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    sched: fix 2.6.27-rc5 couldn't boot on tulsa machine randomly · baf25731
    Zhang, Yanmin authored
    
    
    On my tulsa x86-64 machine, kernel 2.6.25-rc5 couldn't boot randomly.
    
    Basically, function __enable_runtime forgets to reset rt_rq->rt_throttled
    to 0. When every cpu is up, per-cpu migration_thread is created and it runs
    very fast, sometimes to mark the corresponding rt_rq->rt_throttled to 1 very
    quickly. After all cpus are up, with below calling chain:
    
       sched_init_smp => arch_init_sched_domains => build_sched_domains => ...
    => cpu_attach_domain => rq_attach_root => set_rq_online => ...
    => _enable_runtime
    
    _enable_runtime is called against every rt_rq again, so rt_rq->rt_time is
    reset to 0, but rt_rq->rt_throttled might be still 1. Later on function
    do_sched_rt_period_timer couldn't reset it, and all RT tasks couldn't be
    scheduled to run on that cpu. here is RT task migration_thread which is
    woken up when a task is migrated to another cpu.
    
    Below patch fixes it against 2.6.27-rc5.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarZhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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