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sched/idle: Clear polling before descheduling the idle thread 

Currently, the only real guarantee provided by the polling bit is
that, if you hold rq->lock and the polling bit is set, then you can
set need_resched to force a reschedule.

The only reason the lock is needed is that the idle thread might not
be running at all when setting its need_resched bit, and rq->lock
keeps it pinned.

This is easy to fix: just clear the polling bit before scheduling.
Now the idle thread's polling bit is only ever set when
rq->curr == rq->idle.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: nicolas.pitre@linaro.org
Cc: daniel.lezcano@linaro.org
Cc: umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b2059fcb4c613d520cb503b6fad6e47033c7c203.1401902905.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Andy Lutomirski 2014-06-04 10:31:16 -07:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent dfc68f29ae
commit 82c65d60d6
1 changed files with 25 additions and 1 deletions
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kernel/sched/idle.c
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@ -67,6 +67,10 @@ void __weak arch_cpu_idle(void)
* cpuidle_idle_call - the main idle function
*
* NOTE: no locks or semaphores should be used here
*
* On archs that support TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG, is called with polling
* set, and it returns with polling set. If it ever stops polling, it
* must clear the polling bit.
*/
static void cpuidle_idle_call(void)
{
@ -175,10 +179,22 @@ exit_idle:
/*
* Generic idle loop implementation
*
* Called with polling cleared.
*/
static void cpu_idle_loop(void)
{
while (1) {
/*
* If the arch has a polling bit, we maintain an invariant:
*
* Our polling bit is clear if we're not scheduled (i.e. if
* rq->curr != rq->idle). This means that, if rq->idle has
* the polling bit set, then setting need_resched is
* guaranteed to cause the cpu to reschedule.
*/
__current_set_polling();
tick_nohz_idle_enter();
while (!need_resched()) {
@ -218,6 +234,15 @@ static void cpu_idle_loop(void)
*/
preempt_set_need_resched();
tick_nohz_idle_exit();
__current_clr_polling();
/*
* We promise to reschedule if need_resched is set while
* polling is set. That means that clearing polling
* needs to be visible before rescheduling.
*/
smp_mb__after_atomic();
schedule_preempt_disabled();
}
}
@ -239,7 +264,6 @@ void cpu_startup_entry(enum cpuhp_state state)
*/
boot_init_stack_canary();
#endif
__current_set_polling();
arch_cpu_idle_prepare();
cpu_idle_loop();
}