highest prio task
if (task_rq(p) == rq) {
diff --git a/kernel/sched/deadline.c b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
index e7eea6cde5cb9..c8055b978dbc3 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/deadline.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
@@ -2340,6 +2340,15 @@ static int push_dl_task(struct rq *rq)
*/
task = pick_next_pushable_dl_task(rq);
if (task == next_task) {
+ /*
+ * If next task has now disabled migrating, see if we
+ * can do resched_curr().
+ */
+ if (unlikely(is_migration_disabled(task))) {
+ put_task_struct(next_task);
+ goto retry;
+ }
+
/*
* The task is still there. We don't try
* again, some other CPU will pull it when ready.
diff --git a/kernel/sched/rt.c b/kernel/sched/rt.c
index 57e8cd5c9c267..381ec05eb2701 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/rt.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/rt.c
@@ -2139,6 +2139,14 @@ static int push_rt_task(struct rq *rq, bool pull)
*/
task = pick_next_pushable_task(rq);
if (task == next_task) {
+ /*
+ * If next task has now disabled migrating, see if we
+ * can push the current task.
+ */
+ if (unlikely(is_migration_disabled(task))) {
+ put_task_struct(next_task);
+ goto retry;
+ }
/*
* The task hasn't migrated, and is still the next
* eligible task, but we failed to find a run-queue
--
2.37.2