The following commit has been merged into the sched/urgent branch of tip: Commit-ID: 7ed735c33104f3c6194fbc67e3a8b6e64ae84ad1 Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/7ed735c33104f3c6194fbc67e3a8b6e64ae84ad1 Author: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Wed, 04 Dec 2019 19:21:40 +01:00 Committer: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> CommitterDate: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 13:32:48 +01:00 sched/fair: Fix find_idlest_group() to handle CPU affinity Because of CPU affinity, the local group can be skipped which breaks the assumption that statistics are always collected for local group. With uninitialized local_sgs, the comparison is meaningless and the behavior unpredictable. This can even end up to use local pointer which is to NULL in this case. If the local group has been skipped because of CPU affinity, we return the idlest group. Fixes: 57abff067a08 ("sched/fair: Rework find_idlest_group()") Reported-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@xxxxxxx> Tested-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx Cc: valentin.schneider@xxxxxxx Cc: mingo@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: mgorman@xxxxxxx Cc: juri.lelli@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: dietmar.eggemann@xxxxxxx Cc: bsegall@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: qais.yousef@xxxxxxx Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1575483700-22153-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx --- kernel/sched/fair.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c index 08a233e..146b6c8 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c @@ -8417,6 +8417,10 @@ find_idlest_group(struct sched_domain *sd, struct task_struct *p, if (!idlest) return NULL; + /* The local group has been skipped because of CPU affinity */ + if (!local) + return idlest; + /* * If the local group is idler than the selected idlest group * don't try and push the task.