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  1. 29 Nov, 2008 2 commits
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      sched: prevent divide by zero error in cpu_avg_load_per_task, update · af6d596f
      Ingo Molnar authored 
      Regarding the bug addressed in:

  4cd42620: sched: prevent divide by zero error in cpu_avg_load_per_task

Linus points out that the fix is not complete:

> There's nothing that keeps gcc from deciding not to reload
> rq->nr_running.
>
> Of course, in _practice_, I don't think gcc ever will (if it decides
> that it will spill, gcc is likely going to decide that it will
> literally spill the local variable to the stack rather than decide to
> reload off the pointer), but it's a valid compiler optimization, and
> it even has a name (rematerialization).
>
> So I suspect that your patch does fix the bug, but it still leaves the
> fairly unlikely _potential_ for it to re-appear at some point.
>
> We have ACCESS_ONCE() as a macro to guarantee that the compiler
> doesn't rematerialize a pointer access. That also would clarify
> the fact that we access something unsafe outside a lock.

So make sure our nr_running value is immutable and cannot change
after we check it for nonzero.
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      af6d596f
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      sched, cpusets: fix warning in kernel/cpuset.c · 1583715d
      Ingo Molnar authored 
      this warning:

  kernel/cpuset.c: In function ‘generate_sched_domains’:
  kernel/cpuset.c:588: warning: ‘ndoms’ may be used uninitialized in this function

triggers because GCC does not recognize that ndoms stays uninitialized
only if doms is NULL - but that flow is covered at the end of
generate_sched_domains().

Help out GCC by initializing this variable to 0. (that's prudent anyway)

Also, this function needs a splitup and code flow simplification:
with 160 lines length it's clearly too long.
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      1583715d
  3. 27 Nov, 2008 1 commit
    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      sched: prevent divide by zero error in cpu_avg_load_per_task · 4cd42620
      Steven Rostedt authored 
      Impact: fix divide by zero crash in scheduler rebalance irq

While testing the branch profiler, I hit this crash:

divide error: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
[...]
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8024a008>]  [<ffffffff8024a008>] cpu_avg_load_per_task+0x50/0x7f
[...]
Call Trace:
 <IRQ> <0> [<ffffffff8024fd43>] find_busiest_group+0x3e5/0xcaa
 [<ffffffff8025da75>] rebalance_domains+0x2da/0xa21
 [<ffffffff80478769>] ? find_next_bit+0x1b2/0x1e6
 [<ffffffff8025e2ce>] run_rebalance_domains+0x112/0x19f
 [<ffffffff8026d7c2>] __do_softirq+0xa8/0x232
 [<ffffffff8020ea7c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x3e
 [<ffffffff8021047a>] do_softirq+0x94/0x1cd
 [<ffffffff8026d5eb>] irq_exit+0x6b/0x10e
 [<ffffffff8022e6ec>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0xd3/0xff
 [<ffffffff8020e4b3>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x13/0x20

The code for cpu_avg_load_per_task has:

	if (rq->nr_running)
		rq->avg_load_per_task = rq->load.weight / rq->nr_running;

The runqueue lock is not held here, and there is nothing that prevents
the rq->nr_running from going to zero after it passes the if condition.

The branch profiler simply made the race window bigger.

This patch saves off the rq->nr_running to a local variable and uses that
for both the condition and the division.
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      4cd42620
  5. 20 Nov, 2008 37 commits