linux-kernel - Re: [tip:sched/core] sched: Check for an idle shared cache in select_task_rq

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <1257415066.12867.1.camel@marge.simson.net>
Date:	Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:57:46 +0100
From:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	hpa@...or.com, mingo@...hat.com, peterz@...radead.org,
	arjan@...radead.org, stable@...nel.org, tglx@...utronix.de
Subject: Re: [tip:sched/core] sched: Check for an idle shared cache in
 select_task_rq_fair()

On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 10:30 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * tip-bot for Mike Galbraith <efault@....de> wrote:
> 
> > Commit-ID:  a1f84a3ab8e002159498814eaa7e48c33752b04b
> > Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/a1f84a3ab8e002159498814eaa7e48c33752b04b
> > Author:     Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
> > AuthorDate: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:35:38 +0100
> > Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
> > CommitDate: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 18:46:22 +0100
> > 
> > sched: Check for an idle shared cache in select_task_rq_fair()
> 
> -tip testing found that this causes problems:
> 
> [   26.804000] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: events/1/10
> [   26.808000] caller is vmstat_update+0x26/0x70
> [   26.812000] Pid: 10, comm: events/1 Not tainted 2.6.32-rc5 #6887
> [   26.816000] Call Trace:
> [   26.820000]  [<c1924a24>] ? printk+0x28/0x3c
> [   26.824000]  [<c13258a0>] debug_smp_processor_id+0xf0/0x110
> [   26.824000] mount used greatest stack depth: 1464 bytes left
> [   26.828000]  [<c111d086>] vmstat_update+0x26/0x70
> [   26.832000]  [<c1086418>] worker_thread+0x188/0x310
> [   26.836000]  [<c10863b7>] ? worker_thread+0x127/0x310
> [   26.840000]  [<c108d310>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x60
> [   26.844000]  [<c1086290>] ? worker_thread+0x0/0x310
> [   26.848000]  [<c108cf0c>] kthread+0x7c/0x90
> [   26.852000]  [<c108ce90>] ? kthread+0x0/0x90
> [   26.856000]  [<c100c0a7>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
> [   26.860000] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: events/1/10
> [   26.864000] caller is vmstat_update+0x3c/0x70
> 
> oh ... doesnt it break cpus_allowed?

Erk, indeed.  You didn't apply the follow-up fix, and I forgot as well.


sched: select_task_rq_fair():: add missing cpu allowed check in commit a1f84a3.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>

diff --git a/kernel/sched_fair.c b/kernel/sched_fair.c
index 32f06ed..5488a5d 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched_fair.c
@@ -1415,6 +1415,8 @@ static int select_task_rq_fair(struct task_struct *p, int sd_flag, int wake_flag
 
 				if (candidate == -1 || candidate == cpu) {
 					for_each_cpu(i, sched_domain_span(tmp)) {
+						if (!cpumask_test_cpu(i, &p->cpus_allowed))
+							continue;
 						if (!cpu_rq(i)->cfs.nr_running) {
 							candidate = i;
 							break;


--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/