linux-kernel - [tip:sched/core] sched: Fix exec_start/task

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Date:	Thu, 22 May 2014 05:26:37 -0700
From:	tip-bot for Ben Segall <tipbot@...or.com>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, bsegall@...gle.com, hpa@...or.com,
	mingo@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	peterz@...radead.org, tglx@...utronix.de
Subject: [tip:sched/core] sched: Fix exec_start/task_hot on migrated tasks

Commit-ID:  3944a9274ef6cda0cc282daf0739832f661670f7
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/3944a9274ef6cda0cc282daf0739832f661670f7
Author:     Ben Segall <bsegall@...gle.com>
AuthorDate: Thu, 15 May 2014 15:59:20 -0700
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitDate: Thu, 22 May 2014 11:16:25 +0200

sched: Fix exec_start/task_hot on migrated tasks

task_hot checks exec_start on any runnable task, but if it has been
migrated since the it last ran, then exec_start is a clock_task from
another cpu. If the old cpu's clock_task was sufficiently far ahead of
this cpu's then the task will not be considered for another migration
until it has run. Instead reset exec_start whenever a task is migrated,
since it is presumably no longer hot anyway.

Signed-off-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@...gle.com>
[ Made it compile. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140515225920.7179.13924.stgit@sword-of-the-dawn.mtv.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 28ccf50..dd3fa14 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -4544,6 +4544,9 @@ migrate_task_rq_fair(struct task_struct *p, int next_cpu)
 		atomic_long_add(se->avg.load_avg_contrib,
 						&cfs_rq->removed_load);
 	}
+
+	/* We have migrated, no longer consider this task hot */
+	se->exec_start = 0;
 }
 #endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
 
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