sched: Fix nohz balance kick
authorSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:02:21 +0000 (11:02 -0700)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:50:50 +0000 (13:50 +0200)
commitf6c3f1686e7ec1dd8725a9a3dcb857dfd0c7a5bf
treefb0179d1f071dbb857e0ab7f2aace4579deb62c1
parente75e863dd5c7d96b91ebbd241da5328fc38a78cc
sched: Fix nohz balance kick

There's a situation where the nohz balancer will try to wake itself:

cpu-x is idle which is also ilb_cpu
got a scheduler tick during idle
and the nohz_kick_needed() in trigger_load_balance() checks for
rq_x->nr_running which might not be zero (because of someone waking a
task on this rq etc) and this leads to the situation of the cpu-x
sending a kick to itself.

And this can cause a lockup.

Avoid this by not marking ourself eligible for kicking.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1284400941.2684.19.camel@sbsiddha-MOBL3.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
kernel/sched_fair.c