[PATCH] sched/pelt: Use rq_clock_task() for hw_pressure

From: Chen Yu
Date: Thu Jul 25 2024 - 07:45:00 EST


commit 97450eb90965 ("sched/pelt: Remove shift of thermal clock")
removed the decay_shift for hw_pressure. While looking at a related
bug report, it is found that this commit uses the sched_clock_task()
in sched_tick() while replaces the sched_clock_task() with rq_clock_pelt()
in __update_blocked_others(). This could bring inconsistence. One possible
scenario I can think of is in ___update_load_sum():

u64 delta = now - sa->last_update_time

'now' could be calculated by rq_clock_pelt() from
__update_blocked_others(), and last_update_time was calculated by
rq_clock_task() previously from sched_tick(). Usually the former chases
after the latter, it cause a very large 'delta' and brings unexpected
behavior. Although this should not impact x86 platform in the bug report,
it should be fixed for other platforms.

Fixes: 97450eb90965 ("sched/pelt: Remove shift of thermal clock")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@xxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202407091527.bb0be229-lkp@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@xxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/fair.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 9057584ec06d..cfd4755954fd 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -9362,7 +9362,7 @@ static bool __update_blocked_others(struct rq *rq, bool *done)

decayed = update_rt_rq_load_avg(now, rq, curr_class == &rt_sched_class) |
update_dl_rq_load_avg(now, rq, curr_class == &dl_sched_class) |
- update_hw_load_avg(now, rq, hw_pressure) |
+ update_hw_load_avg(rq_clock_task(rq), rq, hw_pressure) |
update_irq_load_avg(rq, 0);

if (others_have_blocked(rq))
--
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