Peter Zijlstra
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The recent commit:90b5363acd("sched: Clean up scheduler_ipi()") got smp_call_function_single_async() subtly wrong. Even though it will return -EBUSY when trying to re-use a csd, that condition is not atomic and still requires external serialization. The change in kick_ilb() got this wrong. While on first reading kick_ilb() has an atomic test-and-set that appears to serialize the use, the matching 'release' is not in the right place to actually guarantee this serialization. Rework the nohz_idle_balance() trigger so that the release is in the IPI callback and thus guarantees the required serialization for the CSD. Fixes:90b5363acd("sched: Clean up scheduler_ipi()") Reported-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Cc: mgorman@techsingularity.net Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200526161907.778543557@infradead.org
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