This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled sched/rt: Add a missing rescheduling point to the 4.10-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-rt-add-a-missing-rescheduling-point.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 619bd4a71874a8fd78eb6ccf9f272c5e98bcc7b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 15:40:06 +0100 Subject: sched/rt: Add a missing rescheduling point From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 619bd4a71874a8fd78eb6ccf9f272c5e98bcc7b7 upstream. Since the change in commit: fd7a4bed1835 ("sched, rt: Convert switched_{from, to}_rt() / prio_changed_rt() to balance callbacks") ... we don't reschedule a task under certain circumstances: Lets say task-A, SCHED_OTHER, is running on CPU0 (and it may run only on CPU0) and holds a PI lock. This task is removed from the CPU because it used up its time slice and another SCHED_OTHER task is running. Task-B on CPU1 runs at RT priority and asks for the lock owned by task-A. This results in a priority boost for task-A. Task-B goes to sleep until the lock has been made available. Task-A is already runnable (but not active), so it receives no wake up. The reality now is that task-A gets on the CPU once the scheduler decides to remove the current task despite the fact that a high priority task is enqueued and waiting. This may take a long time. The desired behaviour is that CPU0 immediately reschedules after the priority boost which made task-A the task with the lowest priority. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: fd7a4bed1835 ("sched, rt: Convert switched_{from, to}_rt() prio_changed_rt() to balance callbacks") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170124144006.29821-1-bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/sched/deadline.c | 3 +-- kernel/sched/rt.c | 3 +-- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/sched/deadline.c +++ b/kernel/sched/deadline.c @@ -1729,12 +1729,11 @@ static void switched_to_dl(struct rq *rq #ifdef CONFIG_SMP if (tsk_nr_cpus_allowed(p) > 1 && rq->dl.overloaded) queue_push_tasks(rq); -#else +#endif if (dl_task(rq->curr)) check_preempt_curr_dl(rq, p, 0); else resched_curr(rq); -#endif } } --- a/kernel/sched/rt.c +++ b/kernel/sched/rt.c @@ -2198,10 +2198,9 @@ static void switched_to_rt(struct rq *rq #ifdef CONFIG_SMP if (tsk_nr_cpus_allowed(p) > 1 && rq->rt.overloaded) queue_push_tasks(rq); -#else +#endif /* CONFIG_SMP */ if (p->prio < rq->curr->prio) resched_curr(rq); -#endif /* CONFIG_SMP */ } } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.10/sched-rt-add-a-missing-rescheduling-point.patch