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Re: [tip:sched/core] sched/core: Add debugging code to catch missing update_rq_clock() calls

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On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 02:37:48PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 01:59:34PM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > On Fri, 2017-02-03 at 09:53 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 10:03:14AM +0530, Sachin Sant wrote:
> > 
> > > > I ran few cycles of cpu hot(un)plug tests. In most cases it works except one
> > > > where I ran into rcu stall:
> > > > 
> > > > [  173.493453] INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
> > > > [  173.493473] > > 	> > 8-...: (2 GPs behind) idle=006/140000000000000/0 softirq=0/0 fqs=2996 
> > > > [  173.493476] > > 	> > (detected by 0, t=6002 jiffies, g=885, c=884, q=6350)
> > > 
> > > Right, I actually saw that too, but I don't think that would be related
> > > to my patch. I'll see if I can dig into this though, ought to get fixed
> > > regardless.
> > 
> > FWIW, I'm not seeing stalls/hangs while beating hotplug up in tip. (so
> > next grew a wart?)
> 
> I've seen it on tip. It looks like hot unplug goes really slow when
> there's running tasks on the CPU being taken down.
> 
> What I did was something like:
> 
>   taskset -p $((1<<1)) $$
>   for ((i=0; i<20; i++)) do while :; do :; done & done
> 
>   taskset -p $((1<<0)) $$
>   echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
> 
> And with those 20 tasks stuck sucking cycles on CPU1, the unplug goes
> _really_ slow and the RCU stall triggers. What I suspect happens is that
> hotplug stops participating in the RCU state machine early, but only
> tells RCU about it really late, and in between it gets suspicious it
> takes too long.
> 
> I've yet to dig through the RCU code to figure out the exact sequence of
> events, but found the above to be fairly reliable in triggering the
> issue.

If you send me the full splat from the dmesg and the RCU portions of
.config, I will take a look.  Is this new behavior, or a new test?

							Thanx, Paul

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Re: [tip:sched/core] sched/core: Add debugging code to catch missing  update_rq_clock() calls Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> - 2017-01-30 22:40 +0100
  Re: [tip:sched/core] sched/core: Add debugging code to catch missing update_rq_clock() calls Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2017-01-31 09:40 +0100
  Re: [tip:sched/core] sched/core: Add debugging code to catch missing  update_rq_clock() calls Sachin Sant <sachinp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-01-31 12:10 +0100
    Re: [tip:sched/core] sched/core: Add debugging code to catch  missing update_rq_clock() calls Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> - 2017-01-31 12:50 +0100
      Re: [tip:sched/core] sched/core: Add debugging code to catch missing  update_rq_clock() calls Ross Zwisler <zwisler@gmail.com> - 2017-01-31 18:30 +0100
        Re: [tip:sched/core] sched/core: Add debugging code to catch missing  update_rq_clock() calls Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-02-02 17:00 +0100
          Re: [tip:sched/core] sched/core: Add debugging code to catch missing  update_rq_clock() calls Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> - 2017-02-02 23:10 +0100
          Re: [tip:sched/core] sched/core: Add debugging code to catch  missing update_rq_clock() calls Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> - 2017-02-03 04:10 +0100
          Re: [tip:sched/core] sched/core: Add debugging code to catch missing  update_rq_clock() calls Sachin Sant <sachinp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-02-03 05:40 +0100
            Re: [tip:sched/core] sched/core: Add debugging code to catch missing  update_rq_clock() calls Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-02-03 10:00 +0100
              Re: [tip:sched/core] sched/core: Add debugging code to catch  missing update_rq_clock() calls Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> - 2017-02-03 14:10 +0100
                Re: [tip:sched/core] sched/core: Add debugging code to catch missing  update_rq_clock() calls Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-02-03 14:40 +0100
                Re: [tip:sched/core] sched/core: Add debugging code to catch  missing update_rq_clock() calls Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> - 2017-02-03 15:00 +0100
                Re: [tip:sched/core] sched/core: Add debugging code to catch missing  update_rq_clock() calls "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-02-03 16:50 +0100
                Re: [tip:sched/core] sched/core: Add debugging code to catch missing  update_rq_clock() calls "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-02-03 17:00 +0100
                Re: [tip:sched/core] sched/core: Add debugging code to catch missing  update_rq_clock() calls Sachin Sant <sachinp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-02-06 07:30 +0100
                Re: [tip:sched/core] sched/core: Add debugging code to catch missing  update_rq_clock() calls "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-02-06 16:20 +0100
                Re: [tip:sched/core] sched/core: Add debugging code to catch missing  update_rq_clock() calls "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-02-06 16:20 +0100
          Re: [tip:sched/core] sched/core: Add debugging code to catch missing  update_rq_clock() calls Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2017-02-03 14:10 +0100

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