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sched/fair: Fix per-CPU kthread and wakee stacking for asym CPU capacity

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select_idle_sibling() has a special case for tasks woken up by a per-CPU
kthread where the selected CPU is the previous one. For asymmetric CPU
capacity systems, the assumption was that the wakee couldn't have a
bigger utilization during task placement than it used to have during the
last activation. That was not considering uclamp.min which can completely
change between two task activations and as a consequence mandates the
fitness criterion asym_fits_capacity(), even for the exit path described
above.

Fixes: b4c9c9f156 ("sched/fair: Prefer prev cpu in asymmetric wakeup path")
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vincent.donnefort@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211129173115.4006346-1-vincent.donnefort@arm.com
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Vincent Donnefort 2021-11-29 17:31:15 +00:00 committed by Peter Zijlstra
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@ -6400,7 +6400,8 @@ static int select_idle_sibling(struct task_struct *p, int prev, int target)
if (is_per_cpu_kthread(current) &&
in_task() &&
prev == smp_processor_id() &&
this_rq()->nr_running <= 1) {
this_rq()->nr_running <= 1 &&
asym_fits_capacity(task_util, prev)) {
return prev;
}