From a803f0261bb2bb57aab5542af3174db43b2a3887 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Corey Minyard Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 13:47:39 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] sched: Initialize rq->age_stamp on processor start If the sched_clock time starts at a large value, the kernel will spin in sched_avg_update for a long time while rq->age_stamp catches up with rq->clock. The comment in kernel/sched/clock.c says that there is no strict promise that it starts at zero. So initialize rq->age_stamp when a cpu starts up to avoid this. I was seeing long delays on a simulator that didn't start the clock at zero. This might also be an issue on reboots on processors that don't re-initialize the timer to zero on reset, and when using kexec. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1399574859-11714-1-git-send-email-minyard@acm.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-format-patch failed