Re: [PATCH 00/30] PREEMPT_AUTO: support lazy rescheduling

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 12:53:13PM -0800, Ankur Arora wrote:
> 
> Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 07:45:18PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> >> On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 06:03:28PM -0800, Ankur Arora wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >> >
> >> > > On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 09:55:24PM -0800, Ankur Arora wrote:
> >> > >> Hi,
> >> > >>
> >> > >> This series adds a new scheduling model PREEMPT_AUTO, which like
> >> > >> PREEMPT_DYNAMIC allows dynamic switching between a none/voluntary/full
> >> > >> preemption model. However, unlike PREEMPT_DYNAMIC, it doesn't depend
> >> > >> on explicit preemption points for the voluntary models.
> >> > >>
> >> > >> The series is based on Thomas' original proposal which he outlined
> >> > >> in [1], [2] and in his PoC [3].
> >> > >>
> >> > >> An earlier RFC version is at [4].
> >> > >
> >> > > This uncovered a couple of latent bugs in RCU due to its having been
> >> > > a good long time since anyone built a !SMP preemptible kernel with
> >> > > non-preemptible RCU.  I have a couple of fixes queued on -rcu [1], most
> >> > > likely for the merge window after next, but let me know if you need
> >> > > them sooner.
> >> >
> >> > Thanks. As you can probably tell, I skipped out on !SMP in my testing.
> >> > But, the attached diff should tide me over until the fixes are in.
> >>
> >> That was indeed my guess.  ;-)
> >>
> >> > > I am also seeing OOM conditions during rcutorture testing of callback
> >> > > flooding, but I am still looking into this.
> >> >
> >> > That's on the PREEMPT_AUTO && PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY configuration?
> >>
> >> On two of the PREEMPT_AUTO && PREEMPT_NONE configurations, but only on
> >> two of them thus far.  I am running a longer test to see if this might
> >> be just luck.  If not, I look to see what rcutorture scenarios TREE10
> >> and TRACE01 have in common.
> >
> > And still TRACE01 and TREE10 are hitting OOMs, still not seeing what
> > sets them apart.  I also hit a grace-period hang in TREE04, which does
> > CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY=y along with CONFIG_PREEMPT_AUTO=y.  Something
> > to dig into more.
> >
> > I am also getting these from builds that enable KASAN:
> >
> > vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: mwait_idle+0x13: call to tif_resched.constprop.0() leaves .noinstr.text section
> > vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: acpi_processor_ffh_cstate_enter+0x36: call to tif_resched.constprop.0() leaves .noinstr.text section
> > vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: cpu_idle_poll.isra.0+0x18: call to tif_resched.constprop.0() leaves .noinstr.text section
> > vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: acpi_safe_halt+0x0: call to tif_resched.constprop.0() leaves .noinstr.text section
> > vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: poll_idle+0x33: call to tif_resched.constprop.0() leaves .noinstr.text section
> > vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: default_enter_idle+0x18: call to tif_resched.constprop.0() leaves .noinstr.text section
> 
> Thanks Paul. Yeah, with KASAN, tif_resched() transforms into this out of
> line function:
> 
> ffffffff810fec20 <tif_resched.constprop.0>:
> ffffffff810fec20:       e8 5b c6 20 00          call   ffffffff8130b280 <__sanitizer_cov_trace_pc>
> ffffffff810fec25:       b8 03 00 00 00          mov    $0x3,%eax
> ffffffff810fec2a:       e9 71 56 61 01          jmp    ffffffff827142a0 <__x86_return_thunk>
> ffffffff810fec2f:       90                      nop
> 
> > Does tif_resched() need to be marked noinstr or some such?
> 
> Builds fine with Thomas' suggested fix.

You beat me to it.  ;-)

							Thanx, Paul

> --------
> diff --git a/include/linux/thread_info.h b/include/linux/thread_info.h
> index 8752dbc2dac7..0810ddeb365d 100644
> --- a/include/linux/thread_info.h
> +++ b/include/linux/thread_info.h
> @@ -81,12 +81,12 @@ typedef enum {
>   * reduce to the same value (TIF_NEED_RESCHED) leaving any scheduling behaviour
>   * unchanged.
>   */
> -static inline int tif_resched(resched_t rs)
> +static __always_inline inline int tif_resched(resched_t rs)
>  {
>         return TIF_NEED_RESCHED + rs * TIF_NEED_RESCHED_LAZY_OFFSET;
>  }
> 
> -static inline int _tif_resched(resched_t rs)
> +static __always_inline inline int _tif_resched(resched_t rs)
>  {
>         return 1 << tif_resched(rs);
>  }