[GIT PULL] scheduler fixes

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed May 25 2016 - 17:59:20 EST


Linus,

Please pull the latest sched-urgent-for-linus git tree from:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git sched-urgent-for-linus

# HEAD: b7e7ade34e6188bee2e3b0d42b51d25137d9e2a5 sched/core: Fix remote wakeups

Two fixes: one for a lost wakeup, the other to fix the compiler optimizing out
preempt operations on ARM64 (and possibly other non-x86 architectures).

Thanks,

Ingo

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Peter Zijlstra (2):
sched/preempt: Fix preempt_count manipulations
sched/core: Fix remote wakeups


include/asm-generic/preempt.h | 4 ++--
include/linux/sched.h | 1 +
kernel/sched/core.c | 18 +++++++++++-------
3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/preempt.h b/include/asm-generic/preempt.h
index 5d8ffa3e6f8c..c1cde3577551 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/preempt.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/preempt.h
@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@

static __always_inline int preempt_count(void)
{
- return current_thread_info()->preempt_count;
+ return READ_ONCE(current_thread_info()->preempt_count);
}

-static __always_inline int *preempt_count_ptr(void)
+static __always_inline volatile int *preempt_count_ptr(void)
{
return &current_thread_info()->preempt_count;
}
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 6cc0df970f1a..e053517a88b6 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1533,6 +1533,7 @@ struct task_struct {
unsigned sched_reset_on_fork:1;
unsigned sched_contributes_to_load:1;
unsigned sched_migrated:1;
+ unsigned sched_remote_wakeup:1;
unsigned :0; /* force alignment to the next boundary */

/* unserialized, strictly 'current' */
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 404c0784b1fc..7f2cae4620c7 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -1768,13 +1768,15 @@ void sched_ttwu_pending(void)
cookie = lockdep_pin_lock(&rq->lock);

while (llist) {
+ int wake_flags = 0;
+
p = llist_entry(llist, struct task_struct, wake_entry);
llist = llist_next(llist);
- /*
- * See ttwu_queue(); we only call ttwu_queue_remote() when
- * its a x-cpu wakeup.
- */
- ttwu_do_activate(rq, p, WF_MIGRATED, cookie);
+
+ if (p->sched_remote_wakeup)
+ wake_flags = WF_MIGRATED;
+
+ ttwu_do_activate(rq, p, wake_flags, cookie);
}

lockdep_unpin_lock(&rq->lock, cookie);
@@ -1819,10 +1821,12 @@ void scheduler_ipi(void)
irq_exit();
}

-static void ttwu_queue_remote(struct task_struct *p, int cpu)
+static void ttwu_queue_remote(struct task_struct *p, int cpu, int wake_flags)
{
struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(cpu);

+ p->sched_remote_wakeup = !!(wake_flags & WF_MIGRATED);
+
if (llist_add(&p->wake_entry, &cpu_rq(cpu)->wake_list)) {
if (!set_nr_if_polling(rq->idle))
smp_send_reschedule(cpu);
@@ -1869,7 +1873,7 @@ static void ttwu_queue(struct task_struct *p, int cpu, int wake_flags)
#if defined(CONFIG_SMP)
if (sched_feat(TTWU_QUEUE) && !cpus_share_cache(smp_processor_id(), cpu)) {
sched_clock_cpu(cpu); /* sync clocks x-cpu */
- ttwu_queue_remote(p, cpu);
+ ttwu_queue_remote(p, cpu, wake_flags);
return;
}
#endif