From: Daniel Lezcano Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 09:04:02 +0000 (+0100) Subject: sched: Fix race in idle_balance() X-Git-Tag: v3.15-rc1~116^2~50 X-Git-Url: https://www.infradead.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e5fc66119ec9;p=linux.git sched: Fix race in idle_balance() The scheduler main function 'schedule()' checks if there are no more tasks on the runqueue. Then it checks if a task should be pulled in the current runqueue in idle_balance() assuming it will go to idle otherwise. But idle_balance() releases the rq->lock in order to look up the sched domains and takes the lock again right after. That opens a window where another cpu may put a task in our runqueue, so we won't go to idle but we have filled the idle_stamp, thinking we will. This patch closes the window by checking if the runqueue has been modified but without pulling a task after taking the lock again, so we won't go to idle right after in the __schedule() function. Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano Cc: alex.shi@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389949444-14821-2-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c index 428bc9d2c383..5ebc6817c036 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c @@ -6589,6 +6589,13 @@ void idle_balance(struct rq *this_rq) raw_spin_lock(&this_rq->lock); + /* + * While browsing the domains, we released the rq lock. + * A task could have be enqueued in the meantime + */ + if (this_rq->nr_running && !pulled_task) + return; + if (pulled_task || time_after(jiffies, this_rq->next_balance)) { /* * We are going idle. next_balance may be set based on