linux-kernel - [PATCH v3] sched/fair: Fix per-CPU kthread and wakee stacking for asym CPU capacity

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Message-Id: <20211129173115.4006346-1-vincent.donnefort@arm.com>
Date:   Mon, 29 Nov 2021 17:31:15 +0000
From:   Vincent Donnefort <vincent.donnefort@....com>
To:     peterz@...radead.org, mingo@...hat.com, vincent.guittot@...aro.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dietmar.eggemann@....com,
        valentin.schneider@....com,
        Vincent Donnefort <vincent.donnefort@....com>
Subject: [PATCH v3] sched/fair: Fix per-CPU kthread and wakee stacking for asym CPU capacity

select_idle_sibling() has a special case for tasks woken up by a per-CPU
kthread where the selected CPU is the previous one. For asymmetric CPU
capacity systems, the assumption was that the wakee couldn't have a
bigger utilization during task placement than it used to have during the
last activation. That was not considering uclamp.min which can completely
change between two task activations and as a consequence mandates the
fitness criterion asym_fits_capacity(), even for the exit path described
above.

Fixes: b4c9c9f15649 ("sched/fair: Prefer prev cpu in asymmetric wakeup path")
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vincent.donnefort@....com>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@....com>
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>
---
V2 -> V3:
  * A more verbose commit message.
V1 -> V2:
  * Point to the correct fixed patch.

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 6291876a9d32..b90dc6fd86ca 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -6410,7 +6410,8 @@ static int select_idle_sibling(struct task_struct *p, int prev, int target)
 	 */
 	if (is_per_cpu_kthread(current) &&
 	    prev == smp_processor_id() &&
-	    this_rq()->nr_running <= 1) {
+	    this_rq()->nr_running <= 1 &&
+	    asym_fits_capacity(task_util, prev)) {
 		return prev;
 	}
 
-- 
2.25.1