[PATCH] sched/fair: initialize throttle_count for new task-groups lazily

From: Konstantin Khlebnikov
Date: Thu Jun 16 2016 - 08:57:16 EST


Cgroup created inside throttled group must inherit current throttle_count.
Broken throttle_count allows to nominate throttled entries as a next buddy,
later this leads to null pointer dereference in pick_next_task_fair().

This patch initialize cfs_rq->throttle_count at first enqueue: laziness
allows to skip locking all rq at group creation. Lazy approach also allows
to skip full sub-tree scan at throttling hierarchy (not in this patch).

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v3.2+
---
kernel/sched/fair.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
kernel/sched/sched.h | 2 +-
2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 218f8e83db73..fe809fe169d2 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -4185,6 +4185,25 @@ static void check_enqueue_throttle(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
if (!cfs_bandwidth_used())
return;

+ /* synchronize hierarchical throttle counter */
+ if (unlikely(!cfs_rq->throttle_uptodate)) {
+ struct rq *rq = rq_of(cfs_rq);
+ struct cfs_rq *pcfs_rq;
+ struct task_group *tg;
+
+ cfs_rq->throttle_uptodate = 1;
+ /* get closest uptodate node because leaves goes first */
+ for (tg = cfs_rq->tg->parent; tg; tg = tg->parent) {
+ pcfs_rq = tg->cfs_rq[cpu_of(rq)];
+ if (pcfs_rq->throttle_uptodate)
+ break;
+ }
+ if (tg) {
+ cfs_rq->throttle_count = pcfs_rq->throttle_count;
+ cfs_rq->throttled_clock_task = rq_clock_task(rq);
+ }
+ }
+
/* an active group must be handled by the update_curr()->put() path */
if (!cfs_rq->runtime_enabled || cfs_rq->curr)
return;
diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index 72f1f3087b04..7cbeb92a1cb9 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -437,7 +437,7 @@ struct cfs_rq {

u64 throttled_clock, throttled_clock_task;
u64 throttled_clock_task_time;
- int throttled, throttle_count;
+ int throttled, throttle_count, throttle_uptodate;
struct list_head throttled_list;
#endif /* CONFIG_CFS_BANDWIDTH */
#endif /* CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED */