Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 2 authors, 2020-06-25

Re: [PATCH] Revert "sched/deadline: Remove cpu_active_mask from cpudl_find()"

From: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Date: 2020-06-25 13:34:54
Also in: linux-arm-msm, lkml

Hi,

On 24/06/20 23:13, Sai Harshini Nimmala wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
The original commit 9659e1ee removes checking the cpu_active_mask
while finding the best cpu to place a deadline task, citing the reason that
this mask rarely changes and removing the check will give performance
gains.
However, on hotplugging, the cpu dying path has a brief duration between
the CPUHP_TEARDOWN_CPU and CPUHP_AP_SCHED_STARTING hotplug states where
the DL task can be scheduled on this cpu because the corresponding cpu
bit in cpu->free_cpus has not been cleared yet. Without the
cpu_active_mask check we could end up putting a DL task on such cpus
leading to a BUG.
The cpu_active_mask will be updated promptly before either of these
states and will provide a more accurate check for the use case above.

Signed-off-by: Puja Gupta <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Sai Harshini Nimmala <redacted>
---
 kernel/sched/cpudeadline.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/cpudeadline.c b/kernel/sched/cpudeadline.c
index 5cc4012..0346837 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/cpudeadline.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/cpudeadline.c
@@ -120,7 +120,8 @@ int cpudl_find(struct cpudl *cp, struct task_struct *p,
 	const struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se = &p->dl;
 
 	if (later_mask &&
-	    cpumask_and(later_mask, cp->free_cpus, p->cpus_ptr)) {
+	    cpumask_and(later_mask, cp->free_cpus, p->cpus_ptr) &&
+	    cpumask_and(later_mask, later_mask, cpu_active_mask)) {
 		return 1;
 	} else {
 		int best_cpu = cpudl_maximum(cp);
So, I believe the patch you want to revert only removed the condition
above.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
@@ -128,6 +129,7 @@ int cpudl_find(struct cpudl *cp, struct task_struct *p,
 		WARN_ON(best_cpu != -1 && !cpu_present(best_cpu));
 
 		if (cpumask_test_cpu(best_cpu, p->cpus_ptr) &&
+		    cpumask_test_cpu(best_cpu, cpu_active_mask) &&
 		    dl_time_before(dl_se->deadline, cp->elements[0].dl)) {
 			if (later_mask)
 				cpumask_set_cpu(best_cpu, later_mask);
Did you actually experience issues with this second part as well? I'm
thinking the WARN_ON should have fired in that case, no?

Thanks,

Juri


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