Re: rseq CPU ID not correct on 6.0 kernels for pinned threads

[Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>]

On 2023-01-12 11:33, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Mathieu Desnoyers:
> 
>> As you also point out, it can also be caused by some other task
>> modifying the affinity of your task concurrently. You could print
>> the result of sched_getaffinity on error to get a better idea of
>> the expected vs actual mask.
>>
>> Lastly, it could be caused by CPU hotplug which would set all bits
>> in the affinity mask as a fallback. As you mention it should not be
>> the cause there.
>>
>> Can you share your kernel configuration ?
> 
> Attached.
> 
> cpupower frequency-info says:
> 
> analyzing CPU 0:
>    driver: intel_cpufreq
>    CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0
>    CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 0
>    maximum transition latency: 20.0 us
>    hardware limits: 800 MHz - 4.60 GHz
>    available cpufreq governors: conservative ondemand userspace powersave performance schedutil
>    current policy: frequency should be within 800 MHz and 4.60 GHz.
>                    The governor "schedutil" may decide which speed to use
>                    within this range.
>    current CPU frequency: Unable to call hardware
>    current CPU frequency: 3.20 GHz (asserted by call to kernel)
>    boost state support:
>      Supported: yes
>      Active: yes
> 
> And I have: kernel.sched_energy_aware = 1
> 
>> Is this on a physical machine or in a virtual machine ?
> 
> I think it happened on both.
> 
> I added additional error reporting to the test (running on kernel
> 6.0.18-300.fc37.x86_64), and it seems that there is something that is
> mucking with affinity masks:
> 
> info: Detected CPU set size (in bits): 64
> info: Maximum test CPU: 19
> error: Pinned thread 17 ran on impossible cpu 7
> info: getcpu reported CPU 7, node 0
> info: CPU affinity mask: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
> error: Pinned thread 3 ran on impossible cpu 13
> info: getcpu reported CPU 13, node 0
> info: CPU affinity mask: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
> info: Main thread ran on 2 CPU(s) of 20 available CPU(s)
> info: Other threads ran on 20 CPU(s)
> 
> For each of these threads, the affinity mask should be a singleton set.
> Now I need to find out if there is a process that changes affinity
> settings.

If it's not cpu hotunplug, then perhaps something like systemd modifies 
the AllowedCPUs of your cpuset concurrently ?

Thanks,

Mathieu

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