sched: Cleanup bandwidth timers
authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Wed, 15 Apr 2015 09:41:57 +0000 (11:41 +0200)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Wed, 22 Apr 2015 15:06:53 +0000 (17:06 +0200)
commit77a4d1a1b9a122ca1fa3507bd30aec1520d7a8a4
treed4912f0a6379207bf160b5666d5ecc20d70412ab
parent5de2755c8c8b3a6b8414870e2c284914a2b42e4d
sched: Cleanup bandwidth timers

Roman reported a 3 cpu lockup scenario involving __start_cfs_bandwidth().

The more I look at that code the more I'm convinced its crack, that
entire __start_cfs_bandwidth() thing is brain melting, we don't need to
cancel a timer before starting it, *hrtimer_start*() will happily remove
the timer for you if its still enqueued.

Removing that, removes a big part of the problem, no more ugly cancel
loop to get stuck in.

So now, if I understand things right, the entire reason you have this
cfs_b->lock guarded ->timer_active nonsense is to make sure we don't
accidentally lose the timer.

It appears to me that it should be possible to guarantee that same by
unconditionally (re)starting the timer when !queued. Because regardless
what hrtimer::function will return, if we beat it to (re)enqueue the
timer, it doesn't matter.

Now, because hrtimers don't come with any serialization guarantees we
must ensure both handler and (re)start loop serialize their access to
the hrtimer to avoid both trying to forward the timer at the same
time.

Update the rt bandwidth timer to match.

This effectively reverts: 09dc4ab03936 ("sched/fair: Fix
tg_set_cfs_bandwidth() deadlock on rq->lock").

Reported-by: Roman Gushchin <klamm@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150415095011.804589208@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
kernel/sched/core.c
kernel/sched/fair.c
kernel/sched/rt.c
kernel/sched/sched.h