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<title>sched/rt: Restore rt_runtime after disabling RT_RUNTIME_SHARE</title>
<updated>2018-07-25T09:29:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hailong Liu</name>
<email>liu.hailong6@zte.com.cn</email>
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<published>2018-07-18T00:46:55+00:00</published>
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NO_RT_RUNTIME_SHARE feature is used to prevent a CPU borrow enough
runtime with a spin-rt-task.

However, if RT_RUNTIME_SHARE feature is enabled and rt_rq has borrowd
enough rt_runtime at the beginning, rt_runtime can't be restored to
its initial bandwidth rt_runtime after we disable RT_RUNTIME_SHARE.

E.g. on my PC with 4 cores, procedure to reproduce:
1) Make sure  RT_RUNTIME_SHARE is enabled
 cat /sys/kernel/debug/sched_features
  GENTLE_FAIR_SLEEPERS START_DEBIT NO_NEXT_BUDDY LAST_BUDDY
  CACHE_HOT_BUDDY WAKEUP_PREEMPTION NO_HRTICK NO_DOUBLE_TICK
  LB_BIAS NONTASK_CAPACITY TTWU_QUEUE NO_SIS_AVG_CPU SIS_PROP
  NO_WARN_DOUBLE_CLOCK RT_PUSH_IPI RT_RUNTIME_SHARE NO_LB_MIN
  ATTACH_AGE_LOAD WA_IDLE WA_WEIGHT WA_BIAS
2) Start a spin-rt-task
 ./loop_rr &amp;
3) set affinity to the last cpu
 taskset -p 8 $pid_of_loop_rr
4) Observe that last cpu have borrowed enough runtime.
 cat /proc/sched_debug | grep rt_runtime
  .rt_runtime                    : 950.000000
  .rt_runtime                    : 900.000000
  .rt_runtime                    : 950.000000
  .rt_runtime                    : 1000.000000
5) Disable RT_RUNTIME_SHARE
 echo NO_RT_RUNTIME_SHARE &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/sched_features
6) Observe that rt_runtime can not been restored
 cat /proc/sched_debug | grep rt_runtime
  .rt_runtime                    : 950.000000
  .rt_runtime                    : 900.000000
  .rt_runtime                    : 950.000000
  .rt_runtime                    : 1000.000000

This patch help to restore rt_runtime after we disable
RT_RUNTIME_SHARE.

Signed-off-by: Hailong Liu &lt;liu.hailong6@zte.com.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiang Biao &lt;jiang.biao2@zte.com.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: zhong.weidong@zte.com.cn
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1531874815-39357-1-git-send-email-liu.hailong6@zte.com.cn
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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NO_RT_RUNTIME_SHARE feature is used to prevent a CPU borrow enough
runtime with a spin-rt-task.

However, if RT_RUNTIME_SHARE feature is enabled and rt_rq has borrowd
enough rt_runtime at the beginning, rt_runtime can't be restored to
its initial bandwidth rt_runtime after we disable RT_RUNTIME_SHARE.

E.g. on my PC with 4 cores, procedure to reproduce:
1) Make sure  RT_RUNTIME_SHARE is enabled
 cat /sys/kernel/debug/sched_features
  GENTLE_FAIR_SLEEPERS START_DEBIT NO_NEXT_BUDDY LAST_BUDDY
  CACHE_HOT_BUDDY WAKEUP_PREEMPTION NO_HRTICK NO_DOUBLE_TICK
  LB_BIAS NONTASK_CAPACITY TTWU_QUEUE NO_SIS_AVG_CPU SIS_PROP
  NO_WARN_DOUBLE_CLOCK RT_PUSH_IPI RT_RUNTIME_SHARE NO_LB_MIN
  ATTACH_AGE_LOAD WA_IDLE WA_WEIGHT WA_BIAS
2) Start a spin-rt-task
 ./loop_rr &amp;
3) set affinity to the last cpu
 taskset -p 8 $pid_of_loop_rr
4) Observe that last cpu have borrowed enough runtime.
 cat /proc/sched_debug | grep rt_runtime
  .rt_runtime                    : 950.000000
  .rt_runtime                    : 900.000000
  .rt_runtime                    : 950.000000
  .rt_runtime                    : 1000.000000
5) Disable RT_RUNTIME_SHARE
 echo NO_RT_RUNTIME_SHARE &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/sched_features
6) Observe that rt_runtime can not been restored
 cat /proc/sched_debug | grep rt_runtime
  .rt_runtime                    : 950.000000
  .rt_runtime                    : 900.000000
  .rt_runtime                    : 950.000000
  .rt_runtime                    : 1000.000000

This patch help to restore rt_runtime after we disable
RT_RUNTIME_SHARE.

Signed-off-by: Hailong Liu &lt;liu.hailong6@zte.com.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiang Biao &lt;jiang.biao2@zte.com.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: zhong.weidong@zte.com.cn
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1531874815-39357-1-git-send-email-liu.hailong6@zte.com.cn
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sched/deadline: Update rq_clock of later_rq when pushing a task</title>
<updated>2018-07-25T09:29:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Bristot de Oliveira</name>
<email>bristot@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-20T09:16:30+00:00</published>
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Daniel Casini got this warn while running a DL task here at RetisLab:

  [  461.137582] ------------[ cut here ]------------
  [  461.137583] rq-&gt;clock_update_flags &lt; RQCF_ACT_SKIP
  [  461.137599] WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 2354 at kernel/sched/sched.h:967 assert_clock_updated.isra.32.part.33+0x17/0x20
      [a ton of modules]
  [  461.137646] CPU: 4 PID: 2354 Comm: label_image Not tainted 4.18.0-rc4+ #3
  [  461.137647] Hardware name: ASUS All Series/Z87-K, BIOS 0801 09/02/2013
  [  461.137649] RIP: 0010:assert_clock_updated.isra.32.part.33+0x17/0x20
  [  461.137649] Code: ff 48 89 83 08 09 00 00 eb c6 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 55 48 c7 c7 98 7a 6c a5 c6 05 bc 0d 54 01 01 48 89 e5 e8 a9 84 fb ff &lt;0f&gt; 0b 5d c3 0f 1f 44 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 83 7e 60 01 74 0a 48 3b
  [  461.137673] RSP: 0018:ffffa77e08cafc68 EFLAGS: 00010082
  [  461.137674] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8b3fc1702d80 RCX: 0000000000000006
  [  461.137674] RDX: 0000000000000007 RSI: 0000000000000096 RDI: ffff8b3fded164b0
  [  461.137675] RBP: ffffa77e08cafc68 R08: 0000000000000026 R09: 0000000000000339
  [  461.137676] R10: ffff8b3fd060d410 R11: 0000000000000026 R12: ffffffffa4e14e20
  [  461.137677] R13: ffff8b3fdec22940 R14: ffff8b3fc1702da0 R15: ffff8b3fdec22940
  [  461.137678] FS:  00007efe43ee5700(0000) GS:ffff8b3fded00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  [  461.137679] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  [  461.137680] CR2: 00007efe30000010 CR3: 0000000301744003 CR4: 00000000001606e0
  [  461.137680] Call Trace:
  [  461.137684]  push_dl_task.part.46+0x3bc/0x460
  [  461.137686]  task_woken_dl+0x60/0x80
  [  461.137689]  ttwu_do_wakeup+0x4f/0x150
  [  461.137690]  ttwu_do_activate+0x77/0x80
  [  461.137692]  try_to_wake_up+0x1d6/0x4c0
  [  461.137693]  wake_up_q+0x32/0x70
  [  461.137696]  do_futex+0x7e7/0xb50
  [  461.137698]  __x64_sys_futex+0x8b/0x180
  [  461.137701]  do_syscall_64+0x5a/0x110
  [  461.137703]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
  [  461.137705] RIP: 0033:0x7efe4918ca26
  [  461.137705] Code: 00 00 00 74 17 49 8b 48 20 44 8b 59 10 41 83 e3 30 41 83 fb 20 74 1e be 85 00 00 00 41 ba 01 00 00 00 41 b9 01 00 00 04 0f 05 &lt;48&gt; 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 1f 31 c0 c3 be 8c 00 00 00 49 89 c8 4d 31 d2
  [  461.137738] RSP: 002b:00007efe43ee4928 EFLAGS: 00000283 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000ca
  [  461.137739] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000005094df0 RCX: 00007efe4918ca26
  [  461.137740] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000085 RDI: 0000000005094e24
  [  461.137741] RBP: 00007efe43ee49c0 R08: 0000000005094e20 R09: 0000000004000001
  [  461.137741] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000283 R12: 0000000000000000
  [  461.137742] R13: 0000000005094df8 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000448a10
  [  461.137743] ---[ end trace 187df4cad2bf7649 ]---

This warning happened in the push_dl_task(), because
__add_running_bw()-&gt;cpufreq_update_util() is getting the rq_clock of
the later_rq before its update, which takes place at activate_task().
The fix then is to update the rq_clock before calling add_running_bw().

To avoid double rq_clock_update() call, we set ENQUEUE_NOCLOCK flag to
activate_task().

Reported-by: Daniel Casini &lt;daniel.casini@santannapisa.it&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Clark Williams &lt;williams@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Luca Abeni &lt;luca.abeni@santannapisa.it&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tommaso Cucinotta &lt;tommaso.cucinotta@santannapisa.it&gt;
Fixes: e0367b12674b sched/deadline: Move CPU frequency selection triggering points
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ca31d073a4788acf0684a8b255f14fea775ccf20.1532077269.git.bristot@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Daniel Casini got this warn while running a DL task here at RetisLab:

  [  461.137582] ------------[ cut here ]------------
  [  461.137583] rq-&gt;clock_update_flags &lt; RQCF_ACT_SKIP
  [  461.137599] WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 2354 at kernel/sched/sched.h:967 assert_clock_updated.isra.32.part.33+0x17/0x20
      [a ton of modules]
  [  461.137646] CPU: 4 PID: 2354 Comm: label_image Not tainted 4.18.0-rc4+ #3
  [  461.137647] Hardware name: ASUS All Series/Z87-K, BIOS 0801 09/02/2013
  [  461.137649] RIP: 0010:assert_clock_updated.isra.32.part.33+0x17/0x20
  [  461.137649] Code: ff 48 89 83 08 09 00 00 eb c6 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 55 48 c7 c7 98 7a 6c a5 c6 05 bc 0d 54 01 01 48 89 e5 e8 a9 84 fb ff &lt;0f&gt; 0b 5d c3 0f 1f 44 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 83 7e 60 01 74 0a 48 3b
  [  461.137673] RSP: 0018:ffffa77e08cafc68 EFLAGS: 00010082
  [  461.137674] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8b3fc1702d80 RCX: 0000000000000006
  [  461.137674] RDX: 0000000000000007 RSI: 0000000000000096 RDI: ffff8b3fded164b0
  [  461.137675] RBP: ffffa77e08cafc68 R08: 0000000000000026 R09: 0000000000000339
  [  461.137676] R10: ffff8b3fd060d410 R11: 0000000000000026 R12: ffffffffa4e14e20
  [  461.137677] R13: ffff8b3fdec22940 R14: ffff8b3fc1702da0 R15: ffff8b3fdec22940
  [  461.137678] FS:  00007efe43ee5700(0000) GS:ffff8b3fded00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  [  461.137679] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  [  461.137680] CR2: 00007efe30000010 CR3: 0000000301744003 CR4: 00000000001606e0
  [  461.137680] Call Trace:
  [  461.137684]  push_dl_task.part.46+0x3bc/0x460
  [  461.137686]  task_woken_dl+0x60/0x80
  [  461.137689]  ttwu_do_wakeup+0x4f/0x150
  [  461.137690]  ttwu_do_activate+0x77/0x80
  [  461.137692]  try_to_wake_up+0x1d6/0x4c0
  [  461.137693]  wake_up_q+0x32/0x70
  [  461.137696]  do_futex+0x7e7/0xb50
  [  461.137698]  __x64_sys_futex+0x8b/0x180
  [  461.137701]  do_syscall_64+0x5a/0x110
  [  461.137703]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
  [  461.137705] RIP: 0033:0x7efe4918ca26
  [  461.137705] Code: 00 00 00 74 17 49 8b 48 20 44 8b 59 10 41 83 e3 30 41 83 fb 20 74 1e be 85 00 00 00 41 ba 01 00 00 00 41 b9 01 00 00 04 0f 05 &lt;48&gt; 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 1f 31 c0 c3 be 8c 00 00 00 49 89 c8 4d 31 d2
  [  461.137738] RSP: 002b:00007efe43ee4928 EFLAGS: 00000283 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000ca
  [  461.137739] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000005094df0 RCX: 00007efe4918ca26
  [  461.137740] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000085 RDI: 0000000005094e24
  [  461.137741] RBP: 00007efe43ee49c0 R08: 0000000005094e20 R09: 0000000004000001
  [  461.137741] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000283 R12: 0000000000000000
  [  461.137742] R13: 0000000005094df8 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000448a10
  [  461.137743] ---[ end trace 187df4cad2bf7649 ]---

This warning happened in the push_dl_task(), because
__add_running_bw()-&gt;cpufreq_update_util() is getting the rq_clock of
the later_rq before its update, which takes place at activate_task().
The fix then is to update the rq_clock before calling add_running_bw().

To avoid double rq_clock_update() call, we set ENQUEUE_NOCLOCK flag to
activate_task().

Reported-by: Daniel Casini &lt;daniel.casini@santannapisa.it&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Clark Williams &lt;williams@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Luca Abeni &lt;luca.abeni@santannapisa.it&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tommaso Cucinotta &lt;tommaso.cucinotta@santannapisa.it&gt;
Fixes: e0367b12674b sched/deadline: Move CPU frequency selection triggering points
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ca31d073a4788acf0684a8b255f14fea775ccf20.1532077269.git.bristot@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/topology: Check variable group before dereferencing it</title>
<updated>2018-07-25T09:25:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yi Wang</name>
<email>wang.yi59@zte.com.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-23T04:19:07+00:00</published>
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The 'group' variable in sched_domain_debug_one() is not checked
when firstly used in cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, sched_group_span(group)),
but it might be NULL (it is checked later in the following while loop)
and may cause NULL pointer dereference.

We need to check it before using to avoid NULL dereference.

Signed-off-by: Yi Wang &lt;wang.yi59@zte.com.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiang Biao &lt;jiang.biao2@zte.com.cn&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: zhong.weidong@zte.com.cn
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1532319547-33335-1-git-send-email-wang.yi59@zte.com.cn
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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The 'group' variable in sched_domain_debug_one() is not checked
when firstly used in cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, sched_group_span(group)),
but it might be NULL (it is checked later in the following while loop)
and may cause NULL pointer dereference.

We need to check it before using to avoid NULL dereference.

Signed-off-by: Yi Wang &lt;wang.yi59@zte.com.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiang Biao &lt;jiang.biao2@zte.com.cn&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: zhong.weidong@zte.com.cn
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1532319547-33335-1-git-send-email-wang.yi59@zte.com.cn
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sched/deadline: Fix switched_from_dl() warning</title>
<updated>2018-07-15T21:47:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Juri Lelli</name>
<email>juri.lelli@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-11T07:29:48+00:00</published>
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Mark noticed that syzkaller is able to reliably trigger the following warning:

  dl_rq-&gt;running_bw &gt; dl_rq-&gt;this_bw
  WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 153 at kernel/sched/deadline.c:124 switched_from_dl+0x454/0x608
  Kernel panic - not syncing: panic_on_warn set ...

  CPU: 1 PID: 153 Comm: syz-executor253 Not tainted 4.18.0-rc3+ #29
  Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
  Call trace:
   dump_backtrace+0x0/0x458
   show_stack+0x20/0x30
   dump_stack+0x180/0x250
   panic+0x2dc/0x4ec
   __warn_printk+0x0/0x150
   report_bug+0x228/0x2d8
   bug_handler+0xa0/0x1a0
   brk_handler+0x2f0/0x568
   do_debug_exception+0x1bc/0x5d0
   el1_dbg+0x18/0x78
   switched_from_dl+0x454/0x608
   __sched_setscheduler+0x8cc/0x2018
   sys_sched_setattr+0x340/0x758
   el0_svc_naked+0x30/0x34

syzkaller reproducer runs a bunch of threads that constantly switch
between DEADLINE and NORMAL classes while interacting through futexes.

The splat above is caused by the fact that if a DEADLINE task is setattr
back to NORMAL while in non_contending state (blocked on a futex -
inactive timer armed), its contribution to running_bw is not removed
before sub_rq_bw() gets called (!task_on_rq_queued() branch) and the
latter sees running_bw &gt; this_bw.

Fix it by removing a task contribution from running_bw if the task is
not queued and in non_contending state while switched to a different
class.

Reported-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Luca Abeni &lt;luca.abeni@santannapisa.it&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: claudio@evidence.eu.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180711072948.27061-1-juri.lelli@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Mark noticed that syzkaller is able to reliably trigger the following warning:

  dl_rq-&gt;running_bw &gt; dl_rq-&gt;this_bw
  WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 153 at kernel/sched/deadline.c:124 switched_from_dl+0x454/0x608
  Kernel panic - not syncing: panic_on_warn set ...

  CPU: 1 PID: 153 Comm: syz-executor253 Not tainted 4.18.0-rc3+ #29
  Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
  Call trace:
   dump_backtrace+0x0/0x458
   show_stack+0x20/0x30
   dump_stack+0x180/0x250
   panic+0x2dc/0x4ec
   __warn_printk+0x0/0x150
   report_bug+0x228/0x2d8
   bug_handler+0xa0/0x1a0
   brk_handler+0x2f0/0x568
   do_debug_exception+0x1bc/0x5d0
   el1_dbg+0x18/0x78
   switched_from_dl+0x454/0x608
   __sched_setscheduler+0x8cc/0x2018
   sys_sched_setattr+0x340/0x758
   el0_svc_naked+0x30/0x34

syzkaller reproducer runs a bunch of threads that constantly switch
between DEADLINE and NORMAL classes while interacting through futexes.

The splat above is caused by the fact that if a DEADLINE task is setattr
back to NORMAL while in non_contending state (blocked on a futex -
inactive timer armed), its contribution to running_bw is not removed
before sub_rq_bw() gets called (!task_on_rq_queued() branch) and the
latter sees running_bw &gt; this_bw.

Fix it by removing a task contribution from running_bw if the task is
not queued and in non_contending state while switched to a different
class.

Reported-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Luca Abeni &lt;luca.abeni@santannapisa.it&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: claudio@evidence.eu.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180711072948.27061-1-juri.lelli@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kthread, sched/core: Fix kthread_parkme() (again...)</title>
<updated>2018-07-03T07:17:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-07T09:45:49+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=1cef1150ef40ec52f507436a14230cbc2623299c'/>
<id>1cef1150ef40ec52f507436a14230cbc2623299c</id>
<content type='text'>
Gaurav reports that commit:

  85f1abe0019f ("kthread, sched/wait: Fix kthread_parkme() completion issue")

isn't working for him. Because of the following race:

&gt; controller Thread                               CPUHP Thread
&gt; takedown_cpu
&gt; kthread_park
&gt; kthread_parkme
&gt; Set KTHREAD_SHOULD_PARK
&gt;                                                 smpboot_thread_fn
&gt;                                                 set Task interruptible
&gt;
&gt;
&gt; wake_up_process
&gt;  if (!(p-&gt;state &amp; state))
&gt;                 goto out;
&gt;
&gt;                                                 Kthread_parkme
&gt;                                                 SET TASK_PARKED
&gt;                                                 schedule
&gt;                                                 raw_spin_lock(&amp;rq-&gt;lock)
&gt; ttwu_remote
&gt; waiting for __task_rq_lock
&gt;                                                 context_switch
&gt;
&gt;                                                 finish_lock_switch
&gt;
&gt;
&gt;
&gt;                                                 Case TASK_PARKED
&gt;                                                 kthread_park_complete
&gt;
&gt;
&gt; SET Running

Furthermore, Oleg noticed that the whole scheduler TASK_PARKED
handling is buggered because the TASK_DEAD thing is done with
preemption disabled, the current code can still complete early on
preemption :/

So basically revert that earlier fix and go with a variant of the
alternative mentioned in the commit. Promote TASK_PARKED to special
state to avoid the store-store issue on task-&gt;state leading to the
WARN in kthread_unpark() -&gt; __kthread_bind().

But in addition, add wait_task_inactive() to kthread_park() to ensure
the task really is PARKED when we return from kthread_park(). This
avoids the whole kthread still gets migrated nonsense -- although it
would be really good to get this done differently.

Reported-by: Gaurav Kohli &lt;gkohli@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Fixes: 85f1abe0019f ("kthread, sched/wait: Fix kthread_parkme() completion issue")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Gaurav reports that commit:

  85f1abe0019f ("kthread, sched/wait: Fix kthread_parkme() completion issue")

isn't working for him. Because of the following race:

&gt; controller Thread                               CPUHP Thread
&gt; takedown_cpu
&gt; kthread_park
&gt; kthread_parkme
&gt; Set KTHREAD_SHOULD_PARK
&gt;                                                 smpboot_thread_fn
&gt;                                                 set Task interruptible
&gt;
&gt;
&gt; wake_up_process
&gt;  if (!(p-&gt;state &amp; state))
&gt;                 goto out;
&gt;
&gt;                                                 Kthread_parkme
&gt;                                                 SET TASK_PARKED
&gt;                                                 schedule
&gt;                                                 raw_spin_lock(&amp;rq-&gt;lock)
&gt; ttwu_remote
&gt; waiting for __task_rq_lock
&gt;                                                 context_switch
&gt;
&gt;                                                 finish_lock_switch
&gt;
&gt;
&gt;
&gt;                                                 Case TASK_PARKED
&gt;                                                 kthread_park_complete
&gt;
&gt;
&gt; SET Running

Furthermore, Oleg noticed that the whole scheduler TASK_PARKED
handling is buggered because the TASK_DEAD thing is done with
preemption disabled, the current code can still complete early on
preemption :/

So basically revert that earlier fix and go with a variant of the
alternative mentioned in the commit. Promote TASK_PARKED to special
state to avoid the store-store issue on task-&gt;state leading to the
WARN in kthread_unpark() -&gt; __kthread_bind().

But in addition, add wait_task_inactive() to kthread_park() to ensure
the task really is PARKED when we return from kthread_park(). This
avoids the whole kthread still gets migrated nonsense -- although it
would be really good to get this done differently.

Reported-by: Gaurav Kohli &lt;gkohli@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Fixes: 85f1abe0019f ("kthread, sched/wait: Fix kthread_parkme() completion issue")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/util_est: Fix util_est_dequeue() for throttled cfs_rq</title>
<updated>2018-07-03T07:17:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vincent Guittot</name>
<email>vincent.guittot@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-14T10:33:00+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=3482d98bbc730758b63a5d1cf41d05ea17481412'/>
<id>3482d98bbc730758b63a5d1cf41d05ea17481412</id>
<content type='text'>
When a cfs_rq is throttled, parent cfs_rq-&gt;nr_running is decreased and
everything happens at cfs_rq level. Currently util_est stays unchanged
in such case and it keeps accounting the utilization of throttled tasks.
This can somewhat make sense as we don't dequeue tasks but only throttled
cfs_rq.

If a task of another group is enqueued/dequeued and root cfs_rq becomes
idle during the dequeue, util_est will be cleared whereas it was
accounting util_est of throttled tasks before. So the behavior of util_est
is not always the same regarding throttled tasks and depends of side
activity. Furthermore, util_est will not be updated when the cfs_rq is
unthrottled as everything happens at cfs_rq level. Main results is that
util_est will stay null whereas we now have running tasks. We have to wait
for the next dequeue/enqueue of the previously throttled tasks to get an
up to date util_est.

Remove the assumption that cfs_rq's estimated utilization of a CPU is 0
if there is no running task so the util_est of a task remains until the
latter is dequeued even if its cfs_rq has been throttled.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Patrick Bellasi &lt;patrick.bellasi@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Fixes: 7f65ea42eb00 ("sched/fair: Add util_est on top of PELT")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1528972380-16268-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
When a cfs_rq is throttled, parent cfs_rq-&gt;nr_running is decreased and
everything happens at cfs_rq level. Currently util_est stays unchanged
in such case and it keeps accounting the utilization of throttled tasks.
This can somewhat make sense as we don't dequeue tasks but only throttled
cfs_rq.

If a task of another group is enqueued/dequeued and root cfs_rq becomes
idle during the dequeue, util_est will be cleared whereas it was
accounting util_est of throttled tasks before. So the behavior of util_est
is not always the same regarding throttled tasks and depends of side
activity. Furthermore, util_est will not be updated when the cfs_rq is
unthrottled as everything happens at cfs_rq level. Main results is that
util_est will stay null whereas we now have running tasks. We have to wait
for the next dequeue/enqueue of the previously throttled tasks to get an
up to date util_est.

Remove the assumption that cfs_rq's estimated utilization of a CPU is 0
if there is no running task so the util_est of a task remains until the
latter is dequeued even if its cfs_rq has been throttled.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Patrick Bellasi &lt;patrick.bellasi@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Fixes: 7f65ea42eb00 ("sched/fair: Add util_est on top of PELT")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1528972380-16268-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/fair: Advance global expiration when period timer is restarted</title>
<updated>2018-07-03T07:17:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xunlei Pang</name>
<email>xlpang@linux.alibaba.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-20T10:18:34+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=f1d1be8aee6c461652aea8f58bedebaa73d7f4d3'/>
<id>f1d1be8aee6c461652aea8f58bedebaa73d7f4d3</id>
<content type='text'>
When period gets restarted after some idle time, start_cfs_bandwidth()
doesn't update the expiration information, expire_cfs_rq_runtime() will
see cfs_rq-&gt;runtime_expires smaller than rq clock and go to the clock
drift logic, wasting needless CPU cycles on the scheduler hot path.

Update the global expiration in start_cfs_bandwidth() to avoid frequent
expire_cfs_rq_runtime() calls once a new period begins.

Signed-off-by: Xunlei Pang &lt;xlpang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ben Segall &lt;bsegall@google.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180620101834.24455-2-xlpang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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When period gets restarted after some idle time, start_cfs_bandwidth()
doesn't update the expiration information, expire_cfs_rq_runtime() will
see cfs_rq-&gt;runtime_expires smaller than rq clock and go to the clock
drift logic, wasting needless CPU cycles on the scheduler hot path.

Update the global expiration in start_cfs_bandwidth() to avoid frequent
expire_cfs_rq_runtime() calls once a new period begins.

Signed-off-by: Xunlei Pang &lt;xlpang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ben Segall &lt;bsegall@google.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180620101834.24455-2-xlpang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/fair: Fix bandwidth timer clock drift condition</title>
<updated>2018-07-03T07:17:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xunlei Pang</name>
<email>xlpang@linux.alibaba.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-20T10:18:33+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=512ac999d2755d2b7109e996a76b6fb8b888631d'/>
<id>512ac999d2755d2b7109e996a76b6fb8b888631d</id>
<content type='text'>
I noticed that cgroup task groups constantly get throttled even
if they have low CPU usage, this causes some jitters on the response
time to some of our business containers when enabling CPU quotas.

It's very simple to reproduce:

  mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/test
  cd /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/test
  echo 100000 &gt; cpu.cfs_quota_us
  echo $$ &gt; tasks

then repeat:

  cat cpu.stat | grep nr_throttled  # nr_throttled will increase steadily

After some analysis, we found that cfs_rq::runtime_remaining will
be cleared by expire_cfs_rq_runtime() due to two equal but stale
"cfs_{b|q}-&gt;runtime_expires" after period timer is re-armed.

The current condition to judge clock drift in expire_cfs_rq_runtime()
is wrong, the two runtime_expires are actually the same when clock
drift happens, so this condtion can never hit. The orginal design was
correctly done by this commit:

  a9cf55b28610 ("sched: Expire invalid runtime")

... but was changed to be the current implementation due to its locking bug.

This patch introduces another way, it adds a new field in both structures
cfs_rq and cfs_bandwidth to record the expiration update sequence, and
uses them to figure out if clock drift happens (true if they are equal).

Signed-off-by: Xunlei Pang &lt;xlpang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ben Segall &lt;bsegall@google.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Fixes: 51f2176d74ac ("sched/fair: Fix unlocked reads of some cfs_b-&gt;quota/period")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180620101834.24455-1-xlpang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
I noticed that cgroup task groups constantly get throttled even
if they have low CPU usage, this causes some jitters on the response
time to some of our business containers when enabling CPU quotas.

It's very simple to reproduce:

  mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/test
  cd /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/test
  echo 100000 &gt; cpu.cfs_quota_us
  echo $$ &gt; tasks

then repeat:

  cat cpu.stat | grep nr_throttled  # nr_throttled will increase steadily

After some analysis, we found that cfs_rq::runtime_remaining will
be cleared by expire_cfs_rq_runtime() due to two equal but stale
"cfs_{b|q}-&gt;runtime_expires" after period timer is re-armed.

The current condition to judge clock drift in expire_cfs_rq_runtime()
is wrong, the two runtime_expires are actually the same when clock
drift happens, so this condtion can never hit. The orginal design was
correctly done by this commit:

  a9cf55b28610 ("sched: Expire invalid runtime")

... but was changed to be the current implementation due to its locking bug.

This patch introduces another way, it adds a new field in both structures
cfs_rq and cfs_bandwidth to record the expiration update sequence, and
uses them to figure out if clock drift happens (true if they are equal).

Signed-off-by: Xunlei Pang &lt;xlpang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ben Segall &lt;bsegall@google.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Fixes: 51f2176d74ac ("sched/fair: Fix unlocked reads of some cfs_b-&gt;quota/period")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180620101834.24455-1-xlpang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/rt: Fix call to cpufreq_update_util()</title>
<updated>2018-07-03T07:17:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vincent Guittot</name>
<email>vincent.guittot@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-26T13:53:22+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=296b2ffe7fa9ed756c41415c6b1512bc4ad687b1'/>
<id>296b2ffe7fa9ed756c41415c6b1512bc4ad687b1</id>
<content type='text'>
With commit:

  8f111bc357aa ("cpufreq/schedutil: Rewrite CPUFREQ_RT support")

the schedutil governor uses rq-&gt;rt.rt_nr_running to detect whether an
RT task is currently running on the CPU and to set frequency to max
if necessary.

cpufreq_update_util() is called in enqueue/dequeue_top_rt_rq() but
rq-&gt;rt.rt_nr_running has not been updated yet when dequeue_top_rt_rq() is
called so schedutil still considers that an RT task is running when the
last task is dequeued. The update of rq-&gt;rt.rt_nr_running happens later
in dequeue_rt_stack().

In fact, we can take advantage of the sequence that the dequeue then
re-enqueue rt entities when a rt task is enqueued or dequeued;
As a result enqueue_top_rt_rq() is always called when a task is
enqueued or dequeued and also when groups are throttled or unthrottled.
The only place that not use enqueue_top_rt_rq() is when root rt_rq is
throttled.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: efault@gmx.de
Cc: juri.lelli@redhat.com
Cc: patrick.bellasi@arm.com
Cc: viresh.kumar@linaro.org
Fixes: 8f111bc357aa ('cpufreq/schedutil: Rewrite CPUFREQ_RT support')
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1530021202-21695-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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With commit:

  8f111bc357aa ("cpufreq/schedutil: Rewrite CPUFREQ_RT support")

the schedutil governor uses rq-&gt;rt.rt_nr_running to detect whether an
RT task is currently running on the CPU and to set frequency to max
if necessary.

cpufreq_update_util() is called in enqueue/dequeue_top_rt_rq() but
rq-&gt;rt.rt_nr_running has not been updated yet when dequeue_top_rt_rq() is
called so schedutil still considers that an RT task is running when the
last task is dequeued. The update of rq-&gt;rt.rt_nr_running happens later
in dequeue_rt_stack().

In fact, we can take advantage of the sequence that the dequeue then
re-enqueue rt entities when a rt task is enqueued or dequeued;
As a result enqueue_top_rt_rq() is always called when a task is
enqueued or dequeued and also when groups are throttled or unthrottled.
The only place that not use enqueue_top_rt_rq() is when root rt_rq is
throttled.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: efault@gmx.de
Cc: juri.lelli@redhat.com
Cc: patrick.bellasi@arm.com
Cc: viresh.kumar@linaro.org
Fixes: 8f111bc357aa ('cpufreq/schedutil: Rewrite CPUFREQ_RT support')
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1530021202-21695-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/nohz: Skip remote tick on idle task entirely</title>
<updated>2018-07-03T07:17:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>frederic@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-28T16:29:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=d9c0ffcabd6aae7ff1e34e8078354c13bb9f1183'/>
<id>d9c0ffcabd6aae7ff1e34e8078354c13bb9f1183</id>
<content type='text'>
Some people have reported that the warning in sched_tick_remote()
occasionally triggers, especially in favour of some RCU-Torture
pressure:

	WARNING: CPU: 11 PID: 906 at kernel/sched/core.c:3138 sched_tick_remote+0xb6/0xc0
	Modules linked in:
	CPU: 11 PID: 906 Comm: kworker/u32:3 Not tainted 4.18.0-rc2+ #1
	Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-1 04/01/2014
	Workqueue: events_unbound sched_tick_remote
	RIP: 0010:sched_tick_remote+0xb6/0xc0
	Code: e8 0f 06 b8 00 c6 03 00 fb eb 9d 8b 43 04 85 c0 75 8d 48 8b 83 e0 0a 00 00 48 85 c0 75 81 eb 88 48 89 df e8 bc fe ff ff eb aa &lt;0f&gt; 0b eb
	+c5 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 bf 17 00 00 00 e8 b6 2e fe ff 0f b6
	Call Trace:
	 process_one_work+0x1df/0x3b0
	 worker_thread+0x44/0x3d0
	 kthread+0xf3/0x130
	 ? set_worker_desc+0xb0/0xb0
	 ? kthread_create_worker_on_cpu+0x70/0x70
	 ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40

This happens when the remote tick applies on an idle task. Usually the
idle_cpu() check avoids that, but it is performed before we lock the
runqueue and it is therefore racy. It was intended to be that way in
order to prevent from useless runqueue locks since idle task tick
callback is a no-op.

Now if the racy check slips out of our hands and we end up remotely
ticking an idle task, the empty task_tick_idle() is harmless. Still
it won't pass the WARN_ON_ONCE() test that ensures rq_clock_task() is
not too far from curr-&gt;se.exec_start because update_curr_idle() doesn't
update the exec_start value like other scheduler policies. Hence the
reported false positive.

So let's have another check, while the rq is locked, to make sure we
don't remote tick on an idle task. The lockless idle_cpu() still applies
to avoid unecessary rq lock contention.

Reported-by: Jacek Tomaka &lt;jacekt@dug.com&gt;
Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Anna-Maria Gleixner &lt;anna-maria@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1530203381-31234-1-git-send-email-frederic@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Some people have reported that the warning in sched_tick_remote()
occasionally triggers, especially in favour of some RCU-Torture
pressure:

	WARNING: CPU: 11 PID: 906 at kernel/sched/core.c:3138 sched_tick_remote+0xb6/0xc0
	Modules linked in:
	CPU: 11 PID: 906 Comm: kworker/u32:3 Not tainted 4.18.0-rc2+ #1
	Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-1 04/01/2014
	Workqueue: events_unbound sched_tick_remote
	RIP: 0010:sched_tick_remote+0xb6/0xc0
	Code: e8 0f 06 b8 00 c6 03 00 fb eb 9d 8b 43 04 85 c0 75 8d 48 8b 83 e0 0a 00 00 48 85 c0 75 81 eb 88 48 89 df e8 bc fe ff ff eb aa &lt;0f&gt; 0b eb
	+c5 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 bf 17 00 00 00 e8 b6 2e fe ff 0f b6
	Call Trace:
	 process_one_work+0x1df/0x3b0
	 worker_thread+0x44/0x3d0
	 kthread+0xf3/0x130
	 ? set_worker_desc+0xb0/0xb0
	 ? kthread_create_worker_on_cpu+0x70/0x70
	 ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40

This happens when the remote tick applies on an idle task. Usually the
idle_cpu() check avoids that, but it is performed before we lock the
runqueue and it is therefore racy. It was intended to be that way in
order to prevent from useless runqueue locks since idle task tick
callback is a no-op.

Now if the racy check slips out of our hands and we end up remotely
ticking an idle task, the empty task_tick_idle() is harmless. Still
it won't pass the WARN_ON_ONCE() test that ensures rq_clock_task() is
not too far from curr-&gt;se.exec_start because update_curr_idle() doesn't
update the exec_start value like other scheduler policies. Hence the
reported false positive.

So let's have another check, while the rq is locked, to make sure we
don't remote tick on an idle task. The lockless idle_cpu() still applies
to avoid unecessary rq lock contention.

Reported-by: Jacek Tomaka &lt;jacekt@dug.com&gt;
Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Anna-Maria Gleixner &lt;anna-maria@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1530203381-31234-1-git-send-email-frederic@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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