linux/kernel/sched
Steven Rostedt f73c52a5bc sched/rt: Do not pull from current CPU if only one CPU to pull
Daniel Wagner reported a crash on the BeagleBone Black SoC.

This is a single CPU architecture, and does not have a functional
arch_send_call_function_single_ipi() implementation which can crash
the kernel if that is called.

As it only has one CPU, it shouldn't be called, but if the kernel is
compiled for SMP, the push/pull RT scheduling logic now calls it for
irq_work if the one CPU is overloaded, it can use that function to call
itself and crash the kernel.

Ideally, we should disable the SCHED_FEAT(RT_PUSH_IPI) if the system
only has a single CPU. But SCHED_FEAT is a constant if sched debugging
is turned off. Another fix can also be used, and this should also help
with normal SMP machines. That is, do not initiate the pull code if
there's only one RT overloaded CPU, and that CPU happens to be the
current CPU that is scheduling in a lower priority task.

Even on a system with many CPUs, if there's many RT tasks waiting to
run on a single CPU, and that CPU schedules in another RT task of lower
priority, it will initiate the PULL logic in case there's a higher
priority RT task on another CPU that is waiting to run. But if there is
no other CPU with waiting RT tasks, it will initiate the RT pull logic
on itself (as it still has RT tasks waiting to run). This is a wasted
effort.

Not only does this help with SMP code where the current CPU is the only
one with RT overloaded tasks, it should also solve the issue that
Daniel encountered, because it will prevent the PULL logic from
executing, as there's only one CPU on the system, and the check added
here will cause it to exit the RT pull code.

Reported-by: Daniel Wagner <wagi@monom.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 4bdced5c9 ("sched/rt: Simplify the IPI based RT balancing logic")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171202130454.4cbbfe8d@vmware.local.home
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-12-15 16:28:02 +01:00
..
autogroup.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
autogroup.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
clock.c sched/clock, sched/cputime: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled 2017-11-08 11:13:53 +01:00
completion.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
core.c sched/core: Fix kernel-doc warnings after code movement 2017-12-11 16:10:42 +01:00
cpuacct.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
cpudeadline.c sched/deadline: Change return value of cpudl_find() 2017-08-10 12:18:17 +02:00
cpudeadline.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
cpufreq_schedutil.c cpufreq: schedutil: Reset cached_raw_freq when not in sync with next_freq 2017-11-08 23:59:33 +01:00
cpufreq.c cpufreq / sched: Pass flags to cpufreq_update_util() 2016-08-16 22:14:55 +02:00
cpupri.c sched/cpupri: Don't re-initialize 'struct cpupri' 2017-08-10 12:18:14 +02:00
cpupri.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
cputime.c Merge branch 'for-4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup 2017-11-15 14:29:44 -08:00
deadline.c Merge branch 'for-4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup 2017-11-15 14:29:44 -08:00
debug.c sched/fair: Propagate an effective runnable_load_avg 2017-09-29 19:35:15 +02:00
fair.c sched/fair: Update and fix the runnable propagation rule 2017-12-06 19:30:50 +01:00
features.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
idle_task.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
idle.c sched/idle: Micro-optimize the idle loop 2017-10-26 08:31:29 +02:00
isolation.c sched/isolation: Add basic isolcpus flags 2017-10-27 09:55:31 +02:00
loadavg.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
Makefile Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core, to pick up fixes 2017-11-08 10:17:15 +01:00
membarrier.c membarrier: Provide register expedited private command 2017-10-19 22:13:40 -04:00
rt.c sched/rt: Do not pull from current CPU if only one CPU to pull 2017-12-15 16:28:02 +01:00
sched-pelt.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
sched.h Merge branch 'for-4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup 2017-11-15 14:29:44 -08:00
stats.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
stats.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
stop_task.c Merge branch 'for-4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup 2017-11-15 14:29:44 -08:00
swait.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
topology.c Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core, to pick up fixes 2017-11-08 10:17:15 +01:00
wait_bit.c Pass mode to wait_on_atomic_t() action funcs and provide default actions 2017-11-13 15:38:16 +00:00
wait.c sched/wait: Fix add_wait_queue() behavioral change 2017-12-06 19:30:34 +01:00