Commit-ID: 955dbdf4ce87fd9be4bc8378e26b8c2eb8b3d184 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/955dbdf4ce87fd9be4bc8378e26b8c2eb8b3d184 Author: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Sat, 17 Jun 2017 08:10:08 -0400 Committer: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> CommitDate: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 13:49:53 -0700 sched: Allow migrating kthreads into online but inactive CPUs Per-cpu workqueues have been tripping CPU affinity sanity checks while a CPU is being offlined. A per-cpu kworker ends up running on a CPU which isn't its target CPU while the CPU is online but inactive. While the scheduler allows kthreads to wake up on an online but inactive CPU, it doesn't allow a running kthread to be migrated to such a CPU, which leads to an odd situation where setting affinity on a sleeping and running kthread leads to different results. Each mem-reclaim workqueue has one rescuer which guarantees forward progress and the rescuer needs to bind itself to the CPU which needs help in making forward progress; however, due to the above issue, while set_cpus_allowed_ptr() succeeds, the rescuer doesn't end up on the correct CPU if the CPU is in the process of going offline, tripping the sanity check and executing the work item on the wrong CPU. This patch updates __migrate_task() so that kthreads can be migrated into an inactive but online CPU. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/sched/core.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c index 17c667b..bfee6ea 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/core.c +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c @@ -951,8 +951,13 @@ struct migration_arg { static struct rq *__migrate_task(struct rq *rq, struct rq_flags *rf, struct task_struct *p, int dest_cpu) { - if (unlikely(!cpu_active(dest_cpu))) - return rq; + if (p->flags & PF_KTHREAD) { + if (unlikely(!cpu_online(dest_cpu))) + return rq; + } else { + if (unlikely(!cpu_active(dest_cpu))) + return rq; + } /* Affinity changed (again). */ if (!cpumask_test_cpu(dest_cpu, &p->cpus_allowed)) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html