Re: [PATCH v2] sched/fair: Fix detection of per-CPU kthreads waking a task

[Valentin Schneider]

On 01/12/21 14:34, Vincent Donnefort wrote:
> select_idle_sibling() has a special case for tasks woken up by a per-CPU
> kthread, where the selected CPU is the previous one. However, the current
> condition for this exit path is incomplete. A task can wake up from an
> interrupt context (e.g. hrtimer), while a per-CPU kthread is running. A
> such scenario would spuriously trigger the special case described above.
> Also, a recent change made the idle task like a regular per-CPU kthread,
> hence making that situation more likely to happen
> (is_per_cpu_kthread(swapper) being true now).
>
> Checking for task context makes sure select_idle_sibling() will not
> interpret a wake up from any other context as a wake up by a per-CPU
> kthread.
>
> Fixes: 52262ee567ad ("sched/fair: Allow a per-CPU kthread waking a task to stack on the same CPU, to fix XFS performance regression")
> Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vincent.donnefort@xxxxxxx>
>

Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@xxxxxxx>

> ---
> v1 -> v2:
>   * is_idle_thread() -> in_task() to also include spurious detection when
>     current != swapper. (Vincent Guittot)
> ---
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index 945d987246c5..56db4ae85995 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -6399,6 +6399,7 @@ static int select_idle_sibling(struct task_struct *p, int prev, int target)
>        * pattern is IO completions.
>        */
>       if (is_per_cpu_kthread(current) &&
> +	    in_task() &&
>           prev == smp_processor_id() &&
>           this_rq()->nr_running <= 1) {
>               return prev;
> --
> 2.25.1