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| author | Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> | 2026-09-21 17:37:22 -0700 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2026-09-22 10:49:53 +0200 |
| commit | 0d6526f82c3cdefcca47f73f5fc08dc6f335eac6 (patch) | |
| tree | 176dc2d685debcfb082c151ee94f2425ac96b364 /Documentation/features/sched | |
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sched/cache: Keep nr_pref_llc_running in the runnable domain, to fix LLC mis-scheduling buggrafted
alb_break_llc() decides whether to break LLC preference during active
load balance. It does so by testing that every runnable fair task on the
source rq prefers its LLC:
env->src_rq->nr_pref_llc_running == env->src_rq->cfs.h_nr_runnable
But the two counters cover different sets. nr_pref_llc_running is updated
in account_llc_enqueue()/account_llc_dequeue(), next to cfs_rq->nr_queued,
so it follows queued tasks. h_nr_runnable is updated in set_delayed()/
clear_delayed() and drops delay-dequeued tasks.
So under DELAY_DEQUEUE, a preferring task that goes to sleep stays counted
in nr_pref_llc_running while h_nr_runnable falls. The equality then breaks,
alb_break_llc() returns false, and active balance is free to pull a task
off its preferred LLC. Active balance only moves runnable tasks, and this
is the only LLC check it consults: once the stopper runs, LBF_ACTIVE_LB
skips the per-task test in can_migrate_task(). The runnable set is the one
we want.
Fix it on the counter side. A task should be counted in
nr_pref_llc_running exactly while it is both queued on its preferred LLC
(pref_llc_queued) and runnable (!sched_delayed). Define that membership
once in task_pref_llc_runnable(), and adjust the counter only through
pref_llc_running_inc()/pref_llc_running_dec() from the four sites that
change either input: account_llc_enqueue(), account_llc_dequeue(),
set_delayed() and clear_delayed(). Gating every update on the same
predicate keeps the delay, wake and dequeue paths from double-counting
or underflowing; see the comments at those sites for the ordering.
nr_llc_running and sd->llc_counts are not touched and stay on queued
semantics.
Fixes: 714059f79ff0 ("sched/cache: Handle moving single tasks to/from their preferred LLC")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260827135000.735138-1-zhanxusheng@xiaomi.com/
Reported-by: Zhan Xusheng <zhanxusheng@xiaomi.com>
Suggested-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kayra Cizmeci <kayracizmeci@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # v7.2.x
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/06af61afedac32e6477f57feb4d658f6c411c3af.1790035273.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/features/sched')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/features/sched/membarrier-sync-core/arch-support.txt | 69 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/features/sched/numa-balancing/arch-support.txt | 30 |
2 files changed, 99 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/features/sched/membarrier-sync-core/arch-support.txt b/Documentation/features/sched/membarrier-sync-core/arch-support.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..7425d2b99 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/features/sched/membarrier-sync-core/arch-support.txt @@ -0,0 +1,69 @@ +# +# Feature name: membarrier-sync-core +# Kconfig: ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE +# description: arch supports core serializing membarrier +# +# Architecture requirements +# +# * arm/arm64/powerpc/s390 +# +# Rely on implicit context synchronization as a result of exception return +# when returning from IPI handler, and when returning to user-space. +# +# * riscv +# +# riscv uses xRET as return from interrupt and to return to user-space. +# +# Given that xRET is not core serializing, we rely on FENCE.I for providing +# core serialization: +# +# - by calling sync_core_before_usermode() on return from interrupt (cf. +# ipi_sync_core()), +# +# - via switch_mm() and sync_core_before_usermode() (respectively, for +# uthread->uthread and kthread->uthread transitions) before returning +# to user-space. +# +# The serialization in switch_mm() is activated by prepare_sync_core_cmd(). +# +# * x86 +# +# x86-32 uses IRET as return from interrupt, which takes care of the IPI. +# However, it uses both IRET and SYSEXIT to go back to user-space. The IRET +# instruction is core serializing, but not SYSEXIT. +# +# x86-64 uses IRET as return from interrupt, which takes care of the IPI. +# However, it can return to user-space through either SYSRETL (compat code), +# SYSRETQ, or IRET. +# +# Given that neither SYSRET{L,Q}, nor SYSEXIT, are core serializing, we rely +# instead on write_cr3() performed by switch_mm() to provide core serialization +# after changing the current mm, and deal with the special case of kthread -> +# uthread (temporarily keeping current mm into active_mm) by issuing a +# sync_core_before_usermode() in that specific case. +# + ----------------------- + | arch |status| + ----------------------- + | alpha: | TODO | + | arc: | TODO | + | arm: | ok | + | arm64: | ok | + | csky: | TODO | + | hexagon: | TODO | + | loongarch: | TODO | + | m68k: | TODO | + | microblaze: | TODO | + | mips: | TODO | + | nios2: | TODO | + | openrisc: | TODO | + | parisc: | TODO | + | powerpc: | ok | + | riscv: | ok | + | s390: | ok | + | sh: | TODO | + | sparc: | TODO | + | um: | TODO | + | x86: | ok | + | xtensa: | TODO | + ----------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/features/sched/numa-balancing/arch-support.txt b/Documentation/features/sched/numa-balancing/arch-support.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..984601c7c --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/features/sched/numa-balancing/arch-support.txt @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +# +# Feature name: numa-balancing +# Kconfig: ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING +# description: arch supports NUMA balancing +# + ----------------------- + | arch |status| + ----------------------- + | alpha: | TODO | + | arc: | .. | + | arm: | .. | + | arm64: | ok | + | csky: | .. | + | hexagon: | .. | + | loongarch: | ok | + | m68k: | .. | + | microblaze: | .. | + | mips: | TODO | + | nios2: | .. | + | openrisc: | .. | + | parisc: | .. | + | powerpc: | ok | + | riscv: | ok | + | s390: | ok | + | sh: | .. | + | sparc: | TODO | + | um: | .. | + | x86: | ok | + | xtensa: | .. | + ----------------------- |
