linux-kernel - [RFD/RFC PATCH 8/8] sched: Fixup task CPUs for potential proxies.

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Date:   Tue,  9 Oct 2018 11:24:34 +0200
From:   Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>
To:     peterz@...radead.org, mingo@...hat.com
Cc:     rostedt@...dmis.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, luca.abeni@...tannapisa.it,
        claudio@...dence.eu.com, tommaso.cucinotta@...tannapisa.it,
        alessio.balsini@...il.com, bristot@...hat.com, will.deacon@....com,
        andrea.parri@...rulasolutions.com, dietmar.eggemann@....com,
        patrick.bellasi@....com, henrik@...tad.us,
        linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org, Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>
Subject: [RFD/RFC PATCH 8/8] sched: Fixup task CPUs for potential proxies.

When a mutex owner with potential proxies wakes up those proxies are
activated as well, on the same CPU of the owner. They might have been
sleeping on a different CPU however.

Fixup potential proxies CPU at wakeup time before activating them (or
they get woken up with a wrong CPU reference).

Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>
---
 kernel/sched/core.c | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 54003515fd29..0314afe4ba80 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -1664,6 +1664,14 @@ static inline void ttwu_activate(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int en_fl
 					 blocked_entry);
 
 		list_del_init(&pp->blocked_entry);
+		/* XXX can't call set_task_cpu() because we are not holding
+		 * neither pp->pi_lock nor task's rq lock. This should however
+		 * be fine as this task can't be woken up as it is blocked on
+		 * this mutex atm.
+		 * A problem however might be that __set_task_cpu() calls
+		 * set_task_rq() which deals with groups and such...
+		 */
+		__set_task_cpu(pp, cpu_of(rq));
 		activate_task(rq, pp, en_flags);
 		pp->on_rq = TASK_ON_RQ_QUEUED;
 		resched_curr(rq);
@@ -3847,7 +3855,8 @@ static void __sched notrace __schedule(bool preempt)
 			 * whether it wants to wake up a task to maintain
 			 * concurrency.
 			 */
-			if (prev->flags & PF_WQ_WORKER) {
+			if ((prev->flags & PF_WQ_WORKER) &&
+			    !task_is_blocked(prev)) {
 				struct task_struct *to_wakeup;
 
 				to_wakeup = wq_worker_sleeping(prev);
-- 
2.17.1