[tip:sched/core] sched/core: Fix endless loop in pick_next_task()

From: tip-bot for Kirill Tkhai
Date: Tue Mar 11 2014 - 08:40:58 EST


Commit-ID: 4c6c4e38c4e9a454889298dcc498174968d14a09
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/4c6c4e38c4e9a454889298dcc498174968d14a09
Author: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 13:32:01 +0400
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 12:05:39 +0100

sched/core: Fix endless loop in pick_next_task()

1) Single cpu machine case.

When rq has only RT tasks, but no one of them can be picked
because of throttling, we enter in endless loop.

pick_next_task_{dl,rt} return NULL.

In pick_next_task_fair() we permanently go to retry

if (rq->nr_running != rq->cfs.h_nr_running)
return RETRY_TASK;

(rq->nr_running is not being decremented when rt_rq becomes
throttled).

No chances to unthrottle any rt_rq or to wake fair here,
because of rq is locked permanently and interrupts are
disabled.

2) In case of SMP this can cause a hang too. Although we unlock
rq in idle_balance(), interrupts are still disabled.

The solution is to check for available tasks in DL and RT
classes instead of checking for sum.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1394098321.19290.11.camel@tkhai
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/fair.c | 4 +++-
kernel/sched/rt.c | 10 ----------
kernel/sched/sched.h | 12 ++++++++++++
3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index b956e70..10db4a8 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -6728,7 +6728,9 @@ static int idle_balance(struct rq *this_rq)

out:
/* Is there a task of a high priority class? */
- if (this_rq->nr_running != this_rq->cfs.h_nr_running)
+ if (this_rq->nr_running != this_rq->cfs.h_nr_running &&
+ (this_rq->dl.dl_nr_running ||
+ (this_rq->rt.rt_nr_running && !rt_rq_throttled(&this_rq->rt))))
pulled_task = -1;

if (pulled_task) {
diff --git a/kernel/sched/rt.c b/kernel/sched/rt.c
index f3cee0a..d8cdf16 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/rt.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/rt.c
@@ -470,11 +470,6 @@ static void sched_rt_rq_dequeue(struct rt_rq *rt_rq)
dequeue_rt_entity(rt_se);
}

-static inline int rt_rq_throttled(struct rt_rq *rt_rq)
-{
- return rt_rq->rt_throttled && !rt_rq->rt_nr_boosted;
-}
-
static int rt_se_boosted(struct sched_rt_entity *rt_se)
{
struct rt_rq *rt_rq = group_rt_rq(rt_se);
@@ -545,11 +540,6 @@ static inline void sched_rt_rq_dequeue(struct rt_rq *rt_rq)
{
}

-static inline int rt_rq_throttled(struct rt_rq *rt_rq)
-{
- return rt_rq->rt_throttled;
-}
-
static inline const struct cpumask *sched_rt_period_mask(void)
{
return cpu_online_mask;
diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index 378bff7..f2de7a1 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -423,6 +423,18 @@ struct rt_rq {
#endif
};

+#ifdef CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED
+static inline int rt_rq_throttled(struct rt_rq *rt_rq)
+{
+ return rt_rq->rt_throttled && !rt_rq->rt_nr_boosted;
+}
+#else
+static inline int rt_rq_throttled(struct rt_rq *rt_rq)
+{
+ return rt_rq->rt_throttled;
+}
+#endif
+
/* Deadline class' related fields in a runqueue */
struct dl_rq {
/* runqueue is an rbtree, ordered by deadline */
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