Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] sched: Fix UCLAMP_FLAG_IDLE setting

From: Quentin Perret
Date: Wed Jun 30 2021 - 11:45:21 EST


Hi Qais,

On Wednesday 30 Jun 2021 at 15:58:48 (+0100), Qais Yousef wrote:
> I just realized this needs
>
> if (clamp_id == UCLAMP_MAX)
> rq->uclamp_flags &= ~UCLAMP_FLAG_IDLE;
>
> The code is only set for UCLAMP_MAX, so should be cleared for UCLAMP_MAX too.
>
> Though there's ugly overload here:
>
> if (!(rq->uclamp_flags & UCLAMP_FLAG_IDLE))
> return;
>
> This check would fail prematurely if UCLAMP_MAX was reset before UCLAMP_MIN.
> The code before your change would reset both then do the clear. But now when we
> do it from here, we need to be more careful about that.

Right, although this should all work fine as-is, I agree that relying on
the calling order is a bit dodgy and might cause issues in the long run.

What do you think of this instead?

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index b094da4c5fea..c0b999a8062a 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -980,7 +980,6 @@ static inline void uclamp_idle_reset(struct rq *rq, enum uclamp_id clamp_id,
if (!(rq->uclamp_flags & UCLAMP_FLAG_IDLE))
return;

- rq->uclamp_flags &= ~UCLAMP_FLAG_IDLE;
WRITE_ONCE(rq->uclamp[clamp_id].value, clamp_value);
}

@@ -1253,6 +1252,10 @@ static inline void uclamp_rq_inc(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p)

for_each_clamp_id(clamp_id)
uclamp_rq_inc_id(rq, p, clamp_id);
+
+ /* Reset clamp idle holding when there is one RUNNABLE task */
+ if (rq->uclamp_flags & UCLAMP_FLAG_IDLE)
+ rq->uclamp_flags &= ~UCLAMP_FLAG_IDLE;
}

static inline void uclamp_rq_dec(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p)
@@ -1300,6 +1303,13 @@ uclamp_update_active(struct task_struct *p, enum uclamp_id clamp_id)
if (p->uclamp[clamp_id].active) {
uclamp_rq_dec_id(rq, p, clamp_id);
uclamp_rq_inc_id(rq, p, clamp_id);
+
+ /*
+ * Make sure to clear the idle flag if we've transiently reached
+ * 0 uclamp active tasks on the rq.
+ */
+ if (rq->uclamp_flags & UCLAMP_FLAG_IDLE)
+ rq->uclamp_flags &= ~UCLAMP_FLAG_IDLE;
}

task_rq_unlock(rq, p, &rf);