From: Frederic Weisbecker idle_balance() is called from schedule() right before we schedule the idle task. It needs to record the idle timestamp at that time and for this the rq clock must be accurate. If the CPU is running tickless we need to update the rq clock manually. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Avi Kivity Cc: Chris Metcalf Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Daniel Lezcano Cc: Geoff Levand Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef Cc: Hakan Akkan Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Kevin Hilman Cc: Max Krasnyansky Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephen Hemminger Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich Cc: Thomas Gleixner --- kernel/sched/fair.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c index a63e641..89e816e 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c @@ -4470,6 +4470,7 @@ void idle_balance(int this_cpu, struct rq *this_rq) int pulled_task = 0; unsigned long next_balance = jiffies + HZ; + update_nohz_rq_clock(this_rq); this_rq->idle_stamp = this_rq->clock; if (this_rq->avg_idle < sysctl_sched_migration_cost) -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/