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SubjectRe: Question about sched_setaffinity()
On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 11:56:35PM +0200, Andrea Parri wrote:
> On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 11:40:25PM +0200, Andrea Parri wrote:
> > On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 10:36:54AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 07, 2019 at 03:16:13PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > > On Wed, May 01, 2019 at 01:27:13PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, May 01, 2019 at 03:16:55PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > > > > On Wed, 1 May 2019 12:12:13 -0700
> > > > > > "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > OK, what I did was to apply the patch at the end of this email to -rcu
> > > > > > > branch dev, then run rcutorture as follows:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > nohup tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm.sh --cpus 8 --duration 2 --configs "TRIVIAL" --bootargs "trace_event=sched:sched_switch,sched:sched_wakeup ftrace=function_graph ftrace_graph_filter=sched_setaffinity,migration_cpu_stop"
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > This resulted in the console output that I placed here:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > http://www2.rdrop.com/~paulmck/submission/console.log.gz
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > But I don't see calls to sched_setaffinity() or migration_cpu_stop().
> > > > > > > Steve, is something else needed on the kernel command line in addition to
> > > > > > > the following?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > ftrace=function_graph ftrace_graph_filter=sched_setaffinity,migration_cpu_stop
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Do you have function graph enabled in the config?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > [ 2.098303] ftrace bootup tracer 'function_graph' not registered.
> > > > >
> > > > > I guess I don't! Thank you, will fix.
> > > > >
> > > > > Let's see...
> > > > >
> > > > > My .config has CONFIG_HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER=y. It looks like I
> > > > > need CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER=y, which I don't have. And it looks
> > > > > like that needs CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER=y, which I also don't have.
> > > > > But I do have CONFIG_HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER=y. So I should add this
> > > > > to my rcutorture command line:
> > > > >
> > > > > --kconfig "CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER=y CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER=y".
> > > > >
> > > > > I fired this up. Here is hoping! ;-)
> > > > >
> > > > > And it does have sched_setaffinity(), woo-hoo!!! I overwrote the old file:
> > > > >
> > > > > http://www2.rdrop.com/~paulmck/submission/console.log.gz
> > > >
> > > > And I reran after adding a trace_printk(), which shows up as follows:
> > > >
> > > > [ 211.409565] 6) | /* On unexpected CPU 6, expected 4!!! */
> > > >
> > > > I placed the console log here:
> > > >
> > > > http://www2.rdrop.com/~paulmck/submission/console.tpk.log.gz
> > > >
> > > > Just in case the earlier log proves useful.
> > > >
> > > > And it is acting as if the destination CPU proved to be offline. Except
> > > > that this rcutorture scenario doesn't offline anything, and I don't see
> > > > any CPU-hotplug removal messages. So I added another trace_printk() to
> > > > print out cpu_online_mask. This gets me the following:
> > > >
> > > > [ 31.565605] 0) | /* On unexpected CPU 0, expected 1!!! */
> > > > [ 31.565605] 0) | /* Online CPUs: 0-7 */
> > > >
> > > > So we didn't make it to CPU 1 despite its being online. I placed the
> > > > console log here:
> > > >
> > > > http://www2.rdrop.com/~paulmck/submission/console.tpkol.log.gz
> > > >
> > > > Thoughts?
> >
> > And I can finally see/reproduce it!!
> >
> > Frankly, no idea how this is happening (I have been staring at these
> > traces/functions for hours/days now... ;-/ )
> >
> > Adding some "sched" folks in Cc: hopefully, they can shed some light
> > about this.
>
> +Thomas, +Sebastian
>
> Thread starts here:
>
> http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190427180246.GA15502@linux.ibm.com

Peter Zijlstra kindly volunteered over IRC to look at this more closely
tomorrow (well, today, his time). It is quite strange, though! ;-)

Thanx, Paul

> Andrea
>
>
> >
> > And yes, my only suggestion/approach would be to keep bisecting this
> > code with printk*..., 'fun' ;-/
> >
> > Andrea
>

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