Re: [v4.8-rc1 Regression] sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 03:38:23PM -0400, Joseph Salisbury wrote:
> Hello Peter,
> 
> A kernel bug report was opened against Ubuntu [0].  After a kernel
> bisect, it was found that reverting the following commit resolved this bug:
> 
> commit 3d30544f02120b884bba2a9466c87dba980e3be5
> Author: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Tue Jun 21 14:27:50 2016 +0200
> 
>     sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes

That commit doesn't revert cleanly, did you take out more?

> The regression was introduced as of v4.8-rc1.  The bug can be reproduced
> on an X1 Carbon with the following:
> stress -c $your_total_cpu_cores
> 
> I was hoping to get your feedback, since you are the patch author.  Do
> you think gathering any additional data will help diagnose this issue,
> or would it be best to submit a revert request? 

I'll try and have a look asap, but I'm traveling next week so it might a
tad slower than normal.

If you could provide a /proc/sched_debug dump while the thing is running
that'd might be useful.

Thanks!