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From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
To: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: net/sched: latent livelock in dev_deactivate_many() due to yield() usage
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2017 06:28:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1491107321.13631.33.camel@gmx.de> (raw)

Greetings network wizards,

Quoting kernel/sched/core.c:
/**
 * yield - yield the current processor to other threads.
 *
 * Do not ever use this function, there's a 99% chance you're doing it wrong.
 *
 * The scheduler is at all times free to pick the calling task as the most
 * eligible task to run, if removing the yield() call from your code breaks
 * it, its already broken.
 *
 * Typical broken usage is:
 *
 * while (!event)
 *	yield();
 *
 * where one assumes that yield() will let 'the other' process run that will
 * make event true. If the current task is a SCHED_FIFO task that will never
 * happen. Never use yield() as a progress guarantee!!
 *
 * If you want to use yield() to wait for something, use wait_event().
 * If you want to use yield() to be 'nice' for others, use cond_resched().
 * If you still want to use yield(), do not!
 */

Livelock can be triggered by setting kworkers to SCHED_FIFO, then
suspend/resume.. you come back from sleepy-land with a spinning
kworker.  For whatever reason, I can only do that with an enterprise
like config, my standard config refuses to play, but no matter, it's
"Typical broken usage".

(yield() should be rendered dead)

	-Mike

             reply	other threads:[~2017-04-02  4:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-02  4:28 Mike Galbraith [this message]
2017-04-04 22:39 ` net/sched: latent livelock in dev_deactivate_many() due to yield() usage Cong Wang
2017-04-05  3:20   ` Mike Galbraith
2017-04-05  5:25     ` Cong Wang
2017-04-05  6:12       ` Mike Galbraith
2017-04-05 23:55         ` Cong Wang
2017-04-06  1:08           ` Mike Galbraith
2017-04-06 10:26       ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-04-06  0:31 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-04-06  1:28   ` Mike Galbraith
2017-04-06 10:28   ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-04-06 11:08     ` Peter Zijlstra

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