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sched: fair group: fix overflow(was: fix divide by zero) 

I found a bug which can be reproduced by this way:(linux-2.6.26-rc5, x86-64)
(use 2^32, 2^33, ...., 2^63 as shares value)

# mkdir /dev/cpuctl
# mount -t cgroup -o cpu cpuctl /dev/cpuctl
# cd /dev/cpuctl
# mkdir sub
# echo 0x8000000000000000 > sub/cpu.shares
# echo $$ > sub/tasks
oops here! divide by zero.

This is because do_div() expects the 2th parameter to be 32 bits,
but unsigned long is 64 bits in x86_64.

Peter Zijstra pointed it out that the sane thing to do is limit the
shares value to something smaller instead of using an even more
expensive divide.

Also, I found another bug about "the shares value is too large":

pid1 and pid2 are set affinity to cpu#0
pid1 is attached to cg1 and pid2 is attached to cg2

if cg1/cpu.shares = 1024 cg2/cpu.shares = 2000000000
then pid2 got 100% usage of cpu, and pid1 0%

if cg1/cpu.shares = 1024 cg2/cpu.shares = 20000000000
then pid2 got 0% usage of cpu, and pid1 100%

And a weight of a cfs_rq is the sum of weights of which entities
are queued on this cfs_rq, so the shares value should be limited
to a smaller value.

I think that (1UL << 18) is a good limited value:

1) it's not too large, we can create a lot of group before overflow
2) it's several times the weight value for nice=-19 (not too small)

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Lai Jiangshan 2008-06-12 16:42:58 +08:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 16882c1e96
commit 2e084786f6
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@ -312,12 +312,15 @@ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(task_group_lock);
#endif
/*
* A weight of 0, 1 or ULONG_MAX can cause arithmetics problems.
* A weight of 0 or 1 can cause arithmetics problems.
* A weight of a cfs_rq is the sum of weights of which entities
* are queued on this cfs_rq, so a weight of a entity should not be
* too large, so as the shares value of a task group.
* (The default weight is 1024 - so there's no practical
* limitation from this.)
*/
#define MIN_SHARES 2
#define MAX_SHARES (ULONG_MAX - 1)
#define MAX_SHARES (1UL << 18)
static int init_task_group_load = INIT_TASK_GROUP_LOAD;
#endif