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SubjectRe: [PATCH 4/8] sched/core: Skip wakeup when task is already running.
On 04/16/2014 07:22 PM, Dongsheng Yang wrote:
> On 04/15/2014 10:53 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 09:32:53PM +0900, Dongsheng Yang wrote:
>>
>> How can you get there with ->state == RUNNING? try_to_wake_up*() bail
>> when !(->state & state).
> Yes, try_to_wake_up() did this check. But other callers would miss it.
>
> With the following code ,I can get the actual message of waking up
> a running task
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> index 9f63275..1369cae 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> @@ -1418,8 +1418,10 @@ static void ttwu_activate(struct rq *rq, struct
> task_stru
> static void
> ttwu_do_wakeup(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int wake_flags)
> {
> - if (p->state == TASK_RUNNING)
> + if (p->state == TASK_RUNNING) {
> + printk("Wakeup a running task.");
> return;
> + }
>
> check_preempt_curr(rq, p, wake_flags);
> trace_sched_wakeup(p, true);
>
>
> # grep "Wakeup" /var/log/messages
> Apr 15 20:16:21 localhost kernel: [ 5.436505] Wakeup a running task.
> Apr 15 20:16:21 localhost kernel: [ 7.776042] Wakeup a running task.
> Apr 15 20:16:21 localhost kernel: [ 9.324274] Wakeup a running task.

Hi Peter, after some more investigation, I think I got the problem,
which is that
some other task set p->state to TASK_RUNNING without holding p->pi_lock.

Scenario as attached graph shown, if some other task set p->state to
TASK_RUNNING after the check if (! (p->state & state)), then we are
wasting time to wake up a running task in try_to_wake_up().

If the analyse is right, I think there are two methods to solve this
problem:
* Skip in ttwu_do_wakeup() when p->state is running, as what my patch
did.
* Add a locking when we set p->state, lots of work to do and I am
afraid
it will hurt the performance of kernel.


The following message is the backtrace info I got when it happened:

(gdb) bt
#0 try_to_wake_up (p=0xffff88027e651930, state=1, wake_flags=0)
at kernel/sched/core.c:1605
#1 0xffffffff81099532 in default_wake_function (curr=<value optimized
out>,
mode=<value optimized out>, wake_flags=<value optimized out>,
key=<value optimized out>) at kernel/sched/core.c:2853
#2 0xffffffff810aa489 in __wake_up_common (q=0xffff88027f03f210, mode=1,
nr_exclusive=1, wake_flags=0, key=0x4) at kernel/sched/wait.c:75
#3 0xffffffff810aa838 in __wake_up (q=0xffff88027f03f210, mode=1,
nr_exclusive=1, key=0x4) at kernel/sched/wait.c:97
#4 0xffffffff813cd0a4 in n_tty_check_unthrottle (tty=0xffff88027f03ec00,
file=0xffff880278ab1b00,
buf=0x7fff0fcf9720 "\r\nyum install -y
./a/alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.27-1.fc19.x86_64.rpml -y
./a/alsa-lib-1.0.27.1-2.fc19.x86_64.rpm.noarch.rpm\r\nyum install -y
./a/albatross-xfwm4-theme-1.2-5.fc19.noarch.rpm\r\nyum instal"...,
nr=16315) at drivers/tty/n_tty.c:280
#5 n_tty_read (tty=0xffff88027f03ec00, file=0xffff880278ab1b00,
buf=0x7fff0fcf9720 "\r\nyum install -y
./a/alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.27-1.fc19.x86_64.rpml -y
./a/alsa-lib-1.0.27.1-2.fc19.x86_64.rpm.noarch.rpm\r\nyum install -y
./a/albatross-xfwm4-theme-1.2-5.fc19.noarch.rpm\r\nyum instal"...,
nr=16315) at drivers/tty/n_tty.c:2259
#6 0xffffffff813c5667 in tty_read (file=0xffff880278ab1b00,
buf=0x7fff0fcf9720 "\r\nyum install -y
./a/alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.27-1.fc19.x86_64.rpml -y
./a/alsa-lib-1.0.27.1-2.fc19.x86_64.rpm.noarch.rpm\r\nyum in---Type
<return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---q
Quit
(gdb) p p->state ------> Currently, p->state is TASK_RUNNING.
$1 = 0
(gdb) l
1600
1601 success = 1; /* we're going to change ->state */
1602 cpu = task_cpu(p);
1603
1604 if (p->state == TASK_RUNNING) {
1605 printk("Wake up a running task.");
1606 }
1607 if (p->on_rq && ttwu_remote(p, wake_flags))
1608 goto stat;
1609
(gdb)
>
> So, I think there are some caller of ttwu_do_wakeup() is attempt to wake
> up a running task.
>> .
>>
>
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CPU1 CPU2
raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&p->pi_lock, flags); set_task_state(tsk, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
if (!(p->state & state)) ---> TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE |
goto out; |
cpu = task_cpu(p); set_task_state(tsk, TASK_RUNNING);
... ---> TASK_RUNNING
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