- 24 Sep, 2014 4 commits
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Daniel Lezcano authored
When the cpu enters idle, it stores the cpuidle state pointer in its struct rq instance which in turn could be used to make a better decision when balancing tasks. As soon as the cpu exits its idle state, the struct rq reference is cleared. There are a couple of situations where the idle state pointer could be changed while it is being consulted: 1. For x86/acpi with dynamic c-states, when a laptop switches from battery to AC that could result on removing the deeper idle state. The acpi driver triggers: 'acpi_processor_cst_has_changed' 'cpuidle_pause_and_lock' 'cpuidle_uninstall_idle_handler' 'kick_all_cpus_sync'. All cpus will exit their idle state and the pointed object will be set to NULL. 2. The cpuidle driver is unloaded. Logically that could happen but not in practice because the drivers are always compiled in and 95% of them are not coded to unregister themselves. In any case, the unloading code must call 'cpuidle_unregister_device', that calls 'cpuidle_pause_and_lock' leading to 'kick_all_cpus_sync' as mentioned above. A race can happen if we use the pointer and then one of these two scenarios occurs at the same moment. In order to be safe, the idle state pointer stored in the rq must be used inside a rcu_read_lock section where we are protected with the 'rcu_barrier' in the 'cpuidle_uninstall_idle_handler' function. The idle_get_state() and idle_put_state() accessors should be used to that effect. Signed-off-by:
Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Signed-off-by:
Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> Signed-off-by:
Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Juri Lelli authored
Users can perform clustered scheduling using the cpuset facility. After an exclusive cpuset is created, task migrations happen only between CPUs belonging to the same cpuset. Inter- cpuset migrations can only happen when the user requires so, moving a task between different cpusets. This behaviour is broken in SCHED_DEADLINE, as currently spurious inter- cpuset migration may happen without user intervention. This patch fix the problem (and shuffles the code a bit to improve clarity). Signed-off-by:
Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Juri Lelli authored
When a task is using SCHED_DEADLINE and the user setschedules it to a different class its sched_dl_entity static parameters are not cleaned up. This causes a bug if the user sets it back to SCHED_DEADLINE with the same parameters again. The problem resides in the check we perform at the very beginning of dl_overflow(): if (new_bw == p->dl.dl_bw) return 0; This condition is met in the case depicted above, so the function returns and dl_b->total_bw is not updated (the p->dl.dl_bw is not added to it). After this, admission control is broken. This patch fixes the thing, properly clearing static parameters for a task that ceases to use SCHED_DEADLINE. Reported-by:
Daniele Alessandrelli <daniele.alessandrelli@gmail.com> Reported-by:
Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de> Reported-by:
Vincent Legout <vincent@legout.info> Tested-by:
Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@unitn.it> Tested-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
current->state == TASK_DEAD means that the task is doing its last schedule(), page fault is obviously impossible at this stage. Signed-off-by:
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by:
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by:
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140921194743.GA30114@redhat.comSigned-off-by:
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- 21 Sep, 2014 1 commit
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Zhihui Zhang authored
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Zhihui Zhang <zzhsuny@gmail.com> Cc: peterz@infradead.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1411262676-19928-1-git-send-email-zzhsuny@gmail.comSigned-off-by:
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- 19 Sep, 2014 21 commits
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Vincent Guittot authored
Currently the task always wakes affine on this_cpu if the latter is idle. Before waking up the task on this_cpu, we check that this_cpu capacity is not significantly reduced because of RT tasks or irq activity. Use case where the number of irq and/or the time spent under irq is important will take benefit of this because the task that is woken up by irq or softirq will not use the same CPU than irq (and softirq) but a idle one. Signed-off-by:
Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Signed-off-by:
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Vincent Guittot authored
Use the new arch_scale_cpu_capacity() scheduler facility in order to reflect the original capacity of a CPU instead of arch_scale_freq_capacity() which is more linked to a scaling of the capacity linked to the frequency. Signed-off-by:
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Vincent Guittot authored
'capacity_orig' is only changed for systems with an SMT sched_domain level in order to reflect the lower capacity of CPUs. Heterogenous systems also have to reflect an original capacity that is different from the default value. Create a more generic function arch_scale_cpu_capacity that can be also used by non SMT platforms to set capacity_orig. The __weak implementation of arch_scale_cpu_capacity() is the previous SMT variant, in order to keep backward compatibility with the use of capacity_orig. arch_scale_smt_capacity() and default_scale_smt_capacity() have been removed as they were not used elsewhere than in arch_scale_cpu_capacity(). Signed-off-by:
Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by:
Preeti U. Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ Added default_scale_cpu_capacity() back. ] Signed-off-by:
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Vincent Guittot authored
The computation of avg_load and avg_load_per_task should only take into account the number of CFS tasks. The non-CFS tasks are already taken into account by decreasing the CPU's capacity and they will be tracked in the CPU's utilization (group_utilization) of the next patches. Reviewed-by:
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Vincent Guittot authored
In wake_affine() I have tried to understand the meaning of the condition: (this_load <= load && this_load + target_load(prev_cpu, idx) <= tl_per_task) but I failed to find a use case that can take advantage of it and I haven't found clear description in the previous commit's log. Futhermore, the comment of the condition refers to the task_hot function that was used before being replaced by the current condition: /* * This domain has SD_WAKE_AFFINE and * p is cache cold in this domain, and * there is no bad imbalance. */ If we look more deeply the below condition: this_load + target_load(prev_cpu, idx) <= tl_per_task When sync is clear, we have: tl_per_task = runnable_load_avg / nr_running this_load = max(runnable_load_avg, cpuload[idx]) target_load = max(runnable_load_avg', cpuload'[idx]) It implies that runnable_load_avg == 0 and nr_running <= 1 in order to match the condition. This implies that runnable_load_avg == 0 too because of the condition: this_load <= load. but if this _load is null, 'balanced' is already set and the test is redundant. If sync is set, it's not as straight forward as above (especially if cgroup are involved) but the policy should be similar as we have removed a task that's going to sleep in order to get a more accurate load and this_load values. The current conclusion is that these additional condition don't give any benefit so we can remove them. Signed-off-by:
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Vincent Guittot authored
The imbalance flag can stay set whereas there is no imbalance. Let assume that we have 3 tasks that run on a dual cores /dual cluster system. We will have some idle load balance which are triggered during tick. Unfortunately, the tick is also used to queue background work so we can reach the situation where short work has been queued on a CPU which already runs a task. The load balance will detect this imbalance (2 tasks on 1 CPU and an idle CPU) and will try to pull the waiting task on the idle CPU. The waiting task is a worker thread that is pinned on a CPU so an imbalance due to pinned task is detected and the imbalance flag is set. Then, we will not be able to clear the flag because we have at most 1 task on each CPU but the imbalance flag will trig to useless active load balance between the idle CPU and the busy CPU. We need to reset of the imbalance flag as soon as we have reached a balanced state. If all tasks are pinned, we don't consider that as a balanced state and let the imbalance flag set. Signed-off-by:
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Aaron Tomlin authored
Currently in the event of a stack overrun a call to schedule() does not check for this type of corruption. This corruption is often silent and can go unnoticed. However once the corrupted region is examined at a later stage, the outcome is undefined and often results in a sporadic page fault which cannot be handled. This patch checks for a stack overrun and takes appropriate action since the damage is already done, there is no point in continuing. Signed-off-by:
Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Aaron Tomlin authored
This facility is used in a few places so let's introduce a helper function to improve code readability. Signed-off-by:
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Aaron Tomlin authored
Tasks get their end of stack set to STACK_END_MAGIC with the aim to catch stack overruns. Currently this feature does not apply to init_task. This patch removes this restriction. Note that a similar patch was posted by Prarit Bhargava some time ago but was never merged: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127144305403241&w=2Signed-off-by:
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: dzickus@redhat.com Cc: bmr@redhat.com Cc: jcastillo@redhat.com Cc: jgh@redhat.com Cc: minchan@kernel.org Cc: tglx@linutronix.de Cc: hannes@cmpxchg.org Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Daeseok Youn <daeseok.youn@gmail.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@free-electrons.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1410527779-8133-2-git-send-email-atomlin@redhat.comSigned-off-by:
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Kirill Tkhai authored
If a task is queued but not running on it rq, we can simply migrate it without migration thread and switching of context. Signed-off-by:
Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@parallels.com> Signed-off-by:
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Kirill Tkhai authored
1) Nobody calls pick_dl_task() with negative cpu, it's old RT leftover. 2) If p->nr_cpus_allowed is 1, than the affinity has just been changed in set_cpus_allowed_ptr(); we'll pick it just earlier than migration thread. Signed-off-by:
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Kirill Tkhai authored
_pick_next_task_rt() never returns NULL. Signed-off-by:
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Kirill Tkhai authored
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Kirill Tkhai authored
new_cpu is reassigned below, so we do not need this here. Signed-off-by:
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Kirill Tkhai authored
schedule(), io_schedule() and schedule_timeout() always return with TASK_RUNNING state set, so one more setting is unnecessary. (All places in patch are visible good, only exception is kiblnd_scheduler() from: drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/o2iblnd/o2iblnd_cb.c Its schedule() is one line above standard 3 lines of unified diff) No places where set_current_state() is used for mb(). Signed-off-by: -
Rik van Riel authored
The sig->stats_lock nests inside the tasklist_lock and the sighand->siglock in __exit_signal and wait_task_zombie. However, both of those locks can be taken from irq context, which means we need to use the interrupt safe variant of read_seqbegin_or_lock. This blocks interrupts when the "lock" branch is taken (seq is odd), preventing the lock inversion. On the first (lockless) pass through the loop, irqs are not blocked. Reported-by:
Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Rik van Riel authored
There are cases where read_seqbegin_or_lock() needs to block irqs, because the seqlock in question nests inside a lock that is also be taken from irq context. Add read_seqbegin_or_lock_irqsave() and done_seqretry_irqrestore(), which are almost identical to read_seqbegin_or_lock() and done_seqretry(). Signed-off-by:
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Chuansheng Liu authored
Currently kick_all_cpus_sync() or smp_call_function() can not break the polling idle cpu immediately. Instead using wake_up_all_idle_cpus() which can wake up the polling idle cpu quickly is much more helpful for power. Signed-off-by:
Chuansheng Liu <chuansheng.liu@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Chuansheng Liu authored
Currently kick_all_cpus_sync() can break non-polling idle cpus thru IPI interrupts. But sometimes we need to break the polling idle cpus immediately to reselect the suitable c-state, also for non-idle cpus, we need to do nothing if we try to wake up them. Here adding one new function wake_up_all_idle_cpus() to let all cpus out of idle based on function wake_up_if_idle(). Signed-off-by:
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Chuansheng Liu authored
Implementing one new API wake_up_if_idle(), which is used to wake up the idle CPU. Suggested-by:
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Signed-off-by:
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Rik van Riel authored
The code in task_numa_compare() will only examine at most one idle CPU per node, because they all have the same score. However, some idle CPUs are better candidates than others, due to busy or idle SMT siblings, etc... The scheduler has logic to find the best CPU within an LLC to place a task. The NUMA code should probably use it. This seems to reduce the standard deviation for single instance SPECjbb2005 with a low warehouse count on my 4 node test system. Signed-off-by:
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- 16 Sep, 2014 5 commits
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Juri Lelli authored
Add an appendix providing a simple self-contained code snippet showing how SCHED_DEADLINE reservations can be created by application developers. Signed-off-by:
Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1410256636-26171-6-git-send-email-juri.lelli@arm.com [ Fixed some whitespace inconsistencies. ] Signed-off-by:
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Juri Lelli authored
Add an appendix briefly describing tools that can be used to test SCHED_DEADLINE (and the scheduler in general). Links to where source code of the tools is hosted are also provided. Signed-off-by:
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Luca Abeni authored
Admission control is of key importance for SCHED_DEADLINE, since it guarantees system schedulability (or tells us something about the degree of guarantees we can provide to the user). This patch improves and clarifies bits and pieces regarding AC, both for UP and SMP systems. Signed-off-by:
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Juri Lelli authored
Section 4 intro was still describing the old interface. Rewrite it. Signed-off-by:
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Luca Abeni authored
Several small changes regarding SCHED_DEADLINE documentation that fix terminology and improve clarity and readability: - "current runtime" becomes "remaining runtime" - readablity of an equation is improved by introducing more spacing - clarify when admission control will certainly fail - new URL for CBS technical report - substitue "smallest" with "earliest" Signed-off-by:
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- 09 Sep, 2014 2 commits
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Jason Low authored
When running workloads on 2+ socket systems, based on perf profiles, the update_cfs_rq_blocked_load() function often shows up as taking up a noticeable % of run time. Much of the contention is in __update_cfs_rq_tg_load_contrib() when we update the tg load contribution stats. However, it turns out that in many cases, they don't need to be updated and "tg_contrib" is 0. This patch adds a check in __update_cfs_rq_tg_load_contrib() to skip updating tg load contribution stats when nothing needs to be updated. This reduces the cacheline contention that would be unnecessary. Reviewed-by:
Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com> Reviewed-by:
Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com> Signed-off-by:
Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> Signed-off-by:
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Lai Jiangshan authored
Current code can fail to migrate a waking task (silently) when TTWU_QUEUE is enabled. When a task is waking, it is pending on the wake_list of the rq, but it is not queued (task->on_rq == 0). In this case, set_cpus_allowed_ptr() and __migrate_task() will not migrate it because its invisible to them. This behavior is incorrect, because the task has been already woken, it will be running on the wrong CPU without correct placement until the next wake-up or update for cpus_allowed. To fix this problem, we need to finish the wakeup (so they appear on the runqueue) before we migrate them. Reported-by:
Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Reported-by:
Jason J. Herne <jjherne@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by:
Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 08 Sep, 2014 4 commits
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Rik van Riel authored
The functions task_cputime_adjusted and thread_group_cputime_adjusted() can be called locklessly, as well as concurrently on many different CPUs. This can occasionally lead to the utime and stime reported by times(), and other syscalls like it, going backward. The cause for this appears to be multiple threads racing in cputime_adjust(), both with values for utime or stime that is larger than the original, but each with a different value. Sometimes the larger value gets saved first, only to be immediately overwritten with a smaller value by another thread. Using atomic exchange prevents that problem, and ensures time progresses monotonically. Signed-off-by:
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Rik van Riel authored
Both times() and clock_gettime(CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID) have scalability issues on large systems, due to both functions being serialized with a lock. The lock protects against reporting a wrong value, due to a thread in the task group exiting, its statistics reporting up to the signal struct, and that exited task's statistics being counted twice (or not at all). Protecting that with a lock results in times() and clock_gettime() being completely serialized on large systems. This can be fixed by using a seqlock around the events that gather and propagate statistics. As an additional benefit, the protection code can be moved into thread_group_cputime(), slightly simplifying the calling functions. In the case of posix_cpu_clock_get_task() things can be simplified a lot, because the calling function already ensures that the task sticks around, and the rest is now taken care of in thread_group_cputime(). This way the statistics reporting code can run lockless. Signed-off-by:
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Rik van Riel authored
Oleg pointed out that wait_task_zombie adds a task's usage statistics to the parent's signal struct, but the task's own signal struct should also propagate the statistics at exit time. This allows thread_group_cputime(reaped_zombie) to get the statistics after __unhash_process() has made the task invisible to for_each_thread, but before the thread has actually been rcu freed, making sure no non-monotonic results are returned inside that window. Suggested-by:
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Ingo Molnar authored
Merge tag 'v3.17-rc4' into sched/core, to prevent conflicts with upcoming patches, and to refresh the tree Linux 3.17-rc4
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- 07 Sep, 2014 3 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
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Sudip Mukherjee authored
new link for - How to piss off a Linux kernel subsystem maintainer Signed-off-by:
Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org> Signed-off-by:
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Paul Bolle authored
The NFS/RDMA Kconfig symbol was split into separate options for client and server in commit 2e8c12e1 ("xprtrdma: add separate Kconfig options for NFSoRDMA client and server support"). Update the documentation to reflect this split. Signed-off-by:
Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Reviewed-by:
Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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