linux-kernel - [tip:sched/core] sched/rt: Fix picking RT and DL tasks from empty queue

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Message-ID: <tip-734ff2a71f9e6aa6fedfa5a9a34818b8586516d5@git.kernel.org>
Date:	Tue, 11 Mar 2014 05:39:28 -0700
From:	tip-bot for Kirill Tkhai <tipbot@...or.com>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ktkhai@...allels.com, hpa@...or.com,
	mingo@...nel.org, peterz@...radead.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
	juri.lelli@...il.com
Subject: [tip:sched/core] sched/rt:
  Fix picking RT and DL tasks from empty queue

Commit-ID:  734ff2a71f9e6aa6fedfa5a9a34818b8586516d5
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/734ff2a71f9e6aa6fedfa5a9a34818b8586516d5
Author:     Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...allels.com>
AuthorDate: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 19:25:46 +0400
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitDate: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 12:05:35 +0100

sched/rt: Fix picking RT and DL tasks from empty queue

The problems:

1) We check for rt_nr_running before call of put_prev_task().
   If previous task is RT, its rt_rq may become throttled
   and dequeued after this call.

In case of p is from rt->rq this just causes picking a task
from throttled queue, but in case of its rt_rq is child
we are guaranteed catch BUG_ON.

2) The same with deadline class. The only difference we operate
   on only dl_rq.

This patch fixes all the above problems and it adds a small skip in the
DL update like we've already done for RT class:

	if (unlikely((s64)delta_exec <= 0))
		return;

This will optimize sequential update_curr_dl() calls a little.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...allels.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...il.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1393946746.3643.3.camel@tkhai
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/sched/deadline.c | 10 ++++++++--
 kernel/sched/rt.c       |  7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/deadline.c b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
index e4f3ac3..27ef409 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/deadline.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
@@ -609,8 +609,8 @@ static void update_curr_dl(struct rq *rq)
 	 * approach need further study.
 	 */
 	delta_exec = rq_clock_task(rq) - curr->se.exec_start;
-	if (unlikely((s64)delta_exec < 0))
-		delta_exec = 0;
+	if (unlikely((s64)delta_exec <= 0))
+		return;
 
 	schedstat_set(curr->se.statistics.exec_max,
 		      max(curr->se.statistics.exec_max, delta_exec));
@@ -1023,6 +1023,12 @@ struct task_struct *pick_next_task_dl(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *prev)
 
 	if (need_pull_dl_task(rq, prev))
 		pull_dl_task(rq);
+	/*
+	 * When prev is DL, we may throttle it in put_prev_task().
+	 * So, we update time before we check for dl_nr_running.
+	 */
+	if (prev->sched_class == &dl_sched_class)
+		update_curr_dl(rq);
 
 	if (unlikely(!dl_rq->dl_nr_running))
 		return NULL;
diff --git a/kernel/sched/rt.c b/kernel/sched/rt.c
index facc824..f3cee0a 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/rt.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/rt.c
@@ -1379,6 +1379,13 @@ pick_next_task_rt(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *prev)
 			return RETRY_TASK;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * We may dequeue prev's rt_rq in put_prev_task().
+	 * So, we update time before rt_nr_running check.
+	 */
+	if (prev->sched_class == &rt_sched_class)
+		update_curr_rt(rq);
+
 	if (!rt_rq->rt_nr_running)
 		return NULL;
 
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