[tip:sched/core] sched/fair: Fix the dealing with decay_count in __synchronize_entity_decay()

From: tip-bot for Xunlei Pang
Date: Wed Jan 14 2015 - 09:02:22 EST


Commit-ID: 638476007d13534b2ed4134bf0279ef44071140b
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/638476007d13534b2ed4134bf0279ef44071140b
Author: Xunlei Pang <pang.xunlei@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 23:58:29 +0800
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 13:34:13 +0100

sched/fair: Fix the dealing with decay_count in __synchronize_entity_decay()

In __synchronize_entity_decay(), if "decays" happens to be zero,
se->avg.decay_count will not be zeroed, holding the positive value
assigned when dequeued last time.

This is problematic in the following case:
If this runnable task is CFS-balanced to other CPUs soon afterwards,
migrate_task_rq_fair() will treat it as a blocked task due to its
non-zero decay_count, thereby adding its load to cfs_rq->removed_load
wrongly.

Thus, we must zero se->avg.decay_count in this case as well.

Signed-off-by: Xunlei Pang <pang.xunlei@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1418745509-2609-1-git-send-email-pang.xunlei@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/fair.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 40667cb..97000a9 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -2574,11 +2574,11 @@ static inline u64 __synchronize_entity_decay(struct sched_entity *se)
u64 decays = atomic64_read(&cfs_rq->decay_counter);

decays -= se->avg.decay_count;
+ se->avg.decay_count = 0;
if (!decays)
return 0;

se->avg.load_avg_contrib = decay_load(se->avg.load_avg_contrib, decays);
- se->avg.decay_count = 0;

return decays;
}
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