AW: Crash in fair scheduler

From: Schmid, Carsten
Date: Tue Dec 03 2019 - 10:57:07 EST


> On 03/12/2019 12:09, Valentin Schneider wrote:
> > On 03/12/2019 10:40, Dietmar Eggemann wrote:
> >> On 03/12/2019 11:30, Valentin Schneider wrote:
> >>> On 03/12/2019 09:11, Schmid, Carsten wrote:
> >>
> >> [...]
>
> I can't reproduce it on Arm64 Juno running 4.14.86. I suppose that there
> is no extra reproducer testcase since the issue happened with
> prev->sched_class eq. &idle_sched_class [prev eq. swapper/X 0] in the
> simple path of pick_next_task_fair().
>
> I'm running with CONFIG_SCHED_AUTOGROUP=y and
> CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED=y
> some taskgroup related tests for hours now. So the sched_entity (se) can
> be a task, an autogroup or a taskgroup in the simple path. pref is
> either swapper/X or migration/X.

We have the same kernel config settings.
However, as i stated in the analysis, we had
prev->sched_class ne. &fair_sched_class
and, unfortunately, no reproducer.

Looks like we need to find out why rb_leftmost is 0x0/NULL.