This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
sched/debug: Don't update sched_domain debug directories before sched_debug_init()
to the 5.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
sched-debug-don-t-update-sched_domain-debug-director.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 4cc1309a140dea78fe5187428135b38f9bba3e48
Author: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue May 18 14:07:25 2021 +0100
sched/debug: Don't update sched_domain debug directories before sched_debug_init()
[ Upstream commit 459b09b5a3254008b63382bf41a9b36d0b590f57 ]
Since CPU capacity asymmetry can stem purely from maximum frequency
differences (e.g. Pixel 1), a rebuild of the scheduler topology can be
issued upon loading cpufreq, see:
arch_topology.c::init_cpu_capacity_callback()
Turns out that if this rebuild happens *before* sched_debug_init() is
run (which is a late initcall), we end up messing up the sched_domain debug
directory: passing a NULL parent to debugfs_create_dir() ends up creating
the directory at the debugfs root, which in this case creates
/sys/kernel/debug/domains (instead of /sys/kernel/debug/sched/domains).
This currently doesn't happen on asymmetric systems which use cpufreq-scpi
or cpufreq-dt drivers, as those are loaded via
deferred_probe_initcall() (it is also a late initcall, but appears to be
ordered *after* sched_debug_init()).
Ionela has been working on detecting maximum frequency asymmetry via ACPI,
and that actually happens via a *device* initcall, thus before
sched_debug_init(), and causes the aforementionned debugfs mayhem.
One option would be to punt sched_debug_init() down to
fs_initcall_sync(). Preventing update_sched_domain_debugfs() from running
before sched_debug_init() appears to be the safer option.
Fixes: 3b87f136f8fc ("sched,debug: Convert sysctl sched_domains to debugfs")
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/r/20210514095339.12979-1-ionela.voinescu@xxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/kernel/sched/debug.c b/kernel/sched/debug.c
index 0c5ec2776ddf..7e08e3d947c2 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/debug.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/debug.c
@@ -388,6 +388,13 @@ void update_sched_domain_debugfs(void)
{
int cpu, i;
+ /*
+ * This can unfortunately be invoked before sched_debug_init() creates
+ * the debug directory. Don't touch sd_sysctl_cpus until then.
+ */
+ if (!debugfs_sched)
+ return;
+
if (!cpumask_available(sd_sysctl_cpus)) {
if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&sd_sysctl_cpus, GFP_KERNEL))
return;
