Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] sched/core: Avoid double calling update_rq_clock()

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 04:34:50PM +0800, Hao Jia wrote:
> There are some double rq clock update warnings are triggered.
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> rq->clock_update_flags & RQCF_UPDATED
> WARNING: CPU: 17 PID: 138 at kernel/sched/core.c:741
> update_rq_clock+0xaf/0x180
> Call Trace:
>  <TASK>
>  __balance_push_cpu_stop+0x146/0x180
>  ? migration_cpu_stop+0x2a0/0x2a0
>  cpu_stopper_thread+0xa3/0x140
>  smpboot_thread_fn+0x14f/0x210
>  ? sort_range+0x20/0x20
>  kthread+0xe6/0x110
>  ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
>  ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
> 
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> rq->clock_update_flags & RQCF_UPDATED
> WARNING: CPU: 54 PID: 0 at kernel/sched/core.c:741
> update_rq_clock+0xaf/0x180
> Call Trace:
>  <TASK>
>  unthrottle_cfs_rq+0x4b/0x300
>  __cfsb_csd_unthrottle+0xe0/0x100
>  __flush_smp_call_function_queue+0xaf/0x1d0
>  flush_smp_call_function_queue+0x49/0x90
>  do_idle+0x17c/0x270
>  cpu_startup_entry+0x19/0x20
>  start_secondary+0xfa/0x120
>  secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xce/0xdb
> 
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> rq->clock_update_flags & RQCF_UPDATED
> WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 3323 at kernel/sched/core.c:741
> update_rq_clock+0xaf/0x180
> Call Trace:
>  <TASK>
>  unthrottle_cfs_rq+0x4b/0x300
>  rq_offline_fair+0x89/0x90
>  set_rq_offline.part.118+0x28/0x60
>  rq_attach_root+0xc4/0xd0
>  cpu_attach_domain+0x3dc/0x7f0
>  partition_sched_domains_locked+0x2a5/0x3c0
>  rebuild_sched_domains_locked+0x477/0x830
>  rebuild_sched_domains+0x1b/0x30
>  cpuset_hotplug_workfn+0x2ca/0xc90
>  ? balance_push+0x56/0xf0
>  ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x15/0x30
>  ? finish_task_switch+0x98/0x2f0
>  ? __switch_to+0x291/0x410
>  ? __schedule+0x65e/0x1310
>  process_one_work+0x1bc/0x3d0
>  worker_thread+0x4c/0x380
>  ? preempt_count_add+0x92/0xa0
>  ? rescuer_thread+0x310/0x310
>  kthread+0xe6/0x110
>  ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
>  ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
> 
> For the __balance_push_cpu_stop() case, we remove update_rq_clock() from
> the __migrate_task() function to avoid double updating the rq clock.
> And in order to avoid missing rq clock update, add update_rq_clock()
> call before migration_cpu_stop() calls __migrate_task().
> 
> For the unthrottle_cfs_rq() case, we use rq_clock_start_loop_update() to
> prevent multiple calls to update_rq_clock() in unthrottle_cfs_rq().
> 
> Note that the rq clock has been updated before the set_rq_offline()
> function runs, so we don't need to call update_rq_clock() in
> unthrottle_offline_cfs_rqs().

This reads like 3 separate issues -- in which case this ought to be 3
separate patches.


> diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
> index ec7b3e0a2b20..9c712f29e5a4 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
> +++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
> @@ -1536,6 +1536,27 @@ static inline void rq_clock_skip_update(struct rq *rq)
>  	rq->clock_update_flags |= RQCF_REQ_SKIP;
>  }
>  
> +/*
> + * During cpu offlining and rq wide unthrottling, we can trigger
> + * an update_rq_clock() for several cfs and rt runqueues (Typically
> + * when using list_for_each_entry_*)
> + * rq_clock_start_loop_update() can be called after updating the clock
> + * once and before iterating over the list to prevent multiple update.
> + * After the iterative traversal, we need to call rq_clock_stop_loop_update()
> + * to restore rq->clock_update_flags.
         ^^^^^^^
> + */
> +static inline void rq_clock_start_loop_update(struct rq *rq)
> +{
> +	lockdep_assert_rq_held(rq);
> +	rq->clock_update_flags |= RQCF_ACT_SKIP;
> +}
> +
> +static inline void rq_clock_stop_loop_update(struct rq *rq)
> +{
> +	lockdep_assert_rq_held(rq);
> +	rq->clock_update_flags &= ~RQCF_ACT_SKIP;
> +}

This does not restore the flag, it clears the flag.