sched: Initialize rq->age_stamp on processor start
If the sched_clock time starts at a large value, the kernel will spin in sched_avg_update for a long time while rq->age_stamp catches up with rq->clock. The comment in kernel/sched/clock.c says that there is no strict promise that it starts at zero. So initialize rq->age_stamp when a cpu starts up to avoid this. I was seeing long delays on a simulator that didn't start the clock at zero. This might also be an issue on reboots on processors that don't re-initialize the timer to zero on reset, and when using kexec. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1399574859-11714-1-git-send-email-minyard@acm.orgSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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