linux-kernel - Re: Scheduler regression from caffcdd8d27ba78730d5540396ce72ad022aff2c

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Date:	Thu, 17 Jul 2014 11:04:52 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>
Cc:	Bruno Wolff III <bruno@...ff.to>, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...hat.com>,
	"mingo@...hat.com" <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Scheduler regression from
 caffcdd8d27ba78730d5540396ce72ad022aff2c

On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 10:57:55AM +0200, Dietmar Eggemann wrote:
> There is also the possibility that the memory for sched_group sg is not
> (completely) zeroed out:
> 
>   sg = kzalloc_node(sizeof(struct sched_group) + cpumask_size(),
> 			GFP_KERNEL, cpu_to_node(j));
> 
> 
>   struct sched_group {
> 	...
> 	 * NOTE: this field is variable length. (Allocated dynamically
> 	 * by attaching extra space to the end of the structure,
> 	 * depending on how many CPUs the kernel has booted up with)
> 	 */
> 	unsigned long cpumask[0];

well kZalloc should Zero the entire allocated size, and the specified
size very much includes the cpumask size as per:
  sizeof(struct sched_group) + cpumask_size()

But yeah, I'm also a bit puzzled why this goes bang. Makes we worry we
scribble it somewhere or so.

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