6.1-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: K Prateek Nayak kprateek.nayak@amd.com
[ Upstream commit ff47a0acfcce309cf9e175149c75614491953c8f ]
Commit b2a02fc43a1f ("smp: Optimize send_call_function_single_ipi()") optimizes IPIs to idle CPUs in TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG mode by setting the TIF_NEED_RESCHED flag in idle task's thread info and relying on flush_smp_call_function_queue() in idle exit path to run the call-function. A softirq raised by the call-function is handled shortly after in do_softirq_post_smp_call_flush() but the TIF_NEED_RESCHED flag remains set and is only cleared later when schedule_idle() calls __schedule().
need_resched() check in _nohz_idle_balance() exists to bail out of load balancing if another task has woken up on the CPU currently in-charge of idle load balancing which is being processed in SCHED_SOFTIRQ context. Since the optimization mentioned above overloads the interpretation of TIF_NEED_RESCHED, check for idle_cpu() before going with the existing need_resched() check which can catch a genuine task wakeup on an idle CPU processing SCHED_SOFTIRQ from do_softirq_post_smp_call_flush(), as well as the case where ksoftirqd needs to be preempted as a result of new task wakeup or slice expiry.
In case of PREEMPT_RT or threadirqs, although the idle load balancing may be inhibited in some cases on the ilb CPU, the fact that ksoftirqd is the only fair task going back to sleep will trigger a newidle balance on the CPU which will alleviate some imbalance if it exists if idle balance fails to do so.
Fixes: b2a02fc43a1f ("smp: Optimize send_call_function_single_ipi()") Signed-off-by: K Prateek Nayak kprateek.nayak@amd.com Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) peterz@infradead.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241119054432.6405-4-kprateek.nayak@amd.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- kernel/sched/fair.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c index 1e12f731a0337..cf3bbddd4b7fc 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c @@ -11401,7 +11401,7 @@ static void _nohz_idle_balance(struct rq *this_rq, unsigned int flags) * work being done for other CPUs. Next load * balancing owner will pick it up. */ - if (need_resched()) { + if (!idle_cpu(this_cpu) && need_resched()) { if (flags & NOHZ_STATS_KICK) has_blocked_load = true; if (flags & NOHZ_NEXT_KICK)