Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: sched: fix (ACPI S3) resume with cpupools with different schedulers.

[Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>]

On 13/11/15 11:08, Dario Faggioli wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>


Juergen

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