Re: [PATCH] sched: Use RCU-sched in core-scheduling balancing logic

["Li, Aubrey" <aubrey.li@linux.intel.com>]

On 2020/3/23 23:21, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 02:58:18PM +0800, Li, Aubrey wrote:
>> On 2020/3/14 8:30, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>>> On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 07:29:18PM -0400, Joel Fernandes (Google) wrote:
>>>> rcu_read_unlock() can incur an infrequent deadlock in
>>>> sched_core_balance(). Fix this by using the RCU-sched flavor instead.
>>>>
>>>> This fixes the following spinlock recursion observed when testing the
>>>> core scheduling patches on PREEMPT=y kernel on ChromeOS:
>>>>
>>>> [   14.998590] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 11s! [kworker/0:10:965]
>>>>
>>>
>>> The original could indeed deadlock, and this would avoid that deadlock.
>>> (The commit to solve this deadlock is sadly not yet in mainline.)
>>>
>>> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
>>
>> I saw this in dmesg with this patch, is it expected?
>>
>> [  117.000905] =============================
>> [  117.000907] WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
>> [  117.000911] 5.5.7+ #160 Not tainted
>> [  117.000913] -----------------------------
>> [  117.000916] kernel/sched/core.c:4747 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!
>> [  117.000918] 
>>                other info that might help us debug this:
> 
> Sigh, this is because for_each_domain() expects rcu_read_lock(). From an RCU
> PoV, the code is correct (warning doesn't cause any issue).
> 
> To silence warning, we could replace the rcu_read_lock_sched() in my patch with:
> preempt_disable();
> rcu_read_lock();
> 
> and replace the unlock with:
> 
> rcu_read_unlock();
> preempt_enable();
> 
> That should both take care of both the warning and the scheduler-related
> deadlock. Thoughts?
> 

How about this?

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index a01df3e..7ff694e 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -4743,7 +4743,6 @@ static void sched_core_balance(struct rq *rq)
 	int cpu = cpu_of(rq);
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
-	raw_spin_unlock_irq(rq_lockp(rq));
 	for_each_domain(cpu, sd) {
 		if (!(sd->flags & SD_LOAD_BALANCE))
 			break;
@@ -4754,7 +4753,6 @@ static void sched_core_balance(struct rq *rq)
 		if (steal_cookie_task(cpu, sd))
 			break;
 	}
-	raw_spin_lock_irq(rq_lockp(rq));
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 }

Thanks,
-Aubrey