Revision 6e2df0581f569038719cf2bc2b3baa3fcc83cab4 authored by Peter Zijlstra on 08 November 2019, 10:11:52 UTC, committed by Peter Zijlstra on 08 November 2019, 21:34:14 UTC
Commit 67692435c411 ("sched: Rework pick_next_task() slow-path")
inadvertly introduced a race because it changed a previously
unexplored dependency between dropping the rq->lock and
sched_class::put_prev_task().

The comments about dropping rq->lock, in for example
newidle_balance(), only mentions the task being current and ->on_cpu
being set. But when we look at the 'change' pattern (in for example
sched_setnuma()):

	queued = task_on_rq_queued(p); /* p->on_rq == TASK_ON_RQ_QUEUED */
	running = task_current(rq, p); /* rq->curr == p */

	if (queued)
		dequeue_task(...);
	if (running)
		put_prev_task(...);

	/* change task properties */

	if (queued)
		enqueue_task(...);
	if (running)
		set_next_task(...);

It becomes obvious that if we do this after put_prev_task() has
already been called on @p, things go sideways. This is exactly what
the commit in question allows to happen when it does:

	prev->sched_class->put_prev_task(rq, prev, rf);
	if (!rq->nr_running)
		newidle_balance(rq, rf);

The newidle_balance() call will drop rq->lock after we've called
put_prev_task() and that allows the above 'change' pattern to
interleave and mess up the state.

Furthermore, it turns out we lost the RT-pull when we put the last DL
task.

Fix both problems by extracting the balancing from put_prev_task() and
doing a multi-class balance() pass before put_prev_task().

Fixes: 67692435c411 ("sched: Rework pick_next_task() slow-path")
Reported-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>
Tested-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
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ufs.rst
=========
Using UFS
=========

mount -t ufs -o ufstype=type_of_ufs device dir


UFS Options
===========

ufstype=type_of_ufs
	UFS is a file system widely used in different operating systems.
	The problem are differences among implementations. Features of
	some implementations are undocumented, so its hard to recognize
	type of ufs automatically. That's why user must specify type of
	ufs manually by mount option ufstype. Possible values are:

	old
                old format of ufs
		default value, supported as read-only

	44bsd
                used in FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD
		supported as read-write

	ufs2
                used in FreeBSD 5.x
		supported as read-write

	5xbsd
                synonym for ufs2

	sun
                used in SunOS (Solaris)
		supported as read-write

	sunx86
                used in SunOS for Intel (Solarisx86)
		supported as read-write

	hp
                used in HP-UX
		supported as read-only

	nextstep
		used in NextStep
		supported as read-only

	nextstep-cd
		used for NextStep CDROMs (block_size == 2048)
		supported as read-only

	openstep
		used in OpenStep
		supported as read-only


Possible Problems
-----------------

See next section, if you have any.


Bug Reports
-----------

Any ufs bug report you can send to daniel.pirkl@email.cz or
to dushistov@mail.ru (do not send partition tables bug reports).
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