Re: [PATCH] sched/topology: Fix overlapping sched_group build

From: Valentin Schneider
Date: Wed Mar 25 2020 - 14:09:53 EST



On Wed, Mar 25 2020, Valentin Schneider wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24 2020, Valentin Schneider wrote:
>> kernel/sched/topology.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++---
>> 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/sched/topology.c b/kernel/sched/topology.c
>> index 8344757bba6e..7033b27e5162 100644
>> --- a/kernel/sched/topology.c
>> +++ b/kernel/sched/topology.c
>> @@ -866,7 +866,7 @@ build_balance_mask(struct sched_domain *sd, struct sched_group *sg, struct cpuma
>> continue;
>>
>> /* If we would not end up here, we can't continue from here */
>> - if (!cpumask_equal(sg_span, sched_domain_span(sibling->child)))
>> + if (!cpumask_subset(sg_span, sched_domain_span(sibling->child)))
>
> So this is one source of issues; what I've done here is a bit stupid
> since we include CPUs that *cannot* end up there. What I should've done
> is something like:
>
> cpumask_and(tmp, sched_domain_span(sibling->child), sched_domain_span(sd));
> if (!cpumask_equal(sg_span, tmp))
> ...
>
> But even with that I just unfold even more horrors: this breaks the
> overlapping sched_group_capacity (see 1676330ecfa8 ("sched/topology: Fix
> overlapping sched_group_capacity")).
>
> For instance, here I would have
>
> CPU0-domain2-group4: span=4-5
> CPU4-domain2-group4: span=4-7 mask=4-5
>

^ That's using Dietmar's qemu setup; on the D06 that is

CPU0-domain2-group48: span=48-71
CPU48-domain2-group48: span=48-95 mask=48-71

> Both groups are at the same topology level and have the same first CPU,
> so they point to the same sched_group_capacity structure - but they
> don't have the same span. They would without my "fix", but then the
> group spans are back to being wrong. I'm starting to think this is
> doomed, at least in the current state of things :/