From: Suresh Siddha Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:02:21 +0000 (-0700) Subject: sched: Fix nohz balance kick X-Git-Url: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux%2Fkernel%2Fgit%2Ftorvalds%2Flinux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=f6c3f1686e7ec1dd8725a9a3dcb857dfd0c7a5bf sched: Fix nohz balance kick There's a situation where the nohz balancer will try to wake itself: cpu-x is idle which is also ilb_cpu got a scheduler tick during idle and the nohz_kick_needed() in trigger_load_balance() checks for rq_x->nr_running which might not be zero (because of someone waking a task on this rq etc) and this leads to the situation of the cpu-x sending a kick to itself. And this can cause a lockup. Avoid this by not marking ourself eligible for kicking. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra LKML-Reference: <1284400941.2684.19.camel@sbsiddha-MOBL3.sc.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- diff --git a/kernel/sched_fair.c b/kernel/sched_fair.c index a171138..db3f674 100644 --- a/kernel/sched_fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched_fair.c @@ -3630,7 +3630,7 @@ static inline int nohz_kick_needed(struct rq *rq, int cpu) if (time_before(now, nohz.next_balance)) return 0; - if (!rq->nr_running) + if (rq->idle_at_tick) return 0; first_pick_cpu = atomic_read(&nohz.first_pick_cpu);