ACK: [B][SRU][PATCH 0/5] Fix for cfs_bandwidth01 test in LTP/sched

Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
Tue Jun 22 11:29:49 UTC 2021


Acked-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com>

Kind of a tricky backport.

On 6/22/21 1:49 AM, po-hsu.lin at canonical.com wrote:
> From: Po-Hsu Lin <po-hsu.lin at canonical.com>
> 
> [Impact]
> Test case cfs_bandwidth01 in LTP sched test suite is a reproducer
> of a CFS unthrottle_cfs_rq() issue (fe61468b2cbc2b sched/fair: Fix
> enqueue_task_fair warning).
> 
> This test triggers a warning on our 4.15 kernel:
>   LTP: starting cfs_bandwidth01 (cfs_bandwidth01 -i 5)
>   ------------[ cut here ]------------
>   rq->tmp_alone_branch != &rq->leaf_cfs_rq_list
>   WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at /build/linux-fYK9kF/linux-4.15.0/kernel/sched/fair.c:393 unthrottle_cfs_rq+0x16f/0x200
>   Modules linked in: input_leds joydev serio_raw mac_hid qemu_fw_cfg kvm_intel kvm irqbypass sch_fq_codel binfmt_misc ib_iser rdma_cm iw_cm ib_cm ib_core iscsi_tcp libiscsi_tcp libiscsi scsi_transport_iscsi nfsd auth_rpcgss nfs_acl lockd grace sunrpc ip_tables x_tables autofs4 btrfs zstd_compress raid10 raid456 async_raid6_recov async_memcpy async_pq async_xor async_tx xor raid6_pq libcrc32c raid1 raid0 multipath linear cirrus ttm drm_kms_helper syscopyarea sysfillrect sysimgblt fb_sys_fops drm psmouse virtio_blk pata_acpi floppy virtio_net i2c_piix4
>   CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.15.0-144-generic #148-Ubuntu
>   Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014
>   RIP: 0010:unthrottle_cfs_rq+0x16f/0x200
>   RSP: 0018:ffff989ebfc03e80 EFLAGS: 00010082
>   RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff989eb4c6ac00 RCX: 0000000000000000
>   RDX: 0000000000000005 RSI: ffffffffacb63c4d RDI: 0000000000000046
>   RBP: ffff989ebfc03ea8 R08: 000000af39e61b33 R09: ffffffffacb63c20
>   R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff989eb57fe400
>   R13: ffff989ebfc21900 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000001
>   FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff989ebfc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
>   CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
>   CR2: 000055593258d618 CR3: 000000007a044000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
>   DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
>   DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
>   Call Trace:
>   <IRQ>
>   distribute_cfs_runtime+0xc3/0x110
>   sched_cfs_period_timer+0xff/0x220
>   ? sched_cfs_slack_timer+0xd0/0xd0
>   __hrtimer_run_queues+0xdf/0x230
>   hrtimer_interrupt+0xa0/0x1d0
>   smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6f/0x140
>   apic_timer_interrupt+0x90/0xa0
>   </IRQ>
>   RIP: 0010:native_safe_halt+0x12/0x20
>   RSP: 0018:ffffffffac603e28 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffff11
>   RAX: ffffffffabbc9280 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
>   RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
>   RBP: ffffffffac603e28 R08: 000000af39850067 R09: ffff989e73749d00
>   R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 7fffffffffffffff R12: 0000000000000000
>   R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
>   ? __sched_text_end+0x1/0x1
>   default_idle+0x20/0x100
>   arch_cpu_idle+0x15/0x20
>   default_idle_call+0x23/0x30
>   do_idle+0x172/0x1f0
>   cpu_startup_entry+0x73/0x80
>   rest_init+0xae/0xb0
>   start_kernel+0x4dc/0x500
>   x86_64_start_reservations+0x24/0x26
>   x86_64_start_kernel+0x74/0x77
>   secondary_startup_64+0xa5/0xb0
>   Code: 50 09 00 00 49 39 85 60 09 00 00 74 68 80 3d 3a 6e 54 01 00 75 5f 31 db 48 c7 c7 c0 3d 2d ac c6 05 28 6e 54 01 01 e8 11 36 fc ff <0f> 0b 48 85 db 74 43 49 8b 85 78 09 00 00 49 39 85 70 09 00 00
>   ---[ end trace b6b9a70bc2945c0c ]---
> 
> [Fix]
> Base on the test case description, we will need these fixes:
>    * fe61468b2cbc2b sched/fair: Fix enqueue_task_fair warning
>    * b34cb07dde7c23 sched/fair: Fix enqueue_task_fair() warning some more
>    * 39f23ce07b9355 sched/fair: Fix unthrottle_cfs_rq() for leaf_cfs_rq list
>    * 6d4d22468dae3d sched/fair: Reorder enqueue/dequeue_task_fair path
>    * 5ab297bab98431 sched/fair: Fix reordering of enqueue/dequeue_task_fair()
> 
> Backport needed for Bionic since we're missing some new variables /
> coding style changes introduced in the following commits (and their
> corresponding fixes):
>    * 97fb7a0a8944bd sched: Clean up and harmonize the coding style of the scheduler code base
>    * 9f68395333ad7f sched/pelt: Add a new runnable average signal
>    * 6212437f0f6043 sched/fair: Fix runnable_avg for throttled cfs
>    * 43e9f7f231e40e sched/fair: Start tracking SCHED_IDLE tasks count in cfs_rq
> 
> I have also searched in the upstream tree to see if there is any other
> commit claim to be a fix of these but didn't see any.
> 
> [Test]
> Test kernel can be found here:
> https://people.canonical.com/~phlin/kernel/lp-1931325-cfs_bandwidth01/
> 
> With these patches applied, the test can pass without triggering this
> warning.
> 
> <<<test_start>>>
> tag=cfs_bandwidth01 stime=1624260713
> cmdline="cfs_bandwidth01 -i 5"
> contacts=""
> analysis=exit
> <<<test_output>>>
> incrementing stop
> tst_test.c:1313: TINFO: Timeout per run is 0h 05m 00s
> tst_buffers.c:55: TINFO: Test is using guarded buffers
> cfs_bandwidth01.c:49: TINFO: Set 'worker1/cpu.max' = '3000 10000'
> cfs_bandwidth01.c:49: TINFO: Set 'worker2/cpu.max' = '2000 10000'
> cfs_bandwidth01.c:49: TINFO: Set 'worker3/cpu.max' = '3000 10000'
> cfs_bandwidth01.c:113: TPASS: Scheduled bandwidth constrained workers
> cfs_bandwidth01.c:49: TINFO: Set 'level2/cpu.max' = '5000 10000'
> cfs_bandwidth01.c:125: TPASS: Workers exited
> cfs_bandwidth01.c:113: TPASS: Scheduled bandwidth constrained workers
> cfs_bandwidth01.c:49: TINFO: Set 'level2/cpu.max' = '5000 10000'
> cfs_bandwidth01.c:125: TPASS: Workers exited
> cfs_bandwidth01.c:113: TPASS: Scheduled bandwidth constrained workers
> cfs_bandwidth01.c:49: TINFO: Set 'level2/cpu.max' = '5000 10000'
> cfs_bandwidth01.c:125: TPASS: Workers exited
> cfs_bandwidth01.c:113: TPASS: Scheduled bandwidth constrained workers
> cfs_bandwidth01.c:49: TINFO: Set 'level2/cpu.max' = '5000 10000'
> cfs_bandwidth01.c:125: TPASS: Workers exited
> cfs_bandwidth01.c:113: TPASS: Scheduled bandwidth constrained workers
> cfs_bandwidth01.c:49: TINFO: Set 'level2/cpu.max' = '5000 10000'
> cfs_bandwidth01.c:125: TPASS: Workers exited
> 
> Summary:
> passed 10
> failed 0
> broken 0
> skipped 0
> warnings 0
> 
> I have also run the whole sched test suite in LTP to make sure there
> is no other issues caused by this patchset.
> 
> [Where problems could occur]
> * CFS (Completely Fair Scheduler) is the process scheduling system in
> the kernel, if the patch is incorrect it might affect the sched
> functionality. Especially system with CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED and
> CONFIG_CFS_BANDWIDTH enabled.
> 
> [Other Info]
> Test case description:
>   * Creates a multi-level CGroup hierarchy with the cpu controller
>   * enabled. The leaf groups are populated with "busy" processes which
>   * simulate intermittent cpu load. They spin for some time then sleep
>   * then repeat.
>   *
>   * Both the trunk and leaf groups are set cpu bandwidth limits. The
>   * busy processes will intermittently exceed these limits. Causing
>   * them to be throttled. When they begin sleeping this will then cause
>   * them to be unthrottle.
> 
> Phil Auld (1):
>    sched/fair: Fix enqueue_task_fair() warning some more
> 
> Vincent Guittot (4):
>    sched/fair: Fix enqueue_task_fair warning
>    sched/fair: Reorder enqueue/dequeue_task_fair path
>    sched/fair: Fix reordering of enqueue/dequeue_task_fair()
>    sched/fair: Fix unthrottle_cfs_rq() for leaf_cfs_rq list
> 
>   kernel/sched/fair.c | 109 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
>   1 file changed, 77 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
> 

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Tim Gardner
Canonical, Inc



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