Re: [PATCH] sched/fair: fix select_task_rq_fair return -1

[Vincent Guittot]

On 4 December 2014 at 10:05, Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> From: zhang jun <jun.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> when cpu == -1 and sd->child == NULL, select_task_rq_fair return -1, system panic.
>>
>> [ 0.738326] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff8800997ea928
>> [ 0.746138] IP: [<ffffffff810b15d3>] wake_up_new_task+0x43/0x1b0
>> [ 0.752886] PGD 25df067 PUD 0
>> [ 0.756321] Oops: 0000 1 PREEMPT SMP
>> [ 0.760743] Modules linked in:
>> [ 0.764179] CPU: 0 PID: 6 Comm: kworker/u8:0 Not tainted 3.14.19-quilt-b27ac761 #2
>> [ 0.772651] Hardware name: Intel Corporation CHERRYVIEW B1 PLATFORM/Cherry Trail CR, BIOS CHTTRVP1.X64.0003.R08.1411110453
>> 11/11/2014
>> [ 0.786084] Workqueue: khelper __call_usermodehelper
>> [ 0.791649] task: ffff88007955a150 ti: ffff88007955c000 task.ti: ffff88007955c000
>> [ 0.800021] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810b15d3>] [<ffffffff810b15d3>] wake_up_new_task+0x43/0x1b0
>> [ 0.809478] RSP: 0000:ffff88007955dd58 EFLAGS: 00010092
>> [ 0.815422] RAX: 00000000ffffffff RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 0000000000000020
>> [ 0.823404] RDX: 00000000ffffffff RSI: 0000000000000020 RDI: 0000000000000020
>> [ 0.831386] RBP: ffff88007955dd80 R08: ffff880079604b58 R09: 00000000ffffffff
>> [ 0.839368] R10: 0000000000000004 R11: eae0000000000000 R12: ffff8800797ea650
>> [ 0.847350] R13: 0000000000004000 R14: ffff8800797ead52 R15: 0000000000000206
>> [ 0.855335] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88007aa00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
>> [ 0.864387] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
>> [ 0.870817] CR2: ffff8800997ea928 CR3: 000000000220b000 CR4: 00000000001007f0
>> [ 0.878796] Stack:
>> [ 0.881046] 0000000000000001 ffff8800797ea650 0000000000004000 0000000000000000
>> [ 0.889363] 000000000000003c ffff88007955ddf0 ffffffff8107ddfd ffffffff810b6a95
>> [ 0.897680] 0000000000000000 ffff8800796beb00 ffff880000000000 ffffffff81000000
>> [ 0.905998] Call Trace:
>> [ 0.908752] [<ffffffff8107ddfd>] do_fork+0x12d/0x3b0
>> [ 0.914416] [<ffffffff810b6a95>] ? set_next_entity+0x95/0xb0
>> [ 0.920856] [<ffffffff8107e0a6>] kernel_thread+0x26/0x30
>> [ 0.926903] [<ffffffff8109703e>] __call_usermodehelper+0x2e/0x90
>> [ 0.933730] [<ffffffff8109ad31>] process_one_work+0x171/0x490
>> [ 0.940264] [<ffffffff8109ba4b>] worker_thread+0x11b/0x3a0
>> [ 0.946508] [<ffffffff8109b930>] ? manage_workers.isra.27+0x2b0/0x2b0
>> [ 0.953821] [<ffffffff810a1802>] kthread+0xd2/0xf0
>> [ 0.959289] [<ffffffff810a1730>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x170/0x170
>> [ 0.966602] [<ffffffff81af81ac>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
>> [ 0.972652] [<ffffffff810a1730>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x170/0x170
>> [ 0.979956] Code: 49 89 fc 4c 89 f7 53 e8 bc 5c a4 00 49 8b 54 24 08 31 c9 49 89 c7 49 8b 44 24 60 4c 89 e7 8b 72 18 ba 08 00 00 00 ff 50 40 89
>> c2 <49> 0f a3 94 24 e0 02 00 00 19 c9 85 c9 0f 84 34 01 00 00 48 8b
>> [ 1.001809] RIP [<ffffffff810b15d3>] wake_up_new_task+0x43/0x1b0
>> [ 1.008641] RSP <ffff88007955dd58>
>> [ 1.012544] CR2: ffff8800997ea928
>> [ 1.016279] --[ end trace 9737aaa337a5ca10 ]--
>>
>> Signed-off-by: zhang jun <jun.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Chuansheng Liu <chuansheng.liu@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Changcheng Liu <changcheng.liu@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  kernel/sched/fair.c |    2 ++
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
>> index 34baa60..123153f 100644
>> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
>> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
>> @@ -4587,6 +4587,8 @@ select_task_rq_fair(struct task_struct *p, int prev_cpu, int sd_flag, int wake_f
>>               if (new_cpu == -1 || new_cpu == cpu) {
>>                       /* Now try balancing at a lower domain level of cpu */
>>                       sd = sd->child;
>> +                     if ((!sd) && (new_cpu == -1))
>> +                             new_cpu = smp_processor_id();
>>                       continue;
>>               }
>>
> In 3.18-rc7 is -1 still selected?

find_idlest_cpu doesn't return -1 anymore but always a valid cpu. The
local cpu will be used if no better cpu has been found

>
> Hillf
>
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