From: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
To: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>, Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>,
Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>,
Sumanth Korikkar <sumanthk@linux.ibm.com>,
live-patching@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] livepatch: Fix idle cpu's tasks transition
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2021 11:32:19 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.21.2109101130560.19415@pobox.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <patch.git-a4aad6b1540d.your-ad-here.call-01631177886-ext-3083@work.hours>
On Thu, 9 Sep 2021, Vasily Gorbik wrote:
> On an idle system with large amount of cpus it might happen that
> klp_update_patch_state() is not reached in do_idle() for a long periods
> of time. With debug messages enabled log is filled with:
> [ 499.442643] livepatch: klp_try_switch_task: swapper/63:0 is running
>
> without any signs of progress. Ending up with "failed to complete
> transition".
>
> On s390 LPAR with 128 cpus not a single transition is able to complete
> and livepatch kselftests fail. Tests on idling x86 kvm instance with 128
> cpus demonstrate similar symptoms with and without CONFIG_NO_HZ.
>
> To deal with that, since runqueue is already locked in
> klp_try_switch_task() identify idling cpus and trigger rescheduling
> potentially waking them up and making sure idle tasks break out of
> do_idle() inner loop and reach klp_update_patch_state(). This helps to
> speed up transition time while avoiding unnecessary extra system load.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Seems reasonable to me.
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
M
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-10 9:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-09 9:16 [PATCH] livepatch: Fix idle cpu's tasks transition Vasily Gorbik
2021-09-10 9:17 ` Petr Mladek
2021-09-10 9:32 ` Miroslav Benes [this message]
2021-09-10 16:03 ` Josh Poimboeuf
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