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From: Tianchen Ding <dtcccc@linux.alibaba.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
	Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: Fix race between yield_to() and try_to_wake_up()
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2024 13:56:03 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ea88aa65-0ddd-474f-bce1-51ea67445cf1@linux.alibaba.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241231055020.6521-1-dtcccc@linux.alibaba.com>

On 2024/12/31 13:50, Tianchen Ding wrote:
> We met a SCHED_WARN in set_next_buddy():
>    __warn_printk
>    set_next_buddy
>    yield_to_task_fair
>    yield_to
>    kvm_vcpu_yield_to [kvm]
>    ...
> 
> After a short dig, we found the rq_lock held by yield_to() may not
> be exactly the rq that the target task belongs to. There is a race
> window against try_to_wake_up().
> 
>           CPU0                             target_task
> 
>                                          blocking on CPU1
>     lock rq0 & rq1
>     double check task_rq == p_rq, ok
>                                          woken to CPU2 (lock task_pi & rq2)
>                                          task_rq = rq2
>     yield_to_task_fair (w/o lock rq2)
> 
> In this race window, yield_to() is operating the task w/o the currect
Sorry... a typo for "correct"

  reply	other threads:[~2024-12-31  6:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-12-31  5:50 [PATCH] sched: Fix race between yield_to() and try_to_wake_up() Tianchen Ding
2024-12-31  5:56 ` Tianchen Ding [this message]
2025-01-06 11:10 ` Peter Zijlstra
2025-01-15  9:17 ` [tip: sched/core] " tip-bot2 for Tianchen Ding

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