linux/kernel/sched
Paul Turner 0ac9b1c218 sched: Guarantee new group-entities always have weight
Currently, group entity load-weights are initialized to zero. This
admits some races with respect to the first time they are re-weighted in
earlty use. ( Let g[x] denote the se for "g" on cpu "x". )

Suppose that we have root->a and that a enters a throttled state,
immediately followed by a[0]->t1 (the only task running on cpu[0])
blocking:

  put_prev_task(group_cfs_rq(a[0]), t1)
  put_prev_entity(..., t1)
  check_cfs_rq_runtime(group_cfs_rq(a[0]))
  throttle_cfs_rq(group_cfs_rq(a[0]))

Then, before unthrottling occurs, let a[0]->b[0]->t2 wake for the first
time:

  enqueue_task_fair(rq[0], t2)
  enqueue_entity(group_cfs_rq(b[0]), t2)
  enqueue_entity_load_avg(group_cfs_rq(b[0]), t2)
  account_entity_enqueue(group_cfs_ra(b[0]), t2)
  update_cfs_shares(group_cfs_rq(b[0]))
  < skipped because b is part of a throttled hierarchy >
  enqueue_entity(group_cfs_rq(a[0]), b[0])
  ...

We now have b[0] enqueued, yet group_cfs_rq(a[0])->load.weight == 0
which violates invariants in several code-paths. Eliminate the
possibility of this by initializing group entity weight.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131016181627.22647.47543.stgit@sword-of-the-dawn.mtv.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-29 12:02:23 +01:00
..
Makefile
auto_group.c sched/autogroup: Fix race with task_groups list 2013-05-28 09:40:22 +02:00
auto_group.h
clock.c
core.c sched: Fix race on toggling cfs_bandwidth_used 2013-10-29 12:02:19 +01:00
cpuacct.c cgroup: pass around cgroup_subsys_state instead of cgroup in file methods 2013-08-08 20:11:24 -04:00
cpuacct.h
cpupri.c sched: Fix some kernel-doc warnings 2013-07-18 09:58:21 +02:00
cpupri.h
cputime.c Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-09-05 12:36:46 -07:00
debug.c sched/numa: Add debugging 2013-10-09 14:48:04 +02:00
fair.c sched: Guarantee new group-entities always have weight 2013-10-29 12:02:23 +01:00
features.h sched/numa: Resist moving tasks towards nodes with fewer hinting faults 2013-10-09 12:40:27 +02:00
idle_task.c sched/numa: Introduce migrate_swap() 2013-10-09 12:40:46 +02:00
proc.c sched: Change get_rq_runnable_load() to static and inline 2013-06-27 10:07:44 +02:00
rt.c sched/rt: Fix task_tick_rt() comment 2013-10-26 12:25:21 +02:00
sched.h sched: Fix race on toggling cfs_bandwidth_used 2013-10-29 12:02:19 +01:00
stats.c
stats.h sched: Micro-optimize by dropping unnecessary task_rq() calls 2013-09-25 13:51:06 +02:00
stop_task.c sched/numa: Introduce migrate_swap() 2013-10-09 12:40:46 +02:00