This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled sched/fair: sanitize vruntime of entity being placed to the 4.19-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-fair-sanitize-vruntime-of-entity-being-placed.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 47398e01190531ee03509774a18c55181b7a72c8 Author: Zhang Qiao <zhangqiao22@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Jan 30 13:22:16 2023 +0100 sched/fair: sanitize vruntime of entity being placed [ Upstream commit 829c1651e9c4a6f78398d3e67651cef9bb6b42cc ] When a scheduling entity is placed onto cfs_rq, its vruntime is pulled to the base level (around cfs_rq->min_vruntime), so that the entity doesn't gain extra boost when placed backwards. However, if the entity being placed wasn't executed for a long time, its vruntime may get too far behind (e.g. while cfs_rq was executing a low-weight hog), which can inverse the vruntime comparison due to s64 overflow. This results in the entity being placed with its original vruntime way forwards, so that it will effectively never get to the cpu. To prevent that, ignore the vruntime of the entity being placed if it didn't execute for much longer than the characteristic sheduler time scale. [rkagan: formatted, adjusted commit log, comments, cutoff value] Signed-off-by: Zhang Qiao <zhangqiao22@xxxxxxxxxx> Co-developed-by: Roman Kagan <rkagan@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Roman Kagan <rkagan@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230130122216.3555094-1-rkagan@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c index 84e7efda98daf..304e7fa0ae870 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c @@ -3858,6 +3858,7 @@ static void place_entity(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se, int initial) { u64 vruntime = cfs_rq->min_vruntime; + u64 sleep_time; /* * The 'current' period is already promised to the current tasks, @@ -3882,8 +3883,18 @@ place_entity(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se, int initial) vruntime -= thresh; } - /* ensure we never gain time by being placed backwards. */ - se->vruntime = max_vruntime(se->vruntime, vruntime); + /* + * Pull vruntime of the entity being placed to the base level of + * cfs_rq, to prevent boosting it if placed backwards. If the entity + * slept for a long time, don't even try to compare its vruntime with + * the base as it may be too far off and the comparison may get + * inversed due to s64 overflow. + */ + sleep_time = rq_clock_task(rq_of(cfs_rq)) - se->exec_start; + if ((s64)sleep_time > 60LL * NSEC_PER_SEC) + se->vruntime = vruntime; + else + se->vruntime = max_vruntime(se->vruntime, vruntime); } static void check_enqueue_throttle(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq);