[powerpc][5.13.0-rc7] Kernel warning (kernel/sched/fair.c:401) while running LTP tests

[Odin Ugedal]

man. 21. jun. 2021 kl. 11:50 skrev Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot at linaro.org>:
> This means that a child's load was not null and it was inserted
> whereas parent's load was null. This should not happen unless the
> propagation failed somewhere

My initial thought is that the patch below will fix it, if that is the
issue (that a leaf is inserted, but the propagation is not "completed"
in unthrottle). Might that be the case? Still working on reproducing
the issue tho.


diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index bfaa6e1f6067..015c5a5c1a4d 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -4930,12 +4930,7 @@ void unthrottle_cfs_rq(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
                if (cfs_rq_throttled(cfs_rq))
                        goto unthrottle_throttle;

-               /*
-                * One parent has been throttled and cfs_rq removed from the
-                * list. Add it back to not break the leaf list.
-                */
-               if (throttled_hierarchy(cfs_rq))
-                       list_add_leaf_cfs_rq(cfs_rq);
+               list_add_leaf_cfs_rq(cfs_rq);
        }

        /* At this point se is NULL and we are at root level*/