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authorSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>2011-10-03 15:09:00 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2011-10-06 12:46:23 +0200
commitca38062e57e97791c2f62e3dbd06caf3ebb5721c (patch)
treec022f6a3d3087cc8eaebbc5640ca145f7d9c50d8 /kernel/sched_fair.c
parent9243a169acb9df9c63632fb7d5464359a107877a (diff)
downloadlinux-ca38062e57e97791c2f62e3dbd06caf3ebb5721c.tar.bz2
sched: Use resched IPI to kick off the nohz idle balance
Current use of smp call function to kick the nohz idle balance can deadlock in this scenario. 1. cpu-A did a generic_exec_single() to cpu-B and after queuing its call single data (csd) to the call single queue, cpu-A took a timer interrupt. Actual IPI to cpu-B to process the call single queue is not yet sent. 2. As part of the timer interrupt handler, cpu-A decided to kick cpu-B for the idle load balancing (sets cpu-B's rq->nohz_balance_kick to 1) and __smp_call_function_single() with nowait will queue the csd to the cpu-B's queue. But the generic_exec_single() won't send an IPI to cpu-B as the call single queue was not empty. 3. cpu-A is busy with lot of interrupts 4. Meanwhile cpu-B is entering and exiting idle and noticed that it has it's rq->nohz_balance_kick set to '1'. So it will go ahead and do the idle load balancer and clear its rq->nohz_balance_kick. 5. At this point, csd queued as part of the step-2 above is still locked and waiting to be serviced on cpu-B. 6. cpu-A is still busy with interrupt load and now it got another timer interrupt and as part of it decided to kick cpu-B for another idle load balancing (as it finds cpu-B's rq->nohz_balance_kick cleared in step-4 above) and does __smp_call_function_single() with the same csd that is still locked. 7. And we get a deadlock waiting for the csd_lock() in the __smp_call_function_single(). Main issue here is that cpu-B can service the idle load balancer kick request from cpu-A even with out receiving the IPI and this lead to doing multiple __smp_call_function_single() on the same csd leading to deadlock. To kick a cpu, scheduler already has the reschedule vector reserved. Use that mechanism (kick_process()) instead of using the generic smp call function mechanism to kick off the nohz idle load balancing and avoid the deadlock. [ This issue is present from 2.6.35+ kernels, but marking it -stable only from v3.0+ as the proposed fix depends on the scheduler_ipi() that is introduced recently. ] Reported-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org # v3.0+ Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111003220934.834943260@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sched_fair.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched_fair.c29
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched_fair.c b/kernel/sched_fair.c
index fef0bfde7c8c..6c5fa1099229 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched_fair.c
@@ -4269,22 +4269,6 @@ out_unlock:
}
#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ
-
-static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct call_single_data, remote_sched_softirq_cb);
-
-static void trigger_sched_softirq(void *data)
-{
- raise_softirq_irqoff(SCHED_SOFTIRQ);
-}
-
-static inline void init_sched_softirq_csd(struct call_single_data *csd)
-{
- csd->func = trigger_sched_softirq;
- csd->info = NULL;
- csd->flags = 0;
- csd->priv = 0;
-}
-
/*
* idle load balancing details
* - One of the idle CPUs nominates itself as idle load_balancer, while
@@ -4450,11 +4434,16 @@ static void nohz_balancer_kick(int cpu)
}
if (!cpu_rq(ilb_cpu)->nohz_balance_kick) {
- struct call_single_data *cp;
-
cpu_rq(ilb_cpu)->nohz_balance_kick = 1;
- cp = &per_cpu(remote_sched_softirq_cb, cpu);
- __smp_call_function_single(ilb_cpu, cp, 0);
+
+ smp_mb();
+ /*
+ * Use smp_send_reschedule() instead of resched_cpu().
+ * This way we generate a sched IPI on the target cpu which
+ * is idle. And the softirq performing nohz idle load balance
+ * will be run before returning from the IPI.
+ */
+ smp_send_reschedule(ilb_cpu);
}
return;
}