Re: [patch] rt, hotplug: Use set_cpus_allowed_ptr() in sync_unplug_thread()

[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior]

On 04/09/2015 04:23 PM, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-04-09 at 16:05 +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
>> * Mike Galbraith | 2015-03-24 08:14:49 [+0100]:
>>
>>> do_set_cpus_allowed() is not safe vs ->sched_class change.
>>>
>>> crash> bt
>>> PID: 11676  TASK: ffff88026f979da0  CPU: 22  COMMAND: 
>>> "sync_unplug/22"
>>> #0 [ffff880274d25bc8] machine_kexec at ffffffff8103b41c
>>> #1 [ffff880274d25c18] crash_kexec at ffffffff810d881a
>>> #2 [ffff880274d25cd8] oops_end at ffffffff81525818
>>> #3 [ffff880274d25cf8] do_invalid_op at ffffffff81003096
>>> #4 [ffff880274d25d90] invalid_op at ffffffff8152d3de
>>>    [exception RIP: set_cpus_allowed_rt+18]
>>>    RIP: ffffffff8109e012  RSP: ffff880274d25e48  RFLAGS: 00010202
>>>    RAX: ffffffff8109e000  RBX: ffff88026f979da0  RCX: 
>>> ffff8802770cb6e8
>>>    RDX: 0000000000000000  RSI: ffffffff81add700  RDI: 
>>> ffff88026f979da0
>>>    RBP: ffff880274d25e78   R8: ffffffff816112e0   R9: 
>>> 0000000000000001
>>>    R10: 0000000000000001  R11: 0000000000011940  R12: 
>>> ffff88026f979da0
>>>    R13: ffff8802770cb6d0  R14: ffff880274d25fd8  R15: 
>>> 0000000000000000
>>>    ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff  CS: 0010  SS: 0018
>>> #5 [ffff880274d25e60] do_set_cpus_allowed at ffffffff8108e65f
>>> #6 [ffff880274d25e80] sync_unplug_thread at ffffffff81058c08
>>> #7 [ffff880274d25ed8] kthread at ffffffff8107cad6
>>> #8 [ffff880274d25f50] ret_from_fork at ffffffff8152bbbc
>>> crash> task_struct ffff88026f979da0 | grep class
>>>  sched_class = 0xffffffff816111e0 <fair_sched_class+64>,
>>
>> Is this a one-time thing or can you reproduce this?
> 
> Well, I can't reproduce it now, having fixed it ;-)  Dunno how 
> repeatable it would be if I un-fixed it.
> 
>> What happen here? I doubt p vanished. +18 is mostlikely the
>> "migrate_disabled_updated()" check.
>>
>> I doubt p->sched_class->set_cpus_allowed or p->sched_class vanish
>> between testing for it and invoking it, or did it?
> 
> Class changed under us.  We saw rt task, called rt method, rt method 
> said BUG_ON(!rt_task(p)), as task had become fair class.

but why does backtrace then end in do_set_cpus_allowed and not in
set_cpus_allowed_rt()? Is it possible to provide a backtrace which ends
in the BUG() statement in set_cpus_allowed_rt() if this is where it is
coming from?

>         -Mike
Sebastian

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