[PATCH 10/21] sched: Deal with non-atomic min_vruntime reads on 32bits

[Peter Zijlstra]

In order to avoid reading partial updated min_vruntime values on 32bit
implement a seqcount like solution.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/sched.c      |    3 +++
 kernel/sched_fair.c |   19 +++++++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sched.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c
@@ -313,6 +313,9 @@ struct cfs_rq {
 
 	u64 exec_clock;
 	u64 min_vruntime;
+#ifndef CONFIG_64BIT
+	u64 min_vruntime_copy;
+#endif
 
 	struct rb_root tasks_timeline;
 	struct rb_node *rb_leftmost;
Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sched_fair.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sched_fair.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched_fair.c
@@ -365,6 +365,10 @@ static void update_min_vruntime(struct c
 	}
 
 	cfs_rq->min_vruntime = max_vruntime(cfs_rq->min_vruntime, vruntime);
+#ifndef CONFIG_64BIT
+	smp_wmb();
+	cfs_rq->min_vruntime_copy = cfs_rq->min_vruntime;
+#endif
 }
 
 /*
@@ -1342,10 +1346,21 @@ static void task_waking_fair(struct task
 {
 	struct sched_entity *se = &p->se;
 	struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq = cfs_rq_of(se);
+	u64 min_vruntime;
 
-	lockdep_assert_held(&task_rq(p)->lock);
+#ifndef CONFIG_64BIT
+	u64 min_vruntime_copy;
 
-	se->vruntime -= cfs_rq->min_vruntime;
+	do {
+		min_vruntime_copy = cfs_rq->min_vruntime_copy;
+		smp_rmb();
+		min_vruntime = cfs_rq->min_vruntime;
+	} while (min_vruntime != min_vruntime_copy);
+#else
+	min_vruntime = cfs_rq->min_vruntime;
+#endif
+
+	se->vruntime -= min_vruntime;
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED


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