[PATCH,RFC] sched: fix "impossible" load balancing oops

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Fri Aug 21 2015 - 14:22:26 EST


The load balancing code can run into the situation where
the source and destination runqueues are the same, in
the active balancing code.

/*
* This condition is "impossible", if it occurs
* we need to fix it. Originally reported by
* Bjorn Helgaas on a 128-cpu setup.
*/
BUG_ON(busiest_rq == target_rq);

This happens despite not triggering the BUG_ON(busiest == env.dst_rq)
line after find_busiest_queue.

>From code inspection, it appears there is a condition where this can happen.

Specifically, if we encounter only pinned tasks on a CPU, can_migrate_task
will set env->new_dst_cpu to a CPU in the env->dst_grpmask. If the group
includes the source cpu, we may end up setting env.dst_cpu to the same
as dst.src_cpu.

The fix would be to clear the source cpu from env.dst_grpmask, to ensure
we never select the source cpu as the destination.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/fair.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index d113c3b..514a369 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -7172,6 +7172,8 @@ redo:
env.src_cpu = busiest->cpu;
env.src_rq = busiest;

+ cpumask_clear_cpu(busiest->cpu, env.dst_grpmask);
+
ld_moved = 0;
if (busiest->nr_running > 1) {
/*
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