tree 0e32bf3f60350bc13b6eb4d3b11182b28cc9c8f5
parent 6b44f519017b219a12b37173c7eef8dfce2c0100
author xiaofeng.yan <xiaofeng.yan@huawei.com> 1409022941 +0000
committer Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> 1410080999 +0200

sched/deadline: Fix a precision problem in the microseconds range

An overrun could happen in function start_hrtick_dl()
when a task with SCHED_DEADLINE runs in the microseconds
range.

For example, if a task with SCHED_DEADLINE has the following parameters:

  Task  runtime  deadline  period
   P1   200us     500us    500us

The deadline and period from task P1 are less than 1ms.

In order to achieve microsecond precision, we need to enable HRTICK feature
by the next command:

  PC#echo "HRTICK" > /sys/kernel/debug/sched_features
  PC#trace-cmd record -e sched_switch &
  PC#./schedtool -E -t 200000:500000:500000 -e ./test

The binary test is in an endless while(1) loop here.
Some pieces of trace.dat are as follows:

  <idle>-0   157.603157: sched_switch: :R ==> 2481:4294967295: test
  test-2481  157.603203: sched_switch:  2481:R ==> 0:120: swapper/2
  <idle>-0   157.605657: sched_switch:  :R ==> 2481:4294967295: test
  test-2481  157.608183: sched_switch:  2481:R ==> 2483:120: trace-cmd
  trace-cmd-2483 157.609656: sched_switch:2483:R==>2481:4294967295: test

We can get the runtime of P1 from the information above:

  runtime = 157.608183 - 157.605657
  runtime = 0.002526(2.526ms)

The correct runtime should be less than or equal to 200us at some point.

The problem is caused by a conditional judgment "delta > 10000"
in function start_hrtick_dl().

Because no hrtimer start up to control the rest of runtime
when the reset of runtime is less than 10us.

So the process will continue to run until tick-period is coming.

Move the code with the limit of the least time slice
from hrtick_start_fair() to hrtick_start() because the
EDF schedule class also needs this function in start_hrtick_dl().

To fix this problem, we call hrtimer_start() unconditionally in
start_hrtick_dl(), and make sure the scheduling slice won't be smaller
than 10us in hrtimer_start().

Signed-off-by: Xiaofeng Yan <xiaofeng.yan@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1409022941-5880-1-git-send-email-xiaofeng.yan@huawei.com
[ Massaged the changelog and the code. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>