Re: [PATCH] sched/tracing: correct the task blocking state

[Valentin Schneider]

On 02/01/24 15:33, alexs@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Alex Shi <alexs@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> commit 80ed87c8a9ca ("sched/wait: Introduce TASK_NOLOAD and TASK_IDLE")
> stopped the idle kthreads contribution to loadavg. Also task idle should
> separated from blocked state too, otherwise we will get incorrect task
> blocking state from event tracing sched:sched_stat_blocked.
>

Why is that incorrect? AFAICT we have mapped the (schedstat) 'blocked'
meaning to TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE. TASK_IDLE tasks don't contribute to
loadavg yes, but they are still in an UNINTERRUPTIBLE wait.

> diff --git a/kernel/sched/deadline.c b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
> index b28114478b82..b6afa596f071 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/deadline.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
> @@ -1570,7 +1570,7 @@ update_stats_dequeue_dl(struct dl_rq *dl_rq, struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se,
>                       __schedstat_set(p->stats.sleep_start,
>                                       rq_clock(rq_of_dl_rq(dl_rq)));
>
> -		if (state & TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE)
> +		if (is_blocked_task_state(state))
>                       __schedstat_set(p->stats.block_start,
>                                       rq_clock(rq_of_dl_rq(dl_rq)));

This change makes it so tasks waiting in TASK_IDLE have their waiting
ignored by schedstat (they are seen as neither INTERRUPTIBLE nor UNINTERRUPTIBLE).