Re: [PATCH v6 1/2] sched/rt: fix bad task migration for rt tasks

Dietmar Eggemann
2022-07-13T09:44:17Z

On 12/07/2022 17:35, Schspa Shi wrote:
>
> Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> writes:
>
>> On 12/07/2022 17:05, Schspa Shi wrote:

[...]

>> What code-base is this?
>
> This is the logs from 5.10.59-rt
> Link: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rt/linux-stable-rt.git
> v5.10.59-rt52 (9007b684f615750b0ee4ec57b5e547a4bf4a223e).

Thanks.

>> IMHO, currently this `WARN_ON_ONCE(is_migration_disabled(p))` in
>> set_task_cpu() is at > line 3000.
>>
>
> But the master code have this BUG too.

I see. It's just that need_to_push in task_woken_rt() triggers
push_rt_tasks() much more often on preempt-rt.

[...]

>>> diff --git a/kernel/sched/rt.c b/kernel/sched/rt.c
>>> index 8c9ed96648409..7bd3e6ecbe45e 100644
>>> --- a/kernel/sched/rt.c
>>> +++ b/kernel/sched/rt.c
>>> @@ -1998,11 +1998,15 @@ static struct rq *find_lock_lowest_rq(struct task_struct *task, struct rq *rq)
>>> * the mean time, task could have
>>> * migrated already or had its affinity changed.
>>> * Also make sure that it wasn't scheduled on its rq.
>>> + * It is possible the task was scheduled, set
>>> + * "migrate_disabled" and then got preempted, so we must
>>> + * check the task migration disable flag here too.
>>> */
>>> if (unlikely(task_rq(task) != rq ||
>>> !cpumask_test_cpu(lowest_rq->cpu, &task->cpus_mask) ||
>>> task_running(rq, task) ||
>>> !rt_task(task) ||
>>> + is_migration_disabled(task) ||
>>
>> I wonder why this isn't covered by `task_rq(task) != rq` in this condition?
>>
>
> It's because thie task is not migrated, it just get scheduled and
> calling migrate_disable(); and then got preempted by it's CPU core
> before enable migrate_enable(). the task_rq not changed in this
> scenarios.

Yes, get it now. Essentially we need `current CPU (CPU0) != rq->cpu
(CPU1)`. Now I see that you had the discussion with Steven already on v3 ;-)