sched: Fix double normalization of vruntime
authorGeorge McCollister <george.mccollister@gmail.com>
Tue, 18 Feb 2014 23:56:51 +0000 (17:56 -0600)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Thu, 27 Feb 2014 11:29:38 +0000 (12:29 +0100)
commit791c9e0292671a3bfa95286bb5c08129d8605618
tree1d92f3664cfe1c55509fe35348651b4ee01b1e86
parentd2a0476307e67a6e6a293563a4f4ad4ec79ac0e5
sched: Fix double normalization of vruntime

dequeue_entity() is called when p->on_rq and sets se->on_rq = 0
which appears to guarentee that the !se->on_rq condition is met.
If the task has done set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE) without
schedule() the second condition will be met and vruntime will be
incorrectly adjusted twice.

In certain cases this can result in the task's vruntime never increasing
past the vruntime of other tasks on the CFS' run queue, starving them of
CPU time.

This patch changes switched_from_fair() to use !p->on_rq instead of
!se->on_rq.

I'm able to cause a task with a priority of 120 to starve all other
tasks with the same priority on an ARM platform running 3.2.51-rt72
PREEMPT RT by writing one character at time to a serial tty (16550 UART)
in a tight loop. I'm also able to verify making this change corrects the
problem on that platform and kernel version.

Signed-off-by: George McCollister <george.mccollister@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1392767811-28916-1-git-send-email-george.mccollister@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
kernel/sched/fair.c