Re: bad call to sched_bind() => hang, even with INVARIANTS

On 5/15/14, 1:20 PM, Chris Torek wrote:
> 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?)

A KASSERT() is probably a good idea.

-- 
John Baldwin
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