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Linus Torvalds
0588f1f934 Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "A CPU hotplug related crash fix and a nohz accounting fixlet."

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched: Update sched_domains_numa_masks[][] when new cpus are onlined
  sched: Ensure 'sched_domains_numa_levels' is safe to use in other functions
  nohz: Fix one jiffy count too far in idle cputime
2012-10-12 22:13:05 +09:00
Linus Torvalds
8213a2f3ee Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal
Pull pile 2 of execve and kernel_thread unification work from Al Viro:
 "Stuff in there: kernel_thread/kernel_execve/sys_execve conversions for
  several more architectures plus assorted signal fixes and cleanups.

  There'll be more (in particular, real fixes for the alpha
  do_notify_resume() irq mess)..."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (43 commits)
  alpha: don't open-code trace_report_syscall_{enter,exit}
  Uninclude linux/freezer.h
  m32r: trim masks
  avr32: trim masks
  tile: don't bother with SIGTRAP in setup_frame
  microblaze: don't bother with SIGTRAP in setup_rt_frame()
  mn10300: don't bother with SIGTRAP in setup_frame()
  frv: no need to raise SIGTRAP in setup_frame()
  x86: get rid of duplicate code in case of CONFIG_VM86
  unicore32: remove pointless test
  h8300: trim _TIF_WORK_MASK
  parisc: decide whether to go to slow path (tracesys) based on thread flags
  parisc: don't bother looping in do_signal()
  parisc: fix double restarts
  bury the rest of TIF_IRET
  sanitize tsk_is_polling()
  bury _TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK
  unicore32: unobfuscate _TIF_WORK_MASK
  mips: NOTIFY_RESUME is not needed in TIF masks
  mips: merge the identical "return from syscall" per-ABI code
  ...

Conflicts:
	arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h
2012-10-12 10:49:08 +09:00
Tang Chen
301a5cba28 sched: Update sched_domains_numa_masks[][] when new cpus are onlined
Once array sched_domains_numa_masks[] []is defined, it is never updated.

When a new cpu on a new node is onlined, the coincident member in
sched_domains_numa_masks[][] is not initialized, and all the masks are 0.
As a result, the build_overlap_sched_groups() will initialize a NULL
sched_group for the new cpu on the new node, which will lead to kernel panic:

[ 3189.403280] Call Trace:
[ 3189.403286]  [<ffffffff8106c36f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0
[ 3189.403289]  [<ffffffff8106c3ca>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
[ 3189.403292]  [<ffffffff810b1d57>] build_sched_domains+0x467/0x470
[ 3189.403296]  [<ffffffff810b2067>] partition_sched_domains+0x307/0x510
[ 3189.403299]  [<ffffffff810b1ea2>] ? partition_sched_domains+0x142/0x510
[ 3189.403305]  [<ffffffff810fcc93>] cpuset_update_active_cpus+0x83/0x90
[ 3189.403308]  [<ffffffff810b22a8>] cpuset_cpu_active+0x38/0x70
[ 3189.403316]  [<ffffffff81674b87>] notifier_call_chain+0x67/0x150
[ 3189.403320]  [<ffffffff81664647>] ? native_cpu_up+0x18a/0x1b5
[ 3189.403328]  [<ffffffff810a044e>] __raw_notifier_call_chain+0xe/0x10
[ 3189.403333]  [<ffffffff81070470>] __cpu_notify+0x20/0x40
[ 3189.403337]  [<ffffffff8166663e>] _cpu_up+0xe9/0x131
[ 3189.403340]  [<ffffffff81666761>] cpu_up+0xdb/0xee
[ 3189.403348]  [<ffffffff8165667c>] store_online+0x9c/0xd0
[ 3189.403355]  [<ffffffff81437640>] dev_attr_store+0x20/0x30
[ 3189.403361]  [<ffffffff8124aa63>] sysfs_write_file+0xa3/0x100
[ 3189.403368]  [<ffffffff811ccbe0>] vfs_write+0xd0/0x1a0
[ 3189.403371]  [<ffffffff811ccdb4>] sys_write+0x54/0xa0
[ 3189.403375]  [<ffffffff81679c69>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[ 3189.403377] ---[ end trace 1e6cf85d0859c941 ]---
[ 3189.403398] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000018

This patch registers a new notifier for cpu hotplug notify chain, and
updates sched_domains_numa_masks every time a new cpu is onlined or offlined.

Signed-off-by: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
[ fixed compile warning ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1348578751-16904-3-git-send-email-tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-10-05 13:54:48 +02:00
Tang Chen
5f7865f3e4 sched: Ensure 'sched_domains_numa_levels' is safe to use in other functions
We should temporarily reset 'sched_domains_numa_levels' to 0 after
it is reset to 'level' in sched_init_numa(). If it fails to allocate
memory for array sched_domains_numa_masks[][], the array will contain
less then 'level' members. This could be dangerous when we use it to
iterate array sched_domains_numa_masks[][] in other functions.

This patch set sched_domains_numa_levels to 0 before initializing
array sched_domains_numa_masks[][], and reset it to 'level' when
sched_domains_numa_masks[][] is fully initialized.

Signed-off-by: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1348578751-16904-2-git-send-email-tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-10-05 13:54:46 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
0b981cb94b Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Continued quest to clean up and enhance the cputime code by Frederic
  Weisbecker, in preparation for future tickless kernel features.

  Other than that, smallish changes."

Fix up trivial conflicts due to additions next to each other in arch/{x86/}Kconfig

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
  cputime: Make finegrained irqtime accounting generally available
  cputime: Gather time/stats accounting config options into a single menu
  ia64: Reuse system and user vtime accounting functions on task switch
  ia64: Consolidate user vtime accounting
  vtime: Consolidate system/idle context detection
  cputime: Use a proper subsystem naming for vtime related APIs
  sched: cpu_power: enable ARCH_POWER
  sched/nohz: Clean up select_nohz_load_balancer()
  sched: Fix load avg vs. cpu-hotplug
  sched: Remove __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW
  sched: Fix nohz_idle_balance()
  sched: Remove useless code in yield_to()
  sched: Add time unit suffix to sched sysctl knobs
  sched/debug: Limit sd->*_idx range on sysctl
  sched: Remove AFFINE_WAKEUPS feature flag
  s390: Remove leftover account_tick_vtime() header
  cputime: Consolidate vtime handling on context switch
  sched: Move cputime code to its own file
  cputime: Generalize CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
  tile: Remove SD_PREFER_LOCAL leftover
  ...
2012-10-01 10:43:39 -07:00
Al Viro
16a8016372 sanitize tsk_is_polling()
Make default just return 0.  The current default (checking
TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG) is taken to architectures that need it;
ones that don't do polling in their idle threads don't need
to defined TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG at all.

ia64 defined both TS_POLLING (used by its tsk_is_polling())
and TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG (not used at all).  Killed the latter...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-10-01 09:58:13 -04:00
Frederic Weisbecker
20ab65e33f rcu: Exit RCU extended QS on user preemption
When exceptions or irq are about to resume userspace, if
the task needs to be rescheduled, the arch low level code
calls schedule() directly.

If we call it, it is because we have the TIF_RESCHED flag:

- It can be set after random local calls to set_need_resched()
(RCU, drm, ...)

- A wake up happened and the CPU needs preemption. This can
  happen in several ways:

    * Remotely: the remote waking CPU has set TIF_RESCHED and send the
      wakee an IPI to schedule the new task.
    * Remotely enqueued: the remote waking CPU sends an IPI to the target
      and the wake up is made by the target.
    * Locally: waking CPU == wakee CPU and the wakeup is done locally.
      set_need_resched() is called without IPI.

In the case of local and remotely enqueued wake ups, the tick can
be restarted when we enqueue the new task and RCU can exit the
extended quiescent state at the same time. Then by the time we reach
irq exit path and we call schedule, we are not in RCU user mode.

But if we call schedule() only because something called set_need_resched(),
RCU may still be in user mode when we reach schedule.

Also if a wake up is done remotely, the CPU might see the TIF_RESCHED
flag and call schedule while the IPI has not yet happen to restart the
tick and exit RCU user mode.

We need to manually protect against these corner cases.

Create a new API schedule_user() that calls schedule() inside
rcu_user_exit()-rcu_user_enter() in order to protect it. Archs
will need to rely on it now to implement user preemption safely.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2012-09-26 15:47:11 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
90a340ed53 rcu: Exit RCU extended QS on kernel preemption after irq/exception
When an exception or an irq exits, and we are going to resume into
interrupted kernel code, the low level architecture code calls
preempt_schedule_irq() if there is a need to reschedule.

If the interrupt/exception occured between a call to rcu_user_enter()
(from syscall exit, exception exit, do_notify_resume exit, ...) and
a real resume to userspace (iret,...), preempt_schedule_irq() can be
called whereas RCU thinks we are in userspace. But preempt_schedule_irq()
is going to run kernel code and may be some RCU read side critical
section. We must exit the userspace extended quiescent state before
we call it.

To solve this, just call rcu_user_exit() in the beginning of
preempt_schedule_irq().

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2012-09-26 15:47:09 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
04e7e95153 rcu: Switch task's syscall hooks on context switch
Clear the syscalls hook of a task when it's scheduled out so that if
the task migrates, it doesn't run the syscall slow path on a CPU
that might not need it.

Also set the syscalls hook on the next task if needed.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2012-09-26 15:47:02 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney
593d1006cd Merge remote-tracking branch 'tip/core/rcu' into next.2012.09.25b
Resolved conflict in kernel/sched/core.c using Peter Zijlstra's
approach from https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/5/585.
2012-09-25 10:03:56 -07:00
Frederic Weisbecker
a7e1a9e3af vtime: Consolidate system/idle context detection
Move the code that finds out to which context we account the
cputime into generic layer.

Archs that consider the whole time spent in the idle task as idle
time (ia64, powerpc) can rely on the generic vtime_account()
and implement vtime_account_system() and vtime_account_idle(),
letting the generic code to decide when to call which API.

Archs that have their own meaning of idle time, such as s390
that only considers the time spent in CPU low power mode as idle
time, can just override vtime_account().

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
2012-09-25 15:42:37 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
bf9fae9f5e cputime: Use a proper subsystem naming for vtime related APIs
Use a naming based on vtime as a prefix for virtual based
cputime accounting APIs:

- account_system_vtime() -> vtime_account()
- account_switch_vtime() -> vtime_task_switch()

It makes it easier to allow for further declension such
as vtime_account_system(), vtime_account_idle(), ... if we
want to find out the context we account to from generic code.

This also make it better to know on which subsystem these APIs
refer to.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
2012-09-25 15:31:31 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
5d18023294 sched: Fix load avg vs cpu-hotplug
Rabik and Paul reported two different issues related to the same few
lines of code.

Rabik's issue is that the nr_uninterruptible migration code is wrong in
that he sees artifacts due to this (Rabik please do expand in more
detail).

Paul's issue is that this code as it stands relies on us using
stop_machine() for unplug, we all would like to remove this assumption
so that eventually we can remove this stop_machine() usage altogether.

The only reason we'd have to migrate nr_uninterruptible is so that we
could use for_each_online_cpu() loops in favour of
for_each_possible_cpu() loops, however since nr_uninterruptible() is the
only such loop and its using possible lets not bother at all.

The problem Rabik sees is (probably) caused by the fact that by
migrating nr_uninterruptible we screw rq->calc_load_active for both rqs
involved.

So don't bother with fancy migration schemes (meaning we now have to
keep using for_each_possible_cpu()) and instead fold any nr_active delta
after we migrate all tasks away to make sure we don't have any skewed
nr_active accounting.

[ paulmck: Move call to calc_load_migration to CPU_DEAD to avoid
miscounting noted by Rakib. ]

Reported-by: Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
2012-09-23 07:43:56 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
37407ea7f9 Revert "sched: Improve scalability via 'CPU buddies', which withstand random perturbations"
This reverts commit 970e178985.

Nikolay Ulyanitsky reported thatthe 3.6-rc5 kernel has a 15-20%
performance drop on PostgreSQL 9.2 on his machine (running "pgbench").

Borislav Petkov was able to reproduce this, and bisected it to this
commit 970e178985 ("sched: Improve scalability via 'CPU buddies' ...")
apparently because the new single-idle-buddy model simply doesn't find
idle CPU's to reschedule on aggressively enough.

Mike Galbraith suspects that it is likely due to the user-mode spinlocks
in PostgreSQL not reacting well to preemption, but we don't really know
the details - I'll just revert the commit for now.

There are hopefully other approaches to improve scheduler scalability
without it causing these kinds of downsides.

Reported-by: Nikolay Ulyanitsky <lystor@gmail.com>
Bisected-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-09-16 12:29:43 -07:00
Vincent Guittot
bc2a27cd27 sched: cpu_power: enable ARCH_POWER
Heteregeneous ARM platform uses arch_scale_freq_power function
to reflect the relative capacity of each core

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1341826026-6504-6-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-09-13 16:52:06 +02:00
Alex Shi
c1cc017c59 sched/nohz: Clean up select_nohz_load_balancer()
There is no load_balancer to be selected now. It just sets the
state of the nohz tick to stop.

So rename the function, pass the 'cpu' as a parameter and then
remove the useless call from tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick().

[ s/set_nohz_tick_stopped/nohz_balance_enter_idle/g
  s/clear_nohz_tick_stopped/nohz_balance_exit_idle/g ]
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347261059-24747-1-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-09-13 16:52:05 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
08bedae1d0 sched: Fix load avg vs. cpu-hotplug
Commit f319da0c68 ("sched: Fix load avg vs cpu-hotplug") was an
incomplete fix:

In particular, the problem is that at the point it calls
calc_load_migrate() nr_running := 1 (the stopper thread), so move the
call to CPU_DEAD where we're sure that nr_running := 0.

Also note that we can call calc_load_migrate() without serialization, we
know the state of rq is stable since its cpu is dead, and we modify the
global state using appropriate atomic ops.

Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1346882630.2600.59.camel@twins
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-09-13 16:52:05 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
f3e9478674 sched: Remove __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW
Now that the last architecture to use this has stopped doing so (ARM,
thanks Catalin!) we can remove this complexity from the scheduler
core.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-g9p2a1w81xxbrze25v9zpzbf@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-09-13 16:52:04 +02:00
Vincent Guittot
5ed4f1d96d sched: Fix nohz_idle_balance()
On tickless systems, one CPU runs load balance for all idle CPUs.

The cpu_load of this CPU is updated before starting the load balance
of each other idle CPUs. We should instead update the cpu_load of
the balance_cpu.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347509486-8688-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-09-13 16:52:03 +02:00
Michael Wang
38b8dd6f87 sched: Remove useless code in yield_to()
It's impossible to enter the else branch if we have set
skip_clock_update in task_yield_fair(), as yield_to_task_fair()
 will directly return true after invoke task_yield_fair().

Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4FF2925A.9060005@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-09-04 14:31:42 +02:00
Namhyung Kim
201c373e8e sched/debug: Limit sd->*_idx range on sysctl
Various sd->*_idx's are used for refering the rq's load average table
when selecting a cpu to run.  However they can be set to any number
with sysctl knobs so that it can crash the kernel if something bad is
given. Fix it by limiting them into the actual range.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1345104204-8317-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-09-04 14:31:32 +02:00
Namhyung Kim
c751134ef8 sched: Remove AFFINE_WAKEUPS feature flag
Commit beac4c7e4a ("sched: Remove AFFINE_WAKEUPS feature") removed
use of the flag but left the definition. Get rid of it.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1345090865-20851-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-09-04 14:31:31 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
59f979455d Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core
Merge in the current fixes branch, we are going to apply dependent patches.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-09-04 14:31:00 +02:00
Randy Dunlap
9450d57eab sched: Fix kernel-doc warnings in kernel/sched/fair.c
Fix two kernel-doc warnings in kernel/sched/fair.c:

  Warning(kernel/sched/fair.c:3660): Excess function parameter 'cpus' description in 'update_sg_lb_stats'
  Warning(kernel/sched/fair.c:3806): Excess function parameter 'cpus' description in 'update_sd_lb_stats'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/50303714.3090204@xenotime.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-09-04 14:30:49 +02:00
Peter Boonstoppel
a4c96ae319 sched: Unthrottle rt runqueues in __disable_runtime()
migrate_tasks() uses _pick_next_task_rt() to get tasks from the
real-time runqueues to be migrated. When rt_rq is throttled
_pick_next_task_rt() won't return anything, in which case
migrate_tasks() can't move all threads over and gets stuck in an
infinite loop.

Instead unthrottle rt runqueues before migrating tasks.

Additionally: move unthrottle_offline_cfs_rqs() to rq_offline_fair()

Signed-off-by: Peter Boonstoppel <pboonstoppel@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5FBF8E85CA34454794F0F7ECBA79798F379D3648B7@HQMAIL04.nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-09-04 14:30:30 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
f319da0c68 sched: Fix load avg vs cpu-hotplug
Rabik and Paul reported two different issues related to the same few
lines of code.

Rabik's issue is that the nr_uninterruptible migration code is wrong in
that he sees artifacts due to this (Rabik please do expand in more
detail).

Paul's issue is that this code as it stands relies on us using
stop_machine() for unplug, we all would like to remove this assumption
so that eventually we can remove this stop_machine() usage altogether.

The only reason we'd have to migrate nr_uninterruptible is so that we
could use for_each_online_cpu() loops in favour of
for_each_possible_cpu() loops, however since nr_uninterruptible() is the
only such loop and its using possible lets not bother at all.

The problem Rabik sees is (probably) caused by the fact that by
migrating nr_uninterruptible we screw rq->calc_load_active for both rqs
involved.

So don't bother with fancy migration schemes (meaning we now have to
keep using for_each_possible_cpu()) and instead fold any nr_active delta
after we migrate all tasks away to make sure we don't have any skewed
nr_active accounting.

Reported-by: Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1345454817.23018.27.camel@twins
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-09-04 14:30:18 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
53795ced6e Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar.

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched: Fix migration thread runtime bogosity
  sched,rt: fix isolated CPUs leaving root_task_group indefinitely throttled
  sched,cgroup: Fix up task_groups list
  sched: fix divide by zero at {thread_group,task}_times
  sched, cgroup: Reduce rq->lock hold times for large cgroup hierarchies
2012-08-20 10:35:05 -07:00
Frederic Weisbecker
baa36046d0 cputime: Consolidate vtime handling on context switch
The archs that implement virtual cputime accounting all
flush the cputime of a task when it gets descheduled
and sometimes set up some ground initialization for the
next task to account its cputime.

These archs all put their own hooks in their context
switch callbacks and handle the off-case themselves.

Consolidate this by creating a new account_switch_vtime()
callback called in generic code right after a context switch
and that these archs must implement to flush the prev task
cputime and initialize the next task cputime related state.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
2012-08-20 13:05:28 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
73fbec6044 sched: Move cputime code to its own file
Extract cputime code from the giant sched/core.c and
put it in its own file. This make it easier to deal with
this particular area and de-bloat a bit more core.c

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
2012-08-20 13:05:17 +02:00
Alex Shi
f03542a701 sched: recover SD_WAKE_AFFINE in select_task_rq_fair and code clean up
Since power saving code was removed from sched now, the implement
code is out of service in this function, and even pollute other logical.
like, 'want_sd' never has chance to be set '0', that remove the effect
of SD_WAKE_AFFINE here.

So, clean up the obsolete code, includes SD_PREFER_LOCAL.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5028F431.6000306@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-08-13 19:02:05 +02:00
Michael Wang
78feefc512 sched: using dst_rq instead of this_rq during load balance
As we already have dst_rq in lb_env, using or changing "this_rq" do not
make sense.

This patch will replace "this_rq" with dst_rq in load_balance, and we
don't need to change "this_rq" while process LBF_SOME_PINNED any more.

Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/501F8357.3070102@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-08-13 18:58:15 +02:00
Pekka Enberg
edde96eafc sched: Document schedule() entry points
This patch adds a comment on top of the schedule() function to explain
to scheduler newbies how the main scheduler function is entered.

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Explained-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Explained-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344070187-2420-1-git-send-email-penberg@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-08-13 18:58:15 +02:00
Borislav Petkov
532b1858c5 sched: Fix __sched_period comment
It should be sched_nr_latency so fix it before it annoys me more.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344435364-18632-1-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-08-13 18:58:15 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
a4133765c1 Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core 2012-08-13 18:56:46 +02:00
Mike Galbraith
8f6189684e sched: Fix migration thread runtime bogosity
Make stop scheduler class do the same accounting as other classes,

Migration threads can be caught in the act while doing exec balancing,
leading to the below due to use of unmaintained ->se.exec_start.  The
load that triggered this particular instance was an apparently out of
control heavily threaded application that does system monitoring in
what equated to an exec bomb, with one of the VERY frequently migrated
tasks being ps.

%CPU   PID USER     CMD
99.3    45 root     [migration/10]
97.7    53 root     [migration/12]
97.0    57 root     [migration/13]
90.1    49 root     [migration/11]
89.6    65 root     [migration/15]
88.7    17 root     [migration/3]
80.4    37 root     [migration/8]
78.1    41 root     [migration/9]
44.2    13 root     [migration/2]

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344051854.6739.19.camel@marge.simpson.net
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-08-13 18:41:55 +02:00
Mike Galbraith
e221d028bb sched,rt: fix isolated CPUs leaving root_task_group indefinitely throttled
Root task group bandwidth replenishment must service all CPUs, regardless of
where the timer was last started, and regardless of the isolation mechanism,
lest 'Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore"' become rt scheduling policy.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344326558.6968.25.camel@marge.simpson.net
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-08-13 18:41:55 +02:00
Mike Galbraith
35cf4e50b1 sched,cgroup: Fix up task_groups list
With multiple instances of task_groups, for_each_rt_rq() is a noop,
no task groups having been added to the rt.c list instance.  This
renders __enable/disable_runtime() and print_rt_stats() noop, the
user (non) visible effect being that rt task groups are missing in
/proc/sched_debug.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # v3.3+
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344308413.6846.7.camel@marge.simpson.net
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-08-13 18:41:54 +02:00
Stanislaw Gruszka
bea6832cc8 sched: fix divide by zero at {thread_group,task}_times
On architectures where cputime_t is 64 bit type, is possible to trigger
divide by zero on do_div(temp, (__force u32) total) line, if total is a
non zero number but has lower 32 bit's zeroed. Removing casting is not
a good solution since some do_div() implementations do cast to u32
internally.

This problem can be triggered in practice on very long lived processes:

  PID: 2331   TASK: ffff880472814b00  CPU: 2   COMMAND: "oraagent.bin"
   #0 [ffff880472a51b70] machine_kexec at ffffffff8103214b
   #1 [ffff880472a51bd0] crash_kexec at ffffffff810b91c2
   #2 [ffff880472a51ca0] oops_end at ffffffff814f0b00
   #3 [ffff880472a51cd0] die at ffffffff8100f26b
   #4 [ffff880472a51d00] do_trap at ffffffff814f03f4
   #5 [ffff880472a51d60] do_divide_error at ffffffff8100cfff
   #6 [ffff880472a51e00] divide_error at ffffffff8100be7b
      [exception RIP: thread_group_times+0x56]
      RIP: ffffffff81056a16  RSP: ffff880472a51eb8  RFLAGS: 00010046
      RAX: bc3572c9fe12d194  RBX: ffff880874150800  RCX: 0000000110266fad
      RDX: 0000000000000000  RSI: ffff880472a51eb8  RDI: 001038ae7d9633dc
      RBP: ffff880472a51ef8   R8: 00000000b10a3a64   R9: ffff880874150800
      R10: 00007fcba27ab680  R11: 0000000000000202  R12: ffff880472a51f08
      R13: ffff880472a51f10  R14: 0000000000000000  R15: 0000000000000007
      ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff  CS: 0010  SS: 0018
   #7 [ffff880472a51f00] do_sys_times at ffffffff8108845d
   #8 [ffff880472a51f40] sys_times at ffffffff81088524
   #9 [ffff880472a51f80] system_call_fastpath at ffffffff8100b0f2
      RIP: 0000003808caac3a  RSP: 00007fcba27ab6d8  RFLAGS: 00000202
      RAX: 0000000000000064  RBX: ffffffff8100b0f2  RCX: 0000000000000000
      RDX: 00007fcba27ab6e0  RSI: 000000000076d58e  RDI: 00007fcba27ab6e0
      RBP: 00007fcba27ab700   R8: 0000000000000020   R9: 000000000000091b
      R10: 00007fcba27ab680  R11: 0000000000000202  R12: 00007fff9ca41940
      R13: 0000000000000000  R14: 00007fcba27ac9c0  R15: 00007fff9ca41940
      ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000064  CS: 0033  SS: 002b

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120808092714.GA3580@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-08-13 18:41:54 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
a35b6466aa sched, cgroup: Reduce rq->lock hold times for large cgroup hierarchies
Peter Portante reported that for large cgroup hierarchies (and or on
large CPU counts) we get immense lock contention on rq->lock and stuff
stops working properly.

His workload was a ton of processes, each in their own cgroup,
everybody idling except for a sporadic wakeup once every so often.

It was found that:

  schedule()
    idle_balance()
      load_balance()
        local_irq_save()
        double_rq_lock()
        update_h_load()
          walk_tg_tree(tg_load_down)
            tg_load_down()

Results in an entire cgroup hierarchy walk under rq->lock for every
new-idle balance and since new-idle balance isn't throttled this
results in a lot of work while holding the rq->lock.

This patch does two things, it removes the work from under rq->lock
based on the good principle of race and pray which is widely employed
in the load-balancer as a whole. And secondly it throttles the
update_h_load() calculation to max once per jiffy.

I considered excluding update_h_load() for new-idle balance
all-together, but purely relying on regular balance passes to update
this data might not work out under some rare circumstances where the
new-idle busiest isn't the regular busiest for a while (unlikely, but
a nightmare to debug if someone hits it and suffers).

Cc: pjt@google.com
Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Reported-by: Peter Portante <pportant@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-aaarrzfpnaam7pqrekofu8a6@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-08-13 18:41:54 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
fcc1d2a9ce Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Fixes and two late cleanups"

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/cleanups: Add load balance cpumask pointer to 'struct lb_env'
  sched: Fix comment about PREEMPT_ACTIVE bit location
  sched: Fix minor code style issues
  sched: Use task_rq_unlock() in __sched_setscheduler()
  sched/numa: Add SD_PERFER_SIBLING to CPU domain
2012-08-03 10:58:13 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
bca1a5c0ea Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The biggest changes are Intel Nehalem-EX PMU uncore support, uprobes
  updates/cleanups/fixes from Oleg and diverse tooling updates (mostly
  fixes) now that Arnaldo is back from vacation."

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (40 commits)
  uprobes: __replace_page() needs munlock_vma_page()
  uprobes: Rename vma_address() and make it return "unsigned long"
  uprobes: Fix register_for_each_vma()->vma_address() check
  uprobes: Introduce vaddr_to_offset(vma, vaddr)
  uprobes: Teach build_probe_list() to consider the range
  uprobes: Remove insert_vm_struct()->uprobe_mmap()
  uprobes: Remove copy_vma()->uprobe_mmap()
  uprobes: Fix overflow in vma_address()/find_active_uprobe()
  uprobes: Suppress uprobe_munmap() from mmput()
  uprobes: Uprobe_mmap/munmap needs list_for_each_entry_safe()
  uprobes: Clean up and document write_opcode()->lock_page(old_page)
  uprobes: Kill write_opcode()->lock_page(new_page)
  uprobes: __replace_page() should not use page_address_in_vma()
  uprobes: Don't recheck vma/f_mapping in write_opcode()
  perf/x86: Fix missing struct before structure name
  perf/x86: Fix format definition of SNB-EP uncore QPI box
  perf/x86: Make bitfield unsigned
  perf/x86: Fix LLC-* and node-* events on Intel SandyBridge
  perf/x86: Add Intel Nehalem-EX uncore support
  perf/x86: Fix typo in format definition of uncore PCU filter
  ...
2012-07-31 15:34:13 -07:00
Michael Wang
b9403130a5 sched/cleanups: Add load balance cpumask pointer to 'struct lb_env'
With this patch struct ld_env will have a pointer of the load balancing
cpumask and we don't need to pass a cpumask around anymore.

Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4FFE8665.3080705@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-07-31 17:00:16 +02:00
Andrew Vagin
895dd92c03 sched: Deliver sched_switch events to the current task
Otherwise they can't be filtered for a defined task:

  perf record -e sched:sched_switch ./foo

This command doesn't report any events without this patch.

I think it isn't a security concern if someone knows who will
be executed next - this can already be observed by polling /proc
state. By default perf is disabled for non-root users in any case.

I need these events for profiling sleep times.  sched_switch is used for
getting callchains and sched_stat_* is used for getting time periods.
These events are combined in user space, then it can be analyzed by
perf tools.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1342088069-1005148-1-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-07-26 12:23:10 +02:00
Ying Xue
014acbf0d5 sched: Fix minor code style issues
Delete redudant spaces between type name and data name or operators.

Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1342076622-6606-1-git-send-email-ying.xue0@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-07-26 11:47:00 +02:00
Namhyung Kim
45afb1734f sched: Use task_rq_unlock() in __sched_setscheduler()
It seems there's no specific reason to open-code it.  I guess
commit 0122ec5b02 ("sched: Add p->pi_lock to task_rq_lock()")
simply missed it.  Let's be consistent with others.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1341647342-6742-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-07-26 11:46:59 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
8323f26ce3 sched: Fix race in task_group()
Stefan reported a crash on a kernel before a3e5d1091c ("sched:
Don't call task_group() too many times in set_task_rq()"), he
found the reason to be that the multiple task_group()
invocations in set_task_rq() returned different values.

Looking at all that I found a lack of serialization and plain
wrong comments.

The below tries to fix it using an extra pointer which is
updated under the appropriate scheduler locks. Its not pretty,
but I can't really see another way given how all the cgroup
stuff works.

Reported-and-tested-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340364965.18025.71.camel@twins
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-07-24 13:58:20 +02:00
Srivatsa Vaddagiri
88b8dac0a1 sched: Improve balance_cpu() to consider other cpus in its group as target of (pinned) task
Current load balance scheme requires only one cpu in a
sched_group (balance_cpu) to look at other peer sched_groups for
imbalance and pull tasks towards itself from a busy cpu. Tasks
thus pulled by balance_cpu could later get picked up by cpus
that are in the same sched_group as that of balance_cpu.

This scheme however fails to pull tasks that are not allowed to
run on balance_cpu (but are allowed to run on other cpus in its
sched_group). That can affect fairness and in some worst case
scenarios cause starvation.

Consider a two core (2 threads/core) system running tasks as
below:

          Core0            Core1
         /     \          /     \
	C0     C1	 C2     C3
        |      |         |      |
        v      v         v      v
	F0     T1        F1     [idle]
			 T2

 F0 = SCHED_FIFO task (pinned to C0)
 F1 = SCHED_FIFO task (pinned to C2)
 T1 = SCHED_OTHER task (pinned to C1)
 T2 = SCHED_OTHER task (pinned to C1 and C2)

F1 could become a cpu hog, which will starve T2 unless C1 pulls
it. Between C0 and C1 however, C0 is required to look for
imbalance between cores, which will fail to pull T2 towards
Core0. T2 will starve eternally in this case. The same scenario
can arise in presence of non-rt tasks as well (say we replace F1
with high irq load).

We tackle this problem by having balance_cpu move pinned tasks
to one of its sibling cpus (where they can run). We first check
if load balance goal can be met by ignoring pinned tasks,
failing which we retry move_tasks() with a new env->dst_cpu.

This patch modifies load balance semantics on who can move load
towards a given cpu in a given sched_domain.

Before this patch, a given_cpu or a ilb_cpu acting on behalf of
an idle given_cpu is responsible for moving load to given_cpu.

With this patch applied, balance_cpu can in addition decide on
moving some load to a given_cpu.

There is a remote possibility that excess load could get moved
as a result of this (balance_cpu and given_cpu/ilb_cpu deciding
*independently* and at *same* time to move some load to a
given_cpu). However we should see less of such conflicting
decisions in practice and moreover subsequent load balance
cycles should correct the excess load moved to given_cpu.

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Prashanth Nageshappa <prashanth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4FE06CDB.2060605@linux.vnet.ibm.com
[ minor edits ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-07-24 13:58:06 +02:00
Prashanth Nageshappa
bbf18b1949 sched: Reset loop counters if all tasks are pinned and we need to redo load balance
While load balancing, if all tasks on the source runqueue are pinned,
we retry after excluding the corresponding source cpu. However, loop counters
env.loop and env.loop_break are not reset before retrying, which can lead
to failure in moving the tasks. In this patch we reset env.loop and
env.loop_break to their inital values before we retry.

Signed-off-by: Prashanth Nageshappa <prashanth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4FE06EEF.2090709@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-07-24 13:55:37 +02:00
Prashanth Nageshappa
85c1e7dae1 sched: Reorder 'struct lb_env' members to reduce its size
Members of 'struct lb_env' are not in appropriate order to reuse compiler
added padding on 64bit architectures. In this patch we reorder those struct
members and help reduce the size of the structure from 96 bytes to 80
bytes on 64 bit architectures.

Suggested-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Prashanth Nageshappa <prashanth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4FE06DDE.7000403@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-07-24 13:55:20 +02:00
Mike Galbraith
970e178985 sched: Improve scalability via 'CPU buddies', which withstand random perturbations
Traversing an entire package is not only expensive, it also leads to tasks
bouncing all over a partially idle and possible quite large package.  Fix
that up by assigning a 'buddy' CPU to try to motivate.  Each buddy may try
to motivate that one other CPU, if it's busy, tough, it may then try its
SMT sibling, but that's all this optimization is allowed to cost.

Sibling cache buddies are cross-wired to prevent bouncing.

4 socket 40 core + SMT Westmere box, single 30 sec tbench runs, higher is better:

 clients     1       2       4        8       16       32       64      128
 ..........................................................................
 pre        30      41     118      645     3769     6214    12233    14312
 post      299     603    1211     2418     4697     6847    11606    14557

A nice increase in performance.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1339471112.7352.32.camel@marge.simpson.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-07-24 13:53:34 +02:00