linux-kernel - Re: possible migration bug with hotplug cpu

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Date:	Thu, 9 Jul 2009 13:57:20 +0200
From:	Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@...il.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: possible migration bug with hotplug cpu

So, I found the problem.

These fields are currently not initialized upon fork. I noted that when I
updated to 2.6.31-rc2; commit 6c594c21fcb02c662f11c97be4d7d2b73060a205 was
merged into kernel by Ingo (not present yet in 2.6.30), but it only initializes
nr_migrations. Why the other fields are not initialized to 0? Even when there
are more processors, these fields may be wrong if not zeroed when a new task
is started. Below the fast way to fix it. This fixed the counters for me.

What do you think of creating a struct sched_statistics embedded into
sched_entity so we coudl memset it to zero all at once? All fields of
SCHED_STATS piece should be initialized, right?

Lucas De Marchi


diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index fd3ac58..b8d75cf 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -2572,15 +2572,37 @@ static void __sched_fork(struct task_struct *p)
 	p->se.avg_wakeup		= sysctl_sched_wakeup_granularity;

 #ifdef CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
-	p->se.wait_start		= 0;
-	p->se.sum_sleep_runtime		= 0;
-	p->se.sleep_start		= 0;
-	p->se.block_start		= 0;
-	p->se.sleep_max			= 0;
-	p->se.block_max			= 0;
-	p->se.exec_max			= 0;
-	p->se.slice_max			= 0;
-	p->se.wait_max			= 0;
+	p->se.wait_start			= 0;
+	p->se.wait_max				= 0;
+	p->se.wait_count			= 0;
+	p->se.wait_sum				= 0;
+
+	p->se.sleep_start			= 0;
+	p->se.sleep_max				= 0;
+	p->se.sum_sleep_runtime			= 0;
+
+	p->se.block_start			= 0;
+	p->se.block_max				= 0;
+	p->se.exec_max				= 0;
+	p->se.slice_max				= 0;
+
+	p->se.nr_migrations_cold		= 0;
+	p->se.nr_failed_migrations_affine	= 0;
+	p->se.nr_failed_migrations_running	= 0;
+	p->se.nr_failed_migrations_hot		= 0;
+	p->se.nr_forced_migrations		= 0;
+	p->se.nr_forced2_migrations		= 0;
+
+	p->se.nr_wakeups			= 0;
+	p->se.nr_wakeups_sync			= 0;
+	p->se.nr_wakeups_migrate		= 0;
+	p->se.nr_wakeups_local			= 0;
+	p->se.nr_wakeups_remote			= 0;
+	p->se.nr_wakeups_affine			= 0;
+	p->se.nr_wakeups_affine_attempts	= 0;
+	p->se.nr_wakeups_passive		= 0;
+	p->se.nr_wakeups_idle			= 0;
+
 #endif

 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&p->rt.run_list);
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