On Mon, 2013-02-18 at 19:55 -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> While fuzzing with trinity inside a KVM tools guest, running today's -next,
> I've stumbled on the following spew.
>
> I've cc'ed Steven Rostedt since the culprit looks like "sched: Enable
> interrupts in idle_balance()".
You're correct. Interrupts are ok but softirqs must still be disabled.
The following patch should work.
-- Steve
Only compiled tested:
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 0fcdbff..a31174c 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -5222,9 +5222,9 @@ void idle_balance(int this_cpu, struct rq *this_rq)
update_rq_runnable_avg(this_rq, 1);
/*
- * Drop the rq->lock, but keep preempt disabled.
+ * Drop the rq->lock, but keep softirqs disabled.
*/
- preempt_disable();
+ local_bh_disable();
raw_spin_unlock_irq(&this_rq->lock);
update_blocked_averages(this_cpu);
@@ -5253,7 +5253,7 @@ void idle_balance(int this_cpu, struct rq *this_rq)
rcu_read_unlock();
raw_spin_lock_irq(&this_rq->lock);
- preempt_enable();
+ local_bh_enable();
if (pulled_task || time_after(jiffies, this_rq->next_balance)) {
/*
--
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