Re: [PATCH] sched/fair: vruntime should normalize when switching from fair

[Steve Muckle <smuckle@google.com>]

On 08/23/2018 11:54 PM, Juri Lelli wrote:
>> I tried to catch this issue on my Arm64 Juno board using pi_test (and a
>> slightly adapted pip_test (usleep_val = 1500 and keep low as cfs)) from
>> rt-tests but wasn't able to do so.
>>
>> # pi_stress --inversions=1 --duration=1 --groups=1 --sched id=low,policy=cfs
>>
>> Starting PI Stress Test
>> Number of thread groups: 1
>> Duration of test run: 1 seconds
>> Number of inversions per group: 1
>>       Admin thread SCHED_FIFO priority 4
>> 1 groups of 3 threads will be created
>>        High thread SCHED_FIFO priority 3
>>         Med thread SCHED_FIFO priority 2
>>         Low thread SCHED_OTHER nice 0
>>
>> # ./pip_stress
>>
>> In both cases, the cfs task entering  rt_mutex_setprio() is queued, so
>> dequeue_task_fair()->dequeue_entity(), which subtracts cfs_rq->min_vruntime
>> from se->vruntime, is called on it before it gets the rt prio.
>>
>> Maybe it requires a very specific use of the pthread library to provoke this
>> issue by making sure that the cfs tasks really blocks/sleeps?
> 
> Maybe one could play with rt-app to recreate such specific use case?
> 
> https://github.com/scheduler-tools/rt-app/blob/master/doc/tutorial.txt#L459

This was reproduced for me on tip of mainline by using the program at 
the end of this mail. It was run in a 2 CPU virtualbox VM. Relevant 
annotated bits of the trace:

low-prio thread vruntime is 752ms
   pi-vruntime-tes-598   [001] d...   520.572459: sched_stat_runtime: 
comm=pi-vruntime-tes pid=598 runtime=29953 [ns] vruntime=752888705 [ns]

low-prio thread waits on a_sem
   pi-vruntime-tes-598   [001] d...   520.572465: sched_switch: 
prev_comm=pi-vruntime-tes prev_pid=598 prev_prio=120 prev_state=D ==> 
next_comm=swapper/1 next_pid=0 next_prio=120

high prio thread finishes wakeup, then sleeps for 1ms
            <idle>-0     [000] dNh.   520.572483: sched_wakeup: 
comm=pi-vruntime-tes pid=597 prio=19 target_cpu=000
            <idle>-0     [000] d...   520.572486: sched_switch: 
prev_comm=swapper/0 prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=S ==> 
next_comm=pi-vruntime-tes next_pid=597 next_prio=19
   pi-vruntime-tes-597   [000] d...   520.572498: sched_switch: 
prev_comm=pi-vruntime-tes prev_pid=597 prev_prio=19 prev_state=D ==> 
next_comm=swapper/0 next_pid=0 next_prio=120

high prio thread wakes up after 1ms sleep, posts a_sem which starts to 
wake low-prio thread, then tries to grab pi_mutex, which low-prio thread has
            <idle>-0     [000] d.h.   520.573876: sched_waking: 
comm=pi-vruntime-tes pid=597 prio=19 target_cpu=000
            <idle>-0     [000] dNh.   520.573879: sched_wakeup: 
comm=pi-vruntime-tes pid=597 prio=19 target_cpu=000
            <idle>-0     [000] d...   520.573887: sched_switch: 
prev_comm=swapper/0 prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=S ==> 
next_comm=pi-vruntime-tes next_pid=597 next_prio=19
   pi-vruntime-tes-597   [000] d...   520.573895: sched_waking: 
comm=pi-vruntime-tes pid=598 prio=120 target_cpu=001

low-prio thread pid 598 gets pi_mutex priority inheritance, this happens 
while low-prio thread is in waking state
   pi-vruntime-tes-597   [000] d...   520.573911: sched_pi_setprio: 
comm=pi-vruntime-tes pid=598 oldprio=120 newprio=19

high-prio thread sleeps on pi_mutex
   pi-vruntime-tes-597   [000] d...   520.573919: sched_switch: 
prev_comm=pi-vruntime-tes prev_pid=597 prev_prio=19 prev_state=D ==> 
next_comm=swapper/0 next_pid=0 next_prio=120

low-prio thread finishes wakeup
            <idle>-0     [001] dNh.   520.573932: sched_wakeup: 
comm=pi-vruntime-tes pid=598 prio=19 target_cpu=001
            <idle>-0     [001] d...   520.573936: sched_switch: 
prev_comm=swapper/1 prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=S ==> 
next_comm=pi-vruntime-tes next_pid=598 next_prio=19

low-prio thread releases pi-mutex, loses pi boost, high-prio thread 
wakes for pi-mutex
   pi-vruntime-tes-598   [001] d...   520.573946: sched_pi_setprio: 
comm=pi-vruntime-tes pid=598 oldprio=19 newprio=120
   pi-vruntime-tes-598   [001] dN..   520.573954: sched_waking: 
comm=pi-vruntime-tes pid=597 prio=19 target_cpu=000

low-prio thread vruntime is 1505ms
   pi-vruntime-tes-598   [001] dN..   520.573966: sched_stat_runtime: 
comm=pi-vruntime-tes pid=598 runtime=20150 [ns] vruntime=1505797560 [ns]

The timing is quite sensitive since the task being boosted has to be 
caught in the TASK_WAKING state. The program:

/*
   * Test case for vruntime management during rtmutex priority inheritance
   * promotion and demotion.
   *
   * build with -lpthread
   */

#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <pthread.h>
#include <semaphore.h>
#include <sched.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>

#define ERROR_CHECK(x) \
          if (x) \
                  fprintf(stderr, "Error at line %d", __LINE__);

pthread_mutex_t pi_mutex;
sem_t a_sem;
sem_t b_sem;

void *rt_thread_func(void *arg) {
          int policy;
          int i = 0;
          cpu_set_t cpuset;

          CPU_ZERO(&cpuset);
          CPU_SET(0, &cpuset);
          ERROR_CHECK(pthread_setaffinity_np(pthread_self(), 
sizeof(cpu_set_t),
                                             &cpuset));

          while(i++ < 100) {
                  sem_wait(&b_sem);
                  usleep(1000);
                  sem_post(&a_sem);
                  pthread_mutex_lock(&pi_mutex);
                  pthread_mutex_unlock(&pi_mutex);
          }
}

void *low_prio_thread_func(void *arg) {
          int i = 0;
          cpu_set_t cpuset;

          CPU_ZERO(&cpuset);
          CPU_SET(1, &cpuset);
          ERROR_CHECK(pthread_setaffinity_np(pthread_self(), 
sizeof(cpu_set_t),
                                             &cpuset));
          while(i++ < 100) {
                  pthread_mutex_lock(&pi_mutex);
                  sem_post(&b_sem);
                  sem_wait(&a_sem);
                  pthread_mutex_unlock(&pi_mutex);
          }
}

int main()
{
          pthread_t rt_thread;
          pthread_t low_prio_thread;
          pthread_attr_t rt_thread_attrs;
          pthread_attr_t low_prio_thread_attrs;
          struct sched_param rt_thread_sched_params;
          struct sched_param low_prio_thread_sched_params;

          pthread_mutexattr_t mutex_attrs;

          sem_init(&a_sem, 0, 0);
          sem_init(&b_sem, 0, 0);

          ERROR_CHECK(pthread_mutexattr_init(&mutex_attrs));
          ERROR_CHECK(pthread_mutexattr_setprotocol(&mutex_attrs,
                                                    PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT));
          ERROR_CHECK(pthread_mutex_init(&pi_mutex, &mutex_attrs));

          rt_thread_sched_params.sched_priority = 80;
          low_prio_thread_sched_params.sched_priority = 0;

          pthread_attr_init(&rt_thread_attrs);
          pthread_attr_init(&low_prio_thread_attrs);

          ERROR_CHECK(pthread_attr_setinheritsched(&rt_thread_attrs,
                                                   PTHREAD_EXPLICIT_SCHED));
          ERROR_CHECK(pthread_attr_setinheritsched(&low_prio_thread_attrs,
                                                   PTHREAD_EXPLICIT_SCHED));

          ERROR_CHECK(pthread_attr_setschedpolicy(&rt_thread_attrs,
                                                  SCHED_FIFO));
          ERROR_CHECK(pthread_attr_setschedpolicy(&low_prio_thread_attrs,
                                                  SCHED_OTHER));

          ERROR_CHECK(pthread_attr_setschedparam(&rt_thread_attrs,
                                                 &rt_thread_sched_params));
          ERROR_CHECK(pthread_attr_setschedparam(&low_prio_thread_attrs,
  &low_prio_thread_sched_params));

          ERROR_CHECK(pthread_create(&rt_thread, &rt_thread_attrs,
                                     rt_thread_func, NULL));
          ERROR_CHECK(pthread_create(&low_prio_thread, 
&low_prio_thread_attrs,
                                     low_prio_thread_func, NULL));

          ERROR_CHECK(pthread_join(rt_thread, NULL));
          ERROR_CHECK(pthread_join(low_prio_thread, NULL));

          return 0;
}