Re: [peterz-queue:sched/prep] [sched/fair] 124c8f4374: WARNING:at_kernel/sched/sched.h:#update_load_avg

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Jul 31 2024 - 07:55:00 EST


On Wed, Jul 31, 2024 at 11:46:48AM +0530, K Prateek Nayak wrote:
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index cd4a6bf14828..c437b408d29b 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -13297,10 +13297,34 @@ void unregister_fair_sched_group(struct task_group *tg)
> if (se->sched_delayed) {
> guard(rq_lock_irqsave)(rq);
> if (se->sched_delayed) {
> + /*
> + * We can reach here when processing RCU_SOFTIRQ on exit path from
> + * a reschedule IPI. wakeup_preempt() may have set RQCF_REQ_SKIP to
> + * skip a close clock update in schedule(), however, in presence of
> + * a delayed entity, this trips the check in rq_clock_pelt() which
> + * now believes the clock value is stale and needs updating. To
> + * prevent such situation, cancel any pending skip updates, and
> + * update the rq clock.
> + */
> + rq_clock_cancel_skipupdate(rq);
> +
> + /*
> + * XXX: Will this trip WARN_DOUBLE_CLOCK? In which case, can
> + * rq_clock_cancel_skipupdate() be made to return a bool if
> + * RQCF_REQ_SKIP is set and we avoid this update?
> + */
> update_rq_clock(rq);
> +
> dequeue_entities(rq, se, DEQUEUE_SLEEP | DEQUEUE_DELAYED);
> +
> + /* Avoid updating the clock again if a schedule() is pending */
> + if (task_on_rq_queued(rq->curr) &&
> + test_tsk_need_resched(rq->curr))
> + rq_clock_skip_update(rq);
> }
> list_del_leaf_cfs_rq(cfs_rq);
> +
> +
> }
> remove_entity_load_avg(se);
> }

So I did update this to simply add update_rq_clock() before the
dequeue_entity(SLEEP|DELAYED). I initially had, these, then confused
myself between deactivate_task() and dequeue_entity(), where the former
updates the clock but the latter does not, and removed them. Then Mike
complained, and I restored it for the regular exit path and forgot the
cgroup exit path.

But now they should both be doing update_rq_clock() here.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/queue.git/commit/?h=sched/eevdf&id=5b3a132d4dd5c91f26beb3e8973c03cdb77d7873

Since this is all with our own rq->lock held, I don't think skip would
be relevant here.