linux-kernel - [tip: sched/core] sched/fair: Fix detection of per-CPU kthreads waking a task

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Date:   Mon, 06 Dec 2021 15:22:45 -0000
From:   "tip-bot2 for Vincent Donnefort" <tip-bot2@...utronix.de>
To:     linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Vincent Donnefort <vincent.donnefort@....com>,
        "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@....com>,
        x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [tip: sched/core] sched/fair: Fix detection of per-CPU kthreads waking a task

The following commit has been merged into the sched/core branch of tip:

Commit-ID:     8b4e74ccb582797f6f0b0a50372ebd9fd2372a27
Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/tip/8b4e74ccb582797f6f0b0a50372ebd9fd2372a27
Author:        Vincent Donnefort <vincent.donnefort@....com>
AuthorDate:    Wed, 01 Dec 2021 14:34:50 
Committer:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
CommitterDate: Sat, 04 Dec 2021 10:56:20 +01:00

sched/fair: Fix detection of per-CPU kthreads waking a task

select_idle_sibling() has a special case for tasks woken up by a per-CPU
kthread, where the selected CPU is the previous one. However, the current
condition for this exit path is incomplete. A task can wake up from an
interrupt context (e.g. hrtimer), while a per-CPU kthread is running. A
such scenario would spuriously trigger the special case described above.
Also, a recent change made the idle task like a regular per-CPU kthread,
hence making that situation more likely to happen
(is_per_cpu_kthread(swapper) being true now).

Checking for task context makes sure select_idle_sibling() will not
interpret a wake up from any other context as a wake up by a per-CPU
kthread.

Fixes: 52262ee567ad ("sched/fair: Allow a per-CPU kthread waking a task to stack on the same CPU, to fix XFS performance regression")
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vincent.donnefort@....com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@....com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211201143450.479472-1-vincent.donnefort@arm.com
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 884f29d..5cd2798 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -6398,6 +6398,7 @@ static int select_idle_sibling(struct task_struct *p, int prev, int target)
 	 * pattern is IO completions.
 	 */
 	if (is_per_cpu_kthread(current) &&
+	    in_task() &&
 	    prev == smp_processor_id() &&
 	    this_rq()->nr_running <= 1) {
 		return prev;