Re: [PATCH 2/2] sched: Warn if we fail to migrate a task

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 08:46:48AM -0700, Paul Burton wrote:
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> index 2380bc228dd0..cda3affd45b7 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> @@ -1127,7 +1127,8 @@ static int __set_cpus_allowed_ptr(struct task_struct *p,
>  		struct migration_arg arg = { p, dest_cpu };
>  		/* Need help from migration thread: drop lock and wait. */
>  		task_rq_unlock(rq, p, &rf);
> -		stop_one_cpu(cpu_of(rq), migration_cpu_stop, &arg);
> +		ret = stop_one_cpu(cpu_of(rq), migration_cpu_stop, &arg);
> +		WARN_ON(ret);
>  		tlb_migrate_finish(p->mm);
>  		return 0;
>  	} else if (task_on_rq_queued(p)) {

I think we can trigger this at will.. Set affinity to the CPU you're
going to take offline and offline concurrently.

It is possible for the offline to happen between task_rq_unlock() and
stop_one_cpu(), at which point the WARM will then trigger.

The point is; and maybe this should be a comment somewhere; that if this
fails, there is nothing we can do about it, and it should be fixed up by
migrate_tasks()/select_task_rq().

There is no point in propagating the error to userspace, since if we'd
have slightly different timing and completed the stop_one_cpu() before
the hot-un-plug, migrate_tasks()/select_task_rq() would've had to fix up
anyway.