[PATCH v2 1/2] sched: fix init NOHZ_IDLE flag

From: Vincent Guittot
Date: Tue Jan 29 2013 - 05:39:36 EST


On my smp platform which is made of 5 cores in 2 clusters,I have the
nr_busy_cpu field of sched_group_power struct that is not null when the
platform is fully idle. The root cause seems to be:
During the boot sequence, some CPUs reach the idle loop and set their
NOHZ_IDLE flag while waiting for others CPUs to boot. But the nr_busy_cpus
field is initialized later with the assumption that all CPUs are in the busy
state whereas some CPUs have already set their NOHZ_IDLE flag.
We clear the NOHZ_IDLE flag when nr_busy_cpus is initialized in order to
have a coherent configuration.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/core.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 257002c..fd41924 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -5884,6 +5884,7 @@ static void init_sched_groups_power(int cpu, struct sched_domain *sd)

update_group_power(sd, cpu);
atomic_set(&sg->sgp->nr_busy_cpus, sg->group_weight);
+ clear_bit(NOHZ_IDLE, nohz_flags(cpu));
}

int __weak arch_sd_sibling_asym_packing(void)
--
1.7.9.5

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