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Message-ID: <83e1f480-e887-4b1b-875f-fac9f9392159@amd.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2025 09:54:22 +0530
From: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@....com>
To: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@...hat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>,
Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Steve Wahl <steve.wahl@....com>,
Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, Ben Segall <bsegall@...gle.com>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Madadi Vineeth Reddy <vineethr@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched/topology: Correct "sched_domains_curr_level" in
topology_span_sane()
Hello Valentin,
Thank you for taking a look at the patch.
On 6/25/2025 9:02 PM, Valentin Schneider wrote:
> Hey,
>
> First of all, thanks for looking into this!
>
> On 24/06/25 04:12, K Prateek Nayak wrote:
>> The updated topology_span_sane() algorithm in commit ce29a7da84cd
>> ("sched/topology: Refinement to topology_span_sane speedup") works on
>> the "sched_domain_topology_level" hierarchy to detect overlap in
>> !SDTL_OVERLAP domains using the tl->mask() as opposed to the
>> sched_domain hierarchy (and the sched_domain_span()) in the previous
>> approach.
>>
>
> The previous approach also used tl->mask() directly, but it happened
> to be called *before* the build_sched_domain() loop, so the NODE iteration
> happened with sched_domain_curr_level at its default static value of
> 0... For the first SD build that is, I assume that was then broken for any
> subsequent rebuild.
Oh right! I read it wrong. My bad. topology_span_sane() being called
before build_sched_domain() always worked on "sched_domains_curr_level"
of the previous domain and could potentially cause an issue during
rebuild if we start from the NODE domain.
>
>> For NODE domain, the cpumask retunred by tl->mask() depends on the
>> "sched_domains_curr_level". Unless the "sched_domains_curr_level" is
>> reset during topology_span_sane(), it reflects the "numa_level" of the
>> last sched_domain created which is incorrect.
>>
>> Reset the "sched_domains_curr_level" to the "tl->numa_level" during
>> topology_span_sane(). Although setting "topology_span_sane" to 0 in
>> topology_span_sane() should be enough since all domains with
>> numa_level > 0 currently set SDTL_OVERLAP flag, setting it to
>> "tl->numa_level" makes it more explicit and future proof against changes
>> in the same area.
>>
>> Cc: Steve Wahl <steve.wahl@....com>
>> Reported-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
>> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250610110701.GA256154@unreal/
>> Fixes: ce29a7da84cd ("sched/topology: Refinement to topology_span_sane speedup")
>
> Per the above, this could probably be:
>
> Fixes: ccf74128d66c ("sched/topology: Assert non-NUMA topology masks don't (partially) overlap")
I'll update this in the next version.
>
>> Signed-off-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@....com>
>> ---
>> This issue can be reproduced on a setup with the following NUMA topology
>> shared by Leon:
>>
>> $ sudo numactl -H
>> available: 5 nodes (0-4)
>> node 0 cpus: 0 1
>> node 0 size: 2927 MB
>> node 0 free: 1603 MB
>> node 1 cpus: 2 3
>> node 1 size: 3023 MB
>> node 1 free: 3008 MB
>> node 2 cpus: 4 5
>> node 2 size: 3023 MB
>> node 2 free: 3007 MB
>> node 3 cpus: 6 7
>> node 3 size: 3023 MB
>> node 3 free: 3002 MB
>> node 4 cpus: 8 9
>> node 4 size: 3022 MB
>> node 4 free: 2718 MB
>> node distances:
>> node 0 1 2 3 4
>> 0: 10 39 38 37 36
>> 1: 39 10 38 37 36
>> 2: 38 38 10 37 36
>> 3: 37 37 37 10 36
>> 4: 36 36 36 36 10
>>
>>
>> This topology can be emulated using QEMU with the following cmdline used
>> in my testing:
>>
>> sudo ~/dev/qemu/build/qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm \
>> -cpu host \
>> -m 20G -smp cpus=10,sockets=10 -machine q35 \
>> -object memory-backend-ram,size=4G,id=m0 \
>> -object memory-backend-ram,size=4G,id=m1 \
>> -object memory-backend-ram,size=4G,id=m2 \
>> -object memory-backend-ram,size=4G,id=m3 \
>> -object memory-backend-ram,size=4G,id=m4 \
>> -numa node,cpus=0-1,memdev=m0,nodeid=0 \
>> -numa node,cpus=2-3,memdev=m1,nodeid=1 \
>> -numa node,cpus=4-5,memdev=m2,nodeid=2 \
>> -numa node,cpus=6-7,memdev=m3,nodeid=3 \
>> -numa node,cpus=8-9,memdev=m4,nodeid=4 \
>> -numa dist,src=0,dst=1,val=39 \
>> -numa dist,src=0,dst=2,val=38 \
>> -numa dist,src=0,dst=3,val=37 \
>> -numa dist,src=0,dst=4,val=36 \
>> -numa dist,src=1,dst=0,val=39 \
>> -numa dist,src=1,dst=2,val=38 \
>> -numa dist,src=1,dst=3,val=37 \
>> -numa dist,src=1,dst=4,val=36 \
>> -numa dist,src=2,dst=0,val=38 \
>> -numa dist,src=2,dst=1,val=38 \
>> -numa dist,src=2,dst=3,val=37 \
>> -numa dist,src=2,dst=4,val=36 \
>> -numa dist,src=3,dst=0,val=37 \
>> -numa dist,src=3,dst=1,val=37 \
>> -numa dist,src=3,dst=2,val=37 \
>> -numa dist,src=3,dst=4,val=36 \
>> -numa dist,src=4,dst=0,val=36 \
>> -numa dist,src=4,dst=1,val=36 \
>> -numa dist,src=4,dst=2,val=36 \
>> -numa dist,src=4,dst=3,val=36 \
>> ...
>>
>
> It's a bit of a mouthful but I would keep that in the changelog itself
> given that it's part of reproducing the bug.
Sure thing!
>
>>
>> Changes are based on tip:sched/urgent at commit 914873bc7df9 ("Merge tag
>> 'x86-build-2025-05-25' of
>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip")
>> ---
>> kernel/sched/topology.c | 9 +++++++++
>> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/sched/topology.c b/kernel/sched/topology.c
>> index a2a38e1b6f18..1d634862c8df 100644
>> --- a/kernel/sched/topology.c
>> +++ b/kernel/sched/topology.c
>> @@ -2426,6 +2426,15 @@ static bool topology_span_sane(const struct cpumask *cpu_map)
>> cpumask_clear(covered);
>> cpumask_clear(id_seen);
>>
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
>> + /*
>> + * Reuse the sched_domains_curr_level hack since
>> + * tl->mask() below can resolve to sd_numa_mask()
>> + * for the NODE domain.
>> + */
>> + sched_domains_curr_level = tl->numa_level;
>> +#endif
>> +
>
> Urgh... Given this is now invoked after the build_sched_domain() loop, what
> if we directly used the sched_domain_span(), instead, i.e. use
>
> sched_domain_mask(per_cpu_ptr(tl->data->sd, cpu))
>
> instead of
>
> tl->mask(id)
>
> which means no indrect use of sched_domains_curr_level. Note that I'm
> currently running out of brain juice so this might be a really stupid idea :-)
Let me go try that! It should also help detect overlap in case
build_sched_domain() has fixed up domain spans when the child's span is
not a subset of the parent's span.
>
>> /*
>> * Non-NUMA levels cannot partially overlap - they must be either
>> * completely equal or completely disjoint. Otherwise we can end up
>>
>> base-commit: 914873bc7df913db988284876c16257e6ab772c6
>> --
>> 2.34.1
>
--
Thanks and Regards,
Prateek
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