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<title>sched: Set the command name of the idle tasks in SMP kernels</title>
<updated>2011-11-14T11:50:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Carsten Emde</name>
<email>C.Emde@osadl.org</email>
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<published>2011-10-26T21:14:16+00:00</published>
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In UP systems, the idle task is initialized using the init_task
structure from which the command name is taken (currently "swapper").

In SMP systems, one idle task per CPU is forked by the worker thread
from which the task structure is copied. The command name is, therefore,
"kworker/0:0" or "kworker/0:1", if not updated. Since such update was
lacking, all idle tasks in SMP systems were incorrectly named. This
longtime bug was not discovered immediately, because there is no /proc/0
entry - the bug only becomes apparent when tracing is enabled.

This patch sets the command name of the idle tasks in SMP systems to the
name that is used in the INIT_TASK structure suffixed by a slash and the
number of the CPU.

Signed-off-by: Carsten Emde &lt;C.Emde@osadl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111026211708.768925506@osadl.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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In UP systems, the idle task is initialized using the init_task
structure from which the command name is taken (currently "swapper").

In SMP systems, one idle task per CPU is forked by the worker thread
from which the task structure is copied. The command name is, therefore,
"kworker/0:0" or "kworker/0:1", if not updated. Since such update was
lacking, all idle tasks in SMP systems were incorrectly named. This
longtime bug was not discovered immediately, because there is no /proc/0
entry - the bug only becomes apparent when tracing is enabled.

This patch sets the command name of the idle tasks in SMP systems to the
name that is used in the INIT_TASK structure suffixed by a slash and the
number of the CPU.

Signed-off-by: Carsten Emde &lt;C.Emde@osadl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111026211708.768925506@osadl.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sched: Document wait_for_completion_*() return values</title>
<updated>2011-11-14T11:50:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>J. Bruce Fields</name>
<email>bfields@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-10-06T19:22:46+00:00</published>
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The return-value convention for these functions varies depending on
whether they're interruptible or can timeout.  It can be a little
confusing--document it.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111006192246.GB28026@fieldses.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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The return-value convention for these functions varies depending on
whether they're interruptible or can timeout.  It can be a little
confusing--document it.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111006192246.GB28026@fieldses.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc</title>
<updated>2011-11-07T01:12:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-07T01:12:03+00:00</published>
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* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (106 commits)
  powerpc/p3060qds: Add support for P3060QDS board
  powerpc/83xx: Add shutdown request support to MCU handling on MPC8349 MITX
  powerpc/85xx: Make kexec to interate over online cpus
  powerpc/fsl_booke: Fix comment in head_fsl_booke.S
  powerpc/85xx: issue 15 EOI after core reset for FSL CoreNet devices
  powerpc/8xxx: Fix interrupt handling in MPC8xxx GPIO driver
  powerpc/85xx: Add 'fsl,pq3-gpio' compatiable for GPIO driver
  powerpc/86xx: Correct Gianfar support for GE boards
  powerpc/cpm: Clear muram before it is in use.
  drivers/virt: add ioctl for 32-bit compat on 64-bit to fsl-hv-manager
  powerpc/fsl_msi: add support for "msi-address-64" property
  powerpc/85xx: Setup secondary cores PIR with hard SMP id
  powerpc/fsl-booke: Fix settlbcam for 64-bit
  powerpc/85xx: Adding DCSR node to dtsi device trees
  powerpc/85xx: clean up FPGA device tree nodes for Freecsale QorIQ boards
  powerpc/85xx: fix PHYS_64BIT selection for P1022DS
  powerpc/fsl-booke: Fix setup_initial_memory_limit to not blindly map
  powerpc: respect mem= setting for early memory limit setup
  powerpc: Update corenet64_smp_defconfig
  powerpc: Update mpc85xx/corenet 32-bit defconfigs
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in:
 - arch/powerpc/configs/40x/hcu4_defconfig
	removed stale file, edited elsewhere
 - arch/powerpc/include/asm/udbg.h, arch/powerpc/kernel/udbg.c:
	added opal and gelic drivers vs added ePAPR driver
 - drivers/tty/serial/8250.c
	moved UPIO_TSI to powerpc vs removed UPIO_DWAPB support
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* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (106 commits)
  powerpc/p3060qds: Add support for P3060QDS board
  powerpc/83xx: Add shutdown request support to MCU handling on MPC8349 MITX
  powerpc/85xx: Make kexec to interate over online cpus
  powerpc/fsl_booke: Fix comment in head_fsl_booke.S
  powerpc/85xx: issue 15 EOI after core reset for FSL CoreNet devices
  powerpc/8xxx: Fix interrupt handling in MPC8xxx GPIO driver
  powerpc/85xx: Add 'fsl,pq3-gpio' compatiable for GPIO driver
  powerpc/86xx: Correct Gianfar support for GE boards
  powerpc/cpm: Clear muram before it is in use.
  drivers/virt: add ioctl for 32-bit compat on 64-bit to fsl-hv-manager
  powerpc/fsl_msi: add support for "msi-address-64" property
  powerpc/85xx: Setup secondary cores PIR with hard SMP id
  powerpc/fsl-booke: Fix settlbcam for 64-bit
  powerpc/85xx: Adding DCSR node to dtsi device trees
  powerpc/85xx: clean up FPGA device tree nodes for Freecsale QorIQ boards
  powerpc/85xx: fix PHYS_64BIT selection for P1022DS
  powerpc/fsl-booke: Fix setup_initial_memory_limit to not blindly map
  powerpc: respect mem= setting for early memory limit setup
  powerpc: Update corenet64_smp_defconfig
  powerpc: Update mpc85xx/corenet 32-bit defconfigs
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in:
 - arch/powerpc/configs/40x/hcu4_defconfig
	removed stale file, edited elsewhere
 - arch/powerpc/include/asm/udbg.h, arch/powerpc/kernel/udbg.c:
	added opal and gelic drivers vs added ePAPR driver
 - drivers/tty/serial/8250.c
	moved UPIO_TSI to powerpc vs removed UPIO_DWAPB support
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2011-10-26T15:08:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-10-26T15:08:43+00:00</published>
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* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (46 commits)
  llist: Add back llist_add_batch() and llist_del_first() prototypes
  sched: Don't use tasklist_lock for debug prints
  sched: Warn on rt throttling
  sched: Unify the -&gt;cpus_allowed mask copy
  sched: Wrap scheduler p-&gt;cpus_allowed access
  sched: Request for idle balance during nohz idle load balance
  sched: Use resched IPI to kick off the nohz idle balance
  sched: Fix idle_cpu()
  llist: Remove cpu_relax() usage in cmpxchg loops
  sched: Convert to struct llist
  llist: Add llist_next()
  irq_work: Use llist in the struct irq_work logic
  llist: Return whether list is empty before adding in llist_add()
  llist: Move cpu_relax() to after the cmpxchg()
  llist: Remove the platform-dependent NMI checks
  llist: Make some llist functions inline
  sched, tracing: Show PREEMPT_ACTIVE state in trace_sched_switch
  sched: Remove redundant test in check_preempt_tick()
  sched: Add documentation for bandwidth control
  sched: Return unused runtime on group dequeue
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* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (46 commits)
  llist: Add back llist_add_batch() and llist_del_first() prototypes
  sched: Don't use tasklist_lock for debug prints
  sched: Warn on rt throttling
  sched: Unify the -&gt;cpus_allowed mask copy
  sched: Wrap scheduler p-&gt;cpus_allowed access
  sched: Request for idle balance during nohz idle load balance
  sched: Use resched IPI to kick off the nohz idle balance
  sched: Fix idle_cpu()
  llist: Remove cpu_relax() usage in cmpxchg loops
  sched: Convert to struct llist
  llist: Add llist_next()
  irq_work: Use llist in the struct irq_work logic
  llist: Return whether list is empty before adding in llist_add()
  llist: Move cpu_relax() to after the cmpxchg()
  llist: Remove the platform-dependent NMI checks
  llist: Make some llist functions inline
  sched, tracing: Show PREEMPT_ACTIVE state in trace_sched_switch
  sched: Remove redundant test in check_preempt_tick()
  sched: Add documentation for bandwidth control
  sched: Return unused runtime on group dequeue
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2011-10-26T14:26:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-10-26T14:26:53+00:00</published>
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* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (45 commits)
  rcu: Move propagation of -&gt;completed from rcu_start_gp() to rcu_report_qs_rsp()
  rcu: Remove rcu_needs_cpu_flush() to avoid false quiescent states
  rcu: Wire up RCU_BOOST_PRIO for rcutree
  rcu: Make rcu_torture_boost() exit loops at end of test
  rcu: Make rcu_torture_fqs() exit loops at end of test
  rcu: Permit rt_mutex_unlock() with irqs disabled
  rcu: Avoid having just-onlined CPU resched itself when RCU is idle
  rcu: Suppress NMI backtraces when stall ends before dump
  rcu: Prohibit grace periods during early boot
  rcu: Simplify unboosting checks
  rcu: Prevent early boot set_need_resched() from __rcu_pending()
  rcu: Dump local stack if cannot dump all CPUs' stacks
  rcu: Move __rcu_read_unlock()'s barrier() within if-statement
  rcu: Improve rcu_assign_pointer() and RCU_INIT_POINTER() documentation
  rcu: Make rcu_assign_pointer() unconditionally insert a memory barrier
  rcu: Make rcu_implicit_dynticks_qs() locals be correct size
  rcu: Eliminate in_irq() checks in rcu_enter_nohz()
  nohz: Remove nohz_cpu_mask
  rcu: Document interpretation of RCU-lockdep splats
  rcu: Allow rcutorture's stat_interval parameter to be changed at runtime
  ...
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* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (45 commits)
  rcu: Move propagation of -&gt;completed from rcu_start_gp() to rcu_report_qs_rsp()
  rcu: Remove rcu_needs_cpu_flush() to avoid false quiescent states
  rcu: Wire up RCU_BOOST_PRIO for rcutree
  rcu: Make rcu_torture_boost() exit loops at end of test
  rcu: Make rcu_torture_fqs() exit loops at end of test
  rcu: Permit rt_mutex_unlock() with irqs disabled
  rcu: Avoid having just-onlined CPU resched itself when RCU is idle
  rcu: Suppress NMI backtraces when stall ends before dump
  rcu: Prohibit grace periods during early boot
  rcu: Simplify unboosting checks
  rcu: Prevent early boot set_need_resched() from __rcu_pending()
  rcu: Dump local stack if cannot dump all CPUs' stacks
  rcu: Move __rcu_read_unlock()'s barrier() within if-statement
  rcu: Improve rcu_assign_pointer() and RCU_INIT_POINTER() documentation
  rcu: Make rcu_assign_pointer() unconditionally insert a memory barrier
  rcu: Make rcu_implicit_dynticks_qs() locals be correct size
  rcu: Eliminate in_irq() checks in rcu_enter_nohz()
  nohz: Remove nohz_cpu_mask
  rcu: Document interpretation of RCU-lockdep splats
  rcu: Allow rcutorture's stat_interval parameter to be changed at runtime
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial</title>
<updated>2011-10-25T10:11:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-10-25T10:11:02+00:00</published>
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (59 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: linux-m32r is moderated for non-subscribers
  linux@lists.openrisc.net is moderated for non-subscribers
  Drop default from "DM365 codec select" choice
  parisc: Kconfig: cleanup Kernel page size default
  Kconfig: remove redundant CONFIG_ prefix on two symbols
  cris: remove arch/cris/arch-v32/lib/nand_init.S
  microblaze: add missing CONFIG_ prefixes
  h8300: drop puzzling Kconfig dependencies
  MAINTAINERS: microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au is moderated for non-subscribers
  tty: drop superfluous dependency in Kconfig
  ARM: mxc: fix Kconfig typo 'i.MX51'
  Fix file references in Kconfig files
  aic7xxx: fix Kconfig references to READMEs
  Fix file references in drivers/ide/
  thinkpad_acpi: Fix printk typo 'bluestooth'
  bcmring: drop commented out line in Kconfig
  btmrvl_sdio: fix typo 'btmrvl_sdio_sd6888'
  doc: raw1394: Trivial typo fix
  CIFS: Don't free volume_info-&gt;UNC until we are entirely done with it.
  treewide: Correct spelling of successfully in comments
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (59 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: linux-m32r is moderated for non-subscribers
  linux@lists.openrisc.net is moderated for non-subscribers
  Drop default from "DM365 codec select" choice
  parisc: Kconfig: cleanup Kernel page size default
  Kconfig: remove redundant CONFIG_ prefix on two symbols
  cris: remove arch/cris/arch-v32/lib/nand_init.S
  microblaze: add missing CONFIG_ prefixes
  h8300: drop puzzling Kconfig dependencies
  MAINTAINERS: microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au is moderated for non-subscribers
  tty: drop superfluous dependency in Kconfig
  ARM: mxc: fix Kconfig typo 'i.MX51'
  Fix file references in Kconfig files
  aic7xxx: fix Kconfig references to READMEs
  Fix file references in drivers/ide/
  thinkpad_acpi: Fix printk typo 'bluestooth'
  bcmring: drop commented out line in Kconfig
  btmrvl_sdio: fix typo 'btmrvl_sdio_sd6888'
  doc: raw1394: Trivial typo fix
  CIFS: Don't free volume_info-&gt;UNC until we are entirely done with it.
  treewide: Correct spelling of successfully in comments
  ...
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<title>sched: Don't use tasklist_lock for debug prints</title>
<updated>2011-10-06T10:47:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-17T18:47:54+00:00</published>
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Avoid taking locks from debug prints, this avoids latencies on -rt,
and improves reliability of the debug code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Avoid taking locks from debug prints, this avoids latencies on -rt,
and improves reliability of the debug code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sched: Unify the -&gt;cpus_allowed mask copy</title>
<updated>2011-10-06T10:47:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-06-25T13:45:46+00:00</published>
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Currently every sched_class::set_cpus_allowed() implementation has to
copy the cpumask into task_struct::cpus_allowed, this is pointless,
put this copy in the generic code.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-jhl5s9fckd9ptw1fzbqqlrd3@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Currently every sched_class::set_cpus_allowed() implementation has to
copy the cpumask into task_struct::cpus_allowed, this is pointless,
put this copy in the generic code.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-jhl5s9fckd9ptw1fzbqqlrd3@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sched: Wrap scheduler p-&gt;cpus_allowed access</title>
<updated>2011-10-06T10:46:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-06-16T10:23:22+00:00</published>
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This task is preparatory for the migrate_disable() implementation, but
stands on its own and provides a cleanup.

It currently only converts those sites required for task-placement.
Kosaki-san once mentioned replacing cpus_allowed with a proper
cpumask_t instead of the NR_CPUS sized array it currently is, that
would also require something like this.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-e42skvaddos99psip0vce41o@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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This task is preparatory for the migrate_disable() implementation, but
stands on its own and provides a cleanup.

It currently only converts those sites required for task-placement.
Kosaki-san once mentioned replacing cpus_allowed with a proper
cpumask_t instead of the NR_CPUS sized array it currently is, that
would also require something like this.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-e42skvaddos99psip0vce41o@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<title>sched: Request for idle balance during nohz idle load balance</title>
<updated>2011-10-06T10:46:27+00:00</updated>
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<name>Suresh Siddha</name>
<email>suresh.b.siddha@intel.com</email>
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<published>2011-10-03T22:09:01+00:00</published>
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rq's idle_at_tick is set to idle/busy during the timer tick
depending on the cpu was idle or not. This will be used later in the load
balance that will be done in the softirq context (which is a process
context in -RT kernels).

For nohz kernels, for the cpu doing nohz idle load balance on behalf of
all the idle cpu's, its rq-&gt;idle_at_tick might have a stale value (which is
recorded when it got the timer tick presumably when it is busy).

As the nohz idle load balancing is also being done at the same place
as the regular load balancing, nohz idle load balancing was bailing out
when it sees rq's idle_at_tick not set.

Thus leading to poor system utilization.

Rename rq's idle_at_tick to idle_balance and set it when someone requests
for nohz idle balance on an idle cpu.

Reported-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri &lt;vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111003220934.892350549@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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rq's idle_at_tick is set to idle/busy during the timer tick
depending on the cpu was idle or not. This will be used later in the load
balance that will be done in the softirq context (which is a process
context in -RT kernels).

For nohz kernels, for the cpu doing nohz idle load balance on behalf of
all the idle cpu's, its rq-&gt;idle_at_tick might have a stale value (which is
recorded when it got the timer tick presumably when it is busy).

As the nohz idle load balancing is also being done at the same place
as the regular load balancing, nohz idle load balancing was bailing out
when it sees rq's idle_at_tick not set.

Thus leading to poor system utilization.

Rename rq's idle_at_tick to idle_balance and set it when someone requests
for nohz idle balance on an idle cpu.

Reported-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri &lt;vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111003220934.892350549@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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