From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753688AbcHAM5a (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Aug 2016 08:57:30 -0400 Received: from foss.arm.com ([217.140.101.70]:33731 "EHLO foss.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753627AbcHAM5W (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Aug 2016 08:57:22 -0400 Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2016 13:57:31 +0100 From: Juri Lelli To: Tommaso Cucinotta Cc: Luca Abeni , Juri Lelli , Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] Minimally invasive deadline wrap-around bugfix for SCHED_DEADLINE cpu heap Message-ID: <20160801125731.GU22472@e106622-lin> References: <1468921493-10054-1-git-send-email-tommaso.cucinotta@sssup.it> <1468921493-10054-2-git-send-email-tommaso.cucinotta@sssup.it> <20160801114355.GT22472@e106622-lin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160801114355.GT22472@e106622-lin> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 01/08/16 12:43, Juri Lelli wrote: > Hi, > > On 19/07/16 11:44, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: > > Current code in cpudeadline.c has a bug in re-heapifying when adding a > > new element at the end of the heap, because a deadline value of 0 is > > temporarily set in the new elem, then cpudl_change_key() is called > > with the actual elem deadline as param. However, the function compares > > the new deadline to set with the one previously in the elem, which is > > 0. So, if current absolute deadlines grew so much to have negative > > values as s64, the comparison in cpudl_change_key() makes the wrong > > decision. Instead, as from dl_time_before(), the kernel should handle > > correctly abs deadlines wrap-arounds. > > > > This patch fixes the problem with a minimally invasive change that > > forces cpudl_change_key() to heapify up in this case. > > > > Cc: Peter Zijlstra > > Cc: Juri Lelli > > Cc: Luca Abeni > > Reviewed-by: Luca Abeni > > Signed-off-by: Tommaso Cucinotta > > --- > > kernel/sched/cpudeadline.c | 2 +- > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > > > diff --git a/kernel/sched/cpudeadline.c b/kernel/sched/cpudeadline.c > > index 5be5882..d418449 100644 > > --- a/kernel/sched/cpudeadline.c > > +++ b/kernel/sched/cpudeadline.c > > @@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ void cpudl_set(struct cpudl *cp, int cpu, u64 dl, int is_valid) > > > > if (old_idx == IDX_INVALID) { > > cp->size++; > > - cp->elements[cp->size - 1].dl = 0; > > + cp->elements[cp->size - 1].dl = dl; > > cp->elements[cp->size - 1].cpu = cpu; > > cp->elements[cpu].idx = cp->size - 1; > > cpudl_change_key(cp, cp->size - 1, dl); > > Looks good. I'd only change the subject to something like: > > sched/deadline: Wrap-around bugfix for cpu heap > and please remove linux-dl mailing list from future postings. It's subscribers only, and practically dead (AFAIK). Thanks, - Juri