This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
sched: Fix the check of nr_running at queue wakelist
to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
sched-fix-the-check-of-nr_running-at-queue-wakelist.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 688797428a457b36c1dc74316324110b228cf1e9
Author: Tianchen Ding <dtcccc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Jun 9 07:34:11 2022 +0800
sched: Fix the check of nr_running at queue wakelist
[ Upstream commit 28156108fecb1f808b21d216e8ea8f0d205a530c ]
The commit 2ebb17717550 ("sched/core: Offload wakee task activation if it
the wakee is descheduling") checked rq->nr_running <= 1 to avoid task
stacking when WF_ON_CPU.
Per the ordering of writes to p->on_rq and p->on_cpu, observing p->on_cpu
(WF_ON_CPU) in ttwu_queue_cond() implies !p->on_rq, IOW p has gone through
the deactivate_task() in __schedule(), thus p has been accounted out of
rq->nr_running. As such, the task being the only runnable task on the rq
implies reading rq->nr_running == 0 at that point.
The benchmark result is in [1].
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/e34de686-4e85-bde1-9f3c-9bbc86b38627@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Suggested-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Tianchen Ding <dtcccc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220608233412.327341-2-dtcccc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 8765de76a179..649440107cae 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -2671,8 +2671,12 @@ static inline bool ttwu_queue_cond(int cpu, int wake_flags)
* CPU then use the wakelist to offload the task activation to
* the soon-to-be-idle CPU as the current CPU is likely busy.
* nr_running is checked to avoid unnecessary task stacking.
+ *
+ * Note that we can only get here with (wakee) p->on_rq=0,
+ * p->on_cpu can be whatever, we've done the dequeue, so
+ * the wakee has been accounted out of ->nr_running.
*/
- if ((wake_flags & WF_ON_CPU) && cpu_rq(cpu)->nr_running <= 1)
+ if ((wake_flags & WF_ON_CPU) && !cpu_rq(cpu)->nr_running)
return true;
return false;
