sched: Move mmdrop to RCU on RT
mmdrop() is invoked from finish_task_switch() by the incoming task to drop
the mm which was handed over by the previous task. mmdrop() can be quite
expensive which prevents an incoming real-time task from getting useful
work done.
Provide mmdrop_sched() which maps to mmdrop() on !RT kernels. On RT kernels
it delagates the eventually required invocation of __mmdrop() to RCU.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210928122411.648582026@linutronix.de
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 95f4e16..9eaeba6 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -4836,7 +4836,7 @@ static struct rq *finish_task_switch(struct task_struct *prev)
*/
if (mm) {
membarrier_mm_sync_core_before_usermode(mm);
- mmdrop(mm);
+ mmdrop_sched(mm);
}
if (unlikely(prev_state == TASK_DEAD)) {
if (prev->sched_class->task_dead)
