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* [PATCH] Revert "sched/core: Tweak wait_task_inactive() to force dequeue sched_delayed tasks"
@ 2025-09-25 13:33 Matt Fleming
  2025-09-26  0:05 ` John Stultz
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 14+ messages in thread
From: Matt Fleming @ 2025-09-25 13:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ingo Molnar, Peter Zijlstra, Juri Lelli, Vincent Guittot
  Cc: Dietmar Eggemann, Steven Rostedt, Ben Segall, Mel Gorman,
	Valentin Schneider, linux-kernel, kernel-team, Matt Fleming,
	Oleg Nesterov, John Stultz, Chris Arges, stable

From: Matt Fleming <mfleming@cloudflare.com>

This reverts commit b7ca5743a2604156d6083b88cefacef983f3a3a6.

If we dequeue a task (task B) that was sched delayed then that task is
definitely no longer on the rq and not tracked in the rbtree.
Unfortunately, task_on_rq_queued(B) will still return true because
dequeue_task() doesn't update p->on_rq.

This inconsistency can lead to tasks (task A) spinning indefinitely in
wait_task_inactive(), e.g. when delivering a fatal signal to a thread
group, because it thinks the task B is still queued (it's not) and waits
forever for it to unschedule.

          Task A                                    Task B

  arch_do_signal_or_restart()
    get_signal()
      do_coredump()
        coredump_wait()
	  zap_threads()                     arch_do_signal_or_restart()
          wait_task_inactive() <-- SPIN       get_signal()
	                                        do_group_exit()
						  do_exit()
						    coredump_task_exit()
						      schedule() <--- never comes back

Not only will task A spin forever in wait_task_inactive(), but task B
will also trigger RCU stalls:

  INFO: rcu_tasks detected stalls on tasks:
  00000000a973a4d8: .. nvcsw: 2/2 holdout: 1 idle_cpu: -1/79
  task:ffmpeg          state:I stack:0     pid:665601 tgid:665155 ppid:668691 task_flags:0x400448 flags:0x00004006
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   __schedule+0x4fb/0xbf0
   ? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f
   schedule+0x27/0xf0
   do_exit+0xdd/0xaa0
   ? __pfx_futex_wake_mark+0x10/0x10
   do_group_exit+0x30/0x80
   get_signal+0x81e/0x860
   ? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f
   ? futex_wake+0x177/0x1a0
   arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x2e/0x1f0
   ? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f
   ? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f
   ? __x64_sys_futex+0x10c/0x1d0
   syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0xa5/0x130
   do_syscall_64+0x57/0x110
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
  RIP: 0033:0x7f22d05b0f16
  RSP: 002b:00007f2265761cf0 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000ca
  RAX: fffffffffffffe00 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f22d05b0f16
  RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000189 RDI: 00005629e320d97c
  RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00000000ffffffff
  R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00005629e320d928
  R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 00005629e320d97c
   </TASK>

Fixes: b7ca5743a260 ("sched/core: Tweak wait_task_inactive() to force dequeue sched_delayed tasks")
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Cc: Chris Arges <carges@cloudflare.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.12
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <mfleming@cloudflare.com>
---
 kernel/sched/core.c | 6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index ccba6fc3c3fe..2dfc3977920d 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -2293,12 +2293,6 @@ unsigned long wait_task_inactive(struct task_struct *p, unsigned int match_state
 		 * just go back and repeat.
 		 */
 		rq = task_rq_lock(p, &rf);
-		/*
-		 * If task is sched_delayed, force dequeue it, to avoid always
-		 * hitting the tick timeout in the queued case
-		 */
-		if (p->se.sched_delayed)
-			dequeue_task(rq, p, DEQUEUE_SLEEP | DEQUEUE_DELAYED);
 		trace_sched_wait_task(p);
 		running = task_on_cpu(rq, p);
 		queued = task_on_rq_queued(p);
-- 
2.34.1


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2025-09-25 13:33 [PATCH] Revert "sched/core: Tweak wait_task_inactive() to force dequeue sched_delayed tasks" Matt Fleming
2025-09-26  0:05 ` John Stultz
2025-09-26  0:06   ` John Stultz
2025-09-26  2:43   ` K Prateek Nayak
2025-09-26 15:34     ` Matt Fleming
2025-09-29  3:53       ` K Prateek Nayak
2025-10-14 10:15         ` Matt Fleming
2025-10-15  6:03       ` [PATCH v6.12] sched/fair: Block delayed tasks on throttled hierarchy during dequeue K Prateek Nayak
2025-10-15  6:14         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2025-10-15  6:27           ` K Prateek Nayak
2025-10-15  7:27             ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2025-10-15  8:22               ` Peter Zijlstra
2025-10-23  4:03       ` [PATCH 6.17] " K Prateek Nayak
2025-09-29 10:38     ` [PATCH] Revert "sched/core: Tweak wait_task_inactive() to force dequeue sched_delayed tasks" Peter Zijlstra

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