[RT][PATCH 1/2] rcutorture: Also force sched priority to timersd on boosting test

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Mon Apr 04 2022 - 21:59:45 EST


ksoftirqd is statically boosted to the priority level right above the
one of rcu_torture_boost() so that timers, which torture readers rely on,
get a chance to run while rcu_torture_boost() is polling.

However timers processing got split from ksoftirqd into their own kthread
(timersd) that isn't boosted. It has the same SCHED_FIFO low prio as
rcu_torture_boost() and therefore timers can't preempt it and may
starve.

The issue can be triggered in practice on v5.17.1-rt17 using:

./kvm.sh --allcpus --configs TREE04 --duration 10m --kconfig "CONFIG_EXPERT=y CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y"

triggering the following:

rcu-torture: rcu_torture_boost boosting failed
Boost inversion thread ->rt_priority 1 gp_state 12908 jiffies 3501
rcu: rcu_preempt: wait state: RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state: 0x402 ->rt_priority 2 delta ->gp_start 3502 ->gp_activity 3502 ->gp_req_activity 3502 ->gp_wake_time 3502 ->gp_wake_seq 12897 ->gp_seq 12901 ->gp_seq_needed 12904 ->gp_max 4057 ->gp_flags 0x0
rcu: rcu_node 0:7 ->gp_seq 12901 ->gp_seq_needed 12904 ->qsmask 0x2 .... ->n_boosts 0
rcu: rcu_node 0:3 ->gp_seq 12901 ->gp_seq_needed 12908 ->qsmask 0x0 b... ->n_boosts 22
rcu: cpu 0 ->gp_seq_needed 12904
rcu: rcu_node 4:7 ->gp_seq 12901 ->gp_seq_needed 12908 ->qsmask 0x0 b..G ->n_boosts 6
rcu: cpu 5 ->gp_seq_needed 12904
rcu: CB 1^0->2 KbclSW F5089 L5089 C1 ..... q0 S CPU 0
rcu: CB 2^0->3 KbclSW F16859 L16859 C1 ..... q0 S CPU 0
rcu: CB 3^0->-1 KbclSW F3502 L3502 C2 .W12908.N. q4 S CPU 0
rcu: nocb GP 4 KldtS .[W.] .G:12904 rnp 4:7 1459 S CPU 0
rcu: CB 4^4->5 KbclSW F9918 L10534 C4 ..... q0 S CPU 0
rcu: CB 5^4->6 KbclSW F2550 L2550 C2 .W12904.N. q8 S CPU 0
rcu: CB 6^4->7 KbclSW F6639 L7253 C0 ..... q0 S CPU 0
rcu: CB 7^4->-1 KbclSW F30685 L30685 C1 ..... q0 S CPU 0
rcu: RCU callbacks invoked since boot: 236075
rcu_tasks: RTGS_WAIT_CBS(11) since 409853 g:0 i:0/0 k.
rcu_tasks_rude: RTGS_WAIT_CBS(11) since 409851 g:0 i:0/0 k.
rcu_tasks_trace: RTGS_WAIT_CBS(11) since 409848 g:0 i:0/0 k. N0 h:0/0/0
Boost inversion: GP 12908 still pending.
rcu-torture: rtc: 0000000093327eb2 ver: 1504 tfle: 0 rta: 1505 rtaf: 0 rtf: 1493 rtmbe: 0 rtmbkf: 0/782 rtbe: 0 rtbke: 0 rtbre: 0 rtbf: 1 rtb: 7 nt: 66220 onoff: 6/6:11/12 40,763:29,5050 1537:11766 (HZ=1000) barrier: 239/240:0 read-exits: 67 nocb-toggles: 0:0
rcu-torture: !!!
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 121 at kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c:1870 rcu_torture_stats_print+0x5ad/0x610
Modules linked in:
CPU: 5 PID: 121 Comm: rcu_torture_sta Not tainted 5.17.1-rt17 #63
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009)
RIP: 0010:rcu_torture_stats_print+0x5ad/0x610
Code: c7 01 02 00 74 02 0f 0b 48 83 3d 35 c7 01 02 00 74 02 0f 0b 48 83 3d 21 c7 01 02 00 74 02 0f 0b 48 83 3d 0d c7 01 02 00 74 02 <0f> 0b 83 eb 01 0f 8e ba fc ff ff 0f 0b e9 b3 fc ff ff 8b 05 8f c6
RSP: 0018:ffffa7560041fdf8 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 0000000000000001
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 40000000ffffe735 RDI: 00000000ffffffff
RBP: 00000000000005d5 R08: ffffffffaf65f6e0 R09: ffffffffafee3a7c
R10: ffffa75600427d58 R11: 0000000020212121 R12: ffffa7560041fe20
R13: ffffa7560041fe78 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 000000000001bd20
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9fe7df540000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000014216000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? lock_timer_base+0x62/0x80
? rcu_torture_stats_print+0x610/0x610
rcu_torture_stats+0x29/0x70
kthread+0x118/0x130
? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
</TASK>

Fix this with statically boosting timersd just like is done with ksoftirqd.

Suggested-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/interrupt.h | 1 +
kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c | 6 ++++++
kernel/softirq.c | 2 +-
3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/interrupt.h b/include/linux/interrupt.h
index db4a23d07a57..e4b8a04e67ce 100644
--- a/include/linux/interrupt.h
+++ b/include/linux/interrupt.h
@@ -606,6 +606,7 @@ extern void raise_softirq_irqoff(unsigned int nr);
extern void raise_softirq(unsigned int nr);

#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT
+DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct task_struct *, timersd);
extern void raise_timer_softirq(void);
extern void raise_hrtimer_softirq(void);

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
index 422f7e4cc08d..ac9715ed58ba 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
@@ -3283,6 +3283,12 @@ rcu_torture_init(void)
WARN_ON_ONCE(!t);
sp.sched_priority = 2;
sched_setscheduler_nocheck(t, SCHED_FIFO, &sp);
+#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT
+ t = per_cpu(timersd, cpu);
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(!t);
+ sp.sched_priority = 2;
+ sched_setscheduler_nocheck(t, SCHED_FIFO, &sp);
+#endif
}
}
}
diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c
index 22948c2109f5..89eb45614af6 100644
--- a/kernel/softirq.c
+++ b/kernel/softirq.c
@@ -624,7 +624,7 @@ static inline void tick_irq_exit(void)
#endif
}

-static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct task_struct *, timersd);
+DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct task_struct *, timersd);
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, pending_timer_softirq);

static unsigned int local_pending_timers(void)
--
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