Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] sched/fair: Limit sched_cfs_period_timer() loop to avoid hard" failed to apply to 5.0-stable tree

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Hi Greg,

On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 10:51:12PM +0200 gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> The patch below does not apply to the 5.0-stable tree.
> If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
> tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
> id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.

I sent the stable backport version as a reply to the tip-bot mail as
Sasha had suggested.  Is there something else I needed to do? Clearly :)

Thanks,
Phil


> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
> 
> ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
> 
> From 2e8e19226398db8265a8e675fcc0118b9e80c9e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Phil Auld <pauld@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 09:00:05 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH] sched/fair: Limit sched_cfs_period_timer() loop to avoid hard
>  lockup
> 
> With extremely short cfs_period_us setting on a parent task group with a large
> number of children the for loop in sched_cfs_period_timer() can run until the
> watchdog fires. There is no guarantee that the call to hrtimer_forward_now()
> will ever return 0.  The large number of children can make
> do_sched_cfs_period_timer() take longer than the period.
> 
>  NMI watchdog: Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu 24
>  RIP: 0010:tg_nop+0x0/0x10
>   <IRQ>
>   walk_tg_tree_from+0x29/0xb0
>   unthrottle_cfs_rq+0xe0/0x1a0
>   distribute_cfs_runtime+0xd3/0xf0
>   sched_cfs_period_timer+0xcb/0x160
>   ? sched_cfs_slack_timer+0xd0/0xd0
>   __hrtimer_run_queues+0xfb/0x270
>   hrtimer_interrupt+0x122/0x270
>   smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6a/0x140
>   apic_timer_interrupt+0xf/0x20
>   </IRQ>
> 
> To prevent this we add protection to the loop that detects when the loop has run
> too many times and scales the period and quota up, proportionally, so that the timer
> can complete before then next period expires.  This preserves the relative runtime
> quota while preventing the hard lockup.
> 
> A warning is issued reporting this state and the new values.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Phil Auld <pauld@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190319130005.25492-1-pauld@xxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index 40bd1e27b1b7..a4d9e14bf138 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -4885,6 +4885,8 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart sched_cfs_slack_timer(struct hrtimer *timer)
>  	return HRTIMER_NORESTART;
>  }
>  
> +extern const u64 max_cfs_quota_period;
> +
>  static enum hrtimer_restart sched_cfs_period_timer(struct hrtimer *timer)
>  {
>  	struct cfs_bandwidth *cfs_b =
> @@ -4892,6 +4894,7 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart sched_cfs_period_timer(struct hrtimer *timer)
>  	unsigned long flags;
>  	int overrun;
>  	int idle = 0;
> +	int count = 0;
>  
>  	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&cfs_b->lock, flags);
>  	for (;;) {
> @@ -4899,6 +4902,28 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart sched_cfs_period_timer(struct hrtimer *timer)
>  		if (!overrun)
>  			break;
>  
> +		if (++count > 3) {
> +			u64 new, old = ktime_to_ns(cfs_b->period);
> +
> +			new = (old * 147) / 128; /* ~115% */
> +			new = min(new, max_cfs_quota_period);
> +
> +			cfs_b->period = ns_to_ktime(new);
> +
> +			/* since max is 1s, this is limited to 1e9^2, which fits in u64 */
> +			cfs_b->quota *= new;
> +			cfs_b->quota = div64_u64(cfs_b->quota, old);
> +
> +			pr_warn_ratelimited(
> +	"cfs_period_timer[cpu%d]: period too short, scaling up (new cfs_period_us %lld, cfs_quota_us = %lld)\n",
> +				smp_processor_id(),
> +				div_u64(new, NSEC_PER_USEC),
> +				div_u64(cfs_b->quota, NSEC_PER_USEC));
> +
> +			/* reset count so we don't come right back in here */
> +			count = 0;
> +		}
> +
>  		idle = do_sched_cfs_period_timer(cfs_b, overrun, flags);
>  	}
>  	if (idle)
> 

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