Re: [RFC PATCH v3 10/16] sched: Core-wide rq->lock

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 08:36:46PM +0000, Vineeth Remanan Pillai wrote:

> + * The static-key + stop-machine variable are needed such that:
> + *
> + *	spin_lock(rq_lockp(rq));
> + *	...
> + *	spin_unlock(rq_lockp(rq));
> + *
> + * ends up locking and unlocking the _same_ lock, and all CPUs
> + * always agree on what rq has what lock.

> @@ -5790,8 +5854,15 @@ int sched_cpu_activate(unsigned int cpu)
>  	/*
>  	 * When going up, increment the number of cores with SMT present.
>  	 */
> -	if (cpumask_weight(cpu_smt_mask(cpu)) == 2)
> +	if (cpumask_weight(cpu_smt_mask(cpu)) == 2) {
>  		static_branch_inc_cpuslocked(&sched_smt_present);
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_CORE
> +		if (static_branch_unlikely(&__sched_core_enabled)) {
> +			rq->core_enabled = true;
> +		}
> +#endif
> +	}
> +
>  #endif
>  	set_cpu_active(cpu, true);
>  
> @@ -5839,8 +5910,16 @@ int sched_cpu_deactivate(unsigned int cpu)
>  	/*
>  	 * When going down, decrement the number of cores with SMT present.
>  	 */
> -	if (cpumask_weight(cpu_smt_mask(cpu)) == 2)
> +	if (cpumask_weight(cpu_smt_mask(cpu)) == 2) {
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_CORE
> +		struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
> +		if (static_branch_unlikely(&__sched_core_enabled)) {
> +			rq->core_enabled = false;
> +		}
> +#endif
>  		static_branch_dec_cpuslocked(&sched_smt_present);
> +
> +	}
>  #endif

I'm confused, how doesn't this break the invariant above?

That is, all CPUs must at all times agree on the value of rq_lockp(),
and I'm not seeing how that is true with the above changes.