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<title>sched: Guarantee new group-entities always have weight</title>
<updated>2014-01-15T23:31:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Turner</name>
<email>pjt@google.com</email>
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<published>2013-10-16T18:16:27+00:00</published>
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commit 0ac9b1c21874d2490331233b3242085f8151e166 upstream.

Currently, group entity load-weights are initialized to zero. This
admits some races with respect to the first time they are re-weighted in
earlty use. ( Let g[x] denote the se for "g" on cpu "x". )

Suppose that we have root-&gt;a and that a enters a throttled state,
immediately followed by a[0]-&gt;t1 (the only task running on cpu[0])
blocking:

  put_prev_task(group_cfs_rq(a[0]), t1)
  put_prev_entity(..., t1)
  check_cfs_rq_runtime(group_cfs_rq(a[0]))
  throttle_cfs_rq(group_cfs_rq(a[0]))

Then, before unthrottling occurs, let a[0]-&gt;b[0]-&gt;t2 wake for the first
time:

  enqueue_task_fair(rq[0], t2)
  enqueue_entity(group_cfs_rq(b[0]), t2)
  enqueue_entity_load_avg(group_cfs_rq(b[0]), t2)
  account_entity_enqueue(group_cfs_ra(b[0]), t2)
  update_cfs_shares(group_cfs_rq(b[0]))
  &lt; skipped because b is part of a throttled hierarchy &gt;
  enqueue_entity(group_cfs_rq(a[0]), b[0])
  ...

We now have b[0] enqueued, yet group_cfs_rq(a[0])-&gt;load.weight == 0
which violates invariants in several code-paths. Eliminate the
possibility of this by initializing group entity weight.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner &lt;pjt@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131016181627.22647.47543.stgit@sword-of-the-dawn.mtv.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Chris J Arges &lt;chris.j.arges@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 0ac9b1c21874d2490331233b3242085f8151e166 upstream.

Currently, group entity load-weights are initialized to zero. This
admits some races with respect to the first time they are re-weighted in
earlty use. ( Let g[x] denote the se for "g" on cpu "x". )

Suppose that we have root-&gt;a and that a enters a throttled state,
immediately followed by a[0]-&gt;t1 (the only task running on cpu[0])
blocking:

  put_prev_task(group_cfs_rq(a[0]), t1)
  put_prev_entity(..., t1)
  check_cfs_rq_runtime(group_cfs_rq(a[0]))
  throttle_cfs_rq(group_cfs_rq(a[0]))

Then, before unthrottling occurs, let a[0]-&gt;b[0]-&gt;t2 wake for the first
time:

  enqueue_task_fair(rq[0], t2)
  enqueue_entity(group_cfs_rq(b[0]), t2)
  enqueue_entity_load_avg(group_cfs_rq(b[0]), t2)
  account_entity_enqueue(group_cfs_ra(b[0]), t2)
  update_cfs_shares(group_cfs_rq(b[0]))
  &lt; skipped because b is part of a throttled hierarchy &gt;
  enqueue_entity(group_cfs_rq(a[0]), b[0])
  ...

We now have b[0] enqueued, yet group_cfs_rq(a[0])-&gt;load.weight == 0
which violates invariants in several code-paths. Eliminate the
possibility of this by initializing group entity weight.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner &lt;pjt@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131016181627.22647.47543.stgit@sword-of-the-dawn.mtv.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Chris J Arges &lt;chris.j.arges@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>sched: Fix hrtimer_cancel()/rq-&gt;lock deadlock</title>
<updated>2014-01-15T23:31:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Segall</name>
<email>bsegall@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-16T18:16:22+00:00</published>
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commit 927b54fccbf04207ec92f669dce6806848cbec7d upstream.

__start_cfs_bandwidth calls hrtimer_cancel while holding rq-&gt;lock,
waiting for the hrtimer to finish. However, if sched_cfs_period_timer
runs for another loop iteration, the hrtimer can attempt to take
rq-&gt;lock, resulting in deadlock.

Fix this by ensuring that cfs_b-&gt;timer_active is cleared only if the
_latest_ call to do_sched_cfs_period_timer is returning as idle. Then
__start_cfs_bandwidth can just call hrtimer_try_to_cancel and wait for
that to succeed or timer_active == 1.

Signed-off-by: Ben Segall &lt;bsegall@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: pjt@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131016181622.22647.16643.stgit@sword-of-the-dawn.mtv.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Chris J Arges &lt;chris.j.arges@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 927b54fccbf04207ec92f669dce6806848cbec7d upstream.

__start_cfs_bandwidth calls hrtimer_cancel while holding rq-&gt;lock,
waiting for the hrtimer to finish. However, if sched_cfs_period_timer
runs for another loop iteration, the hrtimer can attempt to take
rq-&gt;lock, resulting in deadlock.

Fix this by ensuring that cfs_b-&gt;timer_active is cleared only if the
_latest_ call to do_sched_cfs_period_timer is returning as idle. Then
__start_cfs_bandwidth can just call hrtimer_try_to_cancel and wait for
that to succeed or timer_active == 1.

Signed-off-by: Ben Segall &lt;bsegall@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: pjt@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131016181622.22647.16643.stgit@sword-of-the-dawn.mtv.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Chris J Arges &lt;chris.j.arges@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>sched: Fix cfs_bandwidth misuse of hrtimer_expires_remaining</title>
<updated>2014-01-15T23:31:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Segall</name>
<email>bsegall@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-16T18:16:17+00:00</published>
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commit db06e78cc13d70f10877e0557becc88ab3ad2be8 upstream.

hrtimer_expires_remaining does not take internal hrtimer locks and thus
must be guarded against concurrent __hrtimer_start_range_ns (but
returning HRTIMER_RESTART is safe). Use cfs_b-&gt;lock to make it safe.

Signed-off-by: Ben Segall &lt;bsegall@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: pjt@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131016181617.22647.73829.stgit@sword-of-the-dawn.mtv.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Chris J Arges &lt;chris.j.arges@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit db06e78cc13d70f10877e0557becc88ab3ad2be8 upstream.

hrtimer_expires_remaining does not take internal hrtimer locks and thus
must be guarded against concurrent __hrtimer_start_range_ns (but
returning HRTIMER_RESTART is safe). Use cfs_b-&gt;lock to make it safe.

Signed-off-by: Ben Segall &lt;bsegall@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: pjt@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131016181617.22647.73829.stgit@sword-of-the-dawn.mtv.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Chris J Arges &lt;chris.j.arges@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched: Fix race on toggling cfs_bandwidth_used</title>
<updated>2014-01-15T23:31:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Segall</name>
<email>bsegall@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-16T18:16:12+00:00</published>
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commit 1ee14e6c8cddeeb8a490d7b54cd9016e4bb900b4 upstream.

When we transition cfs_bandwidth_used to false, any currently
throttled groups will incorrectly return false from cfs_rq_throttled.
While tg_set_cfs_bandwidth will unthrottle them eventually, currently
running code (including at least dequeue_task_fair and
distribute_cfs_runtime) will cause errors.

Fix this by turning off cfs_bandwidth_used only after unthrottling all
cfs_rqs.

Tested: toggle bandwidth back and forth on a loaded cgroup. Caused
crashes in minutes without the patch, hasn't crashed with it.

Signed-off-by: Ben Segall &lt;bsegall@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: pjt@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131016181611.22647.80365.stgit@sword-of-the-dawn.mtv.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Chris J Arges &lt;chris.j.arges@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 1ee14e6c8cddeeb8a490d7b54cd9016e4bb900b4 upstream.

When we transition cfs_bandwidth_used to false, any currently
throttled groups will incorrectly return false from cfs_rq_throttled.
While tg_set_cfs_bandwidth will unthrottle them eventually, currently
running code (including at least dequeue_task_fair and
distribute_cfs_runtime) will cause errors.

Fix this by turning off cfs_bandwidth_used only after unthrottling all
cfs_rqs.

Tested: toggle bandwidth back and forth on a loaded cgroup. Caused
crashes in minutes without the patch, hasn't crashed with it.

Signed-off-by: Ben Segall &lt;bsegall@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: pjt@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131016181611.22647.80365.stgit@sword-of-the-dawn.mtv.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Chris J Arges &lt;chris.j.arges@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched: numa: skip inaccessible VMAs</title>
<updated>2014-01-09T20:25:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-07T14:00:43+00:00</published>
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commit 3c67f474558748b604e247d92b55dfe89654c81d upstream.

Inaccessible VMA should not be trapping NUMA hint faults. Skip them.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Thorlton &lt;athorlton@sgi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 3c67f474558748b604e247d92b55dfe89654c81d upstream.

Inaccessible VMA should not be trapping NUMA hint faults. Skip them.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Thorlton &lt;athorlton@sgi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched: Avoid throttle_cfs_rq() racing with period_timer stopping</title>
<updated>2013-12-20T15:49:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Segall</name>
<email>bsegall@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-16T18:16:32+00:00</published>
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commit f9f9ffc237dd924f048204e8799da74f9ecf40cf upstream.

throttle_cfs_rq() doesn't check to make sure that period_timer is running,
and while update_curr/assign_cfs_runtime does, a concurrently running
period_timer on another cpu could cancel itself between this cpu's
update_curr and throttle_cfs_rq(). If there are no other cfs_rqs running
in the tg to restart the timer, this causes the cfs_rq to be stranded
forever.

Fix this by calling __start_cfs_bandwidth() in throttle if the timer is
inactive.

(Also add some sched_debug lines for cfs_bandwidth.)

Tested: make a run/sleep task in a cgroup, loop switching the cgroup
between 1ms/100ms quota and unlimited, checking for timer_active=0 and
throttled=1 as a failure. With the throttle_cfs_rq() change commented out
this fails, with the full patch it passes.

Signed-off-by: Ben Segall &lt;bsegall@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: pjt@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131016181632.22647.84174.stgit@sword-of-the-dawn.mtv.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Chris J Arges &lt;chris.j.arges@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit f9f9ffc237dd924f048204e8799da74f9ecf40cf upstream.

throttle_cfs_rq() doesn't check to make sure that period_timer is running,
and while update_curr/assign_cfs_runtime does, a concurrently running
period_timer on another cpu could cancel itself between this cpu's
update_curr and throttle_cfs_rq(). If there are no other cfs_rqs running
in the tg to restart the timer, this causes the cfs_rq to be stranded
forever.

Fix this by calling __start_cfs_bandwidth() in throttle if the timer is
inactive.

(Also add some sched_debug lines for cfs_bandwidth.)

Tested: make a run/sleep task in a cgroup, loop switching the cgroup
between 1ms/100ms quota and unlimited, checking for timer_active=0 and
throttled=1 as a failure. With the throttle_cfs_rq() change commented out
this fails, with the full patch it passes.

Signed-off-by: Ben Segall &lt;bsegall@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: pjt@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131016181632.22647.84174.stgit@sword-of-the-dawn.mtv.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Chris J Arges &lt;chris.j.arges@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>sched/balancing: Fix cfs_rq-&gt;task_h_load calculation</title>
<updated>2013-09-20T09:59:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Davydov</name>
<email>vdavydov@parallels.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-14T15:39:46+00:00</published>
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Patch a003a2 (sched: Consider runnable load average in move_tasks())
sets all top-level cfs_rqs' h_load to rq-&gt;avg.load_avg_contrib, which is
always 0. This mistype leads to all tasks having weight 0 when load
balancing in a cpu-cgroup enabled setup. There obviously should be sum
of weights of all runnable tasks there instead. Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov@parallels.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul Turner &lt;pjt@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1379173186-11944-1-git-send-email-vdavydov@parallels.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Patch a003a2 (sched: Consider runnable load average in move_tasks())
sets all top-level cfs_rqs' h_load to rq-&gt;avg.load_avg_contrib, which is
always 0. This mistype leads to all tasks having weight 0 when load
balancing in a cpu-cgroup enabled setup. There obviously should be sum
of weights of all runnable tasks there instead. Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov@parallels.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul Turner &lt;pjt@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1379173186-11944-1-git-send-email-vdavydov@parallels.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/balancing: Fix 'local-&gt;avg_load &gt; busiest-&gt;avg_load' case in fix_small_imbalance()</title>
<updated>2013-09-20T09:59:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Davydov</name>
<email>vdavydov@parallels.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-15T13:49:14+00:00</published>
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In busiest-&gt;group_imb case we can come to fix_small_imbalance() with
local-&gt;avg_load &gt; busiest-&gt;avg_load. This can result in wrong imbalance
fix-up, because there is the following check there where all the
members are unsigned:

if (busiest-&gt;avg_load - local-&gt;avg_load + scaled_busy_load_per_task &gt;=
    (scaled_busy_load_per_task * imbn)) {
	env-&gt;imbalance = busiest-&gt;load_per_task;
	return;
}

As a result we can end up constantly bouncing tasks from one cpu to
another if there are pinned tasks.

Fix it by substituting the subtraction with an equivalent addition in
the check.

[ The bug can be caught by running 2*N cpuhogs pinned to two logical cpus
  belonging to different cores on an HT-enabled machine with N logical
  cpus: just look at se.nr_migrations growth. ]

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov@parallels.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ef167822e5c5b2d96cf5b0e3e4f4bdff3f0414a2.1379252740.git.vdavydov@parallels.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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In busiest-&gt;group_imb case we can come to fix_small_imbalance() with
local-&gt;avg_load &gt; busiest-&gt;avg_load. This can result in wrong imbalance
fix-up, because there is the following check there where all the
members are unsigned:

if (busiest-&gt;avg_load - local-&gt;avg_load + scaled_busy_load_per_task &gt;=
    (scaled_busy_load_per_task * imbn)) {
	env-&gt;imbalance = busiest-&gt;load_per_task;
	return;
}

As a result we can end up constantly bouncing tasks from one cpu to
another if there are pinned tasks.

Fix it by substituting the subtraction with an equivalent addition in
the check.

[ The bug can be caught by running 2*N cpuhogs pinned to two logical cpus
  belonging to different cores on an HT-enabled machine with N logical
  cpus: just look at se.nr_migrations growth. ]

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov@parallels.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ef167822e5c5b2d96cf5b0e3e4f4bdff3f0414a2.1379252740.git.vdavydov@parallels.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sched/balancing: Fix 'local-&gt;avg_load &gt; sds-&gt;avg_load' case in calculate_imbalance()</title>
<updated>2013-09-20T09:59:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Davydov</name>
<email>vdavydov@parallels.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-15T13:49:13+00:00</published>
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In busiest-&gt;group_imb case we can come to calculate_imbalance() with
local-&gt;avg_load &gt;= busiest-&gt;avg_load &gt;= sds-&gt;avg_load. This can result
in imbalance overflow, because it is calculated as follows

env-&gt;imbalance = min(
	max_pull * busiest-&gt;group_power,
	(sds-&gt;avg_load - local-&gt;avg_load) * local-&gt;group_power) / SCHED_POWER_SCALE;

As a result we can end up constantly bouncing tasks from one cpu to
another if there are pinned tasks.

Fix this by skipping the assignment and assuming imbalance=0 in case
local-&gt;avg_load &gt; sds-&gt;avg_load.

[ The bug can be caught by running 2*N cpuhogs pinned to two logical cpus
  belonging to different cores on an HT-enabled machine with N logical
  cpus: just look at se.nr_migrations growth. ]

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov@parallels.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8f596cc6bc0e5e655119dc892c9bfcad26e971f4.1379252740.git.vdavydov@parallels.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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In busiest-&gt;group_imb case we can come to calculate_imbalance() with
local-&gt;avg_load &gt;= busiest-&gt;avg_load &gt;= sds-&gt;avg_load. This can result
in imbalance overflow, because it is calculated as follows

env-&gt;imbalance = min(
	max_pull * busiest-&gt;group_power,
	(sds-&gt;avg_load - local-&gt;avg_load) * local-&gt;group_power) / SCHED_POWER_SCALE;

As a result we can end up constantly bouncing tasks from one cpu to
another if there are pinned tasks.

Fix this by skipping the assignment and assuming imbalance=0 in case
local-&gt;avg_load &gt; sds-&gt;avg_load.

[ The bug can be caught by running 2*N cpuhogs pinned to two logical cpus
  belonging to different cores on an HT-enabled machine with N logical
  cpus: just look at se.nr_migrations growth. ]

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov@parallels.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8f596cc6bc0e5e655119dc892c9bfcad26e971f4.1379252740.git.vdavydov@parallels.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sched/fair: Fix small race where child-&gt;se.parent,cfs_rq might point to invalid ones</title>
<updated>2013-09-12T17:14:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daisuke Nishimura</name>
<email>nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-10T09:16:36+00:00</published>
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There is a small race between copy_process() and cgroup_attach_task()
where child-&gt;se.parent,cfs_rq points to invalid (old) ones.

        parent doing fork()      | someone moving the parent to another cgroup
  -------------------------------+---------------------------------------------
    copy_process()
      + dup_task_struct()
        -&gt; parent-&gt;se is copied to child-&gt;se.
           se.parent,cfs_rq of them point to old ones.

                                     cgroup_attach_task()
                                       + cgroup_task_migrate()
                                         -&gt; parent-&gt;cgroup is updated.
                                       + cpu_cgroup_attach()
                                         + sched_move_task()
                                           + task_move_group_fair()
                                             +- set_task_rq()
                                                -&gt; se.parent,cfs_rq of parent
                                                   are updated.

      + cgroup_fork()
        -&gt; parent-&gt;cgroup is copied to child-&gt;cgroup. (*1)
      + sched_fork()
        + task_fork_fair()
          -&gt; se.parent,cfs_rq of child are accessed
             while they point to old ones. (*2)

In the worst case, this bug can lead to "use-after-free" and cause a panic,
because it's new cgroup's refcount that is incremented at (*1),
so the old cgroup(and related data) can be freed before (*2).

In fact, a panic caused by this bug was originally caught in RHEL6.4.

    BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
    IP: [&lt;ffffffff81051e3e&gt;] sched_slice+0x6e/0xa0
    [...]
    Call Trace:
     [&lt;ffffffff81051f25&gt;] place_entity+0x75/0xa0
     [&lt;ffffffff81056a3a&gt;] task_fork_fair+0xaa/0x160
     [&lt;ffffffff81063c0b&gt;] sched_fork+0x6b/0x140
     [&lt;ffffffff8106c3c2&gt;] copy_process+0x5b2/0x1450
     [&lt;ffffffff81063b49&gt;] ? wake_up_new_task+0xd9/0x130
     [&lt;ffffffff8106d2f4&gt;] do_fork+0x94/0x460
     [&lt;ffffffff81072a9e&gt;] ? sys_wait4+0xae/0x100
     [&lt;ffffffff81009598&gt;] sys_clone+0x28/0x30
     [&lt;ffffffff8100b393&gt;] stub_clone+0x13/0x20
     [&lt;ffffffff8100b072&gt;] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura &lt;nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/039601ceae06$733d3130$59b79390$@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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There is a small race between copy_process() and cgroup_attach_task()
where child-&gt;se.parent,cfs_rq points to invalid (old) ones.

        parent doing fork()      | someone moving the parent to another cgroup
  -------------------------------+---------------------------------------------
    copy_process()
      + dup_task_struct()
        -&gt; parent-&gt;se is copied to child-&gt;se.
           se.parent,cfs_rq of them point to old ones.

                                     cgroup_attach_task()
                                       + cgroup_task_migrate()
                                         -&gt; parent-&gt;cgroup is updated.
                                       + cpu_cgroup_attach()
                                         + sched_move_task()
                                           + task_move_group_fair()
                                             +- set_task_rq()
                                                -&gt; se.parent,cfs_rq of parent
                                                   are updated.

      + cgroup_fork()
        -&gt; parent-&gt;cgroup is copied to child-&gt;cgroup. (*1)
      + sched_fork()
        + task_fork_fair()
          -&gt; se.parent,cfs_rq of child are accessed
             while they point to old ones. (*2)

In the worst case, this bug can lead to "use-after-free" and cause a panic,
because it's new cgroup's refcount that is incremented at (*1),
so the old cgroup(and related data) can be freed before (*2).

In fact, a panic caused by this bug was originally caught in RHEL6.4.

    BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
    IP: [&lt;ffffffff81051e3e&gt;] sched_slice+0x6e/0xa0
    [...]
    Call Trace:
     [&lt;ffffffff81051f25&gt;] place_entity+0x75/0xa0
     [&lt;ffffffff81056a3a&gt;] task_fork_fair+0xaa/0x160
     [&lt;ffffffff81063c0b&gt;] sched_fork+0x6b/0x140
     [&lt;ffffffff8106c3c2&gt;] copy_process+0x5b2/0x1450
     [&lt;ffffffff81063b49&gt;] ? wake_up_new_task+0xd9/0x130
     [&lt;ffffffff8106d2f4&gt;] do_fork+0x94/0x460
     [&lt;ffffffff81072a9e&gt;] ? sys_wait4+0xae/0x100
     [&lt;ffffffff81009598&gt;] sys_clone+0x28/0x30
     [&lt;ffffffff8100b393&gt;] stub_clone+0x13/0x20
     [&lt;ffffffff8100b072&gt;] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura &lt;nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/039601ceae06$733d3130$59b79390$@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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