Mike Meyer reported the following bug:
> During evaluation of some performance data, it was discovered thread
> and run queue run_delay accounting data was inconsistent with the other
> accounting data that was collected. Further investigation found under
> certain circumstances execution time was leaking into the task and
> run queue accounting of run_delay.
>
> Consider the following sequence:
>
> a. thread is running.
> b. thread moves beween cgroups, changes scheduling class or priority.
> c. thread sleeps OR
> d. thread involuntarily gives up cpu.
>
> a. implies:
>
> thread->sched_info.last_queued = 0
>
> a. and b. results in the following:
>
> 1. dequeue_task(rq, thread)
>
> sched_info_dequeued(rq, thread)
> delta = 0
>
> sched_info_reset_dequeued(thread)
> thread->sched_info.last_queued = 0
>
> thread->sched_info.run_delay += delta
>
> 2. enqueue_task(rq, thread)
>
> sched_info_queued(rq, thread)
>
> /* thread is still on cpu at this point. */
> thread->sched_info.last_queued = task_rq(thread)->clock;
>
> c. results in:
>
> dequeue_task(rq, thread)
>
> sched_info_dequeued(rq, thread)
>
> /* delta is execution time not run_delay. */
> delta = task_rq(thread)->clock - thread->sched_info.last_queued
>
> sched_info_reset_dequeued(thread)
> thread->sched_info.last_queued = 0
>
> thread->sched_info.run_delay += delta
>
> Since thread was running between enqueue_task(rq, thread) and
> dequeue_task(rq, thread), the delta above is really execution
> time and not run_delay.
>
> d. results in:
>
> __sched_info_switch(thread, next_thread)
>
> sched_info_depart(rq, thread)
>
> sched_info_queued(rq, thread)
>
> /* last_queued not updated due to being non-zero */
> return
>
> Since thread was running between enqueue_task(rq, thread) and
> __sched_info_switch(thread, next_thread), the execution time
> between enqueue_task(rq, thread) and
> __sched_info_switch(thread, next_thread) now will become
> associated with run_delay due to when last_queued was last updated.
>
This alternative patch solves the problem by not calling
sched_info_{de,}queued() in {de,en}queue_task(). Therefore the
sched_info state is preserved and things work as expected.
By inlining the {de,en}queue_task() functions the new condition
becomes (mostly) a compile-time constant and we'll not emit any new
branch instructions.
It even shrinks the code (due to inlining {en,de}queue_task()):
$ size defconfig-build/kernel/sched/core.o defconfig-build/kernel/sched/core.o.orig
text data bss dec hex filename
64019 23378 2344 89741 15e8d defconfig-build/kernel/sched/core.o
64149 23378 2344 89871 15f0f defconfig-build/kernel/sched/core.o.orig
Reported-by: Mike Meyer <Mike.Meyer@Teradata.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150930154413.GO3604@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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