Re: [PATCH v3] sched: Store restrict_cpus_allowed_ptr() call state

Will Deacon
2023-01-27T12:59:58Z

Hi Waiman,

On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 08:55:27PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
> The user_cpus_ptr field was originally added by commit b90ca8badbd1
> ("sched: Introduce task_struct::user_cpus_ptr to track requested
> affinity"). It was used only by arm64 arch due to possible asymmetric
> CPU setup.
>
> Since commit 8f9ea86fdf99 ("sched: Always preserve the user requested
> cpumask"), task_struct::user_cpus_ptr is repurposed to store user
> requested cpu affinity specified in the sched_setaffinity().
>
> This results in a slight performance regression on an arm64
> system when booted with "allow_mismatched_32bit_el0"
> on the command-line. The arch code will (amongst
> other things) calls force_compatible_cpus_allowed_ptr() and
> relax_compatible_cpus_allowed_ptr() when exec()'ing a 32-bit or a 64-bit
> task respectively. Now a call to relax_compatible_cpus_allowed_ptr()
> will always result in a __sched_setaffinity() call whether there is a
> previous force_compatible_cpus_allowed_ptr() call or not.
>
> In order to fix this regression, a new scheduler flag
> task_struct::cpus_allowed_restricted is now added to track if
> force_compatible_cpus_allowed_ptr() has been called before or not. This
> patch also updates the comments in force_compatible_cpus_allowed_ptr()
> and relax_compatible_cpus_allowed_ptr() and handles their interaction
> with sched_setaffinity().
>
> This patch also removes the task_user_cpus() helper. In the case of
> relax_compatible_cpus_allowed_ptr(), cpu_possible_mask as user_cpu_ptr
> masking will be performed within __sched_setaffinity() anyway.
>
> Fixes: 8f9ea86fdf99 ("sched: Always preserve the user requested cpumask")
> Reported-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
> ---
> include/linux/sched.h | 3 +++
> kernel/sched/core.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++--------
> kernel/sched/sched.h | 8 +-------
> 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

So this doesn't even build...

> diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> index bb1ee6d7bdde..d7bc809c109e 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> @@ -2999,6 +2999,10 @@ static int __set_cpus_allowed_ptr(struct task_struct *p,
> struct rq *rq;
>
> rq = task_rq_lock(p, &rf);
> +
> + if (ctx->flags & SCA_CLR_RESTRICT)
> + p->cpus_allowed_restricted = 0;
> +
> /*
> * Masking should be skipped if SCA_USER or any of the SCA_MIGRATE_*
> * flags are set.
> @@ -3025,8 +3029,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(set_cpus_allowed_ptr);
> /*
> * Change a given task's CPU affinity to the intersection of its current
> * affinity mask and @subset_mask, writing the resulting mask to @new_mask.
> - * If user_cpus_ptr is defined, use it as the basis for restricting CPU
> - * affinity or use cpu_online_mask instead.
> + * The cpus_allowed_restricted bit is set to indicate to a later
> + * relax_compatible_cpus_allowed_ptr() call to relax the cpumask.
> *
> * If the resulting mask is empty, leave the affinity unchanged and return
> * -EINVAL.
> @@ -3044,6 +3048,7 @@ static int restrict_cpus_allowed_ptr(struct task_struct *p,
> int err;
>
> rq = task_rq_lock(p, &rf);
> + p->cpus_allowed_restricted = 1;
>
> /*
> * Forcefully restricting the affinity of a deadline task is
> @@ -3055,7 +3060,8 @@ static int restrict_cpus_allowed_ptr(struct task_struct *p,
> goto err_unlock;
> }
>
> - if (!cpumask_and(new_mask, task_user_cpus(p), subset_mask)) {
> + if (p->user_cpu_ptr &&
> + !cpumask_and(new_mask, p->user_cpu_ptr, subset_mask)) {

s/user_cpu_ptr/user_cpus_ptr/

> err = -EINVAL;
> goto err_unlock;
> }
> @@ -3069,9 +3075,8 @@ static int restrict_cpus_allowed_ptr(struct task_struct *p,
>
> /*
> * Restrict the CPU affinity of task @p so that it is a subset of
> - * task_cpu_possible_mask() and point @p->user_cpus_ptr to a copy of the
> - * old affinity mask. If the resulting mask is empty, we warn and walk
> - * up the cpuset hierarchy until we find a suitable mask.
> + * task_cpu_possible_mask(). If the resulting mask is empty, we warn
> + * and walk up the cpuset hierarchy until we find a suitable mask.
> */
> void force_compatible_cpus_allowed_ptr(struct task_struct *p)
> {
> @@ -3125,11 +3130,15 @@ __sched_setaffinity(struct task_struct *p, struct affinity_context *ctx);
> void relax_compatible_cpus_allowed_ptr(struct task_struct *p)
> {
> struct affinity_context ac = {
> - .new_mask = task_user_cpus(p),
> - .flags = 0,
> + .new_mask = cpu_possible_mask;

s/;/,/

But even with those two things fixed, I'm seeing new failures in my
testing which I think are because restrict_cpus_allowed_ptr() is failing
unexpectedly when called by force_compatible_cpus_allowed_ptr().

For example, just running a 32-bit task on an asymmetric system results
in:

$ ./hello32
[ 1690.855341] Overriding affinity for process 580 (hello32) to CPUs 2-3

That then has knock-on effects such as losing track of the initial affinity
mask and not being able to restore it if the forcefully-affined 32-bit task
exec()s a 64-bit program.

Will