Jeffrey Hugo 65a4433aeb sched/fair: Fix load_balance() affinity redo path
If load_balance() fails to migrate any tasks because all tasks were
affined, load_balance() removes the source CPU from consideration and
attempts to redo and balance among the new subset of CPUs.

There is a bug in this code path where the algorithm considers all active
CPUs in the system (minus the source that was just masked out).  This is
not valid for two reasons: some active CPUs may not be in the current
scheduling domain and one of the active CPUs is dst_cpu. These CPUs should
not be considered, as we cannot pull load from them.

Instead of failing out of load_balance(), we may end up redoing the search
with no valid CPUs and incorrectly concluding the domain is balanced.
Additionally, if the group_imbalance flag was just set, it may also be
incorrectly unset, thus the flag will not be seen by other CPUs in future
load_balance() runs as that algorithm intends.

Fix the check by removing CPUs not in the current domain and the dst_cpu
from considertation, thus limiting the evaluation to valid remaining CPUs
from which load might be migrated.

Co-authored-by: Austin Christ <austinwc@codeaurora.org>
Co-authored-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Tested-by: Tyler Baicar <tbaicar@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeffrey Hugo <jhugo@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Austin Christ <austinwc@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Timur Tabi <timur@codeaurora.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1496863138-11322-2-git-send-email-jhugo@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-07-05 16:28:48 +02:00
2017-07-02 16:07:02 -07:00

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