The following commit has been merged into the sched/urgent branch of tip: Commit-ID: 386ef214c3c6ab111d05e1790e79475363abaa05 Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/386ef214c3c6ab111d05e1790e79475363abaa05 Author: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Thu, 17 Mar 2022 15:51:32 +01:00 Committer: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> CommitterDate: Tue, 05 Apr 2022 09:59:36 +02:00 sched: Teach the forced-newidle balancer about CPU affinity limitation. try_steal_cookie() looks at task_struct::cpus_mask to decide if the task could be moved to `this' CPU. It ignores that the task might be in a migration disabled section while not on the CPU. In this case the task must not be moved otherwise per-CPU assumption are broken. Use is_cpu_allowed(), as suggested by Peter Zijlstra, to decide if the a task can be moved. Fixes: d2dfa17bc7de6 ("sched: Trivial forced-newidle balancer") Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YjNK9El+3fzGmswf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx --- kernel/sched/core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c index 017ee78..51efaab 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/core.c +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c @@ -6006,7 +6006,7 @@ static bool try_steal_cookie(int this, int that) if (p == src->core_pick || p == src->curr) goto next; - if (!cpumask_test_cpu(this, &p->cpus_mask)) + if (!is_cpu_allowed(p, this)) goto next; if (p->core_occupation > dst->idle->core_occupation)