Re: [PATCH] sched/fair: fix find_idlest_group() to handle CPU affinity

[Qais Yousef]

On 12/04/19 19:21, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> Because of CPU affinity, the local group can be skipped which breaks the
> assumption that statistics are always collected for local group. With
> uninitialized local_sgs, the comparison is meaningless and the behavior
> unpredictable. This can even end up to use local pointer which is to
> NULL in this case.

For the record; I think this is safe and I can't see how the local_sgs can be
used uninitialized, but experience shows that if this happened once it's likely
to happen again when things change. So I think it'd be safer to always
initialize local_sgs to something sensible and avoid future trouble. I don't
see any cost to initializing it.

My 2p :-) The change is good for me as-is otherwise.

Cheers

--
Qais Yousef

> 
> If the local group has been skipped because of CPU affinity, we return
> the idlest group.
> 
> Fixes: 57abff067a08 ("sched/fair: Rework find_idlest_group()")
> Reported-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  kernel/sched/fair.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index 08a233e..146b6c8 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -8417,6 +8417,10 @@ find_idlest_group(struct sched_domain *sd, struct task_struct *p,
>  	if (!idlest)
>  		return NULL;
>  
> +	/* The local group has been skipped because of CPU affinity */
> +	if (!local)
> +		return idlest;
> +
>  	/*
>  	 * If the local group is idler than the selected idlest group
>  	 * don't try and push the task.
> -- 
> 2.7.4
>