Re: Another SCHED_DEADLINE bug (with bisection and possible fix)

From: Kirill Tkhai
Date: Wed Jan 14 2015 - 07:43:19 EST


13.01.2015, 17:04, "Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2015 at 12:26:40PM +0300, Kirill Tkhai wrote:
>>>  Well, I'm inclined to agree to Luca's viewpoint. We should not change
>>>  parameters of a throttled task or we may affect other tasks.
>>  Could you explain your viewpoint more? How does this affects other tasks?
>
> I agree with Juri and Luca here. Luca gave an example that DoS's
> SCHED_DEADLINE.
>
> In Luca's example we'd constantly call sched_setattr() on a task, which
> results in it never throttling and that will affect other tasks, because
> if we're running, they cannot be.
>>  As I understand, in __setparam_dl() we are sure that there is enough
>>  dl_bw. In __sched_setscheduler() we call it after dl_overflow() check.
>
> Yes, _but_, as per the above. BW includes the sleep time, if we fail to
> sleep its all pointless.
>
> We got the runtime (before the throttle) under the promise that we'd go
> sleep. When we change our parameters while being throttled we should
> adjust the throttle time accordingly. If say we changed from 30% to 35%
> we are allowed to sleep less. Now sleeping more than strictly required
> is only detrimental to ourselves, so that is not (too) critical.
>
> However, the other way around, if we change from 35% to 30% we should
> now effectively sleep longer (for the same runtime we already consumed),
> and we must do this, because admission control will instantly assume the
> 5% change in bandwidth to be available. If we sleep short, this BW is
> not in fact available and we break our guarantees.
>>>>>   Anyway, I am fine with every patch that fixes the bug :)
>>>>   Deadline class requires root privileges. So, I do not see a problem
>>>>   here. Please, see __sched_setscheduler().
>
> Its not a priv issue, not doing this makes it impossible to use
> SCHED_DEADLINE in the intended way, even for root.
>
> Say we have a userspace task that evaluates and changes runtime
> parameters for other tasks (basically what Luca is doing IIRC), and the
> changes keep resetting the sleep time, the whole guarantee system comes
> down, rendering the deadline system useless.
>>>>   If in the future we allow non-privileged users to increase deadline,
>>>>   we will reflect that in __setparam_dl() too.
>>>  I'd say it is better to implement the right behavior even for root, so
>>>  that we will find it right when we'll grant access to non root users
>>>  too. Also, even if root can do everything, we always try not to break
>>>  guarantees that come with admission control (root or non root that is).
>
> Just so.

How about something like this?

include/linux/sched/deadline.h | 2 ++
kernel/sched/core.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
kernel/sched/deadline.c | 10 +---------
kernel/sched/sched.h | 1 -
4 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/sched/deadline.h b/include/linux/sched/deadline.h
index 9d303b8..c70a7fc 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched/deadline.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/deadline.h
@@ -21,4 +21,6 @@ static inline int dl_task(struct task_struct *p)
return dl_prio(p->prio);
}

+extern enum hrtimer_restart dl_task_timer(struct hrtimer *timer);
+
#endif /* _SCHED_DEADLINE_H */
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index c0accc0..edf9d91 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -1809,6 +1809,8 @@ void __dl_clear_params(struct task_struct *p)
{
struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se = &p->dl;

+ dl_se->dl_throttled = 0;
+ dl_se->dl_yielded = 0;
dl_se->dl_runtime = 0;
dl_se->dl_deadline = 0;
dl_se->dl_period = 0;
@@ -1840,6 +1842,7 @@ static void __sched_fork(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *p)

RB_CLEAR_NODE(&p->dl.rb_node);
hrtimer_init(&p->dl.dl_timer, CLOCK_MONOTONIC, HRTIMER_MODE_REL);
+ p->dl.dl_timer.function = dl_task_timer;
__dl_clear_params(p);

INIT_LIST_HEAD(&p->rt.run_list);
@@ -3250,16 +3253,38 @@ static void
__setparam_dl(struct task_struct *p, const struct sched_attr *attr)
{
struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se = &p->dl;
+ struct hrtimer *timer = &dl_se->dl_timer;
+ struct rq *rq = task_rq(p);
+ int pending = 0;
+
+ if (hrtimer_is_queued(timer)) {
+ /*
+ * Not need smp_rmb() here, synchronization points
+ * are rq lock in our caller and in dl_task_timer().
+ */
+ pending = 1;
+ } else if (hrtimer_callback_running(timer)) {
+ smp_rmb(); /* Pairs with rq lock in timer handler */
+
+ /* Has the timer handler already finished? */
+ if (dl_se->dl_throttled)
+ pending = 1; /* No */
+ }
+
+ if (!pending) {
+ BUG_ON(dl_se->dl_throttled);
+ dl_se->dl_new = 1;
+ } else {
+ dl_se->deadline = rq_clock(rq) + attr->sched_deadline;
+ dl_se->runtime = attr->sched_runtime;
+ }

- init_dl_task_timer(dl_se);
+ dl_se->dl_yielded = 0;
dl_se->dl_runtime = attr->sched_runtime;
dl_se->dl_deadline = attr->sched_deadline;
dl_se->dl_period = attr->sched_period ?: dl_se->dl_deadline;
dl_se->flags = attr->sched_flags;
dl_se->dl_bw = to_ratio(dl_se->dl_period, dl_se->dl_runtime);
- dl_se->dl_throttled = 0;
- dl_se->dl_new = 1;
- dl_se->dl_yielded = 0;
}

/*
diff --git a/kernel/sched/deadline.c b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
index b52092f..b457ca7 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/deadline.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
@@ -500,7 +500,7 @@ static int start_dl_timer(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se, bool boosted)
* updating (and the queueing back to dl_rq) will be done by the
* next call to enqueue_task_dl().
*/
-static enum hrtimer_restart dl_task_timer(struct hrtimer *timer)
+enum hrtimer_restart dl_task_timer(struct hrtimer *timer)
{
struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se = container_of(timer,
struct sched_dl_entity,
@@ -559,14 +559,6 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart dl_task_timer(struct hrtimer *timer)
return HRTIMER_NORESTART;
}

-void init_dl_task_timer(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se)
-{
- struct hrtimer *timer = &dl_se->dl_timer;
-
- hrtimer_init(timer, CLOCK_MONOTONIC, HRTIMER_MODE_REL);
- timer->function = dl_task_timer;
-}
-
static
int dl_runtime_exceeded(struct rq *rq, struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se)
{
diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index 9a2a45c..ad3a2f0 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -1257,7 +1257,6 @@ extern void init_rt_bandwidth(struct rt_bandwidth *rt_b, u64 period, u64 runtime

extern struct dl_bandwidth def_dl_bandwidth;
extern void init_dl_bandwidth(struct dl_bandwidth *dl_b, u64 period, u64 runtime);
-extern void init_dl_task_timer(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se);

unsigned long to_ratio(u64 period, u64 runtime);

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