sched: fix SysRq-N (normalize RT tasks)
authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Sun, 17 Jun 2007 16:37:45 +0000 (18:37 +0200)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:52:55 +0000 (11:52 -0700)
Gene Heskett reported the following problem while testing CFS: SysRq-N
is not always effective in normalizing tasks back to SCHED_OTHER.

The reason for that turns out to be the following bug:

 - normalize_rt_tasks() uses for_each_process() to iterate through all
   tasks in the system.  The problem is, this method does not iterate
   through all tasks, it iterates through all thread groups.

The proper mechanism to enumerate over all threads is to use a
do_each_thread() + while_each_thread() loop.

Reported-by: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/sched.c

index 13cdab3b4c4805712cd1039588d0938b54c8822f..49be34e1f0b85b78070c85e754759f994a2bc038 100644 (file)
@@ -7071,12 +7071,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__might_sleep);
 void normalize_rt_tasks(void)
 {
        struct prio_array *array;
-       struct task_struct *p;
+       struct task_struct *g, *p;
        unsigned long flags;
        struct rq *rq;
 
        read_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
-       for_each_process(p) {
+
+       do_each_thread(g, p) {
                if (!rt_task(p))
                        continue;
 
@@ -7094,7 +7095,8 @@ void normalize_rt_tasks(void)
 
                __task_rq_unlock(rq);
                spin_unlock_irqrestore(&p->pi_lock, flags);
-       }
+       } while_each_thread(g, p);
+
        read_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
 }