[PATCH] sched_ext/scx_flatcg: Fix cvtime true-up on slice expiry

Tao Cui <[email protected]>
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.sched-ext,org.kernel.vger.bpf,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
From: Tao Cui <[email protected]>

fcg_dispatch() true-ups the current cgroup's cvtime when its slice
expires or its DSQ runs empty while the slice is still active:

	__sync_fetch_and_add(&cgc->cvtime_delta,
			     (cpuc->cur_at + cgrp_slice_ns - now) *
			     FCG_HWEIGHT_ONE / (cgc->hweight ?: 1));

The true-up should be actual minus charged: on CNS_EXPIRE, the overrun
(now - cur_at - cgrp_slice_ns) should be added; on CNS_EMPTY, the
unused portion of the slice should be subtracted. The expression above
has the sign inverted, and in the CNS_EXPIRE case now is already past
cur_at + cgrp_slice_ns, so the u64 subtraction wraps. The
multiplication preserves the two's complement encoding but the
unsigned division by hweight destroys it, adding roughly 2^64/hweight
per expiry instead of a small correction.

Under saturation the hweight budget clamp in cgrp_cap_budget() masks
most of the garbage, so the weight distribution barely moves, but the
accounting is broken all the same. Compute the delta as a signed value
and use fetch_and_add()/fetch_and_sub() so that the dividends stay
positive, as BPF division is unsigned.

Instrumented the true-up and ran a saturated three-leaf cgroup tree on
a 4-CPU VM: without the fix, each expiry added ~5e15 (2^64/hweight
territory) to cvtime_delta; with it, the corrections are back to
slice scale, with the overrun added and the unused portion subtracted.

Fixes: a4103eacc2ab ("sched_ext: Add a cgroup scheduler which uses flattened hierarchy")
Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Tao Cui <[email protected]>
---
 tools/sched_ext/scx_flatcg.bpf.c | 14 +++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/sched_ext/scx_flatcg.bpf.c b/tools/sched_ext/scx_flatcg.bpf.c
index 0fd214cc61da..ddcf6bc03b11 100644
--- a/tools/sched_ext/scx_flatcg.bpf.c
+++ b/tools/sched_ext/scx_flatcg.bpf.c
@@ -769,10 +769,18 @@ void BPF_STRUCT_OPS(fcg_dispatch, s32 cpu, struct task_struct *prev)
 		 * cgroup to execute but the latter needs to be done in a loop
 		 * and we can't keep the lock held. Oh well...
 		 */
+		s64 delta = now - cpuc->cur_at - cgrp_slice_ns;
+
 		bpf_spin_lock(&cgv_tree_lock);
-		__sync_fetch_and_add(&cgc->cvtime_delta,
-				     (cpuc->cur_at + cgrp_slice_ns - now) *
-				     FCG_HWEIGHT_ONE / (cgc->hweight ?: 1));
+		/* keep the dividends positive, BPF division is unsigned */
+		if (delta >= 0)
+			__sync_fetch_and_add(&cgc->cvtime_delta,
+					     (u64)delta * FCG_HWEIGHT_ONE /
+					     (cgc->hweight ?: 1));
+		else
+			__sync_fetch_and_sub(&cgc->cvtime_delta,
+					     (u64)-delta * FCG_HWEIGHT_ONE /
+					     (cgc->hweight ?: 1));
 		bpf_spin_unlock(&cgv_tree_lock);
 	} else {
 		stat_inc(FCG_STAT_CNS_GONE);
-- 
2.43.0
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