Re: [PATCH 2/7] sched: Update rq clock on nohz CPU before settingfair group shares

[Ingo Molnar]

* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 2013-04-10 at 12:06 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > I think Mike once tried something along the lines of keeping a per rq state that 
> > > got cleared at the end of schedule() but that doesn't catch things like the 
> > > migrate handlers I think.
> > 
> > We'd need a rq->clock.valid debug flag, which is set by a sched-clock update, and 
> > cleared by the end of all scheduler operations, not just schedule().
> > 
> > Then sched_clock() could have a pretty efficient assert in it. Are there bugs that 
> > such an approach would not catch?
> 
> It requires manual iteration of all scheduler operations which is prone
> to 'accidents'.

There's just a handful of high level entry points, right? schedule(), wakeup, 
scheduler tick, maybe notifiers - anything else? Documenting/listing those would 
be nice anyway, near the top of kernel/sched/core.c or so.

The other approach would be to periodically clear the flag from the timer tick. 
That would catch invalid rq->clock use probabilistically.

> I'd clear at the beginning, but that's more or less the same thing.
> 
> We have the .sched.text section but I'm not sure we've been consistent enough 
> with that to be useful. But otherwise we'd be able to clear on section 
> entry/exit or so.

Hm, I'm not sure that can be made to work sanely.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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