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Date:      Thu, 15 May 2014 11:20:08 -0600
From:      Chris Torek <torek@torek.net>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   bad call to sched_bind() => hang, even with INVARIANTS
Message-ID:  <201405151720.s4FHK8RC065430@elf.torek.net>

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I was poking around with a bhyve emulation, where the emulation
has only one CPU but the real systems have more.

In our real-system code we had a sched_bind() that just assumed there
were 2 or more CPUs, instead of just the 1.  This caused the entire
system to hang.  (Note: using SCHED_ULE.)

It's not immediately obvious to me what went wrong "underneath" to
cause the whole-system hang, but clearly it is wrong to attempt to
pin a thread to a CPU that does not exist.  Should sched_bind()
have a KASSERT in it to make sure that the cpu argument is
sensible?  (Or maybe even something a little more aggressive?)

Chris



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