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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] sched: Fix nr_uninterruptible race causing increasing load average
    On Thu, Jul 08, 2021 at 09:25:45AM -0400, Phil Auld wrote:
    > Hi Peter,
    >
    > On Thu, Jul 08, 2021 at 09:26:26AM +0200 Peter Zijlstra wrote:
    > > On Wed, Jul 07, 2021 at 03:04:57PM -0400, Phil Auld wrote:
    > > > On systems with weaker memory ordering (e.g. power) commit dbfb089d360b
    > > > ("sched: Fix loadavg accounting race") causes increasing values of load
    > > > average (via rq->calc_load_active and calc_load_tasks) due to the wakeup
    > > > CPU not always seeing the write to task->sched_contributes_to_load in
    > > > __schedule(). Missing that we fail to decrement nr_uninterruptible when
    > > > waking up a task which incremented nr_uninterruptible when it slept.
    > > >
    > > > The rq->lock serialization is insufficient across different rq->locks.
    > > >
    > > > Add smp_wmb() to schedule and smp_rmb() before the read in
    > > > ttwu_do_activate().
    > >
    > > > diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
    > > > index 4ca80df205ce..ced7074716eb 100644
    > > > --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
    > > > +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
    > > > @@ -2992,6 +2992,8 @@ ttwu_do_activate(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int wake_flags,
    > > >
    > > > lockdep_assert_held(&rq->lock);
    > > >
    > > > + /* Pairs with smp_wmb in __schedule() */
    > > > + smp_rmb();
    > > > if (p->sched_contributes_to_load)
    > > > rq->nr_uninterruptible--;
    > > >
    > >
    > > Is this really needed ?! (this question is a big fat clue the comment is
    > > insufficient). AFAICT try_to_wake_up() has a LOAD-ACQUIRE on p->on_rq
    > > and hence the p->sched_contributed_to_load must already happen after.
    > >
    >
    > Yes, it is needed. We've got idle power systems with load average of 530.21.
    > Calc_load_tasks is 530, and the sum of both nr_uninterruptible and
    > calc_load_active across all the runqueues is 530. Basically monotonically
    > non-decreasing load average. With the patch this no longer happens.

    Have you tried without the rmb here? Do you really need both barriers?

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