Bug 37382 - machine hang due to task rebalance after about 209 days uptime
Summary: machine hang due to task rebalance after about 209 days uptime
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Alias: None
Product: Process Management
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Scheduler (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: P1 normal
Assignee: Ingo Molnar
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2011-06-13 01:50 UTC by kinwin
Modified: 2012-08-24 14:38 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Kernel Version: 2.6.32.11
Subsystem:
Regression: No
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crash stack trace (31.09 KB, image/png)
2011-06-13 01:50 UTC, kinwin 		Details
kernel configuration (41.40 KB, application/octet-stream)
2011-06-13 01:56 UTC, kinwin 		Details
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Description kinwin 2011-06-13 01:50:32 UTC 
Created attachment 61762 [details]
crash stack trace

About 5 percent of our machines running on linux 2.6.32.11 hangs after 209 days running, kernel crash stack trace in attachment1 [details].
  when we disasemble the machine code, we found it meet divide-by-zero error.where
the sentence is at: 

   kernel/sched.c :: update_sg_lb_stats:
  sgs->avg_load = (sgs->group_load * SCHED_LOAD_SCALE) / group->cpu_power;

it seemes like when update_group_power, the power is calculated as zero.

kernel configure attached follow.
Comment 1 kinwin 2011-06-13 01:56:21 UTC 
Created attachment 61772 [details]
kernel configuration
Comment 2 Andrew Morton 2011-06-20 23:00:35 UTC 
(apparently the scheduler code is unmaintained)

I believe this was later fixed by

        if (!power)
                power = 1;

in kernel/sched_fair.c:update_cpu_power().  Either we forgot to backport that fix into 2.6.32.11 or we weren't maintaining the 2.6.32.x stream by the time the fix was merged.
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