[tip:sched/core] sched: Fix exec_start/task_hot on migrated tasks

[tip-bot for Ben Segall]

Commit-ID:  3944a9274ef6cda0cc282daf0739832f661670f7
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/3944a9274ef6cda0cc282daf0739832f661670f7
Author:     Ben Segall <bsegall@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Thu, 15 May 2014 15:59:20 -0700
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Thu, 22 May 2014 11:16:25 +0200

sched: Fix exec_start/task_hot on migrated tasks

task_hot checks exec_start on any runnable task, but if it has been
migrated since the it last ran, then exec_start is a clock_task from
another cpu. If the old cpu's clock_task was sufficiently far ahead of
this cpu's then the task will not be considered for another migration
until it has run. Instead reset exec_start whenever a task is migrated,
since it is presumably no longer hot anyway.

Signed-off-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Made it compile. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140515225920.7179.13924.stgit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 28ccf50..dd3fa14 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -4544,6 +4544,9 @@ migrate_task_rq_fair(struct task_struct *p, int next_cpu)
 		atomic_long_add(se->avg.load_avg_contrib,
 						&cfs_rq->removed_load);
 	}
+
+	/* We have migrated, no longer consider this task hot */
+	se->exec_start = 0;
 }
 #endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
 
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