3 files changed, 107 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 4e9fad271c3..c88b3bfbd09 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1058,6 +1058,7 @@ struct sched_class {
 	void (*enqueue_task) (struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags);
 	void (*dequeue_task) (struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags);
 	void (*yield_task) (struct rq *rq);
+	bool (*yield_to_task) (struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, bool preempt);
 
 	void (*check_preempt_curr) (struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags);
 
@@ -1972,6 +1973,7 @@ static inline int rt_mutex_getprio(struct task_struct *p)
 # define rt_mutex_adjust_pi(p)		do { } while (0)
 #endif
 
+extern bool yield_to(struct task_struct *p, bool preempt);
 extern void set_user_nice(struct task_struct *p, long nice);
 extern int task_prio(const struct task_struct *p);
 extern int task_nice(const struct task_struct *p);
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index ae5e1a19b9d..2effcb71a47 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -1686,6 +1686,39 @@ static void double_rq_unlock(struct rq *rq1, struct rq *rq2)
 		__release(rq2->lock);
 }
 
+#else /* CONFIG_SMP */
+
+/*
+ * double_rq_lock - safely lock two runqueues
+ *
+ * Note this does not disable interrupts like task_rq_lock,
+ * you need to do so manually before calling.
+ */
+static void double_rq_lock(struct rq *rq1, struct rq *rq2)
+	__acquires(rq1->lock)
+	__acquires(rq2->lock)
+{
+	BUG_ON(!irqs_disabled());
+	BUG_ON(rq1 != rq2);
+	raw_spin_lock(&rq1->lock);
+	__acquire(rq2->lock);	/* Fake it out ;) */
+}
+
+/*
+ * double_rq_unlock - safely unlock two runqueues
+ *
+ * Note this does not restore interrupts like task_rq_unlock,
+ * you need to do so manually after calling.
+ */
+static void double_rq_unlock(struct rq *rq1, struct rq *rq2)
+	__releases(rq1->lock)
+	__releases(rq2->lock)
+{
+	BUG_ON(rq1 != rq2);
+	raw_spin_unlock(&rq1->lock);
+	__release(rq2->lock);
+}
+
 #endif
 
 static void calc_load_account_idle(struct rq *this_rq);
@@ -5448,6 +5481,58 @@ void __sched yield(void)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(yield);
 
+/**
+ * yield_to - yield the current processor to another thread in
+ * your thread group, or accelerate that thread toward the
+ * processor it's on.
+ *
+ * It's the caller's job to ensure that the target task struct
+ * can't go away on us before we can do any checks.
+ *
+ * Returns true if we indeed boosted the target task.
+ */
+bool __sched yield_to(struct task_struct *p, bool preempt)
+{
+	struct task_struct *curr = current;
+	struct rq *rq, *p_rq;
+	unsigned long flags;
+	bool yielded = 0;
+
+	local_irq_save(flags);
+	rq = this_rq();
+
+again:
+	p_rq = task_rq(p);
+	double_rq_lock(rq, p_rq);
+	while (task_rq(p) != p_rq) {
+		double_rq_unlock(rq, p_rq);
+		goto again;
+	}
+
+	if (!curr->sched_class->yield_to_task)
+		goto out;
+
+	if (curr->sched_class != p->sched_class)
+		goto out;
+
+	if (task_running(p_rq, p) || p->state)
+		goto out;
+
+	yielded = curr->sched_class->yield_to_task(rq, p, preempt);
+	if (yielded)
+		schedstat_inc(rq, yld_count);
+
+out:
+	double_rq_unlock(rq, p_rq);
+	local_irq_restore(flags);
+
+	if (yielded)
+		schedule();
+
+	return yielded;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(yield_to);
+
 /*
  * This task is about to go to sleep on IO. Increment rq->nr_iowait so
  * that process accounting knows that this is a task in IO wait state.
diff --git a/kernel/sched_fair.c b/kernel/sched_fair.c
index c0fbeb99283..02702469404 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched_fair.c
@@ -1975,6 +1975,25 @@ static void yield_task_fair(struct rq *rq)
 	set_skip_buddy(se);
 }
 
+static bool yield_to_task_fair(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, bool preempt)
+{
+	struct sched_entity *se = &p->se;
+
+	if (!se->on_rq)
+		return false;
+
+	/* Tell the scheduler that we'd really like pse to run next. */
+	set_next_buddy(se);
+
+	/* Make p's CPU reschedule; pick_next_entity takes care of fairness. */
+	if (preempt)
+		resched_task(rq->curr);
+
+	yield_task_fair(rq);
+
+	return true;
+}
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 /**************************************************
  * Fair scheduling class load-balancing methods:
@@ -4243,6 +4262,7 @@ static const struct sched_class fair_sched_class = {
 	.enqueue_task		= enqueue_task_fair,
 	.dequeue_task		= dequeue_task_fair,
 	.yield_task		= yield_task_fair,
+	.yield_to_task		= yield_to_task_fair,
 
 	.check_preempt_curr	= check_preempt_wakeup,