Re: scheduler crash on Power

From: Dietmar Eggemann
Date: Mon Aug 04 2014 - 07:31:12 EST


On 04/08/14 04:20, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-08-01 at 14:24 -0700, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
>> Dietmar Eggemann [dietmar.eggemann@xxxxxxx] wrote:
>> | > ltcbrazos2-lp07 login: [ 181.915974] ------------[ cut here ]------------
>> | > [ 181.915991] WARNING: at ../kernel/sched/core.c:5881
>> |
>> | This warning indicates the problem. One of the struct sched_domains does
>> | not have it's groups member set.
>> |
>> | And its happening during a rebuild of the sched domain hierarchy, not
>> | during the initial build.
>> |
>> | You could run your system with the following patch-let (on top of
>> | https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/7/17/288) w/ and w/o the perf related
>> | patches (w/ CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG enabled).
>> |
>> | @@ -5882,6 +5882,9 @@ static void init_sched_groups_capacity(int cpu,
>> | struct sched_domain *sd)
>> | {
>> | struct sched_group *sg = sd->groups;
>> |
>> | +#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG
>> | + printk("sd name: %s span: %pc\n", sd->name, sd->span);
>> | +#endif
>> | WARN_ON(!sg);
>> |
>> | do {
>> |
>> | This will show if the rebuild of the sched domain hierarchy happens on
>> | both systems and hopefully indicate for which sched_domain the
>> | sd->groups is not set.
>>
>> Thanks for the patch. It appears that the NUMA sched domain does not
>> have the sd->groups set - snippet of the error (with your patch and
>> Peter's patch)
>>
>> [ 181.914494] build_sched_groups: got group c000000006da0000 with cpus:
>> [ 181.914498] build_sched_groups: got group c0000000dd830000 with cpus:
>> [ 181.915234] sd name: SMT span: 8-15
>> [ 181.915239] sd name: DIE span: 0-7
>> [ 181.915242] sd name: NUMA span: 0-15
>> [ 181.915250] ------------[ cut here ]------------
>> [ 181.915253] WARNING: at ../kernel/sched/core.c:5891
>>
>> Patched code:
>>
>> 5884 static void init_sched_groups_capacity(int cpu, struct sched_domain *sd)
>> 5885 {
>> 5886 struct sched_group *sg = sd->groups;
>> 5887
>> 5888 #ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG
>> 5889 printk("sd name: %s span: %pc\n", sd->name, sd->span);
>> 5890 #endif
>> 5891 WARN_ON(!sg);
>>
>> Complete log below.
>>
>> I was able to bisect it down to this patch in the 24x7 patchset
>>
>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/27/804
>>
>> I replaced the kfree(page) calls in the patch with
>> kmem_cache_free(hv_page_cache, page).
>>
>> The problem sems to disappear if the call to create_events_from_catalog()
>> in hv_24x7_init() is skipped. I am continuing to debug the 24x7 patch.
>
> Is that patch just clobbering memory it doesn't own and corrupting the
> scheduler data structures?

Quite likely. When the system comes up initially, it has SMT and DIE
sched domain level:

...
[ 0.033832] build_sched_groups: got group c0000000e7d50000 with cpus:
[ 0.033835] build_sched_groups: got group c0000000e7d80000 with cpus:
[ 0.033844] sd name: SMT span: 8-15
[ 0.033847] sd name: DIE span: 0-15 <-- !!!
[ 0.033850] sd name: SMT span: 8-15
[ 0.033853] sd name: DIE span: 0-15
...

and the cpu mask of DIE spans all CPUs '0-15'.

Then during the rebuild of the sched domain hierarchy, this looks very
different:

...
[ 181.914494] build_sched_groups: got group c000000006da0000 with cpus:
[ 181.914498] build_sched_groups: got group c0000000dd830000 with cpus:
[ 181.915234] sd name: SMT span: 8-15
[ 181.915239] sd name: DIE span: 0-7 <-- !!!
[ 181.915242] sd name: NUMA span: 0-15
...

The cpu mask of the DIE level is all the sudden '0-7', which is clearly
wrong.

So I suspect that sched_domain_mask_f mask function for the DIE level
'cpu_cpu_mask()' returns a wrong value during this rebuild.

Could be checked with this little patch-let:

@@ -6467,6 +6467,12 @@ struct sched_domain *build_sched_domain(struct
sched_domain_topology_level *tl,
if (!sd)
return child;

+ printk("%s: cpu: %d level: %s cpu_map: %pc tl->mask: %pc\n",
+ __func__,
+ cpu, tl->name,
+ cpu_map,
+ tl->mask(cpu));
+
cpumask_and(sched_domain_span(sd), cpu_map, tl->mask(cpu));
if (child) {
sd->level = child->level + 1;


Should give you something similar like:

...
build_sched_domain: cpu: 0 level: GMC cpu_map: 0-4 tl->mask: 0
build_sched_domain: cpu: 0 level: MC cpu_map: 0-4 tl->mask: 0-1
build_sched_domain: cpu: 0 level: DIE cpu_map: 0-4 tl->mask: 0-4
build_sched_domain: cpu: 1 level: GMC cpu_map: 0-4 tl->mask: 1
build_sched_domain: cpu: 1 level: MC cpu_map: 0-4 tl->mask: 0-1
build_sched_domain: cpu: 1 level: DIE cpu_map: 0-4 tl->mask: 0-4
...

>
> cheers
>
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