[tip: sched/urgent] sched/fair: Fix race between runtime distribution and assignment

From: tip-bot2 for Huaixin Chang
Date: Wed Apr 08 2020 - 08:20:50 EST


The following commit has been merged into the sched/urgent branch of tip:

Commit-ID: 26a8b12747c975b33b4a82d62e4a307e1c07f31b
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/26a8b12747c975b33b4a82d62e4a307e1c07f31b
Author: Huaixin Chang <changhuaixin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 11:26:25 +08:00
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitterDate: Wed, 08 Apr 2020 11:35:19 +02:00

sched/fair: Fix race between runtime distribution and assignment

Currently, there is a potential race between distribute_cfs_runtime()
and assign_cfs_rq_runtime(). Race happens when cfs_b->runtime is read,
distributes without holding lock and finds out there is not enough
runtime to charge against after distribution. Because
assign_cfs_rq_runtime() might be called during distribution, and use
cfs_b->runtime at the same time.

Fibtest is the tool to test this race. Assume all gcfs_rq is throttled
and cfs period timer runs, slow threads might run and sleep, returning
unused cfs_rq runtime and keeping min_cfs_rq_runtime in their local
pool. If all this happens sufficiently quickly, cfs_b->runtime will drop
a lot. If runtime distributed is large too, over-use of runtime happens.

A runtime over-using by about 70 percent of quota is seen when we
test fibtest on a 96-core machine. We run fibtest with 1 fast thread and
95 slow threads in test group, configure 10ms quota for this group and
see the CPU usage of fibtest is 17.0%, which is far more than the
expected 10%.

On a smaller machine with 32 cores, we also run fibtest with 96
threads. CPU usage is more than 12%, which is also more than expected
10%. This shows that on similar workloads, this race do affect CPU
bandwidth control.

Solve this by holding lock inside distribute_cfs_runtime().

Fixes: c06f04c70489 ("sched: Fix potential near-infinite distribute_cfs_runtime() loop")
Reviewed-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Huaixin Chang <changhuaixin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200325092602.22471-1-changhuaixin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
---
kernel/sched/fair.c | 31 +++++++++++--------------------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index fb025e9..95cbd9e 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -4836,11 +4836,10 @@ void unthrottle_cfs_rq(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
resched_curr(rq);
}

-static u64 distribute_cfs_runtime(struct cfs_bandwidth *cfs_b, u64 remaining)
+static void distribute_cfs_runtime(struct cfs_bandwidth *cfs_b)
{
struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq;
- u64 runtime;
- u64 starting_runtime = remaining;
+ u64 runtime, remaining = 1;

rcu_read_lock();
list_for_each_entry_rcu(cfs_rq, &cfs_b->throttled_cfs_rq,
@@ -4855,10 +4854,13 @@ static u64 distribute_cfs_runtime(struct cfs_bandwidth *cfs_b, u64 remaining)
/* By the above check, this should never be true */
SCHED_WARN_ON(cfs_rq->runtime_remaining > 0);

+ raw_spin_lock(&cfs_b->lock);
runtime = -cfs_rq->runtime_remaining + 1;
- if (runtime > remaining)
- runtime = remaining;
- remaining -= runtime;
+ if (runtime > cfs_b->runtime)
+ runtime = cfs_b->runtime;
+ cfs_b->runtime -= runtime;
+ remaining = cfs_b->runtime;
+ raw_spin_unlock(&cfs_b->lock);

cfs_rq->runtime_remaining += runtime;

@@ -4873,8 +4875,6 @@ next:
break;
}
rcu_read_unlock();
-
- return starting_runtime - remaining;
}

/*
@@ -4885,7 +4885,6 @@ next:
*/
static int do_sched_cfs_period_timer(struct cfs_bandwidth *cfs_b, int overrun, unsigned long flags)
{
- u64 runtime;
int throttled;

/* no need to continue the timer with no bandwidth constraint */
@@ -4914,24 +4913,17 @@ static int do_sched_cfs_period_timer(struct cfs_bandwidth *cfs_b, int overrun, u
cfs_b->nr_throttled += overrun;

/*
- * This check is repeated as we are holding onto the new bandwidth while
- * we unthrottle. This can potentially race with an unthrottled group
- * trying to acquire new bandwidth from the global pool. This can result
- * in us over-using our runtime if it is all used during this loop, but
- * only by limited amounts in that extreme case.
+ * This check is repeated as we release cfs_b->lock while we unthrottle.
*/
while (throttled && cfs_b->runtime > 0 && !cfs_b->distribute_running) {
- runtime = cfs_b->runtime;
cfs_b->distribute_running = 1;
raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cfs_b->lock, flags);
/* we can't nest cfs_b->lock while distributing bandwidth */
- runtime = distribute_cfs_runtime(cfs_b, runtime);
+ distribute_cfs_runtime(cfs_b);
raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&cfs_b->lock, flags);

cfs_b->distribute_running = 0;
throttled = !list_empty(&cfs_b->throttled_cfs_rq);
-
- lsub_positive(&cfs_b->runtime, runtime);
}

/*
@@ -5065,10 +5057,9 @@ static void do_sched_cfs_slack_timer(struct cfs_bandwidth *cfs_b)
if (!runtime)
return;

- runtime = distribute_cfs_runtime(cfs_b, runtime);
+ distribute_cfs_runtime(cfs_b);

raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&cfs_b->lock, flags);
- lsub_positive(&cfs_b->runtime, runtime);
cfs_b->distribute_running = 0;
raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cfs_b->lock, flags);
}