From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" Playing with SCHED_DEADLINE and cpusets, I found that I was unable to create new SCHED_DEADLINE tasks, with the error of EBUSY as if the bandwidth was already used up. I then realized there wa no way to see what bandwidth is used by the runqueues to debug the issue. By adding the dl_bw->bw and dl_bw->total_bw to the output of the deadline info in /proc/sched_debug, this allows us to see what bandwidth has been reserved and where a problem may exist. For example, before the issue we see the ratio of the bandwidth: # cat /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rt_runtime_us 950000 # cat /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rt_period_us 1000000 # grep dl /proc/sched_debug dl_rq[0]: .dl_nr_running : 0 .dl_bw->bw : 996147 .dl_bw->total_bw : 0 dl_rq[1]: .dl_nr_running : 0 .dl_bw->bw : 996147 .dl_bw->total_bw : 0 dl_rq[2]: .dl_nr_running : 0 .dl_bw->bw : 996147 .dl_bw->total_bw : 0 dl_rq[3]: .dl_nr_running : 0 .dl_bw->bw : 996147 .dl_bw->total_bw : 0 dl_rq[4]: .dl_nr_running : 0 .dl_bw->bw : 996147 .dl_bw->total_bw : 0 dl_rq[5]: .dl_nr_running : 0 .dl_bw->bw : 996147 .dl_bw->total_bw : 0 dl_rq[6]: .dl_nr_running : 0 .dl_bw->bw : 996147 .dl_bw->total_bw : 0 dl_rq[7]: .dl_nr_running : 0 .dl_bw->bw : 996147 .dl_bw->total_bw : 0 Note: (950000 / 1000000) << 20 == 996147 After I played with cpusets and hit the issue, the result is now: # grep dl /proc/sched_debug dl_rq[0]: .dl_nr_running : 0 .dl_bw->bw : 996147 .dl_bw->total_bw : -104857 dl_rq[1]: .dl_nr_running : 0 .dl_bw->bw : 996147 .dl_bw->total_bw : 104857 dl_rq[2]: .dl_nr_running : 0 .dl_bw->bw : 996147 .dl_bw->total_bw : 104857 dl_rq[3]: .dl_nr_running : 0 .dl_bw->bw : 996147 .dl_bw->total_bw : 104857 dl_rq[4]: .dl_nr_running : 0 .dl_bw->bw : 996147 .dl_bw->total_bw : -104857 dl_rq[5]: .dl_nr_running : 0 .dl_bw->bw : 996147 .dl_bw->total_bw : -104857 dl_rq[6]: .dl_nr_running : 0 .dl_bw->bw : 996147 .dl_bw->total_bw : -104857 dl_rq[7]: .dl_nr_running : 0 .dl_bw->bw : 996147 .dl_bw->total_bw : -104857 This shows that there is definitely a problem as we should never have a negative total bandwidth. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- kernel/sched/debug.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/sched/debug.c b/kernel/sched/debug.c index a5625e793d15..a1f161a7500e 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/debug.c +++ b/kernel/sched/debug.c @@ -562,8 +562,17 @@ void print_rt_rq(struct seq_file *m, int cpu, struct rt_rq *rt_rq) void print_dl_rq(struct seq_file *m, int cpu, struct dl_rq *dl_rq) { + struct dl_bw *dl_bw; + SEQ_printf(m, "\ndl_rq[%d]:\n", cpu); SEQ_printf(m, " .%-30s: %ld\n", "dl_nr_running", dl_rq->dl_nr_running); +#ifdef CONFIG_SMP + dl_bw = &cpu_rq(cpu)->rd->dl_bw; +#else + dl_bw = &dl_rq->dl_bw; +#endif + SEQ_printf(m, " .%-30s: %lld\n", "dl_bw->bw", dl_bw->bw); + SEQ_printf(m, " .%-30s: %lld\n", "dl_bw->total_bw", dl_bw->total_bw); } extern __read_mostly int sched_clock_running; -- 2.6.4