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authorVincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>2013-04-23 16:59:02 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2013-04-26 12:13:44 +0200
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sched: Fix init NOHZ_IDLE flag
On my SMP platform which is made of 5 cores in 2 clusters, I have the nr_busy_cpu field of sched_group_power struct that is not null when the platform is fully idle - which makes the scheduler unhappy. The root cause is: During the boot sequence, some CPUs reach the idle loop and set their NOHZ_IDLE flag while waiting for others CPUs to boot. But the nr_busy_cpus field is initialized later with the assumption that all CPUs are in the busy state whereas some CPUs have already set their NOHZ_IDLE flag. More generally, the NOHZ_IDLE flag must be initialized when new sched_domains are created in order to ensure that NOHZ_IDLE and nr_busy_cpus are aligned. This condition can be ensured by adding a synchronize_rcu() between the destruction of old sched_domains and the creation of new ones so the NOHZ_IDLE flag will not be updated with old sched_domain once it has been initialized. But this solution introduces a additionnal latency in the rebuild sequence that is called during cpu hotplug. As suggested by Frederic Weisbecker, another solution is to have the same rcu lifecycle for both NOHZ_IDLE and sched_domain struct. A new nohz_idle field is added to sched_domain so both status and sched_domain will share the same RCU lifecycle and will be always synchronized. In addition, there is no more need to protect nohz_idle against concurrent access as it is only modified by 2 exclusive functions called by local cpu. This solution has been prefered to the creation of a new struct with an extra pointer indirection for sched_domain. The synchronization is done at the cost of : - An additional indirection and a rcu_dereference for accessing nohz_idle. - We use only the nohz_idle field of the top sched_domain. Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Cc: pjt@google.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: efault@gmx.de Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366729142-14662-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org [ Fixed !NO_HZ build bug. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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