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    SubjectRe: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v18
    Ingo,

    I've accidentally discovered a problem with -v18.

    Some time ago, I wrote a small program to prevent my laptop from entering
    low-power mode, and noticed that after upgrading my laptop's kernel from
    2.4.20.9+cfs-v6 to 2.4.20.14+cfs-v18, it completely freezes if I run this
    program.

    The program is trivial, it just sets its prio to nice +20 and forks a busy
    loop. I've added the ability to stop the loop after a user-definable number
    of iterations, and I can confirm that it unfreezes when the loop ends. I'm
    not even root when I run it.

    Everything freezes, including the frame-buffer. It's not 100% reproducible, I
    would say 90% only. Sometimes it requires a few seconds before freezing. It
    *seems* to me that running another task in parallel (such as vmstat) increases
    its chances to freeze. It seems like nicing to +19 does not cause any trouble.

    I've tried it on my dual athlon, and with 1 process I see occasional pauses of
    1 or 2 seconds, and with 2 processes, I see fairly larger pauses.

    Here's the trivial program. Probably you'll find an obvious bug.

    Regards,
    Willy

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    /*
    * cfs-freeze.c
    * Fork a busy loop running with idle prio. This often results
    * in complete freezes with CFS-v18.
    *
    * $ gcc -O2 -s -o cfs-freeze cfs-freeze.c
    * $ ./cfs-freeze
    */

    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <stdlib.h>
    #include <unistd.h>
    #include <sched.h>
    #include <sys/time.h>
    #include <sys/resource.h>


    int main(int argc, char **argv) {
    struct sched_param sch;
    long long i;

    if (argc > 1)
    i = atoll(argv[1]);

    if (i <= 0)
    i = 4 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000ULL;

    sch.sched_priority = 0;
    sched_setscheduler(0, SCHED_OTHER, &sch);
    setpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, 0, 20);
    if (fork() == 0)
    while (i--);
    return 0;
    }

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