[POWERPC] spufs: fix scheduler starvation by idle contexts
2.6.25 has a regression where we can starve the scheduler by creating
(N_SPES+1) contexts, then running them one at a time.
The final context will never be run, as the other contexts are loaded on
the SPEs, none of which are repoted as free (ie, spu->alloc_state !=
SPU_FREE), so spu_get_idle() doesn't give us a spu to run on. Because
all of the contexts are stopped, none are descheduled by the scheduler
tick, as spusched_tick returns if spu_stopped(ctx).
This change replaces the spu_stopped() check with checking for SCHED_IDLE
in ctx->policy. We set a context's policy to SCHED_IDLE when we're not
in spu_run(). We also favour SCHED_IDLE contexts when looking for contexts
to unbind, but leave their timeslice intact for later resumption.
This patch fixes the following test in the spufs-testsuite:
tests/20-scheduler/02-yield-starvation
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
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