John reported that stress-ng-yield could make his machine unhappy and
managed to bisect it to commit b3d99f43c7 ("sched/fair: Fix
zero_vruntime tracking").
The commit in question changes avg_vruntime() from a function that is
a pure reader, to a function that updates variables. This turns an
unlocked sched/debug usage of this function from a minor mistake into
a data corruptor.
Fixes: af4cf40470 ("sched/fair: Add cfs_rq::avg_vruntime")
Fixes: b3d99f43c7 ("sched/fair: Fix zero_vruntime tracking")
Reported-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Tested-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Tested-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260401132355.196370805@infradead.org
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