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sched/fair: sanitize vruntime of entity being placed
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When a scheduling entity is placed onto cfs_rq, its vruntime is pulled
to the base level (around cfs_rq->min_vruntime), so that the entity
doesn't gain extra boost when placed backwards.

However, if the entity being placed wasn't executed for a long time, its
vruntime may get too far behind (e.g. while cfs_rq was executing a
low-weight hog), which can inverse the vruntime comparison due to s64
overflow.  This results in the entity being placed with its original
vruntime way forwards, so that it will effectively never get to the cpu.

To prevent that, ignore the vruntime of the entity being placed if it
didn't execute for much longer than the characteristic sheduler time
scale.

[rkagan: formatted, adjusted commit log, comments, cutoff value]
Signed-off-by: Zhang Qiao <[email protected]>
Co-developed-by: Roman Kagan <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Roman Kagan <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
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Zhang Qiao authored and Peter Zijlstra committed Feb 11, 2023
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15 changes: 13 additions & 2 deletions kernel/sched/fair.c
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Expand Up @@ -4652,6 +4652,7 @@ static void
place_entity(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se, int initial)
{
u64 vruntime = cfs_rq->min_vruntime;
u64 sleep_time;

/*
* The 'current' period is already promised to the current tasks,
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vruntime -= thresh;
}

/* ensure we never gain time by being placed backwards. */
se->vruntime = max_vruntime(se->vruntime, vruntime);
/*
* Pull vruntime of the entity being placed to the base level of
* cfs_rq, to prevent boosting it if placed backwards. If the entity
* slept for a long time, don't even try to compare its vruntime with
* the base as it may be too far off and the comparison may get
* inversed due to s64 overflow.
*/
sleep_time = rq_clock_task(rq_of(cfs_rq)) - se->exec_start;
if ((s64)sleep_time > 60LL * NSEC_PER_SEC)
se->vruntime = vruntime;
else
se->vruntime = max_vruntime(se->vruntime, vruntime);
}

static void check_enqueue_throttle(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq);
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