sched/pelt: Fix false running accounting

The running state is a subset of runnable state which means that running
can't be set if runnable (weight) is cleared. There are corner cases
where the current sched_entity has been already dequeued but cfs_rq->curr
has not been updated yet and still points to the dequeued sched_entity.
If ___update_load_avg() is called at that time, weight will be 0 and running
will be set which is not possible.

This case happens during pick_next_task_fair() when a cfs_rq becomes idles.
The current sched_entity has been dequeued so se->on_rq is cleared and
cfs_rq->weight is null. But cfs_rq->curr still points to se (it will be
cleared when picking the idle thread). Because the cfs_rq becomes idle,
idle_balance() is called and ends up to call update_blocked_averages()
with these wrong running and runnable states.

Add a test in ___update_load_avg() to correct the running state in this case.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 75c58c77450a..ef5b66b110f8 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -2991,6 +2991,18 @@ ___update_load_avg(u64 now, int cpu, struct sched_avg *sa,
 	sa->last_update_time += delta << 10;
 
 	/*
+	 * running is a subset of runnable (weight) so running can't be set if
+	 * runnable is clear. But there are some corner cases where the current
+	 * se has been already dequeued but cfs_rq->curr still points to it.
+	 * This means that weight will be 0 but not running for a sched_entity
+	 * but also for a cfs_rq if the latter becomes idle. As an example,
+	 * this happens during idle_balance() which calls
+	 * update_blocked_averages()
+	 */
+	if (!weight)
+		running = 0;
+
+	/*
 	 * Now we know we crossed measurement unit boundaries. The *_avg
 	 * accrues by two steps:
 	 *