sched: Fix race in idle_balance()
The scheduler main function 'schedule()' checks if there are no more tasks on the runqueue. Then it checks if a task should be pulled in the current runqueue in idle_balance() assuming it will go to idle otherwise. But idle_balance() releases the rq->lock in order to look up the sched domains and takes the lock again right after. That opens a window where another cpu may put a task in our runqueue, so we won't go to idle but we have filled the idle_stamp, thinking we will. This patch closes the window by checking if the runqueue has been modified but without pulling a task after taking the lock again, so we won't go to idle right after in the __schedule() function. Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Cc: alex.shi@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389949444-14821-2-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano@linaro.orgSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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