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Commit f235a54f authored by Vincent Guittot's avatar Vincent Guittot Committed by Ingo Molnar
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sched/pelt: Fix false running accounting



The running state is a subset of runnable state which means that running
can't be set if runnable (weight) is cleared. There are corner cases
where the current sched_entity has been already dequeued but cfs_rq->curr
has not been updated yet and still points to the dequeued sched_entity.
If ___update_load_avg() is called at that time, weight will be 0 and running
will be set which is not possible.

This case happens during pick_next_task_fair() when a cfs_rq becomes idles.
The current sched_entity has been dequeued so se->on_rq is cleared and
cfs_rq->weight is null. But cfs_rq->curr still points to se (it will be
cleared when picking the idle thread). Because the cfs_rq becomes idle,
idle_balance() is called and ends up to call update_blocked_averages()
with these wrong running and runnable states.

Add a test in ___update_load_avg() to correct the running state in this case.

Signed-off-by: default avatarVincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Morten.Rasmussen@arm.com
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1498885573-18984-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 181a80d1
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@@ -2990,6 +2990,18 @@ ___update_load_avg(u64 now, int cpu, struct sched_avg *sa,

	sa->last_update_time += delta << 10;

	/*
	 * running is a subset of runnable (weight) so running can't be set if
	 * runnable is clear. But there are some corner cases where the current
	 * se has been already dequeued but cfs_rq->curr still points to it.
	 * This means that weight will be 0 but not running for a sched_entity
	 * but also for a cfs_rq if the latter becomes idle. As an example,
	 * this happens during idle_balance() which calls
	 * update_blocked_averages()
	 */
	if (!weight)
		running = 0;

	/*
	 * Now we know we crossed measurement unit boundaries. The *_avg
	 * accrues by two steps: