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sched/rt: Prevent idle task boosting
authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Mon, 6 Jun 2011 18:07:38 +0000 (20:07 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Thu, 1 Mar 2012 09:28:05 +0000 (10:28 +0100)
commit992d22a91010b123a8b520df72572aa5e1ec568d
tree24b6db83e0507598e255de9e5b410a8300ab7572
parent85c83eb01629c94f2d1c3e16a83a32afc1050ffb
sched/rt: Prevent idle task boosting

Idle task boosting is a nono in general. There is one
exception, when PREEMPT_RT and NOHZ is active:

The idle task calls get_next_timer_interrupt() and holds
the timer wheel base->lock on the CPU and another CPU wants
to access the timer (probably to cancel it). We can safely
ignore the boosting request, as the idle CPU runs this code
with interrupts disabled and will complete the lock
protected section without being interrupted. So there is no
real need to boost.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-755rvsosz7sdzot12a3gbha6@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
kernel/sched/core.c