Re: [PATCH 08/10] psi: pressure stall information for CPU, memory, and IO

From: Johannes Weiner
Date: Thu Jul 19 2018 - 14:44:55 EST


On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 02:03:18PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 01:29:40PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > + /* Update task counts according to the set/clear bitmasks */
> > + for (to = 0; (bo = ffs(clear)); to += bo, clear >>= bo) {
> > + int idx = to + (bo - 1);
> > +
> > + if (tasks[idx] == 0 && !psi_bug) {
> > + printk_deferred(KERN_ERR "psi: task underflow! cpu=%d idx=%d tasks=[%u %u %u] clear=%x set=%x\n",
> > + cpu, idx, tasks[0], tasks[1], tasks[2],
> > + clear, set);
> > + psi_bug = 1;
> > + }
>
> WARN_ONCE(!tasks[idx], ...);

It's just open-coded because of the printk_deferred, since this is
inside the scheduler.

It actually used to be a straight-up WARN_ONCE() in older
versions. Recursive scheduling bugs are no fun to debug ;)