linux-kernel - [PATCH] sched: access local runqueue directly in single_task

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Message-Id: <1442568465-71559-1-git-send-email-dingel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Fri, 18 Sep 2015 11:27:45 +0200
From:	Dominik Dingel <dingel@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
	Dominik Dingel <dingel@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	<stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] sched: access local runqueue directly in single_task_running

Commit 2ee507c47293 ("sched: Add function single_task_running to let a task
check if it is the only task running on a cpu") referenced the current
runqueue with the smp_processor_id.  When CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT is enabled,
that is only allowed if preemption is disabled or the currrent task is
bound to the local cpu (e.g. kernel worker).

With commit f78195129963 ("kvm: add halt_poll_ns module parameter") KVM
calls single_task_running. If CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT is enabled that
generates a lot of kernel messages.

To avoid adding preemption in that cases, as it would limit the usefulness,
we change single_task_running to access directly the cpu local runqueue.

Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org> # 4.2.x
Signed-off-by: Dominik Dingel <dingel@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 kernel/sched/core.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 78b4bad10..5bfad0b 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -2614,13 +2614,13 @@ unsigned long nr_running(void)
 
 /*
  * Check if only the current task is running on the cpu.
+ *
+ * Caution result is subject to time-of-check-to-time-of-use race,
+ * every caller is responsible to set up additional fences if necessary.
  */
 bool single_task_running(void)
 {
-	if (cpu_rq(smp_processor_id())->nr_running == 1)
-		return true;
-	else
-		return false;
+	return raw_rq()->nr_running == 1;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(single_task_running);
 
-- 
2.3.8

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