linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH sched_ext/for-6.13-fixes] sched_ext: Fix dsq_local

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Message-ID: <Z5KOLqwLq96HjkwH@gpd3>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 19:45:02 +0100
From: Andrea Righi <arighi@...dia.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@...me>, sched-ext@...a.com,
	kernel-team@...a.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH sched_ext/for-6.13-fixes] sched_ext: Fix dsq_local_on
 selftest

On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 06:57:58AM -1000, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 10:40:52AM +0100, Andrea Righi wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 07:10:00PM +0000, Ihor Solodrai wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Tuesday, January 21st, 2025 at 5:40 PM, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Hello, sorry about the delay.
> > > > 
> > > > On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 11:50:37PM +0000, Ihor Solodrai wrote:
> > > > ...
> > > > 
> > > > > 2025-01-15T23:28:55.8238375Z [ 5.334631] sched_ext: BPF scheduler "dsp_local_on" disabled (runtime error)
> > > > > 2025-01-15T23:28:55.8243034Z [ 5.335420] sched_ext: dsp_local_on: SCX_DSQ_LOCAL[_ON] verdict target cpu 1 not allowed for kworker/u8:1[33]
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > That's a head scratcher. It's a single node 2 cpu instance and all unbound
> > > > kworkers should be allowed on all CPUs. I'll update the test to test the
> > > > actual cpumask but can you see whether this failure is consistent or flaky?
> > > 
> > > I re-ran all the jobs, and all sched_ext jobs have failed (3/3).
> > > Previous time only 1 of 3 runs failed.
> > > 
> > > https://github.com/kernel-patches/vmtest/actions/runs/12798804552/job/36016405680
> > 
> > Oh I see what happens, SCX_DSQ_LOCAL_ON is (incorrectly) resolved to 0.
> > 
> > More exactly, none of the enum values are being resolved correctly, likely
> > due to the CO:RE enum refactoring. There’s probably something broken in
> > tools/testing/selftests/sched_ext/Makefile, I’ll take a look.
> 
> Yeah, we need to add SCX_ENUM_INIT() to each test. Will do that once the
> pending pull request is merged. The original report is a separate issue tho.
> I'm still a bit baffled by it.

For the enum part: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250123124606.242115-1-arighi@nvidia.com/

And yeah, I missed that the original bug report was about the unbound
kworker not allowed to be dispatched on cpu 1. Weird... I'm wondering if we
need to do the cpumask_cnt / scx_bpf_dsq_cancel() game, like we did with
scx_rustland to handle concurrent affinity changes, but in this case the
kworker shouldn't have its affinity changed...

-Andrea