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Commit 09dc4ab0 authored by Roman Gushchin's avatar Roman Gushchin Committed by Ingo Molnar
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sched/fair: Fix tg_set_cfs_bandwidth() deadlock on rq->lock



tg_set_cfs_bandwidth() sets cfs_b->timer_active to 0 to
force the period timer restart. It's not safe, because
can lead to deadlock, described in commit 927b54fc:
"__start_cfs_bandwidth calls hrtimer_cancel while holding rq->lock,
waiting for the hrtimer to finish. However, if sched_cfs_period_timer
runs for another loop iteration, the hrtimer can attempt to take
rq->lock, resulting in deadlock."

Three CPUs must be involved:

  CPU0               CPU1                         CPU2
  take rq->lock      period timer fired
  ...                take cfs_b lock
  ...                ...                          tg_set_cfs_bandwidth()
  throttle_cfs_rq()  release cfs_b lock           take cfs_b lock
  ...                distribute_cfs_runtime()     timer_active = 0
  take cfs_b->lock   wait for rq->lock            ...
  __start_cfs_bandwidth()
  {wait for timer callback
   break if timer_active == 1}

So, CPU0 and CPU1 are deadlocked.

Instead of resetting cfs_b->timer_active, tg_set_cfs_bandwidth can
wait for period timer callbacks (ignoring cfs_b->timer_active) and
restart the timer explicitly.

Signed-off-by: default avatarRoman Gushchin <klamm@yandex-team.ru>
Reviewed-by: default avatarBen Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87wqdi9g8e.wl\%klamm@yandex-team.ru


Cc: pjt@google.com
Cc: chris.j.arges@canonical.com
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 0f397f2c
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