From 9d6885c56549ee7cbcee7c95b79dff988c37f7ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 09:08:41 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] sched: Fix data-race in wakeup Mel reported that on some ARM64 platforms loadavg goes bananas and Will tracked it down to the following race: CPU0 CPU1 schedule() prev->sched_contributes_to_load = X; deactivate_task(prev); try_to_wake_up() if (p->on_rq &&) // false if (smp_load_acquire(&p->on_cpu) && // true ttwu_queue_wakelist()) p->sched_remote_wakeup = Y; smp_store_release(prev->on_cpu, 0); where both p->sched_contributes_to_load and p->sched_remote_wakeup are in the same word, and thus the stores X and Y race (and can clobber one another's data). Whereas prior to commit c6e7bd7afaeb ("sched/core: Optimize ttwu() spinning on p->on_cpu") the p->on_cpu handoff serialized access to p->sched_remote_wakeup (just as it still does with p->sched_contributes_to_load) that commit broke that by calling ttwu_queue_wakelist() with p->on_cpu != 0. However, due to p->XXX = X ttwu() schedule() if (p->on_rq && ...) // false smp_mb__after_spinlock() if (smp_load_acquire(&p->on_cpu) && deactivate_task() ttwu_queue_wakelist()) p->on_rq = 0; p->sched_remote_wakeup = Y; We can be sure any 'current' store is complete and 'current' is guaranteed asleep. Therefore we can move p->sched_remote_wakeup into the current flags word. Note: while the observed failure was loadavg accounting gone wrong due to ttwu() cobbering p->sched_contributes_to_load, the reverse problem is also possible where schedule() clobbers p->sched_remote_wakeup, this could result in enqueue_entity() wrecking ->vruntime and causing scheduling artifacts. Fixes: c6e7bd7afaeb ("sched/core: Optimize ttwu() spinning on p->on_cpu") Reported-by: Mel Gorman Debugged-by: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201117083016.GK3121392@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net Change-Id: I9a2e7ef7bfd4e3c1c8bdd49ecb4793634924b6c8 Signed-off-by: Alexander Winkowski --- include/linux/sched.h | 16 +++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index efe407a57912..0c5bf4f074a5 100755 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -864,7 +864,6 @@ struct task_struct { unsigned sched_reset_on_fork:1; unsigned sched_contributes_to_load:1; unsigned sched_migrated:1; - unsigned sched_remote_wakeup:1; #ifdef CONFIG_PSI unsigned sched_psi_wake_requeue:1; #endif @@ -874,6 +873,21 @@ struct task_struct { /* Unserialized, strictly 'current' */ + /* + * This field must not be in the scheduler word above due to wakelist + * queueing no longer being serialized by p->on_cpu. However: + * + * p->XXX = X; ttwu() + * schedule() if (p->on_rq && ..) // false + * smp_mb__after_spinlock(); if (smp_load_acquire(&p->on_cpu) && //true + * deactivate_task() ttwu_queue_wakelist()) + * p->on_rq = 0; p->sched_remote_wakeup = Y; + * + * guarantees all stores of 'current' are visible before + * ->sched_remote_wakeup gets used, so it can be in this word. + */ + unsigned sched_remote_wakeup:1; + /* Bit to tell LSMs we're in execve(): */ unsigned in_execve:1; unsigned in_iowait:1;