sched: fix nohz load balancer on cpu offline

Christian Borntraeger reports:

> After a logical cpu offline, even on a complete idle system, there
> is one cpu with full ticks. It turns out that nohz.cpu_mask has the
> the offlined cpu still set.
>
> In select_nohz_load_balancer() we check if the system is completely
> idle to turn of load balancing. We compare cpu_online_map with
> nohz.cpu_mask.  Since cpu_online_map is updated on cpu unplug,
> but nohz.cpu_mask is not, the check fails and the scheduler believes
> that we need an "idle load balancer" even on a fully idle system.
> Since the ilb cpu does not deactivate the timer tick this breaks NOHZ.

Fix the select_nohz_load_balancer() to not set the nohz.cpu_mask
while a cpu is going offline.

Reported-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 242d0d4..e1fc67d 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -3890,19 +3890,24 @@ int select_nohz_load_balancer(int stop_tick)
        int cpu = smp_processor_id();
 
        if (stop_tick) {
-               cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, nohz.cpu_mask);
                cpu_rq(cpu)->in_nohz_recently = 1;
 
-               /*
-                * If we are going offline and still the leader, give up!
-                */
-               if (!cpu_active(cpu) &&
-                   atomic_read(&nohz.load_balancer) == cpu) {
+               if (!cpu_active(cpu)) {
+                       if (atomic_read(&nohz.load_balancer) != cpu)
+                               return 0;
+
+                       /*
+                        * If we are going offline and still the leader,
+                        * give up!
+                        */
                        if (atomic_cmpxchg(&nohz.load_balancer, cpu, -1) != cpu)
                                BUG();
+
                        return 0;
                }
 
+               cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, nohz.cpu_mask);
+
                /* time for ilb owner also to sleep */
                if (cpumask_weight(nohz.cpu_mask) == num_online_cpus()) {
                        if (atomic_read(&nohz.load_balancer) == cpu)