[PATCH 3.14 045/130] sched,rt: Remove return value from pull_rt_task()

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Mar 01 2016 - 21:04:43 EST


3.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 8046d6806247088de5725eaf8a2580b29e50ac5a upstream.

In order to be able to use pull_rt_task() from a callback, we need to
do away with the return value.

Since the return value indicates if we should reschedule, do this
inside the function. Since not all callers currently do this, this can
increase the number of reschedules due rt balancing.

Too many reschedules is not a correctness issues, too few are.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: ktkhai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: juri.lelli@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: pang.xunlei@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: oleg@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: wanpeng.li@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: umgwanakikbuti@xxxxxxxxx
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150611124742.679002000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
kernel/sched/rt.c | 15 ++++++++-------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/sched/rt.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/rt.c
@@ -1652,14 +1652,15 @@ static void push_rt_tasks(struct rq *rq)
;
}

-static int pull_rt_task(struct rq *this_rq)
+static void pull_rt_task(struct rq *this_rq)
{
- int this_cpu = this_rq->cpu, ret = 0, cpu;
+ int this_cpu = this_rq->cpu, cpu;
+ bool resched = false;
struct task_struct *p;
struct rq *src_rq;

if (likely(!rt_overloaded(this_rq)))
- return 0;
+ return;

/*
* Match the barrier from rt_set_overloaded; this guarantees that if we
@@ -1716,7 +1717,7 @@ static int pull_rt_task(struct rq *this_
if (p->prio < src_rq->curr->prio)
goto skip;

- ret = 1;
+ resched = true;

deactivate_task(src_rq, p, 0);
set_task_cpu(p, this_cpu);
@@ -1732,7 +1733,8 @@ skip:
double_unlock_balance(this_rq, src_rq);
}

- return ret;
+ if (resched)
+ resched_task(this_rq->curr);
}

static void pre_schedule_rt(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *prev)
@@ -1835,8 +1837,7 @@ static void switched_from_rt(struct rq *
if (!p->on_rq || rq->rt.rt_nr_running)
return;

- if (pull_rt_task(rq))
- resched_task(rq->curr);
+ pull_rt_task(rq);
}

void init_sched_rt_class(void)