linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.4 224/312] sched/fair: Fix calc_cfs_shares() fixed point arithmetics width confusion

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Date:   Fri,  8 May 2020 14:33:35 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Jirka Hladky <jhladky@...hat.com>,
        "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.4 224/312] sched/fair: Fix calc_cfs_shares() fixed point arithmetics width confusion

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>

commit ea1dc6fc6242f991656e35e2ed3d90ec1cd13418 upstream.

Commit:

  fde7d22e01aa ("sched/fair: Fix overly small weight for interactive group entities")

did something non-obvious but also did it buggy yet latent.

The problem was exposed for real by a later commit in the v4.7 merge window:

  2159197d6677 ("sched/core: Enable increased load resolution on 64-bit kernels")

... after which tg->load_avg and cfs_rq->load.weight had different
units (10 bit fixed point and 20 bit fixed point resp.).

Add a comment to explain the use of cfs_rq->load.weight over the
'natural' cfs_rq->avg.load_avg and add scale_load_down() to correct
for the difference in unit.

Since this is (now, as per a previous commit) the only user of
calc_tg_weight(), collapse it.

The effects of this bug should be randomly inconsistent SMP-balancing
of cgroups workloads.

Reported-by: Jirka Hladky <jhladky@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Fixes: 2159197d6677 ("sched/core: Enable increased load resolution on 64-bit kernels")
Fixes: fde7d22e01aa ("sched/fair: Fix overly small weight for interactive group entities")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 kernel/sched/fair.c |   27 +++++++++++----------------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -2394,28 +2394,22 @@ account_entity_dequeue(struct cfs_rq *cf
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
 # ifdef CONFIG_SMP
-static inline long calc_tg_weight(struct task_group *tg, struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
+static long calc_cfs_shares(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct task_group *tg)
 {
-	long tg_weight;
+	long tg_weight, load, shares;
 
 	/*
-	 * Use this CPU's real-time load instead of the last load contribution
-	 * as the updating of the contribution is delayed, and we will use the
-	 * the real-time load to calc the share. See update_tg_load_avg().
+	 * This really should be: cfs_rq->avg.load_avg, but instead we use
+	 * cfs_rq->load.weight, which is its upper bound. This helps ramp up
+	 * the shares for small weight interactive tasks.
 	 */
-	tg_weight = atomic_long_read(&tg->load_avg);
-	tg_weight -= cfs_rq->tg_load_avg_contrib;
-	tg_weight += cfs_rq->load.weight;
-
-	return tg_weight;
-}
+	load = scale_load_down(cfs_rq->load.weight);
 
-static long calc_cfs_shares(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct task_group *tg)
-{
-	long tg_weight, load, shares;
+	tg_weight = atomic_long_read(&tg->load_avg);
 
-	tg_weight = calc_tg_weight(tg, cfs_rq);
-	load = cfs_rq->load.weight;
+	/* Ensure tg_weight >= load */
+	tg_weight -= cfs_rq->tg_load_avg_contrib;
+	tg_weight += load;
 
 	shares = (tg->shares * load);
 	if (tg_weight)
@@ -2434,6 +2428,7 @@ static inline long calc_cfs_shares(struc
 	return tg->shares;
 }
 # endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
+
 static void reweight_entity(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se,
 			    unsigned long weight)
 {