Re: Random panic in load_balance() with 3.16-rc

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 09:21:40PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 8:53 PM, Michel Dänzer <michel@daenzer.net> wrote:
> >
> > Just happened again with the same change on top of 3.16-rc6.
> 
> The (maybe) related bugzilla entry is just odd. Bruno Wolff reports
> that the BUG_ON() in his added patch triggers:
> 
> +               cpumask_clear(sched_group_cpus(sg));
> +               sg->sgc->capacity = 0;
> +               BUG_ON(!cpumask_empty(sched_group_cpus(sg)));
> 
> where it *just* did a cpumask_clear(), and now the BUG_ON() triggers
> that it's no longer empty?
> 
> That would imply an allocation error, but all the sched groups seem to
> be properly allocated with the proper addition of cpumask_size().
> 
> And his config file even has NR_CPUS being 32, so it should be a
> single word of bitmap, which triggers all the simple code.
> 
> Completely insane, in other words.

So we've had this other thread where the same happened:

 lkml.kernel.org/r/20140716145546.GA6922@wolff.to

(pointed Michel to that earlier)

And that seems to be sorted now (just found positive feedback in my
Inbox this morning), it was a question of the arch code supplying
completely 'broken' topology information, and the scheduler trusting it
too much.

The real fix in that thread is:

 lkml.kernel.org/r/20140722133514.GM12054@laptop.lan

And I'll also add this to make the scheduler less trusting:

 lkml.kernel.org/r/20140722094740.GJ12054@laptop.lan

Michael, that's not going to tell us what's wrong with your machine, as
you've not got the ancient dual P4 Xeon Bruno's got. Seeing how your
cpuinfo says:

model name      : AMD A10-7850K Radeon R7, 12 Compute Cores 4C+8G

but we can start the same debugging session I suppose.

Could you run with this patch on top:

 lkml.kernel.org/r/20140718101633.GP9918@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net

And provide us with the dmesg after boot?