From: Marc.Zyngier@arm.com (Marc Zyngier)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [BUG] "sched: Remove rq->lock from the first half of ttwu()" locks up on ARM
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 19:13:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1306260792.27474.133.camel@e102391-lin.cambridge.arm.com> (raw)
Peter,
I've experienced all kind of lock-ups on ARM SMP platforms recently, and
finally tracked it down to the following patch:
e4a52bcb9a18142d79e231b6733cabdbf2e67c1f [sched: Remove rq->lock from the first half of ttwu()].
Even on moderate load, the machine locks up, often silently, and
sometimes with a few messages like:
INFO: rcu_preempt_state detected stalls on CPUs/tasks: { 0} (detected by 1, t=12002 jiffies)
Another side effect of this patch is that the load average is always 0,
whatever load I throw at the system.
Reverting the sched changes up to that patch (included) gives me a
working system again, which happily survives parallel kernel
compilations without complaining.
My knowledge of the scheduler being rather limited, I haven't been able
to pinpoint the exact problem (though it probably have something to do
with __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW being defined on ARM). The enclosed
patch somehow papers over the load average problem, but the system ends
up locking up anyway:
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index d3ade54..5ab43c4 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -2526,8 +2526,13 @@ try_to_wake_up(struct task_struct *p, unsigned int state, int wake_flags)
* to spin on ->on_cpu if p is current, since that would
* deadlock.
*/
- if (p == current)
+ if (p == current) {
+ p->sched_contributes_to_load = !!task_contributes_to_load(p);
+ p->state = TASK_WAKING;
+ if (p->sched_class->task_waking)
+ p->sched_class->task_waking(p);
goto out_activate;
+ }
#endif
cpu_relax();
}
I'd be happy to test any patch you may have.
Cheers,
M.
--
Reality is an implementation detail.
next reply other threads:[~2011-05-24 18:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-24 18:13 Marc Zyngier [this message]
2011-05-24 21:32 ` [BUG] "sched: Remove rq->lock from the first half of ttwu()" locks up on ARM Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-24 21:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-25 12:23 ` Marc Zyngier
2011-05-25 17:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-25 21:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-26 7:29 ` Yong Zhang
2011-05-26 10:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-26 11:02 ` Marc Zyngier
2011-05-26 11:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-26 12:21 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-26 12:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-26 12:31 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-05-26 12:37 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-26 12:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-26 13:36 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-05-26 14:45 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-05-27 12:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-27 17:55 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-05-27 19:41 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-05-27 20:52 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-05-28 13:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-31 11:08 ` Michal Simek
2011-05-31 13:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-31 13:37 ` Michal Simek
2011-05-31 13:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-31 14:08 ` Michal Simek
2011-05-31 14:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-29 10:21 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-05-29 10:26 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-05-29 12:01 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-05-29 13:19 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-05-29 21:21 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-05-29 9:51 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-06-06 10:29 ` Pavel Machek
2011-05-26 14:56 ` Marc Zyngier
2011-05-26 15:45 ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-05-26 15:59 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-26 16:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-26 16:20 ` Marc Zyngier
2011-05-26 16:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-27 8:01 ` Marc Zyngier
2011-05-26 16:22 ` Marc Zyngier
2011-05-26 17:04 ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-05-26 17:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-26 17:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-26 17:49 ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-05-27 7:01 ` Yong Zhang
2011-05-27 15:23 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2011-05-27 15:29 ` Marc Zyngier
2011-05-27 15:30 ` Santosh Shilimkar
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