Linus,
please pull the latest sched/urgent branch from:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git
sched-urgent-2020-05-31
up to: 18f855e574d9: sched/fair: Don't NUMA balance for kthreads
A single scheduler fix preventing a crash in NUMA balancing. The
current->mm check is not reliable as the mm might be temporary
due to use_mm() in a kthread. Check for PF_KTHREAD explictely.
Thanks,
tglx
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Jens Axboe (1):
sched/fair: Don't NUMA balance for kthreads
kernel/sched/fair.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 538ba5d94e99..da3e5b54715b 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -2908,7 +2908,7 @@ static void task_tick_numa(struct rq *rq, struct
task_struct *curr)
/*
* We don't care about NUMA placement if we don't have memory.
*/
- if (!curr->mm || (curr->flags & PF_EXITING) || work->next != work)
+ if ((curr->flags & (PF_EXITING | PF_KTHREAD)) || work->next != work)
return;
/*
