stable backport: sched: Fix migration thread runtime bogosity

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Wed Oct 10 2012 - 15:24:00 EST


Greg, Ben,

Can you add this commit to the stable branches. Without it, the
migration thread's accounting is just totally screwed up:

By running a simple shell while loop along with a ps loop, top shows:

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
17 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 9999.0 0.0 9:27.50 migration/3
13 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 128.2 0.0 9:50.23 migration/2
2805 root 20 0 105m 1904 1416 S 13.9 0.1 0:06.69 bash
4090 root 20 0 105m 1904 1416 S 2.0 0.1 0:00.90 bash
2773 root 20 0 85484 3372 2620 S 0.3 0.2 0:00.03 sshd


For 3.4, the commit can be directly cherry picked:

commit 8f6189684eb4e85e6c593cd710693f09c944450a
Author: Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sat Aug 4 05:44:14 2012 +0200

sched: Fix migration thread runtime bogosity

Below is a backport for 3.2.

Thanks!

-- Steve