Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Dec 2021 14:40:05 +0000 | From | Vincent Donnefort <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] sched/fair: Fix detection of per-CPU kthreads waking a task |
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On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 04:42:03PM +0100, Vincent Guittot wrote: > On Mon, 29 Nov 2021 at 17:54, Vincent Donnefort > <vincent.donnefort@arm.com> wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > still i don't see the need of !is_idle_task(current) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Admittedly, belts and braces. The existing condition checks rq->nr_running <= 1 > > > > > which can lead to coscheduling when the wakeup is issued by the idle task > > > > > (or even if rq->nr_running == 0, you can have rq->ttwu_pending without > > > > > having sent an IPI due to polling). Essentially this overrides the first > > > > > check in sis() that uses idle_cpu(target) (prev == smp_processor_id() == > > > > > target). > > > > > > > > > > I couldn't prove such wakeups can happen right now, but if/when they do > > > > > (AIUI it would just take someone to add a wake_up_process() down some > > > > > smp_call_function() callback) then we'll need the above. If you're still > > > > > not convinced by now, I won't push it further. > > > > > > > > From a quick experiment, even with the asym_fits_capacity(), I can trigger > > > > the following: > > > > > > > > [ 0.118855] select_idle_sibling: wakee=kthreadd:2 nr_cpus_allowed=8 current=swapper/0:1 in_task=1 > > > > [ 0.128214] select_idle_sibling: wakee=rcu_gp:3 nr_cpus_allowed=8 current=swapper/0:1 in_task=1 > > > > [ 0.137327] select_idle_sibling: wakee=rcu_par_gp:4 nr_cpus_allowed=8 current=swapper/0:1 in_task=1 > > > > [ 0.147221] select_idle_sibling: wakee=kworker/u16:0:7 nr_cpus_allowed=8 current=swapper/0:1 in_task=1 > > > > [ 0.156994] select_idle_sibling: wakee=mm_percpu_wq:8 nr_cpus_allowed=8 current=swapper/0:1 in_task=1 > > > > > > Timestamp shows its booting phase and thread name above shows per cpu > > > thread. Could it happen just while creating per cpu thread at boot and > > > as a result not relevant ? > > > > I have more of those logs a bit later in the boot: > > > > [ 0.484791] select_idle_sibling: wakee=kthreadd:2 nr_cpus_allowed=8 current=swapper/0:1 in_task=1 > > [ 0.516495] select_idle_sibling: wakee=kthreadd:2 nr_cpus_allowed=8 current=swapper/0:1 in_task=1 > > [ 0.525758] select_idle_sibling: wakee=kthreadd:2 nr_cpus_allowed=8 current=swapper/0:1 in_task=1 > > [ 0.535078] select_idle_sibling: wakee=kthreadd:2 nr_cpus_allowed=8 current=swapper/0:1 in_task=1 > > [ 0.547486] select_idle_sibling: wakee=kthreadd:2 nr_cpus_allowed=8 current=swapper/0:1 in_task=1 > > [ 0.579192] select_idle_sibling: wakee=kthreadd:2 nr_cpus_allowed=8 current=swapper/0:1 in_task=1 > > > > The nr_cpus_allowed=8 suggest that none of the threads from the logs I > > shared are per-CPU. Sorry if the format is confusing, I used: > > > > wakee=<comm>:<pid> current=<comm>:<pid>. > > > > > > > > Can you see similar things later after booting ? > > > > I tried few scenarios other than the boot time but none of them produced > > "current=swapper/X:1 in_task=1" > > > > > > > > I have tried to trigger the situation but failed to get wrong > > > sequence. All are coming from interrupt while idle. > > > After adding in_task() condition, I haven't been able to trigger the > > > warn() that I added to catch the wrong situations on SMP, Heterogenous > > > or NUMA system. Could you share more details on your setup ? > > > > > > > This is just my Hikey960 with the asym_fits_capacity() fix [1] to make sure I > > don't simply hit the other issue with asym platforms. > > I ran my previous tests on dragonboard 845c which is dynamiQ and I > have tried on my hikey960 since but without any success so far. This > is what i use: > > --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c > +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c > @@ -6397,9 +6397,12 @@ static int select_idle_sibling(struct > task_struct *p, int prev, int target) > * essentially a sync wakeup. An obvious example of this > * pattern is IO completions. > */ > - if (is_per_cpu_kthread(current) && > + if (in_task() && > + is_per_cpu_kthread(current) && > prev == smp_processor_id() && > this_rq()->nr_running <= 1) { > + > + WARN(is_idle_task(current), "idle per cpu kthread: cpu > %d task: %s", prev, p->comm); > return prev; > } > > > Without in_task() condition, i've got warnings from interrupt context > but nothing else. > Note that I don't even have the asym_fits_capacity() condition
I could not find a setup reproducing that issue outside of the boot time. So following our conversation, I made a v2 that switch !is_idle_task() to in_task().
> > > > > Then I just added my log in the per-CPU kthread wakee stacking exit path > > > > printk("%s: wakee=%s:%d nr_cpus_allowed=%d current=%s:%d in_task=%d\n", > > __func__, p->comm, p->pid, p->nr_cpus_allowed, current->comm, current->pid, in_task()); > > > > > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211125101239.3248857-1-vincent.donnefort@arm.com/ > > > > > > From the same logs I also see: > > > > wakee=xfsaild/mmcblk0:4855 nr_cpus_allowed=8 current=kworker/1:1:1070 in_task=0 > > > > Doesn't that look like a genuine wakeup that would escape the per-CPU kthread > > stacking exit path because of the in_task test?
My bad, I checked and this is not a genuine one...
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