linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] sched/rt: fix bad task migration for rt tasks

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Message-ID: <m2h73snqja.fsf@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 08 Jul 2022 12:51:14 +0800
From:   Schspa Shi <schspa@...il.com>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:     mingo@...hat.com, peterz@...radead.org, juri.lelli@...hat.com,
        vincent.guittot@...aro.org, dietmar.eggemann@....com,
        bsegall@...gle.com, mgorman@...e.de, bristot@...hat.com,
        vschneid@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] sched/rt: fix bad task migration for rt tasks



Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> writes:

> On Fri,  8 Jul 2022 00:50:14 +0800
> Schspa Shi <schspa@...il.com> wrote:
>
>> Please refer to the following scenarios.
>
> I'm not sure this is what is happening. Do you have a trace to 
> back this up?
>

I don't have a trace. This is inferred from the exception log.

>> 
>>            CPU0                                  CPU1
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>> push_rt_task
>>   check is_migration_disabled(next_task)
>>                                         task not running and
>>                                         migration_disabled == 0
>>   find_lock_lowest_rq(next_task, rq);
>>     _double_lock_balance(this_rq, busiest);
>>       raw_spin_rq_unlock(this_rq);
>>       double_rq_lock(this_rq, busiest);
>>         <<wait for busiest rq>>
>>                                             <wakeup>
>
> Here's the problem I have. next_task is queued on CPU0, 
> (otherwise CPU0
> would not be pushing it). As CPU0 is currently running 
> push_rt_task, how
> did next_task start running to set its migrate_disable flag?

THe next_task wasn't queued on CPU0, it's queued on CPU1 in this
scenarios.

And it's because when task wakup, the rq argument is not the
current running CPU rq, it's next_task's rq
(i.e. CPU1's rq in this sample scenarios).

And you can check this with the Call trace from the crash log.

    [123671.996969] Call trace:
    [123671.996975]  set_task_cpu+0x8c/0x108
    [123671.996984]  push_rt_task.part.0+0x144/0x184
    [123671.996995]  push_rt_tasks+0x28/0x3c
    [123671.997002]  task_woken_rt+0x58/0x68
    [123671.997009]  ttwu_do_wakeup+0x5c/0xd0
    [123671.997019]  ttwu_do_activate+0xc0/0xd4
    [123671.997028]  try_to_wake_up+0x244/0x288
    [123671.997036]  wake_up_process+0x18/0x24
    [123671.997045]  __irq_wake_thread+0x64/0x80
    [123671.997056]  __handle_irq_event_percpu+0x110/0x124

Function ttwu_do_wakeup will lock the task's rq, not current 
running
cpu rq.

>
> Even if it was woken up on another CPU and ran there, by setting
> migrate_disable, it would not be put back to CPU0, because its
> migrate_disable flag is set (if it is, then there's the bug).
>

It no needs to put it back to CPU0 for this issue, it's still on 
CPU1.

> After releasing the rq lock and retaking it, we check that the 
> next_task is
> still the next task on CPU0 to push.
>
>
>>                                         task become running
>>                                         migrate_disable();
>>                                           <context out>
>>   deactivate_task(rq, next_task, 0);
>>   set_task_cpu(next_task, lowest_rq->cpu);
>>     WARN_ON_ONCE(is_migration_disabled(p));
>>       ---------OOPS-------------
>
> I don't see how this can happen.
>
> -- Steve

-- 
BRs
Schspa Shi