kernel_optimize_test/kernel
Juri Lelli 3d5f35bdfd sched/deadline: Fix bad accounting of nr_running
Rostedt writes:

My test suite was locking up hard when enabling mmiotracer. This was due
to the mmiotracer placing all but one CPU offline. I found this out
when I was able to reproduce the bug with just my stress-cpu-hotplug
test. This bug baffled me because it would not always trigger, and
would only trigger on the first run after boot up. The
stress-cpu-hotplug test would crash hard the first run, or never crash
at all. But a new reboot may cause it to crash on the first run again.

I spent all week bisecting this, as I couldn't find a consistent
reproducer. I finally narrowed it down to the sched deadline patches,
and even more peculiar, to the commit that added the sched
deadline boot up self test to the latency tracer. Then it dawned on me
to what the bug was.

All it took was to run a task under sched deadline to screw up the CPU
hot plugging. This explained why it would lock up only on the first run
of the stress-cpu-hotplug test. The bug happened when the boot up self
test of the schedule latency tracer would test a deadline task. The
deadline task would corrupt something that would cause CPU hotplug to
fail. If it didn't corrupt it, the stress test would always work
(there's no other sched deadline tasks that would run to cause
problems). If it did corrupt on boot up, the first test would lockup
hard.

I proved this theory by running my deadline test program on another box,
and then run the stress-cpu-hotplug test, and it would now consistently
lock up. I could run stress-cpu-hotplug over and over with no problem,
but once I ran the deadline test, the next run of the
stress-cpu-hotplug would lock hard.

After adding lots of tracing to the code, I found the cause. The
function tracer showed that migrate_tasks() was stuck in an infinite
loop, where rq->nr_running never equaled 1 to break out of it. When I
added a trace_printk() to see what that number was, it was 335 and
never decrementing!

Looking at the deadline code I found:

static void __dequeue_task_dl(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags) {
	dequeue_dl_entity(&p->dl);
	dequeue_pushable_dl_task(rq, p);
}

static void dequeue_task_dl(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags) {
	update_curr_dl(rq);
	__dequeue_task_dl(rq, p, flags);

	dec_nr_running(rq);
}

And this:

	if (dl_runtime_exceeded(rq, dl_se)) {
		__dequeue_task_dl(rq, curr, 0);
		if (likely(start_dl_timer(dl_se, curr->dl.dl_boosted)))
			dl_se->dl_throttled = 1;
		else
			enqueue_task_dl(rq, curr, ENQUEUE_REPLENISH);

		if (!is_leftmost(curr, &rq->dl))
			resched_task(curr);
	}

Notice how we call __dequeue_task_dl() and in the else case we
call enqueue_task_dl()? Also notice that dequeue_task_dl() has
underscores where enqueue_task_dl() does not. The enqueue_task_dl()
calls inc_nr_running(rq), but __dequeue_task_dl() does not. This is
where we get nr_running out of sync.

[snip]

Another point where nr_running can get out of sync is when the dl_timer
fires:

	dl_se->dl_throttled = 0;
	if (p->on_rq) {
		enqueue_task_dl(rq, p, ENQUEUE_REPLENISH);
		if (task_has_dl_policy(rq->curr))
			check_preempt_curr_dl(rq, p, 0);
		else
			resched_task(rq->curr);

This patch does two things:

 - correctly accounts for throttled tasks (that are now considered
   !running);

 - fixes the bug, updating nr_running from {inc,dec}_dl_tasks(),
   since we risk to update it twice in some situations (e.g., a
   task is dequeued while it has exceeded its budget).

Cc: mingo@redhat.com
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Tested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1392884379-13744-1-git-send-email-juri.lelli@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-02-21 21:27:09 +01:00
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cpu sched/preempt: Fix up missed PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED folding 2014-01-13 17:38:55 +01:00
debug kgdb/kdb: Fix no KDB config problem 2014-01-25 08:55:09 +01:00
events This pull request has a new feature to ftrace, namely the trace event 2014-01-22 16:35:21 -08:00
gcov gcov: reuse kbasename helper 2013-11-13 12:09:34 +09:00
irq Merge branches 'irq-urgent-for-linus' and 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-02-15 16:06:12 -08:00
locking Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-01-20 10:42:08 -08:00
power arm, pm, vmpressure: add missing slab.h includes 2014-02-03 13:24:01 -05:00
printk printk: fix syslog() overflowing user buffer 2014-02-17 12:24:45 -08:00
rcu Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2014-01-28 08:38:04 -08:00
sched sched/deadline: Fix bad accounting of nr_running 2014-02-21 21:27:09 +01:00
time tick: Clear broadcast pending bit when switching to oneshot 2014-02-13 21:55:54 +01:00
trace ring-buffer: Fix first commit on sub-buffer having non-zero delta 2014-02-11 13:38:54 -05:00
.gitignore Ignore generated file kernel/x509_certificate_list 2013-12-10 18:21:34 +00:00
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async.c
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audit_watch.c fsnotify: remove pointless NULL initializers 2014-01-21 16:19:41 -08:00
audit.c audit: fix location of __net_initdata for audit_net_ops 2014-01-17 17:14:32 -05:00
audit.h audit: Convert int limit uses to u32 2014-01-14 14:54:00 -05:00
auditfilter.c audit: log on errors from filter user rules 2014-01-13 22:32:31 -05:00
auditsc.c execve: use 'struct filename *' for executable name passing 2014-02-05 12:54:53 -08:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c mm: do not allocate page->ptl dynamically, if spinlock_t fits to long 2013-12-20 12:25:45 -08:00
capability.c audit: Simplify and correct audit_log_capset 2014-01-13 22:26:48 -05:00
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cgroup.c cgroup: update cgroup_enable_task_cg_lists() to grab siglock 2014-02-18 18:23:18 -05:00
compat.c
configs.c
context_tracking.c context_tracking: Wrap static key check into more intuitive function name 2013-12-02 20:43:14 +01:00
cpu_pm.c
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crash_dump.c
cred.c
delayacct.c kernel/delayacct.c: remove redundant checking in __delayacct_add_tsk() 2013-11-13 12:09:12 +09:00
dma.c
elfcore.c switch elf_core_write_extra_phdrs() to dump_emit() 2013-11-09 00:16:23 -05:00
exec_domain.c
exit.c introduce for_each_thread() to replace the buggy while_each_thread() 2014-01-21 16:19:46 -08:00
extable.c kernel/extable: fix address-checks for core_kernel and init areas 2013-11-28 09:49:41 -08:00
fork.c exec: kill task_struct->did_exec 2014-01-23 16:37:02 -08:00
freezer.c libata, freezer: avoid block device removal while system is frozen 2013-12-19 13:50:32 -05:00
futex_compat.c
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groups.c userns: Kill nsown_capable it makes the wrong thing easy 2013-08-30 23:44:11 -07:00
hrtimer.c sched/deadline: Add SCHED_DEADLINE structures & implementation 2014-01-13 13:41:06 +01:00
hung_task.c hung_task: Display every hung task warning 2014-01-25 12:13:33 +01:00
irq_work.c
itimer.c
jump_label.c static_key: WARN on usage before jump_label_init was called 2013-10-19 19:45:35 -04:00
kallsyms.c
kcmp.c
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz kernel: remove CONFIG_USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS 2013-11-15 09:32:22 +09:00
Kconfig.locks
Kconfig.preempt
kexec.c kernel/kexec.c: use vscnprintf() instead of vsnprintf() in vmcoreinfo_append_str() 2014-01-27 21:02:40 -08:00
kmod.c execve: use 'struct filename *' for executable name passing 2014-02-05 12:54:53 -08:00
kprobes.c kprobes: use KSYM_NAME_LEN to size identifier buffers 2013-11-13 12:09:26 +09:00
ksysfs.c kdump: fix exported size of vmcoreinfo note 2014-01-23 16:37:03 -08:00
kthread.c kthread: make kthread_create() killable 2013-11-13 12:08:59 +09:00
latencytop.c
Makefile KEYS: Remove files generated when SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING=y 2013-12-13 15:59:11 +00:00
module_signing.c keys: change asymmetric keys to use common hash definitions 2013-10-25 17:15:18 -04:00
module-internal.h KEYS: Separate the kernel signature checking keyring from module signing 2013-09-25 17:17:01 +01:00
module.c module: Add missing newline in printk call. 2014-01-21 09:59:16 +10:30
notifier.c
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padata.c padata: Fix wrong usage of rcu_dereference() 2013-12-05 21:28:42 +08:00
panic.c panic: Make panic_timeout configurable 2013-11-26 12:12:26 +01:00
params.c params: improve standard definitions 2013-12-04 14:09:46 +10:30
pid_namespace.c pid_namespace: make freeing struct pid_namespace rcu-delayed 2013-10-24 23:43:29 -04:00
pid.c pidns: fix free_pid() to handle the first fork failure 2013-09-30 14:31:03 -07:00
posix-cpu-timers.c posix-timers: Convert abuses of BUG_ON to WARN_ON 2013-12-09 16:56:29 +01:00
posix-timers.c
profile.c
ptrace.c exec/ptrace: fix get_dumpable() incorrect tests 2013-11-13 12:09:33 +09:00
range.c
reboot.c kexec: migrate to reboot cpu 2013-12-18 19:04:50 -08:00
relay.c
res_counter.c memcg: reduce function dereference 2013-09-12 15:38:02 -07:00
resource.c
seccomp.c
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smp.c kernel/smp.c: remove cpumask_ipi 2014-01-30 16:56:54 -08:00
smpboot.c
smpboot.h
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stacktrace.c
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sys_ni.c
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sysctl_binary.c kernel/sysctl_binary.c: use scnprintf() instead of snprintf() 2013-11-13 12:09:33 +09:00
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test_kprobes.c
time.c
timeconst.bc
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tracepoint.c
tsacct.c
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up.c kernel: provide a __smp_call_function_single stub for !CONFIG_SMP 2013-11-15 09:32:22 +09:00
user_namespace.c user_namespace.c: Remove duplicated word in comment 2014-02-20 11:58:35 -08:00
user-return-notifier.c
user.c KEYS: fix uninitialized persistent_keyring_register_sem 2013-12-13 15:59:11 +00:00
utsname_sysctl.c
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watchdog.c watchdog: update watchdog_thresh properly 2013-09-24 17:00:25 -07:00
workqueue_internal.h
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