[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "sched: Avoid throttle_cfs_rq() racing with period_timer stopping" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    sched: Avoid throttle_cfs_rq() racing with period_timer stopping

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From faaa9d3517c06efbd8f602b63737c4f99f354096 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Segall <bsegall at google.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 11:16:32 -0700
Subject: sched: Avoid throttle_cfs_rq() racing with period_timer stopping

commit f9f9ffc237dd924f048204e8799da74f9ecf40cf upstream.

throttle_cfs_rq() doesn't check to make sure that period_timer is running,
and while update_curr/assign_cfs_runtime does, a concurrently running
period_timer on another cpu could cancel itself between this cpu's
update_curr and throttle_cfs_rq(). If there are no other cfs_rqs running
in the tg to restart the timer, this causes the cfs_rq to be stranded
forever.

Fix this by calling __start_cfs_bandwidth() in throttle if the timer is
inactive.

(Also add some sched_debug lines for cfs_bandwidth.)

Tested: make a run/sleep task in a cgroup, loop switching the cgroup
between 1ms/100ms quota and unlimited, checking for timer_active=0 and
throttled=1 as a failure. With the throttle_cfs_rq() change commented out
this fails, with the full patch it passes.

Signed-off-by: Ben Segall <bsegall at google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>
Cc: pjt at google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131016181632.22647.84174.stgit@sword-of-the-dawn.mtv.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org>
Cc: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges at canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 kernel/sched/debug.c | 8 ++++++++
 kernel/sched/fair.c  | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/debug.c b/kernel/sched/debug.c
index e076bdd..631daf2 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/debug.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/debug.c
@@ -225,6 +225,14 @@ void print_cfs_rq(struct seq_file *m, int cpu, struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
 			atomic_read(&cfs_rq->tg->runnable_avg));
 #endif
 #endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_CFS_BANDWIDTH
+	SEQ_printf(m, "  .%-30s: %d\n", "tg->cfs_bandwidth.timer_active",
+			cfs_rq->tg->cfs_bandwidth.timer_active);
+	SEQ_printf(m, "  .%-30s: %d\n", "throttled",
+			cfs_rq->throttled);
+	SEQ_printf(m, "  .%-30s: %d\n", "throttle_count",
+			cfs_rq->throttle_count);
+#endif

 #ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
 	print_cfs_group_stats(m, cpu, cfs_rq->tg);
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 31cbc15..66dae75 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -2335,6 +2335,8 @@ static void throttle_cfs_rq(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
 	cfs_rq->throttled_clock = rq_clock(rq);
 	raw_spin_lock(&cfs_b->lock);
 	list_add_tail_rcu(&cfs_rq->throttled_list, &cfs_b->throttled_cfs_rq);
+	if (!cfs_b->timer_active)
+		__start_cfs_bandwidth(cfs_b);
 	raw_spin_unlock(&cfs_b->lock);
 }

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