Commit f97bb52
Peter Zijlstra
sched: Fix data-race in wakeup
Mel reported that on some ARM64 platforms loadavg goes bananas and
Will tracked it down to the following race:
CPU0 CPU1
schedule()
prev->sched_contributes_to_load = X;
deactivate_task(prev);
try_to_wake_up()
if (p->on_rq &&) // false
if (smp_load_acquire(&p->on_cpu) && // true
ttwu_queue_wakelist())
p->sched_remote_wakeup = Y;
smp_store_release(prev->on_cpu, 0);
where both p->sched_contributes_to_load and p->sched_remote_wakeup are
in the same word, and thus the stores X and Y race (and can clobber
one another's data).
Whereas prior to commit c6e7bd7 ("sched/core: Optimize ttwu()
spinning on p->on_cpu") the p->on_cpu handoff serialized access to
p->sched_remote_wakeup (just as it still does with
p->sched_contributes_to_load) that commit broke that by calling
ttwu_queue_wakelist() with p->on_cpu != 0.
However, due to
p->XXX = X ttwu()
schedule() if (p->on_rq && ...) // false
smp_mb__after_spinlock() if (smp_load_acquire(&p->on_cpu) &&
deactivate_task() ttwu_queue_wakelist())
p->on_rq = 0; p->sched_remote_wakeup = Y;
We can be sure any 'current' store is complete and 'current' is
guaranteed asleep. Therefore we can move p->sched_remote_wakeup into
the current flags word.
Note: while the observed failure was loadavg accounting gone wrong due
to ttwu() cobbering p->sched_contributes_to_load, the reverse problem
is also possible where schedule() clobbers p->sched_remote_wakeup,
this could result in enqueue_entity() wrecking ->vruntime and causing
scheduling artifacts.
Fixes: c6e7bd7 ("sched/core: Optimize ttwu() spinning on p->on_cpu")
Reported-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Debugged-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201117083016.GK3121392@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net1 parent 8e1ac42 commit f97bb52
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