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PATCH In review Dario Faggioli 4 participants 7 messages Nov 13, 2015 – Dec 10, 2015

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PATCH v2 1/1 xen: sched: fix (ACPI S3) resume with cpupools with different schedulers.

In fact, with 2 cpupools, one (the default) Credit and one Credit2 (with at least 1 pCPU in the latter), trying a (e.g., ACPI S3) suspend/resume crashes like this:

(XEN) [  150.587779] ----[ Xen-4.7-unstable  x86_64  debug=y  Not tainted ]----
(XEN) [  150.587783] CPU:    6
(XEN) [  150.587786] RIP:    e008:[<ffff82d080123a10>] sched_credit.c#csched_schedule+0xf2/0xc3d
(XEN) [  150.587796] RFLAGS: 0000000000010086   CONTEXT: hypervisor
(XEN) [  150.587801] rax: ffff83031fa3c020   rbx: ffff830322c1b4b0   rcx: 0000000000000000
(XEN) [  150.587806] rdx: ffff83031fa78000   rsi: 000000000000000a   rdi: ffff82d0802a9788
(XEN) [  150.587811] rbp: ffff83031fa7fe20   rsp: ffff83031fa7fd30   r8:  ffff83031fa80000
(XEN) [  150.587815] r9:  0000000000000006   r10: 000000000008f7f2   r11: 0000000000000006
(XEN) [  150.587819] r12: ffff8300dbdf3000   r13: ffff830322c1b4b0   r14: 0000000000000006
(XEN) [  150.587823] r15: 0000000000000000   cr0: 000000008005003b   cr4: 00000000000026e0
(XEN) [  150.587827] cr3: 00000000dbaa8000   cr2: 0000000000000000
(XEN) [  150.587830] ds: 0000   es: 0000   fs: 0000   gs: 0000   ss: 0000   cs: e008
(XEN) [  150.587835] Xen stack trace from rsp=ffff83031fa7fd30:
... ... ...
(XEN) [  150.587962] Xen call trace:
(XEN) [  150.587966]    [<ffff82d080123a10>] sched_credit.c#csched_schedule+0xf2/0xc3d
(XEN) [  150.587974]    [<ffff82d08012a98b>] schedule.c#schedule+0x128/0x635
(XEN) [  150.587979]    [<ffff82d08012dc16>] softirq.c#__do_softirq+0x82/0x8d
(XEN) [  150.587983]    [<ffff82d08012dc6e>] do_softirq+0x13/0x15
(XEN) [  150.587988]    [<ffff82d080162ddd>] domain.c#idle_loop+0x5b/0x6b
(XEN) [  151.272182]
(XEN) [  151.274174] ****************************************
(XEN) [  151.279624] Panic on CPU 6:
(XEN) [  151.282915] Xen BUG at sched_credit.c:655
(XEN) [  151.287415] ****************************************

During suspend, the pCPUs are not removed from their pools with the standard procedure (which would involve schedule_cpu_switch(). During resume, they:
1) are assigned to the default cpupool (CPU_UP_PREPARE

    phase);

2) are moved to the pool they were in before suspend, via schedule_cpu_switch() (CPU_ONLINE phase)

During resume, scheduling (even if just the idle loop) can happen right after the CPU_STARTING phase(before CPU_ONLINE), i.e., before the pCPU is put back in its pool. In this case, it is the default pool'sscheduler that is invoked (Credit1, in the example above). But, during suspend, the Credit2 specific vCPU data is not being freed, and Credit1 specific vCPU data is not allocated, during resume.

Therefore, Credit1 schedules on pCPUs whose idle vCPU's sched_priv points to Credit2 vCPU data, and we crash.

Fix things by properly deallocating scheduler specific data of the pCPU's pool scheduler during pCPU teardown, and re-allocating them --always for &ops-- during pCPU bringup.

This also fixes another (latent) bug. In fact, it avoids, still in schedule_cpu_switch(), that Credit1's free_vdata() is used to deallocate data allocated with Credit2's alloc_vdata(). This is not easy to trigger, but only because the other bug shown above manifests first and crashes the host.

The downside of this patch, is that it adds one more allocation on the resume path, which is not ideal. Still, there is no better way of fixing the described bugs at the moment. Removing (all ideally) allocations happening during resume should continue being chased, in the long run.

---
Cc: George Dunlap <[email protected]>
Cc: Juergen Gross <[email protected]>
Cc: Jan Beulich <[email protected]>
---
Changes from v1:
* reversed the deallocation order in cpu_schedule_down(), so that allocations and deallocations actually happen in reverse ordering;
* moved the allocation of the private data in the else branch of the case where the whole idle vcpu is allocated, and added an ASSERT() about such data being actually not allocated in that case;
* improved both in code comment and the changelog.

---
 xen/common/schedule.c |   25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)
xen/common/schedule.c +25 -0
index 20f5f56..1c05184 100644
@@ -1378,6 +1378,27 @@ static int cpu_schedule_up(unsigned int cpu)
 
     if ( idle_vcpu[cpu] == NULL )
         alloc_vcpu(idle_vcpu[0]->domain, cpu, cpu);
+    else
+    {
+        struct vcpu *idle = idle_vcpu[cpu];
+
+        /*
+         * During (ACPI?) suspend the idle vCPU for this pCPU is not freed,
+         * while its scheduler specific data (what is pointed by sched_priv)
+         * is. Also, at this stage of the resume path, we attach the pCPU
+         * to the default scheduler, no matter in what cpupool it was before
+         * suspend. To avoid inconsistency, let's allocate default scheduler
+         * data for the idle vCPU here. If the pCPU was in a different pool
+         * with a different scheduler, it is schedule_cpu_switch(), invoked
+         * later, that will set things up as appropriate.
+         */
+        ASSERT(idle->sched_priv == NULL);
+
+        idle->sched_priv = SCHED_OP(&ops, alloc_vdata, idle,
+                                    idle->domain->sched_priv);
+        if ( idle->sched_priv == NULL )
+            return -ENOMEM;
+    }
     if ( idle_vcpu[cpu] == NULL )
         return -ENOMEM;
 
@@ -1395,6 +1416,10 @@ static void cpu_schedule_down(unsigned int cpu)
 
     if ( sd->sched_priv != NULL )
         SCHED_OP(sched, free_pdata, sd->sched_priv, cpu);
+    SCHED_OP(sched, free_vdata, idle_vcpu[cpu]->sched_priv);
+
+    idle_vcpu[cpu]->sched_priv = NULL;
+    sd->sched_priv = NULL;
 
     kill_timer(&sd->s_timer);
 }
Reviewed-by on v2 1/1
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Quoted 62 lines · Dario Faggioli

In fact, with 2 cpupools, one (the default) Credit and one Credit2 (with at least 1 pCPU in the latter), trying a (e.g., ACPI S3) suspend/resume crashes like this:

(XEN) [  150.587779] ----[ Xen-4.7-unstable  x86_64  debug=y  Not tainted ]----
(XEN) [  150.587783] CPU:    6
(XEN) [  150.587786] RIP:    e008:[<ffff82d080123a10>] sched_credit.c#csched_schedule+0xf2/0xc3d
(XEN) [  150.587796] RFLAGS: 0000000000010086   CONTEXT: hypervisor
(XEN) [  150.587801] rax: ffff83031fa3c020   rbx: ffff830322c1b4b0   rcx: 0000000000000000
(XEN) [  150.587806] rdx: ffff83031fa78000   rsi: 000000000000000a   rdi: ffff82d0802a9788
(XEN) [  150.587811] rbp: ffff83031fa7fe20   rsp: ffff83031fa7fd30   r8:  ffff83031fa80000
(XEN) [  150.587815] r9:  0000000000000006   r10: 000000000008f7f2   r11: 0000000000000006
(XEN) [  150.587819] r12: ffff8300dbdf3000   r13: ffff830322c1b4b0   r14: 0000000000000006
(XEN) [  150.587823] r15: 0000000000000000   cr0: 000000008005003b   cr4: 00000000000026e0
(XEN) [  150.587827] cr3: 00000000dbaa8000   cr2: 0000000000000000
(XEN) [  150.587830] ds: 0000   es: 0000   fs: 0000   gs: 0000   ss: 0000   cs: e008
(XEN) [  150.587835] Xen stack trace from rsp=ffff83031fa7fd30:
... ... ...
(XEN) [  150.587962] Xen call trace:
(XEN) [  150.587966]    [<ffff82d080123a10>] sched_credit.c#csched_schedule+0xf2/0xc3d
(XEN) [  150.587974]    [<ffff82d08012a98b>] schedule.c#schedule+0x128/0x635
(XEN) [  150.587979]    [<ffff82d08012dc16>] softirq.c#__do_softirq+0x82/0x8d
(XEN) [  150.587983]    [<ffff82d08012dc6e>] do_softirq+0x13/0x15
(XEN) [  150.587988]    [<ffff82d080162ddd>] domain.c#idle_loop+0x5b/0x6b
(XEN) [  151.272182]
(XEN) [  151.274174] ****************************************
(XEN) [  151.279624] Panic on CPU 6:
(XEN) [  151.282915] Xen BUG at sched_credit.c:655
(XEN) [  151.287415] ****************************************

During suspend, the pCPUs are not removed from their pools with the standard procedure (which would involve schedule_cpu_switch(). During resume, they:
1) are assigned to the default cpupool (CPU_UP_PREPARE

    phase);

2) are moved to the pool they were in before suspend, via schedule_cpu_switch() (CPU_ONLINE phase)

During resume, scheduling (even if just the idle loop) can happen right after the CPU_STARTING phase(before CPU_ONLINE), i.e., before the pCPU is put back in its pool. In this case, it is the default pool'sscheduler that is invoked (Credit1, in the example above). But, during suspend, the Credit2 specific vCPU data is not being freed, and Credit1 specific vCPU data is not allocated, during resume.

Therefore, Credit1 schedules on pCPUs whose idle vCPU's sched_priv points to Credit2 vCPU data, and we crash.

Fix things by properly deallocating scheduler specific data of the pCPU's pool scheduler during pCPU teardown, and re-allocating them --always for &ops-- during pCPU bringup.

This also fixes another (latent) bug. In fact, it avoids, still in schedule_cpu_switch(), that Credit1's free_vdata() is used to deallocate data allocated with Credit2's alloc_vdata(). This is not easy to trigger, but only because the other bug shown above manifests first and crashes the host.

Quoted 8 lines

The downside of this patch, is that it adds one more allocation on the resume path, which is not ideal. Still, there is no better way of fixing the described bugs at the moment. Removing (all ideally) allocations happening during resume should continue being chased, in the long run.

Juergen

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In reply to Dario Faggioli
Quoted 34 lines · Dario Faggioli

In fact, with 2 cpupools, one (the default) Credit and one Credit2 (with at least 1 pCPU in the latter), trying a (e.g., ACPI S3) suspend/resume crashes like this:

(XEN) [  150.587779] ----[ Xen-4.7-unstable  x86_64  debug=y  Not tainted ]----
(XEN) [  150.587783] CPU:    6
(XEN) [  150.587786] RIP:    e008:[<ffff82d080123a10>] sched_credit.c#csched_schedule+0xf2/0xc3d
(XEN) [  150.587796] RFLAGS: 0000000000010086   CONTEXT: hypervisor
(XEN) [  150.587801] rax: ffff83031fa3c020   rbx: ffff830322c1b4b0   rcx: 0000000000000000
(XEN) [  150.587806] rdx: ffff83031fa78000   rsi: 000000000000000a   rdi: ffff82d0802a9788
(XEN) [  150.587811] rbp: ffff83031fa7fe20   rsp: ffff83031fa7fd30   r8:  ffff83031fa80000
(XEN) [  150.587815] r9:  0000000000000006   r10: 000000000008f7f2   r11: 0000000000000006
(XEN) [  150.587819] r12: ffff8300dbdf3000   r13: ffff830322c1b4b0   r14: 0000000000000006
(XEN) [  150.587823] r15: 0000000000000000   cr0: 000000008005003b   cr4: 00000000000026e0
(XEN) [  150.587827] cr3: 00000000dbaa8000   cr2: 0000000000000000
(XEN) [  150.587830] ds: 0000   es: 0000   fs: 0000   gs: 0000   ss: 0000   cs: e008
(XEN) [  150.587835] Xen stack trace from rsp=ffff83031fa7fd30:
... ... ...
(XEN) [  150.587962] Xen call trace:
(XEN) [  150.587966]    [<ffff82d080123a10>] sched_credit.c#csched_schedule+0xf2/0xc3d
(XEN) [  150.587974]    [<ffff82d08012a98b>] schedule.c#schedule+0x128/0x635
(XEN) [  150.587979]    [<ffff82d08012dc16>] softirq.c#__do_softirq+0x82/0x8d
(XEN) [  150.587983]    [<ffff82d08012dc6e>] do_softirq+0x13/0x15
(XEN) [  150.587988]    [<ffff82d080162ddd>] domain.c#idle_loop+0x5b/0x6b
(XEN) [  151.272182]
(XEN) [  151.274174] ****************************************
(XEN) [  151.279624] Panic on CPU 6:
(XEN) [  151.282915] Xen BUG at sched_credit.c:655
(XEN) [  151.287415] ****************************************

During suspend, the pCPUs are not removed from their pools with the standard procedure (which would involve schedule_cpu_switch(). During resume, they:
1) are assigned to the default cpupool (CPU_UP_PREPARE

Quoted 8 lines
    phase);

2) are moved to the pool they were in before suspend, via schedule_cpu_switch() (CPU_ONLINE phase)

During resume, scheduling (even if just the idle loop) can happen right after the CPU_STARTING phase(before CPU_ONLINE), i.e., before the pCPU is put back in its pool.

So why are we restoring scheduling stuff during CPU_STARTING, but only putting cpus back in their pools at CPU_ONLINE?

At some point I think I knew the answer to this, but it's worth revisiting it.

-George

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Quoted 10 lines · George Dunlap
Quoted 9 lines · Dario Faggioli


During suspend, the pCPUs are not removed from their pools with the standard procedure (which would involve schedule_cpu_switch(). During resume, they:
 1) are assigned to the default cpupool (CPU_UP_PREPARE phase);
 2) are moved to the pool they were in before suspend, via schedule_cpu_switch() (CPU_ONLINE phase)

Quoted 9 lines
Quoted 4 lines

During resume, scheduling (even if just the idle loop) can happen right after the CPU_STARTING phase(before CPU_ONLINE), i.e., before the pCPU is put back in its pool.

So why are we restoring scheduling stuff during CPU_STARTING, but only
putting cpus back in their pools at CPU_ONLINE?

Indeed. Much worse: we open the CPU for scheduling before it's back in its pool (this is all what this bug is about!). this never made much sense to me.

Quoted 3 lines

At some point I think I knew the answer to this, but it's worth revisiting it.

So, I once had a look, and tried shuffling things around, in a way in which the order made more sense to me, but it does not work 'out of the box'.

The issues have, AFAICR, to do with the fact that memory allocations (for the per-pCPU scheduling data, need IRQs enabled (which means CPU_UP_PREPARE, much rather than CPU_STARTING, is what we want) on the scheduling side, and other data that need to be ready and initialized in order to setup cpupools (e.g., per_cpu(cpupool, cpu)).

As said, I don't recall all the details, sorry. I recall thinking that a solution would involve putting the CPU in the pool earlier, but that in turn calls for other work (e.g., tweaking the priorities of the callbacks for avoiding races).

It's on my list of things to do, but not with super high priority. Are you saying that we should drop this patch, and do the callback reordering/refactoring first?

Thanks and Regards,
Dario

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Quoted 37 lines · Dario Faggioli
Quoted 10 lines · George Dunlap
Quoted 9 lines · Dario Faggioli

During suspend, the pCPUs are not removed from their pools with the standard procedure (which would involve schedule_cpu_switch(). During resume, they:
1) are assigned to the default cpupool (CPU_UP_PREPARE

    phase);

2) are moved to the pool they were in before suspend, via schedule_cpu_switch() (CPU_ONLINE phase)

Quoted 9 lines
Quoted 4 lines

During resume, scheduling (even if just the idle loop) can happen right after the CPU_STARTING phase(before CPU_ONLINE), i.e., before the pCPU is put back in its pool.

So why are we restoring scheduling stuff during CPU_STARTING, but only
putting cpus back in their pools at CPU_ONLINE?

Indeed. Much worse: we open the CPU for scheduling before it's back in its pool (this is all what this bug is about!). this never made much sense to me.

Quoted 3 lines

At some point I think I knew the answer to this, but it's worth revisiting it.

So, I once had a look, and tried shuffling things around, in a way in which the order made more sense to me, but it does not work 'out of the box'.

The issues have, AFAICR, to do with the fact that memory allocations (for the per-pCPU scheduling data, need IRQs enabled (which means CPU_UP_PREPARE, much rather than CPU_STARTING, is what we want) on the scheduling side, and other data that need to be ready and initialized in order to setup cpupools (e.g., per_cpu(cpupool, cpu)).

Quoted 8 lines

As said, I don't recall all the details, sorry. I recall thinking that a solution would involve putting the CPU in the pool earlier, but that in turn calls for other work (e.g., tweaking the priorities of the callbacks for avoiding races).

It's on my list of things to do, but not with super high priority. Are you saying that we should drop this patch, and do the callback reordering/refactoring first?

Sorry, meant to respond to this -- no, I don't think refactoring is a prerequisite. Let me give it another look-over today.

-George

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Quoted 10 lines · George Dunlap
Quoted 9 lines · Dario Faggioli
Quoted 1 line · George Dunlap

As said, I don't recall all the details, sorry. I recall thinking that
a solution would involve putting the CPU in the pool earlier, but that
in turn calls for other work (e.g., tweaking the priorities of the callbacks for avoiding races).

Quoted 8 lines
Quoted 4 lines

It's on my list of things to do, but not with super high priority. Are
you saying that we should drop this patch, and do the callback reordering/refactoring first?

Sorry, meant to respond to this -- no, I don't think refactoring is a prerequisite.

Ah, okay. :-)

Quoted 2 lines

Let me give it another look-over today.

That would be much appreciated. Not a super huge deal, but I've got a few patches stacked on top of this...

Regards,
Dario

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Reviewed-by on v2 1/1
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In reply to Dario Faggioli
Quoted 62 lines · Dario Faggioli

In fact, with 2 cpupools, one (the default) Credit and one Credit2 (with at least 1 pCPU in the latter), trying a (e.g., ACPI S3) suspend/resume crashes like this:

(XEN) [  150.587779] ----[ Xen-4.7-unstable  x86_64  debug=y  Not tainted ]----
(XEN) [  150.587783] CPU:    6
(XEN) [  150.587786] RIP:    e008:[<ffff82d080123a10>] sched_credit.c#csched_schedule+0xf2/0xc3d
(XEN) [  150.587796] RFLAGS: 0000000000010086   CONTEXT: hypervisor
(XEN) [  150.587801] rax: ffff83031fa3c020   rbx: ffff830322c1b4b0   rcx: 0000000000000000
(XEN) [  150.587806] rdx: ffff83031fa78000   rsi: 000000000000000a   rdi: ffff82d0802a9788
(XEN) [  150.587811] rbp: ffff83031fa7fe20   rsp: ffff83031fa7fd30   r8:  ffff83031fa80000
(XEN) [  150.587815] r9:  0000000000000006   r10: 000000000008f7f2   r11: 0000000000000006
(XEN) [  150.587819] r12: ffff8300dbdf3000   r13: ffff830322c1b4b0   r14: 0000000000000006
(XEN) [  150.587823] r15: 0000000000000000   cr0: 000000008005003b   cr4: 00000000000026e0
(XEN) [  150.587827] cr3: 00000000dbaa8000   cr2: 0000000000000000
(XEN) [  150.587830] ds: 0000   es: 0000   fs: 0000   gs: 0000   ss: 0000   cs: e008
(XEN) [  150.587835] Xen stack trace from rsp=ffff83031fa7fd30:
... ... ...
(XEN) [  150.587962] Xen call trace:
(XEN) [  150.587966]    [<ffff82d080123a10>] sched_credit.c#csched_schedule+0xf2/0xc3d
(XEN) [  150.587974]    [<ffff82d08012a98b>] schedule.c#schedule+0x128/0x635
(XEN) [  150.587979]    [<ffff82d08012dc16>] softirq.c#__do_softirq+0x82/0x8d
(XEN) [  150.587983]    [<ffff82d08012dc6e>] do_softirq+0x13/0x15
(XEN) [  150.587988]    [<ffff82d080162ddd>] domain.c#idle_loop+0x5b/0x6b
(XEN) [  151.272182]
(XEN) [  151.274174] ****************************************
(XEN) [  151.279624] Panic on CPU 6:
(XEN) [  151.282915] Xen BUG at sched_credit.c:655
(XEN) [  151.287415] ****************************************

During suspend, the pCPUs are not removed from their pools with the standard procedure (which would involve schedule_cpu_switch(). During resume, they:
1) are assigned to the default cpupool (CPU_UP_PREPARE

    phase);

2) are moved to the pool they were in before suspend, via schedule_cpu_switch() (CPU_ONLINE phase)

During resume, scheduling (even if just the idle loop) can happen right after the CPU_STARTING phase(before CPU_ONLINE), i.e., before the pCPU is put back in its pool. In this case, it is the default pool'sscheduler that is invoked (Credit1, in the example above). But, during suspend, the Credit2 specific vCPU data is not being freed, and Credit1 specific vCPU data is not allocated, during resume.

Therefore, Credit1 schedules on pCPUs whose idle vCPU's sched_priv points to Credit2 vCPU data, and we crash.

Fix things by properly deallocating scheduler specific data of the pCPU's pool scheduler during pCPU teardown, and re-allocating them --always for &ops-- during pCPU bringup.

This also fixes another (latent) bug. In fact, it avoids, still in schedule_cpu_switch(), that Credit1's free_vdata() is used to deallocate data allocated with Credit2's alloc_vdata(). This is not easy to trigger, but only because the other bug shown above manifests first and crashes the host.

Quoted 8 lines

The downside of this patch, is that it adds one more allocation on the resume path, which is not ideal. Still, there is no better way of fixing the described bugs at the moment. Removing (all ideally) allocations happening during resume should continue being chased, in the long run.

Sorry for the delay.