Re: [PATCH] sched/deadline: Fix stale throttling on de-/boosted tasks

[peterz@infradead.org]

On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 08:00:24AM +0200, Juri Lelli wrote:
> On 31/08/20 13:07, Lucas Stach wrote:
> > When a boosted task gets throttled, what normally happens is that it's
> > immediately enqueued again with ENQUEUE_REPLENISH, which replenishes the
> > runtime and clears the dl_throttled flag. There is a special case however:
> > if the throttling happened on sched-out and the task has been deboosted in
> > the meantime, the replenish is skipped as the task will return to its
> > normal scheduling class. This leaves the task with the dl_throttled flag
> > set.
> > 
> > Now if the task gets boosted up to the deadline scheduling class again
> > while it is sleeping, it's still in the throttled state. The normal wakeup
> > however will enqueue the task with ENQUEUE_REPLENISH not set, so we don't
> > actually place it on the rq. Thus we end up with a task that is runnable,
> > but not actually on the rq and neither a immediate replenishment happens,
> > nor is the replenishment timer set up, so the task is stuck in
> > forever-throttled limbo.
> > 
> > Clear the dl_throttled flag before dropping back to the normal scheduling
> > class to fix this issue.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Lucas Stach <l.stach@pengutronix.de>

> Acked-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>

Thanks!