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Qian Cai reported the following bug:
The linux-next commit ff7db0bf24db ("sched/numa: Prefer using an idle CPU as a
migration target instead of comparing tasks") introduced a boot warning,
[ 86.520534][ T1] WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
[ 86.520540][ T1] 5.6.0-rc3-next-20200227 #7 Not tainted
[ 86.520545][ T1] -----------------------------
[ 86.520551][ T1] kernel/sched/fair.c:5914 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!
[ 86.520555][ T1]
[ 86.520555][ T1] other info that might help us debug this:
[ 86.520555][ T1]
[ 86.520561][ T1]
[ 86.520561][ T1] rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1
[ 86.520567][ T1] 1 lock held by systemd/1:
[ 86.520571][ T1] #0: ffff8887f4b14848 (&mm->mmap_sem#2){++++}, at: do_page_fault+0x1d2/0x998
[ 86.520594][ T1]
[ 86.520594][ T1] stack backtrace:
[ 86.520602][ T1] CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Not tainted 5.6.0-rc3-next-20200227 #7
task_numa_migrate() checks for idle cores when updating NUMA-related statistics.
This relies on reading a RCU-protected structure in test_idle_cores() via this
call chain
task_numa_migrate
-> update_numa_stats
-> numa_idle_core
-> test_idle_cores
While the locking could be fine-grained, it is more appropriate to acquire
the RCU lock for the entire scan of the domain. This patch removes the
warning triggered at boot time.
Reported-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Fixes: ff7db0bf24db ("sched/numa: Prefer using an idle CPU as a migration target instead of comparing tasks")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200227191804.GJ3818@techsingularity.net
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