From 0ac9b1c21874d2490331233b3242085f8151e166 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Turner Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 11:16:27 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] sched: Guarantee new group-entities always have weight Currently, group entity load-weights are initialized to zero. This admits some races with respect to the first time they are re-weighted in earlty use. ( Let g[x] denote the se for "g" on cpu "x". ) Suppose that we have root->a and that a enters a throttled state, immediately followed by a[0]->t1 (the only task running on cpu[0]) blocking: put_prev_task(group_cfs_rq(a[0]), t1) put_prev_entity(..., t1) check_cfs_rq_runtime(group_cfs_rq(a[0])) throttle_cfs_rq(group_cfs_rq(a[0])) Then, before unthrottling occurs, let a[0]->b[0]->t2 wake for the first time: enqueue_task_fair(rq[0], t2) enqueue_entity(group_cfs_rq(b[0]), t2) enqueue_entity_load_avg(group_cfs_rq(b[0]), t2) account_entity_enqueue(group_cfs_ra(b[0]), t2) update_cfs_shares(group_cfs_rq(b[0])) < skipped because b is part of a throttled hierarchy > enqueue_entity(group_cfs_rq(a[0]), b[0]) ... We now have b[0] enqueued, yet group_cfs_rq(a[0])->load.weight == 0 which violates invariants in several code-paths. Eliminate the possibility of this by initializing group entity weight. Signed-off-by: Paul Turner Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131016181627.22647.47543.stgit@sword-of-the-dawn.mtv.corp.google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/sched/fair.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c index f6308cb44d09..0923ab2b7eb9 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c @@ -7198,7 +7198,8 @@ void init_tg_cfs_entry(struct task_group *tg, struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, se->cfs_rq = parent->my_q; se->my_q = cfs_rq; - update_load_set(&se->load, 0); + /* guarantee group entities always have weight */ + update_load_set(&se->load, NICE_0_LOAD); se->parent = parent; } -- 2.20.1