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Message-ID: <20240618150417.kuoft7jqqg6pcjrf@airbuntu>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 16:04:17 +0100
From: Qais Yousef <qyousef@...alina.io>
To: John Stultz <jstultz@...gle.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
	Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Ben Segall <bsegall@...gle.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@...hat.com>,
	Valentin Schneider <vschneid@...hat.com>,
	Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>, kernel-team@...roid.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RFC: sched: Rework task_sched_runtime to avoid calling
 update_rq_clock

On 06/17/24 21:45, John Stultz wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 5:42 PM John Stultz <jstultz@...gle.com> wrote:
> >
> > Also, separately, while I didn't see this earlier testing on physical
> > devices, when running virtualized, I can pretty easily trip over the
> > following:
> >
> > [   65.207340] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 26s!
> > [kworker/0:3:374]
> > [   65.211107] irq event stamp: 118664
> > [   65.212786] hardirqs last  enabled at (118663):
> > [<ffffffff97a00e46>] asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20
> > [   65.218440] hardirqs last disabled at (118664):
> > [<ffffffff977fdeca>] sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa/0xc0
> > [   65.223074] softirqs last  enabled at (118546):
> > [<ffffffff9676db78>] __irq_exit_rcu+0x88/0xe0
> > [   65.227118] softirqs last disabled at (118541):
> > [<ffffffff9676db78>] __irq_exit_rcu+0x88/0xe0
> > [   65.231137] CPU: 0 PID: 374 Comm: kworker/0:3 Not tainted
> > 6.10.0-rc4-dirty #4393
> > [   65.234625] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996),
> > BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
> > [   65.239089] Workqueue: events psi_avgs_work
> > [   65.241122] RIP: 0010:collect_percpu_times+0xff/0x310
> ...
> > [   65.288730] Call Trace:
> > [   65.289958]  <IRQ>
> > [   65.290965]  ? watchdog_timer_fn+0x275/0x310
> > [   65.293185]  ? __pfx_watchdog_timer_fn+0x10/0x10
> > [   65.295379]  ? __hrtimer_run_queues+0x190/0x3b0
> > [   65.297795]  ? hrtimer_interrupt+0xf9/0x230
> > [   65.299782]  ? __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x82/0x210
> > [   65.302243]  ? sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x98/0xc0
> > [   65.304590]  </IRQ>
> > [   65.305658]  <TASK>
> > [   65.306708]  ? asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20
> > [   65.309206]  ? psi_avgs_work+0x3c/0xb0
> > [   65.311001]  ? collect_percpu_times+0xff/0x310
> > [   65.313153]  psi_avgs_work+0x3c/0xb0
> > [   65.314864]  process_one_work+0x1fe/0x700
> > [   65.316782]  ? lock_is_held_type+0xcd/0x120
> > [   65.318782]  worker_thread+0x1c7/0x3b0
> > [   65.320571]  ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
> > [   65.322626]  kthread+0xe0/0x110
> > [   65.324103]  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
> > [   65.325853]  ret_from_fork+0x28/0x40
> > [   65.327512]  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
> > [   65.329255]  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
> > [   65.331073]  </TASK>
> > [   65.332119] Kernel panic - not syncing: softlockup: hung tasks
> 
> As I've been digging on this some more, I'm still a bit baffled.  The
> kworker seems to get stuck once the irq lands and we don't seem to go
> back to the workqueue work that was in progress. That cpu ends up not
> doing anything but occasionally handling ticks until we crash from the
> softlockup watchdog.
> 
> Interestingly, if I move the psi_account_irqtime() call to be under
> the rq_lock in sched_tick(), as I suggested earlier, I have yet to
> reproduce the problem.
> But I'm still trying to piece together exactly why.

A bit of a guess, but should irq_time_read() be done with interrupts disabled?

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