linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kthread: kthread_bind fails to enforce CPU affinity (fixes kernel BUG at kernel/smpboot.c:134!)

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Date:	Mon, 8 Dec 2014 15:46:38 +1100
From:	Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
	yuyang.du@...el.com, lkp@...org,
	Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@...ux.intel.com>,
	Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>,
	Benjamin Segall <bsegall@...gle.com>,
	Daniel J Blueman <daniel@...ascale.com>,
	subbaram@...eaurora.org,
	Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>, sp@...era.io,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	ppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kthread: kthread_bind fails to enforce CPU affinity
 (fixes kernel BUG at kernel/smpboot.c:134!)


Hi Linus,

> The __set_task_cpu() function does various other things too:
> 
>         set_task_rq(p, cpu);
>   #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
>         /*
>          * After ->cpu is set up to a new value, task_rq_lock(p, ...)
> can be
>          * successfuly executed on another CPU. We must ensure that
> updates of
>          * per-task data have been completed by this moment.
>          */
>         smp_wmb();
>         task_thread_info(p)->cpu = cpu;
>         p->wake_cpu = cpu;
>   #endif
> 
> which makes me worry about just setting the thread_info->cpu value.
> That set_task_rq() initializes various group scheduling things, an
> dthat whole "wake_cpu" thing seems relevant too.

Yeah, I would definitely like the scheduler guys to weigh in on this,
especially considering how difficult it can be to hit.

Anton
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