[PATCH v2 1/2] sched/deadline: Fix warning in migrate_enable for boosted tasks

Wander Lairson Costa
2024-07-24T14:23:20Z

When running the following command:

while true; do
stress-ng --cyclic 30 --timeout 30s --minimize --quiet
done

a warning is eventually triggered:

WARNING: CPU: 43 PID: 2848 at kernel/sched/deadline.c:794
setup_new_dl_entity+0x13e/0x180
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? show_trace_log_lvl+0x1c4/0x2df
? enqueue_dl_entity+0x631/0x6e0
? setup_new_dl_entity+0x13e/0x180
? __warn+0x7e/0xd0
? report_bug+0x11a/0x1a0
? handle_bug+0x3c/0x70
? exc_invalid_op+0x14/0x70
? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20
enqueue_dl_entity+0x631/0x6e0
enqueue_task_dl+0x7d/0x120
__do_set_cpus_allowed+0xe3/0x280
__set_cpus_allowed_ptr_locked+0x140/0x1d0
__set_cpus_allowed_ptr+0x54/0xa0
migrate_enable+0x7e/0x150
rt_spin_unlock+0x1c/0x90
group_send_sig_info+0xf7/0x1a0
? kill_pid_info+0x1f/0x1d0
kill_pid_info+0x78/0x1d0
kill_proc_info+0x5b/0x110
__x64_sys_kill+0x93/0xc0
do_syscall_64+0x5c/0xf0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76
RIP: 0033:0x7f0dab31f92b

This warning occurs because set_cpus_allowed dequeues and enqueues tasks
with the ENQUEUE_RESTORE flag set. If the task is boosted, the warning
is triggered. A boosted task already had its parameters set by
rt_mutex_setprio, and a new call to setup_new_dl_entity is unnecessary,
hence the WARN_ON call.

Check if we are requeueing a boosted task and avoid calling
setup_new_dl_entity if that's the case.

Signed-off-by: Wander Lairson Costa <wander@redhat.com>
Fixes: 295d6d5e3736 ("sched/deadline: Fix switching to -deadline")

---

The initial idea for this fix was to introduce another ENQUEUE flag,
ENQUEUE_SET_CPUS_ALLOWED. When this flag was set, the deadline scheduler
would bypass the call to setup_new_dl_entity, regardless of whether the
task was boosted. However, this idea was abandoned due to the presence
of other DEQUEUE_SAVE/ENQUEUE_RESTORE pairs in the code. Ultimately, a
simpler approach was chosen, which achieves the same practical effects
without the need to create an additional flag for enqueue_task.

Signed-off-by: Wander Lairson Costa <wander@redhat.com>
---
kernel/sched/deadline.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/deadline.c b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
index f59e5c19d944..312e8fa7ce94 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/deadline.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
@@ -1753,6 +1753,7 @@ enqueue_dl_entity(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se, int flags)
} else if (flags & ENQUEUE_REPLENISH) {
replenish_dl_entity(dl_se);
} else if ((flags & ENQUEUE_RESTORE) &&
+ !is_dl_boosted(dl_se) &&
dl_time_before(dl_se->deadline, rq_clock(rq_of_dl_se(dl_se)))) {
setup_new_dl_entity(dl_se);
}
--
2.45.2