Re: [PATCH 00/30] PREEMPT_AUTO: support lazy rescheduling

[Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>]

Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> writes:

> On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 07:45:18PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 06:03:28PM -0800, Ankur Arora wrote:
>> >
>> > Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> writes:
>> >
>> > > On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 09:55:24PM -0800, Ankur Arora wrote:
>> > >> Hi,
>> > >>
>> > >> This series adds a new scheduling model PREEMPT_AUTO, which like
>> > >> PREEMPT_DYNAMIC allows dynamic switching between a none/voluntary/full
>> > >> preemption model. However, unlike PREEMPT_DYNAMIC, it doesn't depend
>> > >> on explicit preemption points for the voluntary models.
>> > >>
>> > >> The series is based on Thomas' original proposal which he outlined
>> > >> in [1], [2] and in his PoC [3].
>> > >>
>> > >> An earlier RFC version is at [4].
>> > >
>> > > This uncovered a couple of latent bugs in RCU due to its having been
>> > > a good long time since anyone built a !SMP preemptible kernel with
>> > > non-preemptible RCU.  I have a couple of fixes queued on -rcu [1], most
>> > > likely for the merge window after next, but let me know if you need
>> > > them sooner.
>> >
>> > Thanks. As you can probably tell, I skipped out on !SMP in my testing.
>> > But, the attached diff should tide me over until the fixes are in.
>>
>> That was indeed my guess.  ;-)
>>
>> > > I am also seeing OOM conditions during rcutorture testing of callback
>> > > flooding, but I am still looking into this.
>> >
>> > That's on the PREEMPT_AUTO && PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY configuration?
>>
>> On two of the PREEMPT_AUTO && PREEMPT_NONE configurations, but only on
>> two of them thus far.  I am running a longer test to see if this might
>> be just luck.  If not, I look to see what rcutorture scenarios TREE10
>> and TRACE01 have in common.
>
> And still TRACE01 and TREE10 are hitting OOMs, still not seeing what
> sets them apart.  I also hit a grace-period hang in TREE04, which does
> CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY=y along with CONFIG_PREEMPT_AUTO=y.  Something
> to dig into more.
>
> I am also getting these from builds that enable KASAN:
>
> vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: mwait_idle+0x13: call to tif_resched.constprop.0() leaves .noinstr.text section
> vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: acpi_processor_ffh_cstate_enter+0x36: call to tif_resched.constprop.0() leaves .noinstr.text section
> vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: cpu_idle_poll.isra.0+0x18: call to tif_resched.constprop.0() leaves .noinstr.text section
> vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: acpi_safe_halt+0x0: call to tif_resched.constprop.0() leaves .noinstr.text section
> vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: poll_idle+0x33: call to tif_resched.constprop.0() leaves .noinstr.text section
> vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: default_enter_idle+0x18: call to tif_resched.constprop.0() leaves .noinstr.text section

Thanks Paul. Yeah, with KASAN, tif_resched() transforms into this out of
line function:

ffffffff810fec20 <tif_resched.constprop.0>:
ffffffff810fec20:       e8 5b c6 20 00          call   ffffffff8130b280 <__sanitizer_cov_trace_pc>
ffffffff810fec25:       b8 03 00 00 00          mov    $0x3,%eax
ffffffff810fec2a:       e9 71 56 61 01          jmp    ffffffff827142a0 <__x86_return_thunk>
ffffffff810fec2f:       90                      nop

> Does tif_resched() need to be marked noinstr or some such?

Builds fine with Thomas' suggested fix.

--------
diff --git a/include/linux/thread_info.h b/include/linux/thread_info.h
index 8752dbc2dac7..0810ddeb365d 100644
--- a/include/linux/thread_info.h
+++ b/include/linux/thread_info.h
@@ -81,12 +81,12 @@ typedef enum {
  * reduce to the same value (TIF_NEED_RESCHED) leaving any scheduling behaviour
  * unchanged.
  */
-static inline int tif_resched(resched_t rs)
+static __always_inline inline int tif_resched(resched_t rs)
 {
        return TIF_NEED_RESCHED + rs * TIF_NEED_RESCHED_LAZY_OFFSET;
 }

-static inline int _tif_resched(resched_t rs)
+static __always_inline inline int _tif_resched(resched_t rs)
 {
        return 1 << tif_resched(rs);
 }