sched/rt: Up the root domain ref count when passing it around via IPIs

When issuing an IPI RT push, where an IPI is sent to each CPU that has more
than one RT task scheduled on it, it references the root domain's rto_mask,
that contains all the CPUs within the root domain that has more than one RT
task in the runable state. The problem is, after the IPIs are initiated, the
rq->lock is released. This means that the root domain that is associated to
the run queue could be freed while the IPIs are going around.

Add a sched_get_rd() and a sched_put_rd() that will increment and decrement
the root domain's ref count respectively. This way when initiating the IPIs,
the scheduler will up the root domain's ref count before releasing the
rq->lock, ensuring that the root domain does not go away until the IPI round
is complete.

Reported-by: Pavan Kondeti <pkondeti@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 4bdced5c9a292 ("sched/rt: Simplify the IPI based RT balancing logic")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAEU1=PkiHO35Dzna8EQqNSKW1fr1y1zRQ5y66X117MG06sQtNA@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sched/topology.c b/kernel/sched/topology.c
index 034cbed7f88b..519b024f4e94 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/topology.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/topology.c
@@ -259,6 +259,19 @@ void rq_attach_root(struct rq *rq, struct root_domain *rd)
 		call_rcu_sched(&old_rd->rcu, free_rootdomain);
 }
 
+void sched_get_rd(struct root_domain *rd)
+{
+	atomic_inc(&rd->refcount);
+}
+
+void sched_put_rd(struct root_domain *rd)
+{
+	if (!atomic_dec_and_test(&rd->refcount))
+		return;
+
+	call_rcu_sched(&rd->rcu, free_rootdomain);
+}
+
 static int init_rootdomain(struct root_domain *rd)
 {
 	if (!zalloc_cpumask_var(&rd->span, GFP_KERNEL))