linux-kernel - [patch 1/2] sched: Initialize idle tasks only once

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Message-ID: <20241028103142.359584747@linutronix.de>
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 11:43:42 +0100 (CET)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
 Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
 Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>,
 Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
 Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>,
 Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
 Ben Segall <bsegall@...gle.com>,
 Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
 Valentin Schneider <vschneid@...hat.com>,
 Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
 David Vernet <void@...ifault.com>,
 Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org.com>
Subject: [patch 1/2] sched: Initialize idle tasks only once

Idle tasks are initialized via __sched_fork() twice:

     fork_idle()
        copy_process()
	  sched_fork()
             __sched_fork()
	init_idle()
          __sched_fork()
  
Instead of cleaning this up, sched_ext hacked around it. Even when analyis
and solution were provided in a discussion, nobody cared to clean this up.

init_idle() is also invoked from sched_init() to initialize the boot CPU's
idle task, which requires the __sched_fork() invocation. But this can be
trivially solved by invoking __sched_fork() before init_idle() in
sched_init() and removing the __sched_fork() invocation from init_idle().

Do so and clean up the comments explaining this historical leftover.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/8734p4ymqj.ffs@tglx
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@...gle.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@...hat.com>
---
 kernel/sched/core.c |   12 +++++-------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -4424,7 +4424,8 @@ int wake_up_state(struct task_struct *p,
  * Perform scheduler related setup for a newly forked process p.
  * p is forked by current.
  *
- * __sched_fork() is basic setup used by init_idle() too:
+ * __sched_fork() is basic setup which is also used by sched_init() to
+ * initialize the boot CPU's idle task.
  */
 static void __sched_fork(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *p)
 {
@@ -7680,8 +7681,6 @@ void __init init_idle(struct task_struct
 	struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
 	unsigned long flags;
 
-	__sched_fork(0, idle);
-
 	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&idle->pi_lock, flags);
 	raw_spin_rq_lock(rq);
 
@@ -7696,10 +7695,8 @@ void __init init_idle(struct task_struct
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 	/*
-	 * It's possible that init_idle() gets called multiple times on a task,
-	 * in that case do_set_cpus_allowed() will not do the right thing.
-	 *
-	 * And since this is boot we can forgo the serialization.
+	 * No validation and serialization required at boot time and for
+	 * setting up the idle tasks of not yet online CPUs.
 	 */
 	set_cpus_allowed_common(idle, &ac);
 #endif
@@ -8543,6 +8540,7 @@ void __init sched_init(void)
 	 * but because we are the idle thread, we just pick up running again
 	 * when this runqueue becomes "idle".
 	 */
+	__sched_fork(0, current);
 	init_idle(current, smp_processor_id());
 
 	calc_load_update = jiffies + LOAD_FREQ;