Re: [bisected] "sched: Allow per-cpu kernel threads to run on online && !active" causes warning

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Wed Jul 27 2016 - 11:25:28 EST


On Wed, 27 Jul 2016, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> [ 3.162961] ([<0000000000176c30>] select_task_rq+0xc0/0x1a8)
> [ 3.162963] ([<0000000000177d64>] try_to_wake_up+0x2e4/0x478)
> [ 3.162968] ([<000000000015d46c>] create_worker+0x174/0x1c0)
> [ 3.162971] ([<0000000000161a98>] alloc_unbound_pwq+0x360/0x438)

> For some unknown reason select_task_rq() gets called with a task that has
> nr_cpus_allowed == 0. Hence "cpu = cpumask_any(tsk_cpus_allowed(p));"
> within select_task_rq() will set cpu to nr_cpu_ids which in turn causes the
> warning later on.
>
> It only happens with more than one node, otherwise it seems to work fine.
>
> Any idea what could be wrong here?

create_worker()
tsk = kthread_create_on_node();
kthread_bind_mask(tsk, pool->attrs->cpumask);
do_set_cpus_allowed(tsk, mask);
set_cpus_allowed_common(tsk, mask);
cpumask_copy(&tsk->cpus_allowed, mask);
tsk->nr_cpus_allowed = cpumask_weight(mask);
wake_up_process(task);

So this looks like pool->attrs->cpumask is simply empty.....

Thanks,

tglx