>>> Could you try the patch below ? I have been able to reproduce the problem locally and this
>>> fix it on my system:
>>>
>> I can recreate the issue with this patch.
>
> ok, so your problem seem to be different from my assumption. Could you try
> the patch below on top of the previous one ?
>
> This will help us to confirm that the problem comes from load_avg and that
> it's linked to the cfs load_avg and it's not a problem happening earlier in
> the update of PELT.
>
Indeed. With both the patches applied I see following warning related to load_avg
Starting NTP client/server...
Starting VDO volume services...
[ 9.029054] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 9.029084] cfs_rq->avg.load_avg
[ 9.029111] WARNING: CPU: 21 PID: 1169 at kernel/sched/fair.c:3282 update_blocked_averages+0x760/0x830
[ 9.029151] Modules linked in: pseries_rng xts vmx_crypto uio_pdrv_genirq uio sch_fq_codel ip_tables xfs libcrc32c sr_mod sd_mod cdrom t10_pi sg ibmvscsi ibmveth scsi_transport_srp dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod fuse
[ 9.029233] CPU: 21 PID: 1169 Comm: grep Not tainted 5.13.0-rc7-next-20210621-dirty #3
[ 9.029246] NIP: c0000000001b6150 LR: c0000000001b614c CTR: c000000000728f40
[ 9.029259] REGS: c00000000e177650 TRAP: 0700 Not tainted (5.13.0-rc7-next-20210621-dirty)
[ 9.029271] MSR: 8000000000029033 <SF,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE> CR: 48088224 XER: 00000005
[ 9.029296] CFAR: c00000000014d120 IRQMASK: 1
[ 9.029296] GPR00: c0000000001b614c c00000000e1778f0 c0000000029bb900 0000000000000014
[ 9.029296] GPR04: 00000000fffeffff c00000000e1775b0 0000000000000027 c00000154f637e18
[ 9.029296] GPR08: 0000000000000023 0000000000000001 0000000000000027 c00000167f1d7fe8
[ 9.029296] GPR12: 0000000000008000 c00000154ffe0e80 000000000000b820 000000021a2c6864
[ 9.029296] GPR16: c0000000482cc000 c00000154f6c2580 0000000000000001 0000000000000000
[ 9.029296] GPR20: c00000000291a7f9 c0000000482cc100 0000000000000000 000000000000020d
[ 9.029296] GPR24: 0000000000000000 c00000154f6c2f90 0000000000000001 c000000030b84400
[ 9.029296] GPR28: 000000000000020d c0000000482cc1c0 0000000000000338 0000000000000000
[ 9.029481] NIP [c0000000001b6150] update_blocked_averages+0x760/0x830
[ 9.029494] LR [c0000000001b614c] update_blocked_averages+0x75c/0x830
[ 9.029508] Call Trace:
[ 9.029515] [c00000000e1778f0] [c0000000001b614c] update_blocked_averages+0x75c/0x830 (unreliable)
[ 9.029533] [c00000000e177a20] [c0000000001bd388] newidle_balance+0x258/0x5c0
[ 9.029542] [c00000000e177ab0] [c0000000001bd7cc] pick_next_task_fair+0x7c/0x4c0
[ 9.029574] [c00000000e177b10] [c000000000cee3dc] __schedule+0x15c/0x1780
[ 9.029599] [c00000000e177c50] [c0000000001a5984] do_task_dead+0x64/0x70
[ 9.029622] [c00000000e177c80] [c000000000156338] do_exit+0x848/0xcc0
[ 9.029646] [c00000000e177d50] [c000000000156884] do_group_exit+0x64/0xe0
[ 9.029666] [c00000000e177d90] [c000000000156924] sys_exit_group+0x24/0x30
[ 9.029688] [c00000000e177db0] [c0000000000310c0] system_call_exception+0x150/0x2d0
Startin[ 9.029710] [gc00000000e177e10 Hardware Monito] [c00000000000_common+0xec/0x2lling Sensors...
78
[ 9.029743] --- interrupt: c00 at 0x7fff943fddcc
[ 9.029758] NIP: 00007fff943fddcc LR: 00007fff94357f04 CTR: 0000000000000000
[ 9.029786] REGS: c00000000e177e80 TRAP: 0c00 Not tainted (5.13.0-rc7-next-20210621-dirty)
[ 9.029798] MSR: 800000000280f033 <SF,VEC,VSX,EE,PR,FP,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE> CR: 28000402 XER: 00000000
[ 9.029825] IRQMASK: 0
[ 9.029825] GPR00: 00000000000000ea 00007ffff59c0170 00007fff94527100 0000000000000001
[ 9.029825] GPR04: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 0000000000000000
[ 9.029825] GPR08: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
[ 9.029825] GPR12: 0000000000000000 00007fff9466af00 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
[ 9.029825] GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
[ 9.029825] GPR20: 0000000000000000 00007fff94524f98 0000000000000002 0000000000000001
[ 9.029825] GPR24: 00007fff94520950 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 0000000000000001
[ 9.029825] GPR28: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00007fff94663f10 0000000000000001
[ 9.029935] NIP [00007fff943fddcc] 0x7fff943fddcc
[ 9.029944] LR [00007fff94357f04] 0x7fff94357f04
[ 9.029952] --- interrupt: c00
[ 9.029959] Instruction dump:
[ 9.029966] 0fe00000 4bfffc64 60000000 60000000 89340007 2f890000 409efc38 e8610098
[ 9.029987] 39200001 99340007 4bf96f71 60000000 <0fe00000> 4bfffc1c 60000000 60000000
[ 9.030013] ---[ end trace 3d7e3a29c9539d96 ]---
Starting Authorization Manager…
Thanks
-Sachin
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index da91db1c137f..8a6566f945a0 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -3030,8 +3030,9 @@ account_entity_dequeue(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se)
> static inline void
> enqueue_load_avg(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se)
> {
> + u32 divider = get_pelt_divider(&se->avg);
> cfs_rq->avg.load_avg += se->avg.load_avg;
> - cfs_rq->avg.load_sum += se_weight(se) * se->avg.load_sum;
> + cfs_rq->avg.load_sum = cfs_rq->avg.load_avg * divider;
> }
>
> static inline void
> @@ -3304,9 +3305,9 @@ static inline bool cfs_rq_is_decayed(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
> * Make sure that rounding and/or propagation of PELT values never
> * break this.
> */
> - SCHED_WARN_ON(cfs_rq->avg.load_avg ||
> - cfs_rq->avg.util_avg ||
> - cfs_rq->avg.runnable_avg);
> + SCHED_WARN_ON(cfs_rq->avg.load_avg);
> + SCHED_WARN_ON(cfs_rq->avg.util_avg);
> + SCHED_WARN_ON(cfs_rq->avg.runnable_avg);
>
> return true;
> }
>
>
>>
>> Starting Terminate Plymouth Boot Screen...
>> Starting Hold until boot process finishes up...
>> [FAILED] Failed to start Crash recovery kernel arming.
>> See 'systemctl status kdump.service' for details.
>> [ 10.737913] ------------[ cut here ]------------
>> [ 10.737960] cfs_rq->avg.load_avg || cfs_rq->avg.util_avg || cfs_rq->avg.runnable_avg
>> [ 10.737976] WARNING: CPU: 27 PID: 146 at kernel/sched/fair.c:3279 update_blocked_averages+0x758/0x780
>> [ 10.738010] Modules linked in: stp llc rfkill sunrpc pseries_rng xts vmx_crypto uio_pdrv_genirq uio sch_fq_codel ip_tables xfs libcrc32c sr_mod sd_mod cdrom t10_pi sg ibmvscsi ibmveth scsi_transport_srp dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod fuse
>> [ 10.738089] CPU: 27 PID: 146 Comm: ksoftirqd/27 Not tainted 5.13.0-rc7-next-20210621-dirty #2
>> [ 10.738103] NIP: c0000000001b2768 LR: c0000000001b2764 CTR: c000000000729120
>> [ 10.738116] REGS: c000000015973840 TRAP: 0700 Not tainted (5.13.0-rc7-next-20210621-dirty)
>> [ 10.738130] MSR: 800000000282b033 <SF,VEC,VSX,EE,FP,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE> CR: 48000224 XER: 00000005
>> [ 10.738161] CFAR: c00000000014d120 IRQMASK: 1
>> [ 10.738161] GPR00: c0000000001b2764 c000000015973ae0 c0000000029bb900 0000000000000048
>> [ 10.738161] GPR04: 00000000fffeffff c0000000159737a0 0000000000000027 c00000154f9f7e18
>> [ 10.738161] GPR08: 0000000000000023 0000000000000001 0000000000000027 c00000167f1d7fe8
>> [ 10.738161] GPR12: 0000000000000000 c00000154ffd7e80 c00000154fa82580 000000000000b78a
>> [ 10.738161] GPR16: 000000028007883c 00000000000002ed c000000038d31000 0000000000000000
>> [ 10.738161] GPR20: 0000000000000000 c0000000029fdfe0 0000000000000000 000000000000037b
>> [ 10.738161] GPR24: 0000000000000000 c00000154fa82f90 0000000000000001 c00000003d4ca400
>> [ 10.738161] GPR28: 00000000000002ed c000000038d311c0 c000000038d31100 0000000000000000
>> [ 10.738281] NIP [c0000000001b2768] update_blocked_averages+0x758/0x780
>> [ 10.738290] LR [c0000000001b2764] update_blocked_averages+0x754/0x780
>> [ 10.738299] Call Trace:
>> [ 10.738303] [c000000015973ae0] [c0000000001b2764] update_blocked_averages+0x754/0x780 (unreliable)
>> [ 10.738315] [c000000015973c00] [c0000000001be720] run_rebalance_domains+0xa0/0xd0
>> [ 10.738326] [c000000015973c30] [c000000000cf9acc] __do_softirq+0x15c/0x3d4
>> [ 10.738337] [c000000015973d20] [c000000000158464] run_ksoftirqd+0x64/0x90
>> [ 10.738346] [c000000015973d40] [c00000000018fd24] smpboot_thread_fn+0x204/0x270
>> [ 10.738357] [c000000015973da0] [c000000000189770] kthread+0x190/0x1a0
>> [ 10.738367] [c000000015973e10] [c00000000000ceec] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x70
>> [ 10.738381] Instruction dump:
>> [ 10.738388] 3863c808 9be9eefe 4bf9a979 60000000 0fe00000 4bfff980 e9210070 e8610088
>> [ 10.738410] 39400001 99490003 4bf9a959 60000000 <0fe00000> 4bfffc24 3d22fff6 8929eefb
>> [ 10.738431] ---[ end trace 9ca80b55840c53f0 ]—
>>
>> Thanks
>> -Sachin
>>
>>> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
>>> index 8cc27b847ad8..da91db1c137f 100644
>>> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
>>> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
>>> @@ -3037,8 +3037,9 @@ enqueue_load_avg(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se)
>>> static inline void
>>> dequeue_load_avg(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se)
>>> {
>>> + u32 divider = get_pelt_divider(&se->avg);
>>> sub_positive(&cfs_rq->avg.load_avg, se->avg.load_avg);
>>> - sub_positive(&cfs_rq->avg.load_sum, se_weight(se) * se->avg.load_sum);
>>> + cfs_rq->avg.load_sum = cfs_rq->avg.load_avg * divider;
>>> }
>>> #else
>>> static inline void
