sched/idle: Clear polling before descheduling the idle thread

Currently, the only real guarantee provided by the polling bit is
that, if you hold rq->lock and the polling bit is set, then you can
set need_resched to force a reschedule.

The only reason the lock is needed is that the idle thread might not
be running at all when setting its need_resched bit, and rq->lock
keeps it pinned.

This is easy to fix: just clear the polling bit before scheduling.
Now the idle thread's polling bit is only ever set when
rq->curr == rq->idle.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: nicolas.pitre@linaro.org
Cc: daniel.lezcano@linaro.org
Cc: umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b2059fcb4c613d520cb503b6fad6e47033c7c203.1401902905.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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