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Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 15:40:00 +0530
From: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Alex Shi <alex.shi@...aro.org>
CC: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
Preeti Murthy <preeti.lkml@...il.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, mingo@...nel.org,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Lists linaro-kernel <linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 2/3] sched: Fix race in idle_balance()
Hi,
On 02/13/2014 01:15 PM, Alex Shi wrote:
> On 02/11/2014 07:11 PM, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>> On 02/10/2014 10:24 AM, Preeti Murthy wrote:
>>> HI Daniel,
>>>
>>> Isn't the only scenario where another cpu can put an idle task on
>>> our runqueue,
>>
>> Well, I am not sure to understand what you meant, but I assume you are
>> asking if it is possible to have a task to be pulled when we are idle,
>> right ?
>>
>> This patch fixes the race when the current cpu is *about* to enter idle
>> when calling schedule().
>
> Preeti said the she didn't see a possible to insert a task on the cpu.
>
> I also did a quick check, maybe task come from wakeup path?
Yes this is possible. Thanks for pointing this :)
Reviewed-by: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
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