Re: [bisected][mainline]Kernel warnings at kernel/sched/cpudeadline.c:219

[Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>]

On 10/9/25 1:30 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 08, 2025 at 11:39:11PM +0530, Shrikanth Hegde wrote:
> 
>> *It pointed to this*
>>
>> NIP [c0000000001fd798] dl_server_start+0x50/0xd8
>> LR [c0000000001d9534] enqueue_task_fair+0x228/0x8ec
>> Call Trace:
>> [c000006684a579c0] [0000000000000001] 0x1 (unreliable)
>> [c000006684a579f0] [c0000000001d9534] enqueue_task_fair+0x228/0x8ec
>> [c000006684a57a60] [c0000000001bb344] enqueue_task+0x5c/0x1c8
>> [c000006684a57aa0] [c0000000001c5fc0] ttwu_do_activate+0x98/0x2fc
>> [c000006684a57af0] [c0000000001c671c] try_to_wake_up+0x2e0/0xa60
>> [c000006684a57b80] [c00000000019fb48] kthread_park+0x7c/0xf0
>> [c000006684a57bb0] [c00000000015fefc] takedown_cpu+0x60/0x194
>> [c000006684a57c00] [c000000000161924] cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x1f4/0x9a4
>> [c000006684a57c90] [c0000000001621a4] __cpuhp_invoke_callback_range+0xd0/0x188
>> [c000006684a57d30] [c000000000165aec] _cpu_down+0x19c/0x560
>> [c000006684a57df0] [c0000000001637c0] __cpu_down_maps_locked+0x2c/0x3c
>> [c000006684a57e10] [c00000000018a100] work_for_cpu_fn+0x38/0x54
>> [c000006684a57e40] [c00000000019075c] process_one_work+0x1d8/0x554
>> [c000006684a57ef0] [c00000000019165c] worker_thread+0x308/0x46c
>> [c000006684a57f90] [c00000000019e474] kthread+0x16c/0x19c
>> [c000006684a57fe0] [c00000000000dd58] start_kernel_thread+0x14/0x18
>>
>> It is takedown_cpu called from CPU0(boot CPU) and it wakes up kthread
>> which is CPU Bound I guess.  Since happens after rq was marked
>> offline, it ends up starting the deadline server again.
>>
>> So i think it is sensible idea to stop the deadline server if the cpu
>> is going down.  Once we stop the server we will return
>> HRTIMER_NORESTART.
> 
> D'0h.. that stop was far too early.
> 
> How about moving that dl_server_stop() into sched_cpu_dying() like so.
> 
> This seems to survive a few hotplugs for me.
> 
> ---
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> index 198d2dd45f59..f1ebf67b48e2 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> @@ -8571,10 +8571,12 @@ int sched_cpu_dying(unsigned int cpu)
>   	sched_tick_stop(cpu);
>   
>   	rq_lock_irqsave(rq, &rf);
> +	update_rq_clock(rq);
>   	if (rq->nr_running != 1 || rq_has_pinned_tasks(rq)) {
>   		WARN(true, "Dying CPU not properly vacated!");
>   		dump_rq_tasks(rq, KERN_WARNING);
>   	}
> +	dl_server_stop(&rq->fair_server);
>   	rq_unlock_irqrestore(rq, &rf);
>   
>   	calc_load_migrate(rq);
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/deadline.c b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
> index 615411a0a881..7b7671060bf9 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/deadline.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
> @@ -1582,6 +1582,9 @@ void dl_server_start(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se)
>   	if (!dl_server(dl_se) || dl_se->dl_server_active)
>   		return;
>   
> +	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!cpu_online(cpu_of(rq))))
> +		return;
> +
>   	dl_se->dl_server_active = 1;
>   	enqueue_dl_entity(dl_se, ENQUEUE_WAKEUP);
>   	if (!dl_task(dl_se->rq->curr) || dl_entity_preempt(dl_se, &rq->curr->dl))

Yes. This works. no warning with drmgr or chcpu.

shall i write changelog and send it as patch?