From 1c4dd99bed5f6f70932bf8dacdd54d04a2619778 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 20:07:38 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] sched/rt: Prevent idle task boosting Idle task boosting is a nono in general. There is one exception, when PREEMPT_RT and NOHZ is active: The idle task calls get_next_timer_interrupt() and holds the timer wheel base->lock on the CPU and another CPU wants to access the timer (probably to cancel it). We can safely ignore the boosting request, as the idle CPU runs this code with interrupts disabled and will complete the lock protected section without being interrupted. So there is no real need to boost. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-755rvsosz7sdzot12a3gbha6@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/sched/core.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c index 820f7453fda9..c2bbdecaa27d 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/core.c +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c @@ -3779,6 +3779,24 @@ void rt_mutex_setprio(struct task_struct *p, int prio) rq = __task_rq_lock(p); + /* + * Idle task boosting is a nono in general. There is one + * exception, when PREEMPT_RT and NOHZ is active: + * + * The idle task calls get_next_timer_interrupt() and holds + * the timer wheel base->lock on the CPU and another CPU wants + * to access the timer (probably to cancel it). We can safely + * ignore the boosting request, as the idle CPU runs this code + * with interrupts disabled and will complete the lock + * protected section without being interrupted. So there is no + * real need to boost. + */ + if (unlikely(p == rq->idle)) { + WARN_ON(p != rq->curr); + WARN_ON(p->pi_blocked_on); + goto out_unlock; + } + trace_sched_pi_setprio(p, prio); oldprio = p->prio; prev_class = p->sched_class; @@ -3802,11 +3820,10 @@ void rt_mutex_setprio(struct task_struct *p, int prio) enqueue_task(rq, p, oldprio < prio ? ENQUEUE_HEAD : 0); check_class_changed(rq, p, prev_class, oldprio); +out_unlock: __task_rq_unlock(rq); } - #endif - void set_user_nice(struct task_struct *p, long nice) { int old_prio, delta, on_rq; -- 2.20.1