From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from casper.infradead.org (casper.infradead.org [90.155.50.34]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 119E918C0E for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2023 14:42:23 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=casper.20170209; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version: References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=HHSsgCNjhHdFIGMQf5i+HECrKrb/KpWdhY3pLbYw1XQ=; b=shzvgZ5MR8NVHhRx3eD7xO1ViD K9qpI4RQJ/e43YTDHsUFoQYLazXH6Ge36IwmKu+3pR9fDqMliYZ2Q2cm4ci0auq3oU+ii6qr6PY2Q 1zzsnQ5ZOMuT0bX1PCilQUVKc+nm8zPy6tyr1VACKxtqHdsRZ1Psr/1uTmfTE5Zb/51y3j0I45/HK ErHKpItC8xcFt7QeAWgygfvAdsG4Q02bTNxnrt2Q0rEEz7HVwtdRW3ErwNatV7wqFaKDTLtpfuKIo pooLJSZKqsZXxTPLhChgkmKJGr0G+dfFu62+bLC4in5g7zUj09jkJGmPWsDI+T2jzzzYlpwoNcKGx W89FVHkA==; Received: from j130084.upc-j.chello.nl ([24.132.130.84] helo=noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net) by casper.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.94.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1qQTkF-0024Yq-8F; Mon, 31 Jul 2023 14:19:35 +0000 Received: from hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net (hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net [192.168.1.225]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (Client did not present a certificate) by noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9DCF6300134; Mon, 31 Jul 2023 16:19:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: by hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7BEB4203EA053; Mon, 31 Jul 2023 16:19:34 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2023 16:19:34 +0200 From: Peter Zijlstra To: Guenter Roeck Cc: Joel Fernandes , paulmck@kernel.org, Pavel Machek , Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, patches@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, shuah@kernel.org, patches@kernelci.org, lkft-triage@lists.linaro.org, jonathanh@nvidia.com, f.fainelli@gmail.com, sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com, srw@sladewatkins.net, rwarsow@gmx.de, conor@kernel.org, rcu@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: scheduler problems in -next (was: Re: [PATCH 6.4 000/227] 6.4.7-rc1 review) Message-ID: <20230731141934.GK29590@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <2cfc68cc-3a2f-4350-a711-ef0c0d8385fd@paulmck-laptop> <3da81a5c-700b-8e21-1bde-27dd3a0b8945@roeck-us.net> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: patches@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3da81a5c-700b-8e21-1bde-27dd3a0b8945@roeck-us.net> On Sat, Jul 29, 2023 at 09:00:02PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On 7/27/23 16:18, Joel Fernandes wrote: > > [ ... ] > > > > I freely confess that I am having a hard time imagining what would > > > be CPU dependent in that code. Timing, maybe? Whatever the reason, > > > I am not seeing these failures in my testing. > > > > > > So which of the following Kconfig options is defined in your .config? > > > CONFIG_TASKS_RCU, CONFIG_TASKS_RUDE_RCU, and CONFIG_TASKS_TRACE_RCU. > > > > > > If you have more than one of them, could you please apply this patch > > > and show me the corresponding console output from the resulting hang? > > > > FWIW, I am not able to repro this issue either. If a .config can be shared of the problem system, I can try it out to see if it can be reproduced on my side. > > > > I managed to bisect the problem. See bisect log below. Bisect repeated twice. > so it should be reliable. I don't really understand it, but the following > reverts fix the problem. This is on top of next-20230721 because next-20230728 > crashes immediately in my tests. > > 0caafe9b94ab (HEAD) Revert "sched/fair: Remove sched_feat(START_DEBIT)" > 518bdbd39fdb Revert "sched/fair: Add lag based placement" > a011162c3e32 Revert "sched/fair: Implement an EEVDF-like scheduling policy" > df579720bf98 Revert "sched/fair: Commit to lag based placement" > aac459a7e738 Revert "sched/smp: Use lag to simplify cross-runqueue placement" > 8d686eb173e1 Revert "sched/fair: Commit to EEVDF" > 486474c50f95 Revert "sched/debug: Rename sysctl_sched_min_granularity to sysctl_sched_base_slice" > 79e94d67d08a Revert "sched/fair: Propagate enqueue flags into place_entity()" > ae867bc97b71 (tag: next-20230721) Add linux-next specific files for 20230721 > > For context: x86 images (32 and 64 bit) in -next tend to hang at > > [ 2.309323] RCU Tasks: Setting shift to 0 and lim to 1 rcu_task_cb_adjust=1. > [ 2.311634] Running RCU-tasks wait API self tests > > The hang is not seen with every boot; it happens roughly about once every > 10 boot attempts. It is not CPU dependent as I initially thought. > > Configuration file is at http://server.roeck-us.net/qemu/x86-next/config. > Example qemu command line: Hurmph, let me see if I can reproduce on next-20230731 (not having the older next thingies around).