[QUESTION] ltp: mavise06 failed when the task scheduled to another cpu

[Yongqiang Liu]

Hi,

when runing this case in 5.10-lts kernel, it will trigger the folloing 
failure:

 ......

    madvise06.c:74: TINFO:  memory.kmem.usage_in_bytes: 1752 Kb
    madvise06.c:208: TPASS: more than 102400 Kb were moved to the swap 
cache
    madvise06.c:217: TINFO: PageFault(madvice / no mem access): 102401
    madvise06.c:221: TINFO: PageFault(madvice / mem access): 102417
    madvise06.c:82: TINFO: After page access
    madvise06.c:84: TINFO:  Swap: 307372 Kb
    madvise06.c:86: TINFO:  SwapCached: 101820 Kb
    madvise06.c:88: TINFO:  Cached: 103004Kb
    madvise06.c:74: TINFO:  memory.kmem.usage_in_bytes: 0Kb
    madvise06.c:225: TFAIL: 16 pages were faulted out of 2 max

and we found that when we call the madvise the task was scheduled to 
another cpu:

......

tst_res(TINFO, "before madvise MEMLIMIT CPU:%d", sched_getcpu());--->cpu0

TEST(madvise(target, MEM_LIMIT, MADV_WILLNEED));

tst_res(TINFO, "after madvise MEMLIMIT CPU:%d", sched_getcpu());--->cpu1

......

tst_res(TINFO, "before madvise PASS_THRESHOLDCPU:%d", 
sched_getcpu());-->cpu1

TEST(madvise(target, PASS_THRESHOLD, MADV_WILLNEED));

tst_res(TINFO, "after madvise PASS_THRESHOLDCPU:%d", sched_getcpu());-->cpu0

.....

Is the PERCPU data swap_slot was not handled well?


with the following patch almost fix the error:

e9b9734b7465 sched/fair: Reduce cases for active balance

8a41dfcda7a3 sched/fair: Don't set LBF_ALL_PINNED unnecessarily

fc488ffd4297 sched/fair: Skip idle cfs_rq

but bind the task to a cpu also can solve this problem.

Kind regards,

Yongqiang Liu