Re: [PATCH V2 2/3] sched: Fix race in idle_balance()

From: Alex Shi
Date: Thu Feb 13 2014 - 02:46:15 EST


On 02/11/2014 07:11 PM, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> On 02/10/2014 10:24 AM, Preeti Murthy wrote:
>> HI Daniel,
>>
>> Isn't the only scenario where another cpu can put an idle task on
>> our runqueue,
>
> Well, I am not sure to understand what you meant, but I assume you are
> asking if it is possible to have a task to be pulled when we are idle,
> right ?
>
> This patch fixes the race when the current cpu is *about* to enter idle
> when calling schedule().

Preeti said the she didn't see a possible to insert a task on the cpu.

I also did a quick check, maybe task come from wakeup path?

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Thanks
Alex
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