[34-longterm 087/260] sched: Make select_fallback_rq() cpuset friendly

Paul Gortmaker
2011-01-02T08:00:20Z

From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>

commit 9084bb8246ea935b98320554229e2f371f7f52fa upstream.

Introduce cpuset_cpus_allowed_fallback() helper to fix the cpuset problems
with select_fallback_rq(). It can be called from any context and can't use
any cpuset locks including task_lock(). It is called when the task doesn't
have online cpus in ->cpus_allowed but ttwu/etc must be able to find a
suitable cpu.

I am not proud of this patch. Everything which needs such a fat comment
can't be good even if correct. But I'd prefer to not change the locking
rules in the code I hardly understand, and in any case I believe this
simple change make the code much more correct compared to deadlocks we
currently have.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20100315091027.GA9155@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
---
include/linux/cpuset.h | 7 +++++++
kernel/cpuset.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
kernel/sched.c | 4 +---
3 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/cpuset.h b/include/linux/cpuset.h
index eeaaee7..a73454a 100644
--- a/include/linux/cpuset.h
+++ b/include/linux/cpuset.h
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ extern int number_of_cpusets; /* How many cpusets are defined in system? */
extern int cpuset_init(void);
extern void cpuset_init_smp(void);
extern void cpuset_cpus_allowed(struct task_struct *p, struct cpumask *mask);
+extern int cpuset_cpus_allowed_fallback(struct task_struct *p);
extern nodemask_t cpuset_mems_allowed(struct task_struct *p);
#define cpuset_current_mems_allowed (current->mems_allowed)
void cpuset_init_current_mems_allowed(void);
@@ -101,6 +102,12 @@ static inline void cpuset_cpus_allowed(struct task_struct *p,
cpumask_copy(mask, cpu_possible_mask);
}

+static inline int cpuset_cpus_allowed_fallback(struct task_struct *p)
+{
+ cpumask_copy(&p->cpus_allowed, cpu_possible_mask);
+ return cpumask_any(cpu_active_mask);
+}
+
static inline nodemask_t cpuset_mems_allowed(struct task_struct *p)
{
return node_possible_map;
diff --git a/kernel/cpuset.c b/kernel/cpuset.c
index 9a747f5..9a50c5f 100644
--- a/kernel/cpuset.c
+++ b/kernel/cpuset.c
@@ -2188,6 +2188,48 @@ void cpuset_cpus_allowed(struct task_struct *tsk, struct cpumask *pmask)
mutex_unlock(&callback_mutex);
}

+int cpuset_cpus_allowed_fallback(struct task_struct *tsk)
+{
+ const struct cpuset *cs;
+ int cpu;
+
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ cs = task_cs(tsk);
+ if (cs)
+ cpumask_copy(&tsk->cpus_allowed, cs->cpus_allowed);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+
+ /*
+ * We own tsk->cpus_allowed, nobody can change it under us.
+ *
+ * But we used cs && cs->cpus_allowed lockless and thus can
+ * race with cgroup_attach_task() or update_cpumask() and get
+ * the wrong tsk->cpus_allowed. However, both cases imply the
+ * subsequent cpuset_change_cpumask()->set_cpus_allowed_ptr()
+ * which takes task_rq_lock().
+ *
+ * If we are called after it dropped the lock we must see all
+ * changes in tsk_cs()->cpus_allowed. Otherwise we can temporary
+ * set any mask even if it is not right from task_cs() pov,
+ * the pending set_cpus_allowed_ptr() will fix things.
+ */
+
+ cpu = cpumask_any_and(&tsk->cpus_allowed, cpu_active_mask);
+ if (cpu >= nr_cpu_ids) {
+ /*
+ * Either tsk->cpus_allowed is wrong (see above) or it
+ * is actually empty. The latter case is only possible
+ * if we are racing with remove_tasks_in_empty_cpuset().
+ * Like above we can temporary set any mask and rely on
+ * set_cpus_allowed_ptr() as synchronization point.
+ */
+ cpumask_copy(&tsk->cpus_allowed, cpu_possible_mask);
+ cpu = cpumask_any(cpu_active_mask);
+ }
+
+ return cpu;
+}
+
void cpuset_init_current_mems_allowed(void)
{
nodes_setall(current->mems_allowed);
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index cc1ba47..b969a56 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -2306,9 +2306,7 @@ static int select_fallback_rq(int cpu, struct task_struct *p)

/* No more Mr. Nice Guy. */
if (unlikely(dest_cpu >= nr_cpu_ids)) {
- cpumask_copy(&p->cpus_allowed, cpu_possible_mask);
- dest_cpu = cpumask_any(cpu_active_mask);
-
+ dest_cpu = cpuset_cpus_allowed_fallback(p);
/*
* Don't tell them about moving exiting tasks or
* kernel threads (both mm NULL), since they never
--
1.7.3.3