From: Matt Fleming <matt@readmodwrite.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>,
Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@cloudflare.com,
Matt Fleming <mfleming@cloudflare.com>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>, John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>,
Chris Arges <carges@cloudflare.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "sched/core: Tweak wait_task_inactive() to force dequeue sched_delayed tasks"
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2025 14:33:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250925133310.1843863-1-matt@readmodwrite.com> (raw)
From: Matt Fleming <mfleming@cloudflare.com>
This reverts commit b7ca5743a2604156d6083b88cefacef983f3a3a6.
If we dequeue a task (task B) that was sched delayed then that task is
definitely no longer on the rq and not tracked in the rbtree.
Unfortunately, task_on_rq_queued(B) will still return true because
dequeue_task() doesn't update p->on_rq.
This inconsistency can lead to tasks (task A) spinning indefinitely in
wait_task_inactive(), e.g. when delivering a fatal signal to a thread
group, because it thinks the task B is still queued (it's not) and waits
forever for it to unschedule.
Task A Task B
arch_do_signal_or_restart()
get_signal()
do_coredump()
coredump_wait()
zap_threads() arch_do_signal_or_restart()
wait_task_inactive() <-- SPIN get_signal()
do_group_exit()
do_exit()
coredump_task_exit()
schedule() <--- never comes back
Not only will task A spin forever in wait_task_inactive(), but task B
will also trigger RCU stalls:
INFO: rcu_tasks detected stalls on tasks:
00000000a973a4d8: .. nvcsw: 2/2 holdout: 1 idle_cpu: -1/79
task:ffmpeg state:I stack:0 pid:665601 tgid:665155 ppid:668691 task_flags:0x400448 flags:0x00004006
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__schedule+0x4fb/0xbf0
? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f
schedule+0x27/0xf0
do_exit+0xdd/0xaa0
? __pfx_futex_wake_mark+0x10/0x10
do_group_exit+0x30/0x80
get_signal+0x81e/0x860
? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f
? futex_wake+0x177/0x1a0
arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x2e/0x1f0
? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f
? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f
? __x64_sys_futex+0x10c/0x1d0
syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0xa5/0x130
do_syscall_64+0x57/0x110
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
RIP: 0033:0x7f22d05b0f16
RSP: 002b:00007f2265761cf0 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000ca
RAX: fffffffffffffe00 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f22d05b0f16
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000189 RDI: 00005629e320d97c
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00000000ffffffff
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00005629e320d928
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 00005629e320d97c
</TASK>
Fixes: b7ca5743a260 ("sched/core: Tweak wait_task_inactive() to force dequeue sched_delayed tasks")
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Cc: Chris Arges <carges@cloudflare.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.12
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <mfleming@cloudflare.com>
---
kernel/sched/core.c | 6 ------
1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index ccba6fc3c3fe..2dfc3977920d 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -2293,12 +2293,6 @@ unsigned long wait_task_inactive(struct task_struct *p, unsigned int match_state
* just go back and repeat.
*/
rq = task_rq_lock(p, &rf);
- /*
- * If task is sched_delayed, force dequeue it, to avoid always
- * hitting the tick timeout in the queued case
- */
- if (p->se.sched_delayed)
- dequeue_task(rq, p, DEQUEUE_SLEEP | DEQUEUE_DELAYED);
trace_sched_wait_task(p);
running = task_on_cpu(rq, p);
queued = task_on_rq_queued(p);
--
2.34.1
next reply other threads:[~2025-09-25 13:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-25 13:33 Matt Fleming [this message]
2025-09-26 0:05 ` [PATCH] Revert "sched/core: Tweak wait_task_inactive() to force dequeue sched_delayed tasks" John Stultz
2025-09-26 0:06 ` John Stultz
2025-09-26 2:43 ` K Prateek Nayak
2025-09-26 15:34 ` Matt Fleming
2025-09-29 3:53 ` K Prateek Nayak
2025-10-14 10:15 ` Matt Fleming
2025-10-15 6:03 ` [PATCH v6.12] sched/fair: Block delayed tasks on throttled hierarchy during dequeue K Prateek Nayak
2025-10-15 6:14 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2025-10-15 6:27 ` K Prateek Nayak
2025-10-15 7:27 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2025-10-15 8:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2025-10-23 4:03 ` [PATCH 6.17] " K Prateek Nayak
2025-09-29 10:38 ` [PATCH] Revert "sched/core: Tweak wait_task_inactive() to force dequeue sched_delayed tasks" Peter Zijlstra
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