Re: [PATCH 2/2] sched/deadline: always enqueue on previous rq when dl_task_timer fires

From: Kirill Tkhai
Date: Mon Mar 23 2015 - 05:09:25 EST


Ð ÐÑ, 24/02/2015 Ð 09:28 +0000, Juri Lelli ÐÐÑÐÑ:
> dl_task_timer() may fire on a different rq from where a task was removed
> after throttling. Since the call path is:
>
> dl_task_timer() ->
> enqueue_task_dl() ->
> enqueue_dl_entity() ->
> replenish_dl_entity()
>
> and replenish_dl_entity() uses dl_se's rq, we can't use current's rq
> in dl_task_timer(), but we need to lock the task's previous one.
>
> Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Fixes: 3960c8c0c789 ("sched: Make dl_task_time() use task_rq_lock()")

Acked-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

3960c8c0c789 is already in Linus's tree, so this is a candidate for 4.0 too.

> ---
> kernel/sched/deadline.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/deadline.c b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
> index dbf12a9..519e468 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/deadline.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
> @@ -538,7 +538,7 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart dl_task_timer(struct hrtimer *timer)
> unsigned long flags;
> struct rq *rq;
>
> - rq = task_rq_lock(current, &flags);
> + rq = task_rq_lock(p, &flags);
>
> /*
> * We need to take care of several possible races here:
> @@ -593,7 +593,7 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart dl_task_timer(struct hrtimer *timer)
> push_dl_task(rq);
> #endif
> unlock:
> - task_rq_unlock(rq, current, &flags);
> + task_rq_unlock(rq, p, &flags);
>
> return HRTIMER_NORESTART;
> }

Thanks,
Kirill

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