From 2e084786f6fe052274f1dfa7c675fe4a02cacd6e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lai Jiangshan Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:42:58 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] sched: fair group: fix overflow(was: fix divide by zero) I found a bug which can be reproduced by this way:(linux-2.6.26-rc5, x86-64) (use 2^32, 2^33, ...., 2^63 as shares value) # mkdir /dev/cpuctl # mount -t cgroup -o cpu cpuctl /dev/cpuctl # cd /dev/cpuctl # mkdir sub # echo 0x8000000000000000 > sub/cpu.shares # echo $$ > sub/tasks oops here! divide by zero. This is because do_div() expects the 2th parameter to be 32 bits, but unsigned long is 64 bits in x86_64. Peter Zijstra pointed it out that the sane thing to do is limit the shares value to something smaller instead of using an even more expensive divide. Also, I found another bug about "the shares value is too large": pid1 and pid2 are set affinity to cpu#0 pid1 is attached to cg1 and pid2 is attached to cg2 if cg1/cpu.shares = 1024 cg2/cpu.shares = 2000000000 then pid2 got 100% usage of cpu, and pid1 0% if cg1/cpu.shares = 1024 cg2/cpu.shares = 20000000000 then pid2 got 0% usage of cpu, and pid1 100% And a weight of a cfs_rq is the sum of weights of which entities are queued on this cfs_rq, so the shares value should be limited to a smaller value. I think that (1UL << 18) is a good limited value: 1) it's not too large, we can create a lot of group before overflow 2) it's several times the weight value for nice=-19 (not too small) Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/sched.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c index 2c65bf29d133..6c1ecbdc0db9 100644 --- a/kernel/sched.c +++ b/kernel/sched.c @@ -312,12 +312,15 @@ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(task_group_lock); #endif /* - * A weight of 0, 1 or ULONG_MAX can cause arithmetics problems. + * A weight of 0 or 1 can cause arithmetics problems. + * A weight of a cfs_rq is the sum of weights of which entities + * are queued on this cfs_rq, so a weight of a entity should not be + * too large, so as the shares value of a task group. * (The default weight is 1024 - so there's no practical * limitation from this.) */ #define MIN_SHARES 2 -#define MAX_SHARES (ULONG_MAX - 1) +#define MAX_SHARES (1UL << 18) static int init_task_group_load = INIT_TASK_GROUP_LOAD; #endif -- 2.20.1