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From: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>, Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>,
	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>,
	Madadi Vineeth Reddy <vineethr@linux.ibm.com>,
	Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>,
	Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>,
	Jianyong Wu <jianyong.wu@outlook.com>,
	Yangyu Chen <cyy@cyyself.name>,
	Tingyin Duan <tingyin.duan@gmail.com>,
	Vern Hao <vernhao@tencent.com>, Vern Hao <haoxing990@gmail.com>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>,
	Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>,
	Aubrey Li <aubrey.li@intel.com>, Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@intel.com>,
	Chen Yu <yu.chen.surf@gmail.com>,
	Adam Li <adamli@os.amperecomputing.com>,
	Aaron Lu <ziqianlu@bytedance.com>,
	Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com>, Josh Don <joshdon@google.com>,
	Gavin Guo <gavinguo@igalia.com>,
	Qais Yousef <qyousef@layalina.io>,
	Libo Chen <libchen@purestorage.com>,
	Luo Gengkun <luogengkun2@huawei.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [Patch v4 10/16] sched/cache: Fix unpaired account_llc_enqueue/dequeue
Date: Wed, 13 May 2026 13:39:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0c8c6a1571d66792a4d2ff0103ba3cc13e059046.1778703694.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1778703694.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>

From: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>

There is a race condition that, after a task is enqueued
on a runqueue, task_llc(p) may change due to CPU hotplug,
because the llc_id is dynamically allocated and adjusted
at runtime.
Therefore, checking task_llc(p) to determine whether the
task is being dequeued from its preferred LLC is unreliable
and can cause inconsistent values.

To fix this problem, record whether p is enqueued on its
preferred LLC, in order to pair with account_llc_dequeue()
to maintain a consistent nr_pref_llc_running per runqueue.

This bug was reported by sashiko, and the solution was once
suggested by Prateek.

Fixes: 46afe3af7ead ("sched/cache: Track LLC-preferred tasks per runqueue")
Suggested-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
---
 include/linux/sched.h |  2 ++
 init/init_task.c      |  1 +
 kernel/sched/fair.c   | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 3 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 95729670929c..2c9e8e2edde1 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1410,6 +1410,8 @@ struct task_struct {
 #ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_CACHE
 	struct callback_head		cache_work;
 	int				preferred_llc;
+	/* 1: task was enqueued to its preferred LLC, 0 otherwise */
+	int				pref_llc_queued;
 #endif
 
 	struct rseq_data		rseq;
diff --git a/init/init_task.c b/init/init_task.c
index 5d90db4ff1f8..3ecd66fbd563 100644
--- a/init/init_task.c
+++ b/init/init_task.c
@@ -217,6 +217,7 @@ struct task_struct init_task __aligned(L1_CACHE_BYTES) = {
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_CACHE
 	.preferred_llc  = -1,
+	.pref_llc_queued  = 0,
 #endif
 #if defined(CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC) || defined(CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS)
 	.kasan_depth	= 1,
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 73f185ba6e48..9e6edd40cd80 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -1472,15 +1472,32 @@ static bool invalid_llc_nr(struct mm_struct *mm, struct task_struct *p,
 
 static void account_llc_enqueue(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p)
 {
+	int pref_llc, pref_llc_queued;
 	struct sched_domain *sd;
-	int pref_llc;
 
 	pref_llc = p->preferred_llc;
 	if (pref_llc < 0)
 		return;
 
+	pref_llc_queued = (pref_llc == task_llc(p));
 	rq->nr_llc_running++;
-	rq->nr_pref_llc_running += (pref_llc == task_llc(p));
+	rq->nr_pref_llc_running += pref_llc_queued;
+
+	/*
+	 * Record whether p is enqueued on its preferred
+	 * LLC, in order to pair with account_llc_dequeue()
+	 * to maintain a consistent nr_pref_llc_running per
+	 * runqueue.
+	 * This is necessary because a race condition exists:
+	 * after a task is enqueued on a runqueue, task_llc(p)
+	 * may change due to CPU hotplug. Therefore, checking
+	 * task_llc(p) to determine whether the task is being
+	 * dequeued from its preferred LLC is unreliable and
+	 * can cause inconsistent values - checking the
+	 * p->pref_llc_queued in account_llc_dequeue() would
+	 * be reliable.
+	 */
+	p->pref_llc_queued = pref_llc_queued;
 
 	sd = rcu_dereference_all(rq->sd);
 	if (sd && (unsigned int)pref_llc < sd->llc_max)
@@ -1497,7 +1514,15 @@ static void account_llc_dequeue(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p)
 		return;
 
 	rq->nr_llc_running--;
-	rq->nr_pref_llc_running -= (pref_llc == task_llc(p));
+	if (p->pref_llc_queued) {
+		rq->nr_pref_llc_running--;
+		/*
+		 * Update the status in case
+		 * other logic might query
+		 * this.
+		 */
+		p->pref_llc_queued = 0;
+	}
 
 	sd = rcu_dereference_all(rq->sd);
 	if (sd && (unsigned int)pref_llc < sd->llc_max) {
-- 
2.32.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-05-13 20:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-13 20:39 [Patch v4 00/16] Cache aware scheduling enhancements Tim Chen
2026-05-13 20:39 ` [Patch v4 01/16] sched/cache: Allow only 1 thread of the process to calculate the LLC occupancy Tim Chen
2026-05-13 20:39 ` [Patch v4 02/16] sched/cache: Disable cache aware scheduling for processes with high thread counts Tim Chen
2026-05-13 20:39 ` [Patch v4 03/16] sched/cache: Skip cache-aware scheduling for single-threaded processes Tim Chen
2026-05-13 20:39 ` [Patch v4 04/16] sched/cache: Calculate the LLC size and store it in sched_domain Tim Chen
2026-05-13 20:39 ` [Patch v4 05/16] sched/cache: Avoid cache-aware scheduling for memory-heavy processes Tim Chen
2026-05-13 20:39 ` [Patch v4 06/16] sched/cache: Add user control to adjust the aggressiveness of cache-aware scheduling Tim Chen
2026-05-13 20:39 ` [Patch v4 07/16] sched/cache: Fix rcu warning when accessing sd_llc domain Tim Chen
2026-05-13 20:39 ` [Patch v4 08/16] sched/cache: Fix potential NULL mm pointer access Tim Chen
2026-05-13 20:39 ` [Patch v4 09/16] sched/cache: Annotate lockless accesses to mm->sc_stat.cpu Tim Chen
2026-05-13 20:39 ` Tim Chen [this message]
2026-05-13 20:39 ` [Patch v4 11/16] sched/cache: Fix checking active load balance by only considering the CFS task Tim Chen
2026-05-13 20:39 ` [Patch v4 12/16] sched/cache: Fix race condition during sched domain rebuild Tim Chen
2026-05-13 20:39 ` [Patch v4 13/16] sched/cache: Fix cache aware scheduling enabling for multi LLCs system Tim Chen
2026-05-13 20:39 ` [Patch v4 14/16] sched/cache: Fix has_multi_llcs iff at least one partition has multiple LLCs Tim Chen
2026-05-13 20:39 ` [Patch v4 15/16] sched/cache: Fix possible overflow when invalidating the preferred CPU Tim Chen
2026-05-13 20:39 ` [Patch v4 16/16] sched/cache: Fix stale preferred_llc for a new task Tim Chen

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