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

1 files changed, 100 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/win_minmax.c b/lib/win_minmax.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1682e6143
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/win_minmax.c
@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+/*
+ * lib/minmax.c: windowed min/max tracker
+ *
+ * Kathleen Nichols' algorithm for tracking the minimum (or maximum)
+ * value of a data stream over some fixed time interval.  (E.g.,
+ * the minimum RTT over the past five minutes.) It uses constant
+ * space and constant time per update yet almost always delivers
+ * the same minimum as an implementation that has to keep all the
+ * data in the window.
+ *
+ * The algorithm keeps track of the best, 2nd best & 3rd best min
+ * values, maintaining an invariant that the measurement time of
+ * the n'th best >= n-1'th best. It also makes sure that the three
+ * values are widely separated in the time window since that bounds
+ * the worse case error when that data is monotonically increasing
+ * over the window.
+ *
+ * Upon getting a new min, we can forget everything earlier because
+ * it has no value - the new min is <= everything else in the window
+ * by definition and it's the most recent. So we restart fresh on
+ * every new min and overwrites 2nd & 3rd choices. The same property
+ * holds for 2nd & 3rd best.
+ */
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/win_minmax.h>
+
+/* As time advances, update the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd choices. */
+static u32 minmax_subwin_update(struct minmax *m, u32 win,
+				const struct minmax_sample *val)
+{
+	u32 dt = val->t - m->s[0].t;
+
+	if (unlikely(dt > win)) {
+		/*
+		 * Passed entire window without a new val so make 2nd
+		 * choice the new val & 3rd choice the new 2nd choice.
+		 * we may have to iterate this since our 2nd choice
+		 * may also be outside the window (we checked on entry
+		 * that the third choice was in the window).
+		 */
+		m->s[0] = m->s[1];
+		m->s[1] = m->s[2];
+		m->s[2] = *val;
+		if (unlikely(val->t - m->s[0].t > win)) {
+			m->s[0] = m->s[1];
+			m->s[1] = m->s[2];
+			m->s[2] = *val;
+		}
+	} else if (unlikely(m->s[1].t == m->s[0].t) && dt > win/4) {
+		/*
+		 * We've passed a quarter of the window without a new val
+		 * so take a 2nd choice from the 2nd quarter of the window.
+		 */
+		m->s[2] = m->s[1] = *val;
+	} else if (unlikely(m->s[2].t == m->s[1].t) && dt > win/2) {
+		/*
+		 * We've passed half the window without finding a new val
+		 * so take a 3rd choice from the last half of the window
+		 */
+		m->s[2] = *val;
+	}
+	return m->s[0].v;
+}
+
+/* Check if new measurement updates the 1st, 2nd or 3rd choice max. */
+u32 minmax_running_max(struct minmax *m, u32 win, u32 t, u32 meas)
+{
+	struct minmax_sample val = { .t = t, .v = meas };
+
+	if (unlikely(val.v >= m->s[0].v) ||	  /* found new max? */
+	    unlikely(val.t - m->s[2].t > win))	  /* nothing left in window? */
+		return minmax_reset(m, t, meas);  /* forget earlier samples */
+
+	if (unlikely(val.v >= m->s[1].v))
+		m->s[2] = m->s[1] = val;
+	else if (unlikely(val.v >= m->s[2].v))
+		m->s[2] = val;
+
+	return minmax_subwin_update(m, win, &val);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(minmax_running_max);
+
+/* Check if new measurement updates the 1st, 2nd or 3rd choice min. */
+u32 minmax_running_min(struct minmax *m, u32 win, u32 t, u32 meas)
+{
+	struct minmax_sample val = { .t = t, .v = meas };
+
+	if (unlikely(val.v <= m->s[0].v) ||	  /* found new min? */
+	    unlikely(val.t - m->s[2].t > win))	  /* nothing left in window? */
+		return minmax_reset(m, t, meas);  /* forget earlier samples */
+
+	if (unlikely(val.v <= m->s[1].v))
+		m->s[2] = m->s[1] = val;
+	else if (unlikely(val.v <= m->s[2].v))
+		m->s[2] = val;
+
+	return minmax_subwin_update(m, win, &val);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(minmax_running_min);