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From: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
To: John Keeping <john@metanate.com>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>,
	linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RT] BUG in sched/cpupri.c
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2021 14:05:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mtkr76xy.mognet@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YcRkUt8nFCWI7PHn@donbot>

On 23/12/21 11:58, John Keeping wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 07:48:33PM +0000, Valentin Schneider wrote:
>> mark_wakeup_next_waiter() first deboosts the previous owner and then
>> wakeups the next top waiter. Seems like you somehow have the wakeup happen
>> before the push_rt_task IRQ work is run. Also, tell_cpu_to_push() should
>> only pick a CPU that is in rq->rd->rto_mask, which requires having at least
>> 2 RT tasks there...
>> 
>> Now, that wakeup from the rtmutex unlock would give us a resched_curr() via
>> check_preempt_curr() if required, which is good, though I think we are
>> still missing some for sched_setscheduler() (there are no wakeups
>> there). So if we just have to live with an IRQ work popping in before we
>> get to preempt_schedule_irq() (or somesuch), then perhaps the below would
>> be sufficient.
>
> With this patch I ran 100 reboots without hitting the BUG, so it looks
> like this is the solution!
>
> If you post this as a patch, feel free to add:
>
> 	Tested-by: John Keeping <john@metanate.com>

Thanks!

I still need to convince myself beyond reasonable doubt that this is really
what is happening (esp the sched_setscheduler()) part, so the next episode
will probably air after the break :-)

  reply	other threads:[~2021-12-23 14:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-18 14:25 [RT] BUG in sched/cpupri.c John Keeping
2021-12-20 17:35 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2021-12-21 16:11   ` Valentin Schneider
2021-12-21 16:45     ` John Keeping
2021-12-21 17:22       ` Valentin Schneider
2021-12-21 17:42         ` John Keeping
2021-12-22 17:46       ` Dietmar Eggemann
2021-12-22 18:45         ` John Keeping
2021-12-22 19:48         ` Valentin Schneider
2021-12-23 11:58           ` John Keeping
2021-12-23 14:05             ` Valentin Schneider [this message]
2022-01-07 10:46           ` Dietmar Eggemann
2022-01-07 11:49             ` John Keeping
2022-01-07 14:25               ` Dietmar Eggemann
2022-01-07 18:35                 ` John Keeping
2022-01-14 18:25             ` Valentin Schneider

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