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    Subject[RFC 51/60] cosched: Hacky work-around to avoid observing zero weight SD-SE
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    The aggregated SD-SE weight is updated lock-free to avoid contention
    on the higher level. This also means, that we have to be careful
    with intermediate values as another CPU could pick up the value and
    perform actions based on it.

    Within reweight_entity() there is such a place, where weight is removed,
    locally modified, and added back. If another CPU locks the higher level
    and observes a zero weight, it will perform incorrect decisions when
    it is dequeuing a task: it won't stop dequeuing, although there is still
    load in one of the child runqueues.

    Prevent this from happening by temporarily bumping the aggregated value.

    (A nicer solution would be to apply only the actual difference to the
    aggregate instead of doing full removal and a subsequent addition.)

    Signed-off-by: Jan H. Schönherr <jschoenh@amazon.de>
    ---
    kernel/sched/fair.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
    1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

    diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
    index 1eee262ecf88..483db54ee20a 100644
    --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
    +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
    @@ -2865,6 +2865,16 @@ static void reweight_entity(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se,
    /* commit outstanding execution time */
    if (cfs_rq->curr == se)
    update_curr(cfs_rq);
    +#ifdef CONFIG_COSCHEDULING
    + /*
    + * FIXME: Temporarily adjust the sdse_load to prevent a zero
    + * value from being visible over the calls to
    + * account_entity_dequeue()/account_entity_enqueue().
    + * It leads to incorrect decisions in scheduler code.
    + */
    + if (!cfs_rq->sdrq.is_root && !cfs_rq->throttled)
    + atomic64_add(NICE_0_LOAD, &cfs_rq->sdrq.sd_parent->sdse_load);
    +#endif
    account_entity_dequeue(cfs_rq, se);
    dequeue_runnable_load_avg(cfs_rq, se);
    }
    @@ -2886,6 +2896,11 @@ static void reweight_entity(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se,
    enqueue_load_avg(cfs_rq, se);
    if (se->on_rq) {
    account_entity_enqueue(cfs_rq, se);
    +#ifdef CONFIG_COSCHEDULING
    + /* FIXME: see above */
    + if (!cfs_rq->sdrq.is_root && !cfs_rq->throttled)
    + atomic64_sub(NICE_0_LOAD, &cfs_rq->sdrq.sd_parent->sdse_load);
    +#endif
    enqueue_runnable_load_avg(cfs_rq, se);
    }
    }
    --
    2.9.3.1.gcba166c.dirty
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