From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com>
Cc: mingo@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cj.chengjian@huawei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: fix a potential divide error
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 20:44:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190423184458.GW4038@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190420083416.170446-1-xiexiuqi@huawei.com>
On Sat, Apr 20, 2019 at 04:34:16PM +0800, Xie XiuQi wrote:
> We meet a divide error on 3.10.0 kernel, the error message is bellow:
That is a _realllllllyyyy_ old kernel. I would urge you to upgrade.
> [499992.287996] divide error: 0000 [#1] SMP
> sched_clock_cpu may not be consistent bwtwen cpus. If a task migrate
> to another cpu, the se.exec_start was set to that cpu's rq_clock_task
> by update_stats_curr_start(). Which may not be monotonic.
>
> update_stats_curr_start
> <- set_next_entity
> <- set_curr_task_fair
> <- sched_move_task
That is not in fact a cross-cpu migration path. But I see the point.
Also many migration paths do in fact preserve monotonicity, even when
the clock is busted, but you're right, not all of them.
> So, if now - p->last_task_numa_placement is -1, then (*period + 1) is
> 0, and divide error was triggerred at the div operation:
> task_numa_placement:
> runtime = numa_get_avg_runtime(p, &period);
> f_weight = div64_u64(runtime << 16, period + 1); // divide error here
>
> In this patch, we make sure period is not less than 0 to avoid this
> divide error.
>
> Signed-off-by: Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> ---
> kernel/sched/fair.c | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index 40bd1e27b1b7..f2abb258fc85 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -2007,6 +2007,10 @@ static u64 numa_get_avg_runtime(struct task_struct *p, u64 *period)
> if (p->last_task_numa_placement) {
> delta = runtime - p->last_sum_exec_runtime;
> *period = now - p->last_task_numa_placement;
> +
> + /* Avoid backward, and prevent potential divide error */
> + if ((s64)*period < 0)
> + *period = 0;
> } else {
> delta = p->se.avg.load_sum;
> *period = LOAD_AVG_MAX;
Yeah, I suppose that is indeed correct.
I'll try and come up with a better Changelog tomorrow.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-23 18:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-20 8:34 [PATCH] sched: fix a potential divide error Xie XiuQi
2019-04-23 18:44 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2019-04-25 3:52 ` Xie XiuQi
2019-04-25 8:00 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-25 8:16 ` Xie XiuQi
2019-04-25 18:01 ` [tip:sched/urgent] sched/numa: Fix a possible divide-by-zero tip-bot for Xie XiuQi
2019-04-25 18:04 ` tip-bot for Xie XiuQi
2019-04-25 17:59 ` [PATCH] sched: fix a potential divide error Ingo Molnar
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