linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.8 075/166] sched/rt: Fix rq's cpupri leak while enqueue/dequeue child RT entities

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Message-Id: <1389822780-4729-76-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com>
Date:	Wed, 15 Jan 2014 13:51:29 -0800
From:	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com
Cc:	Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@...dex.ru>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.8 075/166] sched/rt: Fix rq's cpupri leak while enqueue/dequeue child RT entities

3.8.13.16 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@...dex.ru>

commit 757dfcaa41844595964f1220f1d33182dae49976 upstream.

This patch touches the 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.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@...dex.ru>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
CC: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/49231385567953@web4m.yandex.ru
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
---
 kernel/sched/rt.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/rt.c b/kernel/sched/rt.c
index 4f02b28..14a3a35 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/rt.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/rt.c
@@ -962,6 +962,13 @@ inc_rt_prio_smp(struct rt_rq *rt_rq, int prio, int prev_prio)
 {
 	struct rq *rq = rq_of_rt_rq(rt_rq);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED
+	/*
+	 * Change rq's cpupri only if rt_rq is the top queue.
+	 */
+	if (&rq->rt != rt_rq)
+		return;
+#endif
 	if (rq->online && prio < prev_prio)
 		cpupri_set(&rq->rd->cpupri, rq->cpu, prio);
 }
@@ -971,6 +978,13 @@ dec_rt_prio_smp(struct rt_rq *rt_rq, int prio, int prev_prio)
 {
 	struct rq *rq = rq_of_rt_rq(rt_rq);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED
+	/*
+	 * Change rq's cpupri only if rt_rq is the top queue.
+	 */
+	if (&rq->rt != rt_rq)
+		return;
+#endif
 	if (rq->online && rt_rq->highest_prio.curr != prev_prio)
 		cpupri_set(&rq->rd->cpupri, rq->cpu, rt_rq->highest_prio.curr);
 }
-- 
1.8.3.2

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