This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled sched/deadline: Always enqueue on previous rq when dl_task_timer() fires to the 4.0-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-deadline-always-enqueue-on-previous-rq-when-dl_task_timer-fires.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.0 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 4cd57f97135840f637431c92380c8da3edbe44ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@xxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 09:53:36 +0100 Subject: sched/deadline: Always enqueue on previous rq when dl_task_timer() fires From: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@xxxxxxx> commit 4cd57f97135840f637431c92380c8da3edbe44ed upstream. dl_task_timer() may fire on a different rq from where a task was removed after throttling. Since the call path is: dl_task_timer() -> enqueue_task_dl() -> enqueue_dl_entity() -> replenish_dl_entity() and replenish_dl_entity() uses dl_se's rq, we can't use current's rq in dl_task_timer(), but we need to lock the task's previous one. Tested-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@xxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 3960c8c0c789 ("sched: Make dl_task_time() use task_rq_lock()") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1427792017-7356-1-git-send-email-juri.lelli@xxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/sched/deadline.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/sched/deadline.c +++ b/kernel/sched/deadline.c @@ -514,7 +514,7 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart dl_task_time unsigned long flags; struct rq *rq; - rq = task_rq_lock(current, &flags); + rq = task_rq_lock(p, &flags); /* * We need to take care of several possible races here: @@ -569,7 +569,7 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart dl_task_time push_dl_task(rq); #endif unlock: - task_rq_unlock(rq, current, &flags); + task_rq_unlock(rq, p, &flags); return HRTIMER_NORESTART; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from juri.lelli@xxxxxxx are queue-4.0/sched-deadline-always-enqueue-on-previous-rq-when-dl_task_timer-fires.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html