linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] stop_machine: Make migration_cpu_stop() does useful works for CONFIG_PREEMPT

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Date:   Mon, 12 Sep 2016 13:41:08 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Cheng Chao <cs.os.kernel@...il.com>
Cc:     mingo@...nel.org, oleg@...hat.com, tj@...nel.org,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, chris@...is-wilson.co.uk,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] stop_machine: Make migration_cpu_stop() does useful
 works for CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE

On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 01:37:27PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> So what you're saying is that migration_stop_cpu() doesn't work because
> wait_for_completion() dequeues the task.
> 
> True I suppose. Not sure I like your solution, nor your implementation
> of the solution much though.
> 
> I would much prefer an unconditional cond_resched() there, but also, I
> think we should do what __migrate_swap_task() does, and set wake_cpu.
> 
> So something like so..
> 
> ---
>  kernel/sched/core.c | 8 ++++++--
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> index ddd5f48551f1..ade772aa9610 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> @@ -1063,8 +1063,12 @@ static int migration_cpu_stop(void *data)
>  	 * holding rq->lock, if p->on_rq == 0 it cannot get enqueued because
>  	 * we're holding p->pi_lock.
>  	 */
> -	if (task_rq(p) == rq && task_on_rq_queued(p))
> -		rq = __migrate_task(rq, p, arg->dest_cpu);
> +	if (task_rq(p) == rq) {
> +		if (task_on_rq_queued(p))
> +			rq = __migrate_task(rq, p, arg->dest_cpu);
> +		else
> +			p->wake_cpu = arg->dest_cpu;
> +	}
>  	raw_spin_unlock(&rq->lock);
>  	raw_spin_unlock(&p->pi_lock);
>  

And this, too narrow a constraint do git diff made it go away.

---
 kernel/stop_machine.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/stop_machine.c b/kernel/stop_machine.c
index ae6f41fb9cba..637798d6b554 100644
--- a/kernel/stop_machine.c
+++ b/kernel/stop_machine.c
@@ -121,6 +121,11 @@ int stop_one_cpu(unsigned int cpu, cpu_stop_fn_t fn, void *arg)
 	cpu_stop_init_done(&done, 1);
 	if (!cpu_stop_queue_work(cpu, &work))
 		return -ENOENT;
+	/*
+	 * In case @cpu == smp_proccessor_id() we can avoid a sleep+wakeup
+	 * by doing a preemption.
+	 */
+	cond_resched();
 	wait_for_completion(&done.completion);
 	return done.ret;
 }