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Linus Torvalds 0d99b70873 Merge branches 'perf-urgent-for-linus' and 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull perf changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "As a first remark I'd like to point out that the obsolete '-f'
  (--force) option, which has not done anything for several releases,
  has been removed from 'perf record' and related utilities.  Everyone
  please update muscle memory accordingly! :-)

  Main changes on the perf kernel side:

   - Performance optimizations:
        . for trace events, by Steve Rostedt.
        . for time values, by Peter Zijlstra

   - New hardware support:
        . for Intel Silvermont (22nm Atom) CPUs, by Zheng Yan
        . for Intel SNB-EP uncore PMUs, by Zheng Yan

   - Enhanced hardware support:
        . for Intel uncore PMUs: add filter support for QPI boxes, by Zheng Yan

   - Core perf events code enhancements and fixes:
        . for full-nohz feature handling, by Frederic Weisbecker
        . for group events, by Jiri Olsa
        . for call chains, by Frederic Weisbecker
        . for event stream parsing, by Adrian Hunter

   - New ABI details:
        . Add attr->mmap2 attribute, by Stephane Eranian
        . Add PERF_EVENT_IOC_ID ioctl to return event ID, by Jiri Olsa
        . Export u64 time_zero on the mmap header page to allow TSC
          calculation, by Adrian Hunter
        . Add dummy software event, by Adrian Hunter.
        . Add a new PERF_SAMPLE_IDENTIFIER to make samples always
          parseable, by Adrian Hunter.
        . Make Power7 events available via sysfs, by Runzhen Wang.

   - Code cleanups and refactorings:
        . for nohz-full, by Frederic Weisbecker
        . for group events, by Jiri Olsa

   - Documentation updates:
        . for perf_event_type, by Peter Zijlstra

  Main changes on the perf tooling side (some of these tooling changes
  utilize the above kernel side changes):

   - Lots of 'perf trace' enhancements:

        . Make 'perf trace' command line arguments consistent with
          'perf record', by David Ahern.

        . Allow specifying syscalls a la strace, by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo.

        . Add --verbose and -o/--output options, by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo.

        . Support ! in -e expressions, to filter a list of syscalls,
          by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo.

        . Arg formatting improvements to allow masking arguments in
          syscalls such as futex and open, where the some arguments are
          ignored and thus should not be printed depending on other args,
          by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo.

        . Beautify futex open, openat, open_by_handle_at, lseek and futex
          syscalls, by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo.

        . Add option to analyze events in a file versus live, so that
          one can do:

           [root@zoo ~]# perf record -a -e raw_syscalls:* sleep 1
           [ perf record: Woken up 0 times to write data ]
           [ perf record: Captured and wrote 25.150 MB perf.data (~1098836 samples) ]
           [root@zoo ~]# perf trace -i perf.data -e futex --duration 1
              17.799 ( 1.020 ms): 7127 futex(uaddr: 0x7fff3f6c6674, op: 393, val: 1, utime: 0x7fff3f6c6470, ua
             113.344 (95.429 ms): 7127 futex(uaddr: 0x7fff3f6c6674, op: 393, val: 1, utime: 0x7fff3f6c6470, uaddr2: 0x7fff3f6c6648, val3: 4294967
             133.778 ( 1.042 ms): 18004 futex(uaddr: 0x7fff3f6c6674, op: 393, val: 1, utime: 0x7fff3f6c6470, uaddr2: 0x7fff3f6c6648, val3: 429496
           [root@zoo ~]#

          By David Ahern.

        . Honor target pid / tid options when analyzing a file, by David Ahern.

        . Introduce better formatting of syscall arguments, including so
          far beautifiers for mmap, madvise, syscall return values,
          by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo.

        . Handle HUGEPAGE defines in the mmap beautifier, by David Ahern.

   - 'perf report/top' enhancements:

        . Do annotation using /proc/kcore and /proc/kallsyms when
          available, removing the forced need for a vmlinux file kernel
          assembly annotation. This also improves this use case because
          vmlinux has just the initial kernel image, not what is actually
          in use after various code patchings by things like alternatives.
          By Adrian Hunter.

        . Add --ignore-callees=<regex> option to collapse undesired parts
          of call graphs, by Greg Price.

        . Simplify symbol filtering by doing it at machine class level,
          by Adrian Hunter.

        . Add support for callchains in the gtk UI, by Namhyung Kim.

        . Add --objdump option to 'perf top', by Sukadev Bhattiprolu.

   - 'perf kvm' enhancements:

        . Add option to print only events that exceed a specified time
          duration, by David Ahern.

        . Improve stack trace printing, by David Ahern.

        . Update documentation of the live command, by David Ahern

        . Add perf kvm stat live mode that combines aspects of 'perf kvm
          stat' record and report, by David Ahern.

        . Add option to analyze specific VM in perf kvm stat report, by
          David Ahern.

        . Do not require /lib/modules/* on a guest, by Jason Wessel.

   - 'perf script' enhancements:

        . Fix symbol offset computation for some dsos, by David Ahern.

        . Fix named threads support, by David Ahern.

        . Don't install scripting files files when perl/python support
          is disabled, by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo.

   - 'perf test' enhancements:

        . Add various improvements and fixes to the "vmlinux matches
          kallsyms" 'perf test' entry, related to the /proc/kcore
          annotation feature. By Adrian Hunter.

        . Add sample parsing test, by Adrian Hunter.

        . Add test for reading object code, by Adrian Hunter.

        . Add attr record group sampling test, by Jiri Olsa.

        . Misc testing infrastructure improvements and other details,
          by Jiri Olsa.

   - 'perf list' enhancements:

        . Skip unsupported hardware events, by Namhyung Kim.

        . List pmu events, by Andi Kleen.

   - 'perf diff' enhancements:

        . Add support for more than two files comparison, by Jiri Olsa.

   - 'perf sched' enhancements:

        . Various improvements, including removing reliance on some
          scheduler tracepoints that provide the same information as the
          PERF_RECORD_{FORK,EXIT} events. By David Ahern.

        . Remove odd build stall by moving a large struct initialization
          from a local variable to a global one, by Namhyung Kim.

   - 'perf stat' enhancements:

        . Add --initial-delay option to skip measuring for a defined
          startup phase, by Andi Kleen.

   - Generic perf tooling infrastructure/plumbing changes:

        . Tidy up sample parsing validation, by Adrian Hunter.

        . Fix up jobserver setup in libtraceevent Makefile.
          by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo.

        . Debug improvements, by Adrian Hunter.

        . Fix correlation of samples coming after PERF_RECORD_EXIT event,
          by David Ahern.

        . Improve robustness of the topology parsing code,
          by Stephane Eranian.

        . Add group leader sampling, that allows just one event in a group
          to sample while the other events have just its values read,
          by Jiri Olsa.

        . Add support for a new modifier "D", which requests that the
          event, or group of events, be pinned to the PMU.
          By Michael Ellerman.

        . Support callchain sorting based on addresses, by Andi Kleen

        . Prep work for multi perf data file storage, by Jiri Olsa.

        . libtraceevent cleanups, by Namhyung Kim.

  And lots and lots of other fixes and code reorganizations that did not
  make it into the list, see the shortlog, diffstat and the Git log for
  details!"

[ Also merge a leftover from the 3.11 cycle ]

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf: Prevent race in unthrottling code

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (237 commits)
  perf trace: Tell arg formatters the arg index
  perf trace: Add beautifier for open's flags arg
  perf trace: Add beautifier for lseek's whence arg
  perf tools: Fix symbol offset computation for some dsos
  perf list: Skip unsupported events
  perf tests: Add 'keep tracking' test
  perf tools: Add support for PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY
  perf: Add a dummy software event to keep tracking
  perf trace: Add beautifier for futex 'operation' parm
  perf trace: Allow syscall arg formatters to mask args
  perf: Convert kmalloc_node(...GFP_ZERO...) to kzalloc_node()
  perf: Export struct perf_branch_entry to userspace
  perf: Add attr->mmap2 attribute to an event
  perf/x86: Add Silvermont (22nm Atom) support
  perf/x86: use INTEL_UEVENT_EXTRA_REG to define MSR_OFFCORE_RSP_X
  perf trace: Handle missing HUGEPAGE defines
  perf trace: Honor target pid / tid options when analyzing a file
  perf trace: Add option to analyze events in a file versus live
  perf evlist: Add tracepoint lookup by name
  perf tests: Add a sample parsing test
  ...
2013-09-04 08:25:35 -07:00
Stanislaw Gruszka 5a8e01f8fa sched/cputime: Do not scale when utime == 0
scale_stime() silently assumes that stime < rtime, otherwise
when stime == rtime and both values are big enough (operations
on them do not fit in 32 bits), the resulting scaling stime can
be bigger than rtime. In consequence utime = rtime - stime
results in negative value.

User space visible symptoms of the bug are overflowed TIME
values on ps/top, for example:

 $ ps aux | grep rcu
 root         8  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    12:42   0:00 [rcuc/0]
 root         9  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    12:42   0:00 [rcub/0]
 root        10 62422329  0.0  0     0 ?        R    12:42 21114581:37 [rcu_preempt]
 root        11  0.1  0.0      0     0 ?        S    12:42   0:02 [rcuop/0]
 root        12 62422329  0.0  0     0 ?        S    12:42 21114581:35 [rcuop/1]
 root        10 62422329  0.0  0     0 ?        R    12:42 21114581:37 [rcu_preempt]

or overflowed utime values read directly from /proc/$PID/stat

Reference:

  https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/20/259

Reported-and-tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130904131602.GC2564@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-09-04 16:31:25 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 32dad03d16 Merge branch 'for-3.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup
Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
 "A lot of activities on the cgroup front.  Most changes aren't visible
  to userland at all at this point and are laying foundation for the
  planned unified hierarchy.

   - The biggest change is decoupling the lifetime management of css
     (cgroup_subsys_state) from that of cgroup's.  Because controllers
     (cpu, memory, block and so on) will need to be dynamically enabled
     and disabled, css which is the association point between a cgroup
     and a controller may come and go dynamically across the lifetime of
     a cgroup.  Till now, css's were created when the associated cgroup
     was created and stayed till the cgroup got destroyed.

     Assumptions around this tight coupling permeated through cgroup
     core and controllers.  These assumptions are gradually removed,
     which consists bulk of patches, and css destruction path is
     completely decoupled from cgroup destruction path.  Note that
     decoupling of creation path is relatively easy on top of these
     changes and the patchset is pending for the next window.

   - cgroup has its own event mechanism cgroup.event_control, which is
     only used by memcg.  It is overly complex trying to achieve high
     flexibility whose benefits seem dubious at best.  Going forward,
     new events will simply generate file modified event and the
     existing mechanism is being made specific to memcg.  This pull
     request contains prepatory patches for such change.

   - Various fixes and cleanups"

Fixed up conflict in kernel/cgroup.c as per Tejun.

* 'for-3.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (69 commits)
  cgroup: fix cgroup_css() invocation in css_from_id()
  cgroup: make cgroup_write_event_control() use css_from_dir() instead of __d_cgrp()
  cgroup: make cgroup_event hold onto cgroup_subsys_state instead of cgroup
  cgroup: implement CFTYPE_NO_PREFIX
  cgroup: make cgroup_css() take cgroup_subsys * instead and allow NULL subsys
  cgroup: rename cgroup_css_from_dir() to css_from_dir() and update its syntax
  cgroup: fix cgroup_write_event_control()
  cgroup: fix subsystem file accesses on the root cgroup
  cgroup: change cgroup_from_id() to css_from_id()
  cgroup: use css_get() in cgroup_create() to check CSS_ROOT
  cpuset: remove an unncessary forward declaration
  cgroup: RCU protect each cgroup_subsys_state release
  cgroup: move subsys file removal to kill_css()
  cgroup: factor out kill_css()
  cgroup: decouple cgroup_subsys_state destruction from cgroup destruction
  cgroup: replace cgroup->css_kill_cnt with ->nr_css
  cgroup: bounce cgroup_subsys_state ref kill confirmation to a work item
  cgroup: move cgroup->subsys[] assignment to online_css()
  cgroup: reorganize css init / exit paths
  cgroup: add __rcu modifier to cgroup->subsys[]
  ...
2013-09-03 18:25:03 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra 10866e62e8 sched/fair: Fix the sd_parent_degenerate() code
I found that on my WSM box I had a redundant domain:

[    0.949769] CPU0 attaching sched-domain:
[    0.953765]  domain 0: span 0,12 level SIBLING
[    0.958335]   groups: 0 (cpu_power = 587) 12 (cpu_power = 588)
[    0.964548]   domain 1: span 0-5,12-17 level MC
[    0.969206]    groups: 0,12 (cpu_power = 1175) 1,13 (cpu_power = 1176) 2,14 (cpu_power = 1176) 3,15 (cpu_power = 1176) 4,16 (cpu_power = 1176) 5,17 (cpu_power = 1176)
[    0.984993]    domain 2: span 0-5,12-17 level CPU
[    0.989822]     groups: 0-5,12-17 (cpu_power = 7055)
[    0.995049]     domain 3: span 0-23 level NUMA
[    0.999620]      groups: 0-5,12-17 (cpu_power = 7055) 6-11,18-23 (cpu_power = 7056)

Note how domain 2 has only a single group and spans the same CPUs as
domain 1. We should not keep such domains and do in fact have code to
prune these.

It turns out that the 'new' SD_PREFER_SIBLING flag causes this, it
makes sd_parent_degenerate() fail on the CPU domain. We can easily
fix this by 'ignoring' the SD_PREFER_SIBLING bit and transfering it
to whatever domain ends up covering the span.

With this patch the domains now look like this:

[    0.950419] CPU0 attaching sched-domain:
[    0.954454]  domain 0: span 0,12 level SIBLING
[    0.959039]   groups: 0 (cpu_power = 587) 12 (cpu_power = 588)
[    0.965271]   domain 1: span 0-5,12-17 level MC
[    0.969936]    groups: 0,12 (cpu_power = 1175) 1,13 (cpu_power = 1176) 2,14 (cpu_power = 1176) 3,15 (cpu_power = 1176) 4,16 (cpu_power = 1176) 5,17 (cpu_power = 1176)
[    0.985737]    domain 2: span 0-23 level NUMA
[    0.990231]     groups: 0-5,12-17 (cpu_power = 7055) 6-11,18-23 (cpu_power = 7056)

Reviewed-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ys201g4jwukj0h8xcamakxq1@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-09-02 08:27:40 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 30ce5dabc9 sched/fair: Rework and comment the group_imb code
Rik reported some weirdness due to the group_imb code. As a start to
looking at it, clean it up a little and add a few explanatory
comments.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-caeeqttnla4wrrmhp5uf89gp@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-09-02 08:27:38 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 6906a40839 sched/fair: Optimize find_busiest_queue()
Use for_each_cpu_and() and thereby avoid computing the capacity for
CPUs we know we're not interested in.

Reviewed-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-lppceyv6kb3a19g8spmrn20b@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-09-02 08:27:37 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 3ae11c90fd sched/fair: Make group power more consistent
For easier access, less dereferences and more consistent value, store
the group power in update_sg_lb_stats() and use it thereafter. The
actual value in sched_group::sched_group_power::power can change
throughout the load-balance pass if we're unlucky.

Reviewed-by: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-739xxqkyvftrhnh9ncudutc7@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-09-02 08:27:37 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 38d0f77085 sched/fair: Remove duplicate load_per_task computations
Since we already compute (but don't store) the sgs load_per_task value
in update_sg_lb_stats() we might as well store it and not re-compute
it later on.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ym1vmljiwbzgdnnrwp9azftq@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-09-02 08:27:36 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 147c5fc2ba sched/fair: Shrink sg_lb_stats and play memset games
We can shrink sg_lb_stats because rq::nr_running is an unsigned int
and cpu numbers are 'int'

Before:
  sgs:        /* size: 72, cachelines: 2, members: 10 */
  sds:        /* size: 184, cachelines: 3, members: 7 */

After:
  sgs:        /* size: 56, cachelines: 1, members: 10 */
  sds:        /* size: 152, cachelines: 3, members: 7 */

Further we can avoid clearing all of sds since we do a total
clear/assignment of sg_stats in update_sg_lb_stats() with exception of
busiest_stat.avg_load which is referenced in update_sd_pick_busiest().

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-0klzmz9okll8wc0nsudguc9p@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-09-02 08:27:35 +02:00
Joonsoo Kim 56cf515b4b sched: Clean-up struct sd_lb_stat
There is no reason to maintain separate variables for this_group
and busiest_group in sd_lb_stat, except saving some space.
But this structure is always allocated in stack, so this saving
isn't really benificial [peterz: reducing stack space is good; in this
case readability increases enough that I think its still beneficial]

This patch unify these variables, so IMO, readability may be improved.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
[ Rename this to local -- avoids confusion between this_cpu and the C++ this pointer. ]
Reviewed-by: Paul  Turner <pjt@google.com>
[ Lots of style edits, a few fixes and a rename. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375778203-31343-4-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-09-02 08:27:35 +02:00
Joonsoo Kim 23f0d2093c sched: Factor out code to should_we_balance()
Now checking whether this cpu is appropriate to balance or not
is embedded into update_sg_lb_stats() and this checking has no direct
relationship to this function. There is not enough reason to place
this checking at update_sg_lb_stats(), except saving one iteration
for sched_group_cpus.

In this patch, I factor out this checking to should_we_balance() function.
And before doing actual work for load_balancing, check whether this cpu is
appropriate to balance via should_we_balance(). If this cpu is not
a candidate for balancing, it quit the work immediately.

With this change, we can save two memset cost and can expect better
compiler optimization.

Below is result of this patch.

 * Vanilla *
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
  34499	   1136	    116	  35751	   8ba7	kernel/sched/fair.o

 * Patched *
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
  34243	   1136	    116	  35495	   8aa7	kernel/sched/fair.o

In addition, rename @balance to @continue_balancing in order to represent
its purpose more clearly.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
[ s/should_balance/continue_balancing/g ]
Reviewed-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
[ Made style changes and a fix in should_we_balance(). ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375778203-31343-3-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-09-02 08:27:34 +02:00
Joonsoo Kim 95a79b805b sched: Remove one division operation in find_busiest_queue()
Remove one division operation in find_busiest_queue() by using
crosswise multiplication:

	wl_i / power_i > wl_j / power_j :=
	wl_i * power_j > wl_j * power_i

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
[ Expanded the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375778203-31343-2-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-09-02 08:26:59 +02:00
Ingo Molnar aee2bce3cf Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core
Pick up the latest upstream fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-08-29 12:02:08 +02:00
Christoph Lameter a4f61cc03e sched/cputime: Use this_cpu_add() in task_group_account_field()
Use of a this_cpu() operation reduces the number of instructions used
for accounting (account_user_time()) and frees up some registers. This is in
the scheduler tick hotpath.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/00000140596dd165-338ff7f5-893b-4fec-b251-aaac5557239e-000000@email.amazonses.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-08-16 17:44:29 +02:00
Xiaotian Feng c8d2d47a9c cpumask: Fix cpumask leak in partition_sched_domains()
If doms_new is NULL, partition_sched_domains() will reset ndoms_cur
to 0, and free old sched domains with free_sched_domains(doms_cur, ndoms_cur).
As ndoms_cur is 0, the cpumask will not be freed.

Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <xtfeng@gmail.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375790802-11857-1-git-send-email-xtfeng@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-08-16 17:44:27 +02:00
Ingo Molnar d3ec3a1fd0 Linux 3.11-rc5
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Merge tag 'v3.11-rc5' into sched/core

Merge Linux 3.11-rc5, to pick up the latest fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-08-16 17:40:23 +02:00
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Merge tag 'v3.11-rc5' into perf/core

Merge Linux 3.11-rc5, to sync up with the latest upstream fixes since -rc1.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-08-15 10:00:09 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 6f1d657668 Merge branch 'timers/nohz-v3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks into timers/nohz
Pull nohz improvements from Frederic Weisbecker:

 " It mostly contains fixes and full dynticks off-case optimizations. I believe that
   distros want to enable this feature so it seems important to optimize the case
   where the "nohz_full=" parameter is empty. ie: I'm trying to remove any performance
   regression that comes with NO_HZ_FULL=y when the feature is not used.

   This patchset improves the current situation a lot (off-case appears to be around 11% faster
   with hackbench, although I guess it may vary depending on the configuration but it should be
   significantly faster in any case) now there is still some work to do: I can still observe a
   remaining loss of 1.6% throughput seen with hackbench compared to CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=n. "

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-08-14 17:58:56 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker af2350bd12 vtime: Always debug check snapshot source _before_ updating it
The vtime delta update performed by get_vtime_delta() always check
that the source of the snapshot is valid.

Meanhile the snapshot updaters that rely on get_vtime_delta() also
set the new snapshot origin. But some of them do this right before
the call to get_vtime_delta(), making its debug check useless.

This is easily fixable by moving the snapshot origin update after
the call to get_vtime_delta(). The order doesn't matter there.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
2013-08-14 17:14:56 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker b854fafa4e vtime: Always scale generic vtime accounting results
The cputime accounting in full dynticks can be a subtle
mixup of CPUs using tick based accounting and others using
generic vtime.

As long as the tick can have a share on producing these stats, we
want to scale the result against CFS precise accounting as the tick
can miss some task hiding between the periodic interrupt.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
2013-08-14 17:14:55 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker b049340613 vtime: Optimize full dynticks accounting off case with static keys
If no CPU is in the full dynticks range, we can avoid the full
dynticks cputime accounting through generic vtime along with its
overhead and use the traditional tick based accounting instead.

Let's do this and nope the off case with static keys.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
2013-08-14 17:14:54 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 54461562c9 vtime: Fix racy cputime delta update
get_vtime_delta() must be called under the task vtime_seqlock
with the code that does the cputime accounting flush.

Otherwise the cputime reader can be fooled and run into
a race where it sees the snapshot update but misses the
cputime flush. As a result it can report a cputime that is
way too short.

Fix vtime_account_user() that wasn't complying to that rule.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
2013-08-14 17:14:50 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 7621d1f8bc vtime: Remove a few unneeded generic vtime state checks
Some generic vtime APIs check if the vtime accounting
is enabled on the local CPU before doing their work.

Some of these are not needed because all their callers already
take care of that. Let's remove the checks on these.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
2013-08-14 17:14:49 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 48d6a816a8 context_tracking: Optimize guest APIs off case with static key
Optimize guest entry/exit APIs with static keys. This minimize
the overhead for those who enable CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL without
always using it. Having no range passed to nohz_full= should
result in the probes overhead to be minimized.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
2013-08-14 17:14:46 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 28fbc8b6a2 Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Docbook fixes that make 99% of the diffstat, plus a oneliner fix"

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched: Ensure update_cfs_shares() is called for parents of continuously-running tasks
  sched: Fix some kernel-doc warnings
2013-08-13 16:58:17 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov e0acd0a68e sched: fix the theoretical signal_wake_up() vs schedule() race
This is only theoretical, but after try_to_wake_up(p) was changed
to check p->state under p->pi_lock the code like

	__set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
	schedule();

can miss a signal. This is the special case of wait-for-condition,
it relies on try_to_wake_up/schedule interaction and thus it does
not need mb() between __set_current_state() and if(signal_pending).

However, this __set_current_state() can move into the critical
section protected by rq->lock, now that try_to_wake_up() takes
another lock we need to ensure that it can't be reordered with
"if (signal_pending(current))" check inside that section.

The patch is actually one-liner, it simply adds smp_wmb() before
spin_lock_irq(rq->lock). This is what try_to_wake_up() already
does by the same reason.

We turn this wmb() into the new helper, smp_mb__before_spinlock(),
for better documentation and to allow the architectures to change
the default implementation.

While at it, kill smp_mb__after_lock(), it has no callers.

Perhaps we can also add smp_mb__before/after_spinunlock() for
prepare_to_wait().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-08-13 08:19:26 -07:00
Frederic Weisbecker 5b206d48e5 vtime: Update a few comments
Update a stale comment from the old vtime era and document some
locking that might be non obvious.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
2013-08-13 00:40:44 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker fbb00b568b sched: Consolidate open coded preemptible() checks
preempt_schedule() and preempt_schedule_context() open
code their preemptability checks.

Use the standard API instead for consolidation.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
2013-08-13 00:40:43 +02:00
Tejun Heo d99c8727e7 cgroup: make cgroup_taskset deal with cgroup_subsys_state instead of cgroup
cgroup is in the process of converting to css (cgroup_subsys_state)
from cgroup as the principal subsystem interface handle.  This is
mostly to prepare for the unified hierarchy support where css's will
be created and destroyed dynamically but also helps cleaning up
subsystem implementations as css is usually what they are interested
in anyway.

cgroup_taskset which is used by the subsystem attach methods is the
last cgroup subsystem API which isn't using css as the handle.  Update
cgroup_taskset_cur_cgroup() to cgroup_taskset_cur_css() and
cgroup_taskset_for_each() to take @skip_css instead of @skip_cgrp.

The conversions are pretty mechanical.  One exception is
cpuset::cgroup_cs(), which lost its last user and got removed.

This patch shouldn't introduce any functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-08-08 20:11:27 -04:00
Tejun Heo 182446d087 cgroup: pass around cgroup_subsys_state instead of cgroup in file methods
cgroup is currently in the process of transitioning to using struct
cgroup_subsys_state * as the primary handle instead of struct cgroup.
Please see the previous commit which converts the subsystem methods
for rationale.

This patch converts all cftype file operations to take @css instead of
@cgroup.  cftypes for the cgroup core files don't have their subsytem
pointer set.  These will automatically use the dummy_css added by the
previous patch and can be converted the same way.

Most subsystem conversions are straight forwards but there are some
interesting ones.

* freezer: update_if_frozen() is also converted to take @css instead
  of @cgroup for consistency.  This will make the code look simpler
  too once iterators are converted to use css.

* memory/vmpressure: mem_cgroup_from_css() needs to be exported to
  vmpressure while mem_cgroup_from_cont() can be made static.
  Updated accordingly.

* cpu: cgroup_tg() doesn't have any user left.  Removed.

* cpuacct: cgroup_ca() doesn't have any user left.  Removed.

* hugetlb: hugetlb_cgroup_form_cgroup() doesn't have any user left.
  Removed.

* net_cls: cgrp_cls_state() doesn't have any user left.  Removed.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-08-08 20:11:24 -04:00
Tejun Heo eb95419b02 cgroup: pass around cgroup_subsys_state instead of cgroup in subsystem methods
cgroup is currently in the process of transitioning to using struct
cgroup_subsys_state * as the primary handle instead of struct cgroup *
in subsystem implementations for the following reasons.

* With unified hierarchy, subsystems will be dynamically bound and
  unbound from cgroups and thus css's (cgroup_subsys_state) may be
  created and destroyed dynamically over the lifetime of a cgroup,
  which is different from the current state where all css's are
  allocated and destroyed together with the associated cgroup.  This
  in turn means that cgroup_css() should be synchronized and may
  return NULL, making it more cumbersome to use.

* Differing levels of per-subsystem granularity in the unified
  hierarchy means that the task and descendant iterators should behave
  differently depending on the specific subsystem the iteration is
  being performed for.

* In majority of the cases, subsystems only care about its part in the
  cgroup hierarchy - ie. the hierarchy of css's.  Subsystem methods
  often obtain the matching css pointer from the cgroup and don't
  bother with the cgroup pointer itself.  Passing around css fits
  much better.

This patch converts all cgroup_subsys methods to take @css instead of
@cgroup.  The conversions are mostly straight-forward.  A few
noteworthy changes are

* ->css_alloc() now takes css of the parent cgroup rather than the
  pointer to the new cgroup as the css for the new cgroup doesn't
  exist yet.  Knowing the parent css is enough for all the existing
  subsystems.

* In kernel/cgroup.c::offline_css(), unnecessary open coded css
  dereference is replaced with local variable access.

This patch shouldn't cause any behavior differences.

v2: Unnecessary explicit cgrp->subsys[] deref in css_online() replaced
    with local variable @css as suggested by Li Zefan.

    Rebased on top of new for-3.12 which includes for-3.11-fixes so
    that ->css_free() invocation added by da0a12caff ("cgroup: fix a
    leak when percpu_ref_init() fails") is converted too.  Suggested
    by Li Zefan.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-08-08 20:11:23 -04:00
Tejun Heo 6387698699 cgroup: add css_parent()
Currently, controllers have to explicitly follow the cgroup hierarchy
to find the parent of a given css.  cgroup is moving towards using
cgroup_subsys_state as the main controller interface construct, so
let's provide a way to climb the hierarchy using just csses.

This patch implements css_parent() which, given a css, returns its
parent.  The function is guarnateed to valid non-NULL parent css as
long as the target css is not at the top of the hierarchy.

freezer, cpuset, cpu, cpuacct, hugetlb, memory, net_cls and devices
are converted to use css_parent() instead of accessing cgroup->parent
directly.

* __parent_ca() is dropped from cpuacct and its usage is replaced with
  parent_ca().  The only difference between the two was NULL test on
  cgroup->parent which is now embedded in css_parent() making the
  distinction moot.  Note that eventually a css->parent field will be
  added to css and the NULL check in css_parent() will go away.

This patch shouldn't cause any behavior differences.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
2013-08-08 20:11:23 -04:00
Tejun Heo a7c6d554aa cgroup: add/update accessors which obtain subsys specific data from css
css (cgroup_subsys_state) is usually embedded in a subsys specific
data structure.  Subsystems either use container_of() directly to cast
from css to such data structure or has an accessor function wrapping
such cast.  As cgroup as whole is moving towards using css as the main
interface handle, add and update such accessors to ease dealing with
css's.

All accessors explicitly handle NULL input and return NULL in those
cases.  While this looks like an extra branch in the code, as all
controllers specific data structures have css as the first field, the
casting doesn't involve any offsetting and the compiler can trivially
optimize out the branch.

* blkio, freezer, cpuset, cpu, cpuacct and net_cls didn't have such
  accessor.  Added.

* memory, hugetlb and devices already had one but didn't explicitly
  handle NULL input.  Updated.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
2013-08-08 20:11:23 -04:00
Tejun Heo 8af01f56a0 cgroup: s/cgroup_subsys_state/cgroup_css/ s/task_subsys_state/task_css/
The names of the two struct cgroup_subsys_state accessors -
cgroup_subsys_state() and task_subsys_state() - are somewhat awkward.
The former clashes with the type name and the latter doesn't even
indicate it's somehow related to cgroup.

We're about to revamp large portion of cgroup API, so, let's rename
them so that they're less awkward.  Most per-controller usages of the
accessors are localized in accessor wrappers and given the amount of
scheduled changes, this isn't gonna add any noticeable headache.

Rename cgroup_subsys_state() to cgroup_css() and task_subsys_state()
to task_css().  This patch is pure rename.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
2013-08-08 20:11:22 -04:00
Dave Kleikamp 10e84b97ed mm: sched: numa: fix NUMA balancing when !SCHED_DEBUG
Commit 3105b86a9f ("mm: sched: numa: Control enabling and disabling of
NUMA balancing if !SCHED_DEBUG") defined numabalancing_enabled to
control the enabling and disabling of automatic NUMA balancing, but it
is never used.

I believe the intention was to use this in place of sched_feat_numa(NUMA).

Currently, if SCHED_DEBUG is not defined, sched_feat_numa(NUMA) will
never be changed from the initial "false".

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-31 14:41:02 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra bf0bd948d1 sched: Ensure update_cfs_shares() is called for parents of continuously-running tasks
We typically update a task_group's shares within the dequeue/enqueue
path.  However, continuously running tasks sharing a CPU are not
subject to these updates as they are only put/picked.  Unfortunately,
when we reverted f269ae046 (in 17bc14b7), we lost the augmenting
periodic update that was supposed to account for this; resulting in a
potential loss of fairness.

To fix this, re-introduce the explicit update in
update_cfs_rq_blocked_load() [called via entity_tick()].

Reported-by: Max Hailperin <max@gustavus.edu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-9545m3apw5d93ubyrotrj31y@git.kernel.org
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-07-30 22:14:37 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 7d9ffa8961 sched: Micro-optimize the smart wake-affine logic
Smart wake-affine is using node-size as the factor currently, but the overhead
of the mask operation is high.

Thus, this patch introduce the 'sd_llc_size' percpu variable, which will record
the highest cache-share domain size, and make it to be the new factor, in order
to reduce the overhead and make it more reasonable.

Tested-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Tested-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51D5008E.6030102@linux.vnet.ibm.com
[ Tidied up the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-07-23 12:22:06 +02:00
Michael Wang 62470419e9 sched: Implement smarter wake-affine logic
The wake-affine scheduler feature is currently always trying to pull
the wakee close to the waker. In theory this should be beneficial if
the waker's CPU caches hot data for the wakee, and it's also beneficial
in the extreme ping-pong high context switch rate case.

Testing shows it can benefit hackbench up to 15%.

However, the feature is somewhat blind, from which some workloads
such as pgbench suffer. It's also time-consuming algorithmically.

Testing shows it can damage pgbench up to 50% - far more than the
benefit it brings in the best case.

So wake-affine should be smarter and it should realize when to
stop its thankless effort at trying to find a suitable CPU to wake on.

This patch introduces 'wakee_flips', which will be increased each
time the task flips (switches) its wakee target.

So a high 'wakee_flips' value means the task has more than one
wakee, and the bigger the number, the higher the wakeup frequency.

Now when making the decision on whether to pull or not, pay attention to
the wakee with a high 'wakee_flips', pulling such a task may benefit
the wakee. Also imply that the waker will face cruel competition later,
it could be very cruel or very fast depends on the story behind
'wakee_flips', waker therefore suffers.

Furthermore, if waker also has a high 'wakee_flips', that implies that
multiple tasks rely on it, then waker's higher latency will damage all
of them, so pulling wakee seems to be a bad deal.

Thus, when 'waker->wakee_flips / wakee->wakee_flips' becomes
higher and higher, the cost of pulling seems to be worse and worse.

The patch therefore helps the wake-affine feature to stop its pulling
work when:

	wakee->wakee_flips > factor &&
	waker->wakee_flips > (factor * wakee->wakee_flips)

The 'factor' here is the number of CPUs in the current CPU's NUMA node,
so a bigger node will lead to more pulling since the trial becomes more
severe.

After applying the patch, pgbench shows up to 40% improvements and no regressions.

Tested with 12 cpu x86 server and tip 3.10.0-rc7.

The percentages in the final column highlight the areas with the biggest wins,
all other areas improved as well:

	pgbench		    base	smart

	| db_size | clients |  tps  |	|  tps  |
	+---------+---------+-------+   +-------+
	| 22 MB   |       1 | 10598 |   | 10796 |
	| 22 MB   |       2 | 21257 |   | 21336 |
	| 22 MB   |       4 | 41386 |   | 41622 |
	| 22 MB   |       8 | 51253 |   | 57932 |
	| 22 MB   |      12 | 48570 |   | 54000 |
	| 22 MB   |      16 | 46748 |   | 55982 | +19.75%
	| 22 MB   |      24 | 44346 |   | 55847 | +25.93%
	| 22 MB   |      32 | 43460 |   | 54614 | +25.66%
	| 7484 MB |       1 |  8951 |   |  9193 |
	| 7484 MB |       2 | 19233 |   | 19240 |
	| 7484 MB |       4 | 37239 |   | 37302 |
	| 7484 MB |       8 | 46087 |   | 50018 |
	| 7484 MB |      12 | 42054 |   | 48763 |
	| 7484 MB |      16 | 40765 |   | 51633 | +26.66%
	| 7484 MB |      24 | 37651 |   | 52377 | +39.11%
	| 7484 MB |      32 | 37056 |   | 51108 | +37.92%
	| 15 GB   |       1 |  8845 |   |  9104 |
	| 15 GB   |       2 | 19094 |   | 19162 |
	| 15 GB   |       4 | 36979 |   | 36983 |
	| 15 GB   |       8 | 46087 |   | 49977 |
	| 15 GB   |      12 | 41901 |   | 48591 |
	| 15 GB   |      16 | 40147 |   | 50651 | +26.16%
	| 15 GB   |      24 | 37250 |   | 52365 | +40.58%
	| 15 GB   |      32 | 36470 |   | 50015 | +37.14%

Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51D50057.9000809@linux.vnet.ibm.com
[ Improved the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-07-23 12:18:41 +02:00
Vladimir Davydov 685207963b sched: Move h_load calculation to task_h_load()
The bad thing about update_h_load(), which computes hierarchical load
factor for task groups, is that it is called for each task group in the
system before every load balancer run, and since rebalance can be
triggered very often, this function can eat really a lot of cpu time if
there are many cpu cgroups in the system.

Although the situation was improved significantly by commit a35b646
('sched, cgroup: Reduce rq->lock hold times for large cgroup
hierarchies'), the problem still can arise under some kinds of loads,
e.g. when cpus are switching from idle to busy and back very frequently.

For instance, when I start 1000 of processes that wake up every
millisecond on my 8 cpus host, 'top' and 'perf top' show:

Cpu(s): 17.8%us, 24.3%sy,  0.0%ni, 57.9%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si
Events: 243K cycles
  7.57%  [kernel]               [k] __schedule
  7.08%  [kernel]               [k] timerqueue_add
  6.13%  libc-2.12.so           [.] usleep

Then if I create 10000 *idle* cpu cgroups (no processes in them), cpu
usage increases significantly although the 'wakers' are still executing
in the root cpu cgroup:

Cpu(s): 19.1%us, 48.7%sy,  0.0%ni, 31.6%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.7%si
Events: 230K cycles
 24.56%  [kernel]            [k] tg_load_down
  5.76%  [kernel]            [k] __schedule

This happens because this particular kind of load triggers 'new idle'
rebalance very frequently, which requires calling update_h_load(),
which, in turn, calls tg_load_down() for every *idle* cpu cgroup even
though it is absolutely useless, because idle cpu cgroups have no tasks
to pull.

This patch tries to improve the situation by making h_load calculation
proceed only when h_load is really necessary. To achieve this, it
substitutes update_h_load() with update_cfs_rq_h_load(), which computes
h_load only for a given cfs_rq and all its ascendants, and makes the
load balancer call this function whenever it considers if a task should
be pulled, i.e. it moves h_load calculations directly to task_h_load().
For h_load of the same cfs_rq not to be updated multiple times (in case
several tasks in the same cgroup are considered during the same balance
run), the patch keeps the time of the last h_load update for each cfs_rq
and breaks calculation when it finds h_load to be uptodate.

The benefit of it is that h_load is computed only for those cfs_rq's,
which really need it, in particular all idle task groups are skipped.
Although this, in fact, moves h_load calculation under rq lock, it
should not affect latency much, because the amount of work done under rq
lock while trying to pull tasks is limited by sched_nr_migrate.

After the patch applied with the setup described above (1000 wakers in
the root cgroup and 10000 idle cgroups), I get:

Cpu(s): 16.9%us, 24.8%sy,  0.0%ni, 58.4%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si
Events: 242K cycles
  7.57%  [kernel]                  [k] __schedule
  6.70%  [kernel]                  [k] timerqueue_add
  5.93%  libc-2.12.so              [.] usleep

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1373896159-1278-1-git-send-email-vdavydov@parallels.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-07-23 12:18:41 +02:00
Kirill Tkhai 87e3c8ae1c sched/fair: Cleanup: remove duplicate variable declaration
cfs_rq is declared twice, fix it.

Also use 'se' instead of '&p->se'.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@yandex.ru>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/169201374366727@web6d.yandex.ru
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-07-22 10:27:40 +02:00
Ingo Molnar b24d6f4912 Linux 3.11-rc2
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Merge tag 'v3.11-rc2' into sched/core

Merge in Linux 3.11-rc2, to provide a post-merge-window development base.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-07-22 10:26:10 +02:00
Marcelo Tosatti e04c5d76b0 remove sched notifier for cross-cpu migrations
Linux as a guest on KVM hypervisor, the only user of the pvclock
vsyscall interface, does not require notification on task migration
because:

1. cpu ID number maps 1:1 to per-CPU pvclock time info.
2. per-CPU pvclock time info is updated if the
   underlying CPU changes.
3. that version is increased whenever underlying CPU
   changes.

Which is sufficient to guarantee nanoseconds counter
is calculated properly.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
2013-07-18 12:29:30 +02:00
Yacine Belkadi e69f61862a sched: Fix some kernel-doc warnings
When building the htmldocs (in verbose mode), scripts/kernel-doc
reports the follwing type of warnings:

  Warning(kernel/sched/core.c:936): No description found for return value of 'task_curr'
  ...

Fix those by:

 - adding the missing descriptions
 - using "Return" sections for the descriptions

Signed-off-by: Yacine Belkadi <yacine.belkadi.1@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1373654747-2389-1-git-send-email-yacine.belkadi.1@gmail.com
[ While at it, fix the cpupri_set() explanation. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-07-18 09:58:21 +02:00
Paul Gortmaker 0db0628d90 kernel: delete __cpuinit usage from all core kernel files
The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense
some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings
do not offset the cost and complications.  For example, the fix in
commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time")
is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created
with improper use of the various __init prefixes.

After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go
the way of devinit and be phased out.  Once all the users are gone,
we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h.

This removes all the uses of the __cpuinit macros from C files in
the core kernel directories (kernel, init, lib, mm, and include)
that don't really have a specific maintainer.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2013-07-14 19:36:59 -04:00
Kirill Tkhai cedce3e730 sched/__wake_up_sync_key(): Fix nr_exclusive tasks which lead to WF_SYNC clearing
Only one task can replace the waker.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@yandex.ru>
CC: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/512421372963700@web25f.yandex.ru
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-07-12 13:54:03 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 971ee28cbd sched: Fix HRTICK
David reported that the HRTICK sched feature was borken; which was enough
motivation for me to finally fix it ;-)

We should not allow hrtimer code to do softirq wakeups while holding scheduler
locks. The hrtimer code only needs this when we accidentally try to program an
expired time. We don't much care about those anyway since we have the regular
tick to fall back to.

Reported-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Tested-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130628091853.GE29209@dyad.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-07-12 13:52:58 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 21884a83b2 Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer core updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "The timer changes contain:

   - posix timer code consolidation and fixes for odd corner cases

   - sched_clock implementation moved from ARM to core code to avoid
     duplication by other architectures

   - alarm timer updates

   - clocksource and clockevents unregistration facilities

   - clocksource/events support for new hardware

   - precise nanoseconds RTC readout (Xen feature)

   - generic support for Xen suspend/resume oddities

   - the usual lot of fixes and cleanups all over the place

  The parts which touch other areas (ARM/XEN) have been coordinated with
  the relevant maintainers.  Though this results in an handful of
  trivial to solve merge conflicts, which we preferred over nasty cross
  tree merge dependencies.

  The patches which have been committed in the last few days are bug
  fixes plus the posix timer lot.  The latter was in akpms queue and
  next for quite some time; they just got forgotten and Frederic
  collected them last minute."

* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (59 commits)
  hrtimer: Remove unused variable
  hrtimers: Move SMP function call to thread context
  clocksource: Reselect clocksource when watchdog validated high-res capability
  posix-cpu-timers: don't account cpu timer after stopped thread runtime accounting
  posix_timers: fix racy timer delta caching on task exit
  posix-timers: correctly get dying task time sample in posix_cpu_timer_schedule()
  selftests: add basic posix timers selftests
  posix_cpu_timers: consolidate expired timers check
  posix_cpu_timers: consolidate timer list cleanups
  posix_cpu_timer: consolidate expiry time type
  tick: Sanitize broadcast control logic
  tick: Prevent uncontrolled switch to oneshot mode
  tick: Make oneshot broadcast robust vs. CPU offlining
  x86: xen: Sync the CMOS RTC as well as the Xen wallclock
  x86: xen: Sync the wallclock when the system time is set
  timekeeping: Indicate that clock was set in the pvclock gtod notifier
  timekeeping: Pass flags instead of multiple bools to timekeeping_update()
  xen: Remove clock_was_set() call in the resume path
  hrtimers: Support resuming with two or more CPUs online (but stopped)
  timer: Fix jiffies wrap behavior of round_jiffies_common()
  ...
2013-07-06 14:09:38 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro fa18f7bde3 posix-cpu-timers: don't account cpu timer after stopped thread runtime accounting
When tsk->signal->cputimer->running is 1, signal->cputimer (i.e. per process
timer account) and tsk->sum_sched_runtime (i.e. per thread timer account)
increase at the same pace because update_curr() increases both accounting.

However, there is one exception. When thread exiting, __exit_signal() turns
over task's sum_shced_runtime to sig->sum_sched_runtime, but it doesn't stop
signal->cputimer accounting.

This inconsistency makes POSIX timer wake up too early. This patch fixes it.

Original-patch-by: Olivier Langlois <olivier@trillion01.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Olivier Langlois <olivier@trillion01.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2013-07-04 18:02:30 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 2fd1b48788 Linux 3.10
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Merge tag 'v3.10' into sched/core

Merge in a recent upstream commit:

  c2853c8df5 include/linux/math64.h: add div64_ul()

because:

  72a4cf20cb sched: Change cfs_rq load avg to unsigned long

relies on it.

[ We don't rebase sched/core for this, because the handful of
  followup commits after the broken commit are not behavioral
  changes so are unlikely to be needed during bisection. ]

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-07-01 11:18:53 +02:00
Alex Shi 333bb864f1 sched/debug: Remove CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED mask
Now that we are using runnable load avg in sched balance, we don't
need to keep it under CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED.

Also align the code style to #ifdef instead of #if defined() and
reorder the tg output info.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Cc: pjt@google.com
Cc: kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1372417835-4698-1-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-28 13:17:17 +02:00
Kamalesh Babulal add332a152 sched/debug: Fix formatting of /proc/<PID>/sched
This patch alters format string's width, to align all statistics
at par with the longest struct sched_statistic member name under
/proc/<PID>/sched.

Signed-off-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130627165005.GA15583@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-28 11:13:35 +02:00
Kamalesh Babulal 0fc576d592 sched/fair: Fix typo describing flags in enqueue_entity
Fix spelling of 'calling' in description of se flags in
enqueue_entity().

Signed-off-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130627055418.GA18582@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-27 10:18:25 +02:00
Kamalesh Babulal 939fd731eb sched/debug: Add load-tracking statistics to task
At present we print per-entity load-tracking statistics for
cfs_rq of cgroups/runqueues. Given that per task statistics
is maintained, it can be used to know the contribution made
by the task to its parenting cfs_rq level.

This patch adds per-task load-tracking statistics to /proc/<PID>/sched.

Signed-off-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130625080336.GA20175@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-27 10:07:46 +02:00
Alex Shi a9dc5d0e33 sched: Change get_rq_runnable_load() to static and inline
Based-on-patch-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Tested-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1371694737-29336-14-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-27 10:07:44 +02:00
Alex Shi a9cef46a10 sched/tg: Remove tg.load_weight
Since no one use it.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Tested-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1371694737-29336-13-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-27 10:07:43 +02:00
Alex Shi 2509940fd7 sched/cfs_rq: Change atomic64_t removed_load to atomic_long_t
Similar to runnable_load_avg, blocked_load_avg variable, long type is
enough for removed_load in 64 bit or 32 bit machine.

Then we avoid the expensive atomic64 operations on 32 bit machine.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Tested-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1371694737-29336-12-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-27 10:07:41 +02:00
Alex Shi bf5b986ed4 sched/tg: Use 'unsigned long' for load variable in task group
Since tg->load_avg is smaller than tg->load_weight, we don't need a
atomic64_t variable for load_avg in 32 bit machine.
The same reason for cfs_rq->tg_load_contrib.

The atomic_long_t/unsigned long variable type are more efficient and
convenience for them.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Tested-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1371694737-29336-11-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-27 10:07:40 +02:00
Alex Shi 72a4cf20cb sched: Change cfs_rq load avg to unsigned long
Since the 'u64 runnable_load_avg, blocked_load_avg' in cfs_rq struct are
smaller than 'unsigned long' cfs_rq->load.weight. We don't need u64
vaiables to describe them. unsigned long is more efficient and convenience.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Tested-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1371694737-29336-10-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-27 10:07:38 +02:00
Alex Shi a003a25b22 sched: Consider runnable load average in move_tasks()
Aside from using runnable load average in background, move_tasks is
also the key function in load balance. We need consider the runnable
load average in it in order to make it an apple to apple load
comparison.

Morten had caught a div u64 bug on ARM, thanks!

Thanks-to: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1371694737-29336-8-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-27 10:07:36 +02:00
Alex Shi b92486cbf2 sched: Compute runnable load avg in cpu_load and cpu_avg_load_per_task
They are the base values in load balance, update them with rq runnable
load average, then the load balance will consider runnable load avg
naturally.

We also try to include the blocked_load_avg as cpu load in balancing,
but that cause kbuild performance drop 6% on every Intel machine, and
aim7/oltp drop on some of 4 CPU sockets machines.
Or only add blocked_load_avg into get_rq_runable_load, hackbench still
drop a little on NHM EX.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1371694737-29336-7-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-27 10:07:35 +02:00
Alex Shi 83dfd5235e sched: Update cpu load after task_tick
To get the latest runnable info, we need do this cpuload update after
task_tick.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1371694737-29336-6-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-27 10:07:33 +02:00
Alex Shi 282cf499f0 sched: Fix sleep time double accounting in enqueue entity
The woken migrated task will __synchronize_entity_decay(se); in
migrate_task_rq_fair, then it needs to set
`se->avg.last_runnable_update -= (-se->avg.decay_count) << 20' before
update_entity_load_avg, in order to avoid sleep time is updated twice
for se.avg.load_avg_contrib in both __syncchronize and
update_entity_load_avg.

However if the sleeping task is woken up from the same cpu, it miss
the last_runnable_update before update_entity_load_avg(se, 0, 1), then
the sleep time was used twice in both functions.  So we need to remove
the double sleep time accounting.

Paul also contributed some code comments in this commit.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1371694737-29336-5-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-27 10:07:32 +02:00
Alex Shi a75cdaa915 sched: Set an initial value of runnable avg for new forked task
We need to initialize the se.avg.{decay_count, load_avg_contrib} for a
new forked task. Otherwise random values of above variables cause a
mess when a new task is enqueued:

    enqueue_task_fair
        enqueue_entity
            enqueue_entity_load_avg

and make fork balancing imbalance due to incorrect load_avg_contrib.

Further more, Morten Rasmussen notice some tasks were not launched at
once after created. So Paul and Peter suggest giving a start value for
new task runnable avg time same as sched_slice().

PeterZ said:

> So the 'problem' is that our running avg is a 'floating' average; ie. it
> decays with time. Now we have to guess about the future of our newly
> spawned task -- something that is nigh impossible seeing these CPU
> vendors keep refusing to implement the crystal ball instruction.
>
> So there's two asymptotic cases we want to deal well with; 1) the case
> where the newly spawned program will be 'nearly' idle for its lifetime;
> and 2) the case where its cpu-bound.
>
> Since we have to guess, we'll go for worst case and assume its
> cpu-bound; now we don't want to make the avg so heavy adjusting to the
> near-idle case takes forever. We want to be able to quickly adjust and
> lower our running avg.
>
> Now we also don't want to make our avg too light, such that it gets
> decremented just for the new task not having had a chance to run yet --
> even if when it would run, it would be more cpu-bound than not.
>
> So what we do is we make the initial avg of the same duration as that we
> guess it takes to run each task on the system at least once -- aka
> sched_slice().
>
> Of course we can defeat this with wakeup/fork bombs, but in the 'normal'
> case it should be good enough.

Paul also contributed most of the code comments in this commit.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
[peterz; added explanation of sched_slice() usage]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1371694737-29336-4-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-27 10:07:30 +02:00
Alex Shi fa6bddeb14 sched: Move a few runnable tg variables into CONFIG_SMP
The following 2 variables are only used under CONFIG_SMP, so its
better to move their definiation into CONFIG_SMP too.

        atomic64_t load_avg;
        atomic_t runnable_avg;

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1371694737-29336-3-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-27 10:07:29 +02:00
Alex Shi 141965c749 Revert "sched: Introduce temporary FAIR_GROUP_SCHED dependency for load-tracking"
Remove CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED that covers the runnable info, then
we can use runnable load variables.

Also remove 2 CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED setting which is not in reverted
patch(introduced in 9ee474f), but also need to revert.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51CA76A3.3050207@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-27 10:07:22 +02:00
Linus Torvalds a3d5c3460a Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Two smaller fixes - plus a context tracking tracing fix that is a bit
  bigger"

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  tracing/context-tracking: Add preempt_schedule_context() for tracing
  sched: Fix clear NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK
  sched/x86: Construct all sibling maps if smt
2013-06-20 08:18:35 -10:00
Joe Perches be7002e6c6 sched: Don't mix use of typedef ctl_table and struct ctl_table
Just use struct ctl_table.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1371063336.2069.22.camel@joe-AO722
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-19 12:58:48 +02:00
Viresh Kumar 94c95ba69f sched: Remove WARN_ON(!sd) from init_sched_groups_power()
sd can't be NULL in init_sched_groups_power() and so checking it for NULL isn't
useful. In case it is required, then also we need to rearrange the code a bit as
we already accessed invalid pointer sd to get sg: sg = sd->groups.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2bbe633cd74b431c05253a8ce61fdfd5066a531b.1370948150.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-19 12:58:47 +02:00
Viresh Kumar cd08e9234c sched: Fix memory leakage in build_sched_groups()
In build_sched_groups() we don't need to call get_group() for cpus
which are already covered in previous iterations. Calling get_group()
would mark the group used and eventually leak it since we wouldn't
connect it and not find it again to free it.

This will happen only in cases where sg->cpumask contained more than
one cpu (For any topology level). This patch would free sg's memory
for all cpus leaving the group leader as the group isn't marked used
now.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/7a61e955abdcbb1dfa9fe493f11a5ec53a11ddd3.1370948150.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-19 12:58:46 +02:00
Viresh Kumar 0936629f01 sched: Use cached value of span instead of calling sched_domain_span()
In the beginning of build_sched_groups() we called sched_domain_span() and
cached its return value in span. Few statements later we are calling it again to
get the same pointer.

Lets use the cached value instead as it hasn't changed in between.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/834ecd507071ad88aff039352dbc7e063dd996a7.1370948150.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-19 12:58:46 +02:00
Viresh Kumar 27723a68ca sched: Create for_each_sd_topology()
For loop for traversing sched_domain_topology was used at multiple placed in
core.c. This patch removes code redundancy by creating for_each_sd_topology().

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e0e04542f54e9464bd9da54f5ccfe62ec6c4c0bc.1370861520.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-19 12:58:45 +02:00
Viresh Kumar c75e01288c sched: Don't set sd->child to NULL when it is already NULL
Memory for sd is allocated with kzalloc_node() which will initialize its fields
with zero. In build_sched_domain() we are setting sd->child to child even if
child is NULL, which isn't required.

Lets do it only if child isn't NULL.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f4753a1730051341003ad2ad29a3229c7356678e.1370861520.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-19 12:58:45 +02:00
Viresh Kumar 1c63216940 sched: Don't initialize alloc_state in build_sched_domains()
alloc_state will be overwritten by __visit_domain_allocation_hell() and so we
don't actually need to initialize alloc_state.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/df57734a075cc5ad130e1ae498702e24f2529ab8.1370861520.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-19 12:58:44 +02:00
Viresh Kumar 22da956953 sched: Optimize build_sched_domains() for saving first SD node for a cpu
We are saving first scheduling domain for a cpu in build_sched_domains() by
iterating over the nested sd->child list. We don't actually need to do it this
way.

tl will be equal to sched_domain_topology for the first iteration and so we can
set *per_cpu_ptr(d.sd, i) based on that.  So, save pointer to first SD while
running the iteration loop over tl's.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/fc473527cbc4dfa0b8eeef2a59db74684eb59a83.1370436120.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-19 12:58:43 +02:00
Viresh Kumar 4a850cbefa sched: Remove unused params of build_sched_domain()
build_sched_domain() never uses parameter struct s_data *d and so passing it is
useless.

Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/545e0b4536166a15b4475abcafe5ed0db4ad4a2c.1370436120.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-19 12:58:42 +02:00
Michael Wang 8404c90d05 sched: Femove the useless declaration in kernel/sched/fair.c
default_cfs_period(), do_sched_cfs_period_timer(), do_sched_cfs_slack_timer()
already defined previously, no need to declare again.

Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51AD8808.7020608@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-19 12:58:41 +02:00
Michael Wang 22b958d8cc sched: Refine the code in unthrottle_cfs_rq()
Directly use rq to save some code.

Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51AD87EB.1070605@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-19 12:58:41 +02:00
Kirill Tkhai e23ee74777 sched/rt: Simplify pull_rt_task() logic and remove .leaf_rt_rq_list
[ Peter, this is based off of some of my work, I ran it though a few
  tests and it passed. I also reviewed it, and added my SOB as I am
  somewhat a co-author to it. ]

Based on the patch by Steven Rostedt from previous year:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/18/517

1)Simplify pull_rt_task() logic: search in pushable tasks of dest runqueue.
The only pullable tasks are the tasks which are pushable in their local rq,
and no others.

2)Remove .leaf_rt_rq_list member of struct rt_rq and functions connected
with it: nobody uses it since now.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@yandex.ru>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/287571370557898@web7d.yandex.ru
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-19 12:58:40 +02:00
Ingo Molnar d81344c508 Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core
Merge in fixes before applying ongoing new work.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-19 12:55:31 +02:00
Vincent Guittot 873b4c65b5 sched: Fix clear NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK
I have faced a sequence where the Idle Load Balance was sometime not
triggered for a while on my platform, in the following scenario:

 CPU 0 and CPU 1 are running tasks and CPU 2 is idle

 CPU 1 kicks the Idle Load Balance
 CPU 1 selects CPU 2 as the new Idle Load Balancer
 CPU 2 sets NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK for CPU 2
 CPU 2 sends a reschedule IPI to CPU 2

 While CPU 3 wakes up, CPU 0 or CPU 1 migrates a waking up task A on CPU 2

 CPU 2 finally wakes up, runs task A and discards the Idle Load Balance
       task A quickly goes back to sleep (before a tick occurs on CPU 2)
 CPU 2 goes back to idle with NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK set

Whenever CPU 2 will be selected as the ILB, no reschedule IPI will be sent
because NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK is already set and no Idle Load Balance will be
performed.

We must wait for the sched softirq to be raised on CPU 2 thanks to another
part the kernel to come back to clear NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK.

The proposed solution clears NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK in schedule_ipi if
we can't raise the sched_softirq for the Idle Load Balance.

Change since V1:

- move the clear of NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK in got_nohz_idle_kick if the ILB
  can't run on this CPU (as suggested by Peter)

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1370419991-13870-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-19 12:55:09 +02:00
Kamalesh Babulal 0de358f1c2 sched/fair: Remove unused variable from expire_cfs_rq_runtime()
Commit 78becc2709 ("sched: Use an accessor to read the rq clock")
introduces rq_clock(), which obsoletes the use of the "rq" variable
in expire_cfs_rq_runtime() and triggers this build warning:

  kernel/sched/fair.c: In function 'expire_cfs_rq_runtime':
  kernel/sched/fair.c:2159:13: warning: unused variable 'rq' [-Wunused-variable]

Signed-off-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1369904660-14169-1-git-send-email-kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-05-31 13:02:29 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 45eacc6927 vtime: Use consistent clocks among nohz accounting
While computing the cputime delta of dynticks CPUs,
we are mixing up clocks of differents natures:

* local_clock() which takes care of unstable clock
sources and fix these if needed.

* sched_clock() which is the weaker version of
local_clock(). It doesn't compute any fixup in case
of unstable source.

If the clock source is stable, those two clocks are the
same and we can safely compute the difference against
two random points.

Otherwise it results in random deltas as sched_clock()
can randomly drift away, back or forward, from local_clock().

As a consequence, some strange behaviour with unstable tsc
has been observed such as non progressing constant zero cputime.
(The 'top' command showing no load).

Fix this by only using local_clock(), or its irq safe/remote
equivalent, in vtime code.

Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Suggested-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-05-31 11:31:50 +02:00
Stanislaw Gruszka 84f9f3a156 sched: Use swap() macro in scale_stime()
Simple cleanup.

Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1367501673-6563-1-git-send-email-sgruszka@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-05-28 11:58:10 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 78becc2709 sched: Use an accessor to read the rq clock
Read the runqueue clock through an accessor. This
prepares for adding a debugging infrastructure to
detect missing or redundant calls to update_rq_clock()
between a scheduler's entry and exit point.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1365724262-20142-6-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-05-28 09:40:27 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 1a55af2e45 sched: Update rq clock earlier in unthrottle_cfs_rq
In this function we are making use of rq->clock right before the
update of the rq clock, let's just call update_rq_clock() just
before that to avoid using a stale rq clock value.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1365724262-20142-5-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-05-28 09:40:25 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 1ad4ec0dc7 sched: Update rq clock before calling check_preempt_curr()
check_preempt_curr() of fair class needs an uptodate sched clock
value to update runtime stats of the current task of the target's rq.

When a task is woken up, activate_task() is usually called right before
ttwu_do_wakeup() unless the task is still in the runqueue. In the latter
case we need to update the rq clock explicitly because activate_task()
isn't here to do the job for us.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1365724262-20142-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-05-28 09:40:24 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 71b1da46ff sched: Update rq clock before setting fair group shares
Because we may update the execution time in

    sched_group_set_shares()->update_cfs_shares()->reweight_entity()->update_curr()

before reweighting the entity while setting the group shares and this requires
an uptodate version of the runqueue clock.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1365724262-20142-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-05-28 09:40:23 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 77bd39702f sched: Update rq clock before migrating tasks out of dying CPU
Because the sched_class::put_prev_task() callback of rt and fair
classes are referring to the rq clock to update their runtime
statistics. There is a missing rq clock update from the CPU
hotplug notifier's entry point of the scheduler.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1365724262-20142-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-05-28 09:40:23 +02:00
Neil Zhang c5405a495e sched: Remove redundant update_runtime notifier
migration_call() will do all the things that update_runtime() does.
So let's remove it.

Furthermore, there is potential risk that the current code will catch
BUG_ON at line 689 of rt.c when do cpu hotplug while there are realtime
threads running because of enabling runtime twice while the rt_runtime
may already changed.

Signed-off-by: Neil Zhang <zhangwm@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1365685499-26515-1-git-send-email-zhangwm@marvell.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-05-28 09:40:22 +02:00
Gerald Schaefer 41261b6a83 sched/autogroup: Fix race with task_groups list
In autogroup_create(), a tg is allocated and added to the task_groups
list. If CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED is set, this tg is then modified while on
the list, without locking. This can race with someone walking the list,
like __enable_runtime() during CPU unplug, and result in a use-after-free
bug.

To fix this, move sched_online_group(), which adds the tg to the list,
to the end of the autogroup_create() function after the modification.

Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1369411669-46971-2-git-send-email-gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-05-28 09:40:22 +02:00
Ingo Molnar d07e75a6e0 Merge branch 'sched/cleanups' into sched/core
Merge reason: these bits, formerly in sched/urgent, are too late for v3.10.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-05-28 08:16:02 +02:00
Nathan Zimmer 424c93fe4c sched: Use this_rq() helper
It is a few instructions more efficent to and slightly more
readable to use this_rq()-> instead of cpu_rq(smp_processor_id())-> .

Size comparison of kernel/sched/fair.o:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  27972     122      26   28120    6dd8 fair.o.before
  27956     122      26   28104    6dc8 fair.o.after

Signed-off-by: Nathan Zimmer <nzimmer@sgi.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1368116643-87971-1-git-send-email-nzimmer@sgi.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-05-10 10:35:56 +02:00
Paul Gortmaker 8527632dc9 sched: Move update_load_*() methods from sched.h to fair.c
These inlines are only used by kernel/sched/fair.c so they do
not need to be present in the main kernel/sched/sched.h file.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366398650-31599-3-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-05-07 13:14:51 +02:00
Paul Gortmaker 45ceebf776 sched: Factor out load calculation code from sched/core.c --> sched/proc.c
This large chunk of load calculation code can be easily divorced
from the main core.c scheduler file, with only a couple
prototypes and externs added to a kernel/sched header.

Some recent commits expanded the code and the documentation of
it, making it large enough to warrant separation.  For example,
see:

  556061b, "sched/nohz: Fix rq->cpu_load[] calculations"
  5aaa0b7, "sched/nohz: Fix rq->cpu_load calculations some more"
  5167e8d, "sched/nohz: Rewrite and fix load-avg computation -- again"

More importantly, it helps reduce the size of the main
sched/core.c by yet another significant amount (~600 lines).

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366398650-31599-2-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-05-07 13:14:50 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 534c97b095 Merge branch 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull 'full dynticks' support from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree from Frederic Weisbecker adds a new, (exciting! :-) core
  kernel feature to the timer and scheduler subsystems: 'full dynticks',
  or CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y.

  This feature extends the nohz variable-size timer tick feature from
  idle to busy CPUs (running at most one task) as well, potentially
  reducing the number of timer interrupts significantly.

  This feature got motivated by real-time folks and the -rt tree, but
  the general utility and motivation of full-dynticks runs wider than
  that:

   - HPC workloads get faster: CPUs running a single task should be able
     to utilize a maximum amount of CPU power.  A periodic timer tick at
     HZ=1000 can cause a constant overhead of up to 1.0%.  This feature
     removes that overhead - and speeds up the system by 0.5%-1.0% on
     typical distro configs even on modern systems.

   - Real-time workload latency reduction: CPUs running critical tasks
     should experience as little jitter as possible.  The last remaining
     source of kernel-related jitter was the periodic timer tick.

   - A single task executing on a CPU is a pretty common situation,
     especially with an increasing number of cores/CPUs, so this feature
     helps desktop and mobile workloads as well.

  The cost of the feature is mainly related to increased timer
  reprogramming overhead when a CPU switches its tick period, and thus
  slightly longer to-idle and from-idle latency.

  Configuration-wise a third mode of operation is added to the existing
  two NOHZ kconfig modes:

   - CONFIG_HZ_PERIODIC: [formerly !CONFIG_NO_HZ], now explicitly named
     as a config option.  This is the traditional Linux periodic tick
     design: there's a HZ tick going on all the time, regardless of
     whether a CPU is idle or not.

   - CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE: [formerly CONFIG_NO_HZ=y], this turns off the
     periodic tick when a CPU enters idle mode.

   - CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL: this new mode, in addition to turning off the
     tick when a CPU is idle, also slows the tick down to 1 Hz (one
     timer interrupt per second) when only a single task is running on a
     CPU.

  The .config behavior is compatible: existing !CONFIG_NO_HZ and
  CONFIG_NO_HZ=y settings get translated to the new values, without the
  user having to configure anything.  CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL is turned off by
  default.

  This feature is based on a lot of infrastructure work that has been
  steadily going upstream in the last 2-3 cycles: related RCU support
  and non-periodic cputime support in particular is upstream already.

  This tree adds the final pieces and activates the feature.  The pull
  request is marked RFC because:

   - it's marked 64-bit only at the moment - the 32-bit support patch is
     small but did not get ready in time.

   - it has a number of fresh commits that came in after the merge
     window.  The overwhelming majority of commits are from before the
     merge window, but still some aspects of the tree are fresh and so I
     marked it RFC.

   - it's a pretty wide-reaching feature with lots of effects - and
     while the components have been in testing for some time, the full
     combination is still not very widely used.  That it's default-off
     should reduce its regression abilities and obviously there are no
     known regressions with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y enabled either.

   - the feature is not completely idempotent: there is no 100%
     equivalent replacement for a periodic scheduler/timer tick.  In
     particular there's ongoing work to map out and reduce its effects
     on scheduler load-balancing and statistics.  This should not impact
     correctness though, there are no known regressions related to this
     feature at this point.

   - it's a pretty ambitious feature that with time will likely be
     enabled by most Linux distros, and we'd like you to make input on
     its design/implementation, if you dislike some aspect we missed.
     Without flaming us to crisp! :-)

  Future plans:

   - there's ongoing work to reduce 1Hz to 0Hz, to essentially shut off
     the periodic tick altogether when there's a single busy task on a
     CPU.  We'd first like 1 Hz to be exposed more widely before we go
     for the 0 Hz target though.

   - once we reach 0 Hz we can remove the periodic tick assumption from
     nr_running>=2 as well, by essentially interrupting busy tasks only
     as frequently as the sched_latency constraints require us to do -
     once every 4-40 msecs, depending on nr_running.

  I am personally leaning towards biting the bullet and doing this in
  v3.10, like the -rt tree this effort has been going on for too long -
  but the final word is up to you as usual.

  More technical details can be found in Documentation/timers/NO_HZ.txt"

* 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (39 commits)
  sched: Keep at least 1 tick per second for active dynticks tasks
  rcu: Fix full dynticks' dependency on wide RCU nocb mode
  nohz: Protect smp_processor_id() in tick_nohz_task_switch()
  nohz_full: Add documentation.
  cputime_nsecs: use math64.h for nsec resolution conversion helpers
  nohz: Select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN from full dynticks config
  nohz: Reduce overhead under high-freq idling patterns
  nohz: Remove full dynticks' superfluous dependency on RCU tree
  nohz: Fix unavailable tick_stop tracepoint in dynticks idle
  nohz: Add basic tracing
  nohz: Select wide RCU nocb for full dynticks
  nohz: Disable the tick when irq resume in full dynticks CPU
  nohz: Re-evaluate the tick for the new task after a context switch
  nohz: Prepare to stop the tick on irq exit
  nohz: Implement full dynticks kick
  nohz: Re-evaluate the tick from the scheduler IPI
  sched: New helper to prevent from stopping the tick in full dynticks
  sched: Kick full dynticks CPU that have more than one task enqueued.
  perf: New helper to prevent full dynticks CPUs from stopping tick
  perf: Kick full dynticks CPU if events rotation is needed
  ...
2013-05-05 13:23:27 -07:00
Frederic Weisbecker 265f22a975 sched: Keep at least 1 tick per second for active dynticks tasks
The scheduler doesn't yet fully support environments
with a single task running without a periodic tick.

In order to ensure we still maintain the duties of scheduler_tick(),
keep at least 1 tick per second.

This makes sure that we keep the progression of various scheduler
accounting and background maintainance even with a very low granularity.
Examples include cpu load, sched average, CFS entity vruntime,
avenrun and events such as load balancing, amongst other details
handled in sched_class::task_tick().

This limitation will be removed in the future once we get
these individual items to work in full dynticks CPUs.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2013-05-04 08:32:02 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 0279b3c0ad Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "This fixes the cputime scaling overflow problems for good without
  having bad 32-bit overhead, and gets rid of the div64_u64_rem() helper
  as well."

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  Revert "math64: New div64_u64_rem helper"
  sched: Avoid prev->stime underflow
  sched: Do not account bogus utime
  sched: Avoid cputime scaling overflow
2013-05-02 14:56:31 -07:00
Frederic Weisbecker c032862fba Merge commit '8700c95adb03' into timers/nohz
The full dynticks tree needs the latest RCU and sched
upstream updates in order to fix some dependencies.

Merge a common upstream merge point that has these
updates.

Conflicts:
	include/linux/perf_event.h
	kernel/rcutree.h
	kernel/rcutree_plugin.h

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2013-05-02 17:54:19 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 20b4fb4852 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull VFS updates from Al Viro,

Misc cleanups all over the place, mainly wrt /proc interfaces (switch
create_proc_entry to proc_create(), get rid of the deprecated
create_proc_read_entry() in favor of using proc_create_data() and
seq_file etc).

7kloc removed.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (204 commits)
  don't bother with deferred freeing of fdtables
  proc: Move non-public stuff from linux/proc_fs.h to fs/proc/internal.h
  proc: Make the PROC_I() and PDE() macros internal to procfs
  proc: Supply a function to remove a proc entry by PDE
  take cgroup_open() and cpuset_open() to fs/proc/base.c
  ppc: Clean up scanlog
  ppc: Clean up rtas_flash driver somewhat
  hostap: proc: Use remove_proc_subtree()
  drm: proc: Use remove_proc_subtree()
  drm: proc: Use minor->index to label things, not PDE->name
  drm: Constify drm_proc_list[]
  zoran: Don't print proc_dir_entry data in debug
  reiserfs: Don't access the proc_dir_entry in r_open(), r_start() r_show()
  proc: Supply an accessor for getting the data from a PDE's parent
  airo: Use remove_proc_subtree()
  rtl8192u: Don't need to save device proc dir PDE
  rtl8187se: Use a dir under /proc/net/r8180/
  proc: Add proc_mkdir_data()
  proc: Move some bits from linux/proc_fs.h to linux/{of.h,signal.h,tty.h}
  proc: Move PDE_NET() to fs/proc/proc_net.c
  ...
2013-05-01 17:51:54 -07:00
Tejun Heo 3d1cb2059d workqueue: include workqueue info when printing debug dump of a worker task
One of the problems that arise when converting dedicated custom
threadpool to workqueue is that the shared worker pool used by workqueue
anonimizes each worker making it more difficult to identify what the
worker was doing on which target from the output of sysrq-t or debug
dump from oops, BUG() and friends.

This patch implements set_worker_desc() which can be called from any
workqueue work function to set its description.  When the worker task is
dumped for whatever reason - sysrq-t, WARN, BUG, oops, lockdep assertion
and so on - the description will be printed out together with the
workqueue name and the worker function pointer.

The printing side is implemented by print_worker_info() which is called
from functions in task dump paths - sched_show_task() and
dump_stack_print_info().  print_worker_info() can be safely called on
any task in any state as long as the task struct itself is accessible.
It uses probe_*() functions to access worker fields.  It may print
garbage if something went very wrong, but it wouldn't cause (another)
oops.

The description is currently limited to 24bytes including the
terminating \0.  worker->desc_valid and workder->desc[] are added and
the 64 bytes marker which was already incorrect before adding the new
fields is moved to the correct position.

Here's an example dump with writeback updated to set the bdi name as
worker desc.

 Hardware name: Bochs
 Modules linked in:
 Pid: 7, comm: kworker/u9:0 Not tainted 3.9.0-rc1-work+ #1
 Workqueue: writeback bdi_writeback_workfn (flush-8:0)
  ffffffff820a3ab0 ffff88000f6e9cb8 ffffffff81c61845 ffff88000f6e9cf8
  ffffffff8108f50f 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff88000cde16b0
  ffff88000cde1aa8 ffff88001ee19240 ffff88000f6e9fd8 ffff88000f6e9d08
 Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff81c61845>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
  [<ffffffff8108f50f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0
  [<ffffffff8108f56a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
  [<ffffffff81200150>] bdi_writeback_workfn+0x2a0/0x3b0
 ...

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-30 17:04:02 -07:00
Stanislaw Gruszka 68aa8efcd1 sched: Avoid prev->stime underflow
Dave Hansen reported strange utime/stime values on his system:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/4/435

This happens because prev->stime value is bigger than rtime
value. Root of the problem are non-monotonic rtime values (i.e.
current rtime is smaller than previous rtime) and that should be
debugged and fixed.

But since problem did not manifest itself before commit
62188451f0 "cputime: Avoid
multiplication overflow on utime scaling", it should be threated
as regression, which we can easily fixed on cputime_adjust()
function.

For now, let's apply this fix, but further work is needed to fix
root of the problem.

Reported-and-tested-by: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.9+
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1367314507-9728-3-git-send-email-sgruszka@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-30 19:13:05 +02:00
Stanislaw Gruszka 772c808a25 sched: Do not account bogus utime
Due to rounding in scale_stime(), for big numbers, scaled stime
values will grow in chunks. Since rtime grow in jiffies and we
calculate utime like below:

	prev->stime = max(prev->stime, stime);
	prev->utime = max(prev->utime, rtime - prev->stime);

we could erroneously account stime values as utime. To prevent
that only update prev->{u,s}time values when they are smaller
than current rtime.

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1367314507-9728-2-git-send-email-sgruszka@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-30 19:13:04 +02:00
Stanislaw Gruszka 55eaa7c1f5 sched: Avoid cputime scaling overflow
Here is patch, which adds Linus's cputime scaling algorithm to the
kernel.

This is a follow up (well, fix) to commit
d9a3c9823a ("sched: Lower chances
of cputime scaling overflow") which commit tried to avoid
multiplication overflow, but did not guarantee that the overflow
would not happen.

Linus crated a different algorithm, which completely avoids the
multiplication overflow by dropping precision when numbers are
big.

It was tested by me and it gives good relative error of
scaled numbers. Testing method is described here:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=136733059505406&w=2

Originally-From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130430151441.GC10465@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-30 19:13:04 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 8700c95adb Merge branch 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull SMP/hotplug changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "This is a pretty large, multi-arch series unifying and generalizing
  the various disjunct pieces of idle routines that architectures have
  historically copied from each other and have grown in random, wildly
  inconsistent and sometimes buggy directions:

   101 files changed, 455 insertions(+), 1328 deletions(-)

  this went through a number of review and test iterations before it was
  committed, it was tested on various architectures, was exposed to
  linux-next for quite some time - nevertheless it might cause problems
  on architectures that don't read the mailing lists and don't regularly
  test linux-next.

  This cat herding excercise was motivated by the -rt kernel, and was
  brought to you by Thomas "the Whip" Gleixner."

* 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (40 commits)
  idle: Remove GENERIC_IDLE_LOOP config switch
  um: Use generic idle loop
  ia64: Make sure interrupts enabled when we "safe_halt()"
  sparc: Use generic idle loop
  idle: Remove unused ARCH_HAS_DEFAULT_IDLE
  bfin: Fix typo in arch_cpu_idle()
  xtensa: Use generic idle loop
  x86: Use generic idle loop
  unicore: Use generic idle loop
  tile: Use generic idle loop
  tile: Enter idle with preemption disabled
  sh: Use generic idle loop
  score: Use generic idle loop
  s390: Use generic idle loop
  powerpc: Use generic idle loop
  parisc: Use generic idle loop
  openrisc: Use generic idle loop
  mn10300: Use generic idle loop
  mips: Use generic idle loop
  microblaze: Use generic idle loop
  ...
2013-04-30 07:50:17 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 16fa94b532 Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this development cycle were:

   - full dynticks preparatory work by Frederic Weisbecker

   - factor out the cpu time accounting code better, by Li Zefan

   - multi-CPU load balancer cleanups and improvements by Joonsoo Kim

   - various smaller fixes and cleanups"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (45 commits)
  sched: Fix init NOHZ_IDLE flag
  sched: Prevent to re-select dst-cpu in load_balance()
  sched: Rename load_balance_tmpmask to load_balance_mask
  sched: Move up affinity check to mitigate useless redoing overhead
  sched: Don't consider other cpus in our group in case of NEWLY_IDLE
  sched: Explicitly cpu_idle_type checking in rebalance_domains()
  sched: Change position of resched_cpu() in load_balance()
  sched: Fix wrong rq's runnable_avg update with rt tasks
  sched: Document task_struct::personality field
  sched/cpuacct/UML: Fix header file dependency bug on the UML build
  cgroup: Kill subsys.active flag
  sched/cpuacct: No need to check subsys active state
  sched/cpuacct: Initialize cpuacct subsystem earlier
  sched/cpuacct: Initialize root cpuacct earlier
  sched/cpuacct: Allocate per_cpu cpuusage for root cpuacct statically
  sched/cpuacct: Clean up cpuacct.h
  sched/cpuacct: Remove redundant NULL checks in cpuacct_acount_field()
  sched/cpuacct: Remove redundant NULL checks in cpuacct_charge()
  sched/cpuacct: Add cpuacct_acount_field()
  sched/cpuacct: Add cpuacct_init()
  ...
2013-04-30 07:43:28 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 46d9be3e5e Merge branch 'for-3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq
Pull workqueue updates from Tejun Heo:
 "A lot of activities on workqueue side this time.  The changes achieve
  the followings.

   - WQ_UNBOUND workqueues - the workqueues which are per-cpu - are
     updated to be able to interface with multiple backend worker pools.
     This involved a lot of churning but the end result seems actually
     neater as unbound workqueues are now a lot closer to per-cpu ones.

   - The ability to interface with multiple backend worker pools are
     used to implement unbound workqueues with custom attributes.
     Currently the supported attributes are the nice level and CPU
     affinity.  It may be expanded to include cgroup association in
     future.  The attributes can be specified either by calling
     apply_workqueue_attrs() or through /sys/bus/workqueue/WQ_NAME/* if
     the workqueue in question is exported through sysfs.

     The backend worker pools are keyed by the actual attributes and
     shared by any workqueues which share the same attributes.  When
     attributes of a workqueue are changed, the workqueue binds to the
     worker pool with the specified attributes while leaving the work
     items which are already executing in its previous worker pools
     alone.

     This allows converting custom worker pool implementations which
     want worker attribute tuning to use workqueues.  The writeback pool
     is already converted in block tree and there are a couple others
     are likely to follow including btrfs io workers.

   - WQ_UNBOUND's ability to bind to multiple worker pools is also used
     to make it NUMA-aware.  Because there's no association between work
     item issuer and the specific worker assigned to execute it, before
     this change, using unbound workqueue led to unnecessary cross-node
     bouncing and it couldn't be helped by autonuma as it requires tasks
     to have implicit node affinity and workers are assigned randomly.

     After these changes, an unbound workqueue now binds to multiple
     NUMA-affine worker pools so that queued work items are executed in
     the same node.  This is turned on by default but can be disabled
     system-wide or for individual workqueues.

     Crypto was requesting NUMA affinity as encrypting data across
     different nodes can contribute noticeable overhead and doing it
     per-cpu was too limiting for certain cases and IO throughput could
     be bottlenecked by one CPU being fully occupied while others have
     idle cycles.

  While the new features required a lot of changes including
  restructuring locking, it didn't complicate the execution paths much.
  The unbound workqueue handling is now closer to per-cpu ones and the
  new features are implemented by simply associating a workqueue with
  different sets of backend worker pools without changing queue,
  execution or flush paths.

  As such, even though the amount of change is very high, I feel
  relatively safe in that it isn't likely to cause subtle issues with
  basic correctness of work item execution and handling.  If something
  is wrong, it's likely to show up as being associated with worker pools
  with the wrong attributes or OOPS while workqueue attributes are being
  changed or during CPU hotplug.

  While this creates more backend worker pools, it doesn't add too many
  more workers unless, of course, there are many workqueues with unique
  combinations of attributes.  Assuming everything else is the same,
  NUMA awareness costs an extra worker pool per NUMA node with online
  CPUs.

  There are also a couple things which are being routed outside the
  workqueue tree.

   - block tree pulled in workqueue for-3.10 so that writeback worker
     pool can be converted to unbound workqueue with sysfs control
     exposed.  This simplifies the code, makes writeback workers
     NUMA-aware and allows tuning nice level and CPU affinity via sysfs.

   - The conversion to workqueue means that there's no 1:1 association
     between a specific worker, which makes writeback folks unhappy as
     they want to be able to tell which filesystem caused a problem from
     backtrace on systems with many filesystems mounted.  This is
     resolved by allowing work items to set debug info string which is
     printed when the task is dumped.  As this change involves unifying
     implementations of dump_stack() and friends in arch codes, it's
     being routed through Andrew's -mm tree."

* 'for-3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (84 commits)
  workqueue: use kmem_cache_free() instead of kfree()
  workqueue: avoid false negative WARN_ON() in destroy_workqueue()
  workqueue: update sysfs interface to reflect NUMA awareness and a kernel param to disable NUMA affinity
  workqueue: implement NUMA affinity for unbound workqueues
  workqueue: introduce put_pwq_unlocked()
  workqueue: introduce numa_pwq_tbl_install()
  workqueue: use NUMA-aware allocation for pool_workqueues
  workqueue: break init_and_link_pwq() into two functions and introduce alloc_unbound_pwq()
  workqueue: map an unbound workqueues to multiple per-node pool_workqueues
  workqueue: move hot fields of workqueue_struct to the end
  workqueue: make workqueue->name[] fixed len
  workqueue: add workqueue->unbound_attrs
  workqueue: determine NUMA node of workers accourding to the allowed cpumask
  workqueue: drop 'H' from kworker names of unbound worker pools
  workqueue: add wq_numa_tbl_len and wq_numa_possible_cpumask[]
  workqueue: move pwq_pool_locking outside of get/put_unbound_pool()
  workqueue: fix memory leak in apply_workqueue_attrs()
  workqueue: fix unbound workqueue attrs hashing / comparison
  workqueue: fix race condition in unbound workqueue free path
  workqueue: remove pwq_lock which is no longer used
  ...
2013-04-29 19:07:40 -07:00
Al Viro 8e0bcc7222 fix a leak in /proc/schedstats
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-04-29 15:41:45 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 916bb6d76d Merge branch 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull locking changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "The most noticeable change are mutex speedups from Waiman Long, for
  higher loads.  These scalability changes should be most noticeable on
  larger server systems.

  There are also cleanups, fixes and debuggability improvements."

* 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  lockdep: Consolidate bug messages into a single print_lockdep_off() function
  lockdep: Print out additional debugging advice when we hit lockdep BUGs
  mutex: Back out architecture specific check for negative mutex count
  mutex: Queue mutex spinners with MCS lock to reduce cacheline contention
  mutex: Make more scalable by doing less atomic operations
  mutex: Move mutex spinning code from sched/core.c back to mutex.c
  locking/rtmutex/tester: Set correct permissions on sysfs files
  lockdep: Remove unnecessary 'hlock_next' variable
2013-04-29 08:21:37 -07:00
Vincent Guittot 25f55d9d01 sched: Fix init NOHZ_IDLE flag
On my SMP platform which is made of 5 cores in 2 clusters, I
have the nr_busy_cpu field of sched_group_power struct that is
not null when the platform is fully idle - which makes the
scheduler unhappy.

The root cause is:

During the boot sequence, some CPUs reach the idle loop and set
their NOHZ_IDLE flag while waiting for others CPUs to boot. But
the nr_busy_cpus field is initialized later with the assumption
that all CPUs are in the busy state whereas some CPUs have
already set their NOHZ_IDLE flag.

More generally, the NOHZ_IDLE flag must be initialized when new
sched_domains are created in order to ensure that NOHZ_IDLE and
nr_busy_cpus are aligned.

This condition can be ensured by adding a synchronize_rcu()
between the destruction of old sched_domains and the creation of
new ones so the NOHZ_IDLE flag will not be updated with old
sched_domain once it has been initialized. But this solution
introduces a additionnal latency in the rebuild sequence that is
called during cpu hotplug.

As suggested by Frederic Weisbecker, another solution is to have
the same rcu lifecycle for both NOHZ_IDLE and sched_domain
struct. A new nohz_idle field is added to sched_domain so both
status and sched_domain will share the same RCU lifecycle and
will be always synchronized. In addition, there is no more need
to protect nohz_idle against concurrent access as it is only
modified by 2 exclusive functions called by local cpu.

This solution has been prefered to the creation of a new struct
with an extra pointer indirection for sched_domain.

The synchronization is done at the cost of :

 - An additional indirection and a rcu_dereference for accessing nohz_idle.
 - We use only the nohz_idle field of the top sched_domain.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: pjt@google.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: efault@gmx.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366729142-14662-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
[ Fixed !NO_HZ build bug. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-26 12:13:44 +02:00
Joonsoo Kim e02e60c109 sched: Prevent to re-select dst-cpu in load_balance()
Commit 88b8dac0 makes load_balance() consider other cpus in its
group. But, in that, there is no code for preventing to
re-select dst-cpu. So, same dst-cpu can be selected over and
over.

This patch add functionality to load_balance() in order to
exclude cpu which is selected once. We prevent to re-select
dst_cpu via env's cpus, so now, env's cpus is a candidate not
only for src_cpus, but also dst_cpus.

With this patch, we can remove lb_iterations and
max_lb_iterations, because we decide whether we can go ahead or
not via env's cpus.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366705662-3587-7-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-24 08:52:46 +02:00
Joonsoo Kim e6252c3ef4 sched: Rename load_balance_tmpmask to load_balance_mask
This name doesn't represent specific meaning.
So rename it to imply it's purpose.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366705662-3587-6-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-24 08:52:45 +02:00
Joonsoo Kim d31980846f sched: Move up affinity check to mitigate useless redoing overhead
Currently, LBF_ALL_PINNED is cleared after affinity check is
passed. So, if task migration is skipped by small load value or
small imbalance value in move_tasks(), we don't clear
LBF_ALL_PINNED. At last, we trigger 'redo' in load_balance().

Imbalance value is often so small that any tasks cannot be moved
to other cpus and, of course, this situation may be continued
after we change the target cpu. So this patch move up affinity
check code and clear LBF_ALL_PINNED before evaluating load value
in order to mitigate useless redoing overhead.

In addition, re-order some comments correctly.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366705662-3587-5-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-24 08:52:44 +02:00
Joonsoo Kim cfc0311804 sched: Don't consider other cpus in our group in case of NEWLY_IDLE
Commit 88b8dac0 makes load_balance() consider other cpus in its
group, regardless of idle type. When we do NEWLY_IDLE balancing,
we should not consider it, because a motivation of NEWLY_IDLE
balancing is to turn this cpu to non idle state if needed. This
is not the case of other cpus. So, change code not to consider
other cpus for NEWLY_IDLE balancing.

With this patch, assign 'if (pulled_task) this_rq->idle_stamp =
0' in idle_balance() is corrected, because NEWLY_IDLE balancing
doesn't consider other cpus. Assigning to 'this_rq->idle_stamp'
is now valid.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Tested-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366705662-3587-4-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-24 08:52:44 +02:00
Joonsoo Kim de5eb2dd7f sched: Explicitly cpu_idle_type checking in rebalance_domains()
After commit 88b8dac0, dst-cpu can be changed in load_balance(),
then we can't know cpu_idle_type of dst-cpu when load_balance()
return positive. So, add explicit cpu_idle_type checking.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Tested-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366705662-3587-3-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-24 08:52:43 +02:00
Joonsoo Kim f1cd085810 sched: Change position of resched_cpu() in load_balance()
cur_ld_moved is reset if env.flags hit LBF_NEED_BREAK.
So, there is possibility that we miss doing resched_cpu().
Correct it as changing position of resched_cpu()
before checking LBF_NEED_BREAK.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Tested-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366705662-3587-2-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-24 08:52:43 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 99e5ada940 nohz: Re-evaluate the tick for the new task after a context switch
When a task is scheduled in, it may have some properties
of its own that could make the CPU reconsider the need for
the tick: posix cpu timers, perf events, ...

So notify the full dynticks subsystem when a task gets
scheduled in and re-check the tick dependency at this
stage. This is done through a self IPI to avoid messing
up with any current lock scenario.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.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: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2013-04-22 20:29:07 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker ff442c51f6 nohz: Re-evaluate the tick from the scheduler IPI
The scheduler IPI is used by the scheduler to kick
full dynticks CPUs asynchronously when more than one
task are running or when a new timer list timer is
enqueued. This way the destination CPU can decide
to restart the tick to handle this new situation.

Now let's call that kick in the scheduler IPI.

(Reusing the scheduler IPI rather than implementing
a new IPI was suggested by Peter Zijlstra a while ago)

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.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: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2013-04-22 20:16:04 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker ce831b38ca sched: New helper to prevent from stopping the tick in full dynticks
Provide a new helper to be called from the full dynticks engine
before stopping the tick in order to make sure we don't stop
it when there is more than one task running on the CPU.

This way we make sure that the tick stays alive to maintain
fairness.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.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: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2013-04-22 20:08:04 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 9f3660c2c1 sched: Kick full dynticks CPU that have more than one task enqueued.
Kick the tick on full dynticks CPUs when they get more
than one task running on their queue. This makes sure that
local fairness is maintained by the tick on the destination.

This is done regardless of these tasks' class. We should
be able to be more clever in the future depending on these. eg:
a CPU that runs a SCHED_FIFO task doesn't need to maintain
fairness against local pending tasks of the fair class.

But keep things simple for now.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.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: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2013-04-22 20:06:54 +02:00
Vincent Guittot 642dbc39ab sched: Fix wrong rq's runnable_avg update with rt tasks
The current update of the rq's load can be erroneous when RT
tasks are involved.

The update of the load of a rq that becomes idle, is done only
if the avg_idle is less than sysctl_sched_migration_cost. If RT
tasks and short idle duration alternate, the runnable_avg will
not be updated correctly and the time will be accounted as idle
time when a CFS task wakes up.

A new idle_enter function is called when the next task is the
idle function so the elapsed time will be accounted as run time
in the load of the rq, whatever the average idle time is. The
function update_rq_runnable_avg is removed from idle_balance.

When a RT task is scheduled on an idle CPU, the update of the
rq's load is not done when the rq exit idle state because CFS's
functions are not called. Then, the idle_balance, which is
called just before entering the idle function, updates the rq's
load and makes the assumption that the elapsed time since the
last update, was only running time.

As a consequence, the rq's load of a CPU that only runs a
periodic RT task, is close to LOAD_AVG_MAX whatever the running
duration of the RT task is.

A new idle_exit function is called when the prev task is the
idle function so the elapsed time will be accounted as idle time
in the rq's load.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: pjt@google.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: efault@gmx.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366302867-5055-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-21 11:22:52 +02:00
Waiman Long 41fcb9f230 mutex: Move mutex spinning code from sched/core.c back to mutex.c
As mentioned by Ingo, the SCHED_FEAT_OWNER_SPIN scheduler
feature bit was really just an early hack to make with/without
mutex-spinning testable. So it is no longer necessary.

This patch removes the SCHED_FEAT_OWNER_SPIN feature bit and
move the mutex spinning code from kernel/sched/core.c back to
kernel/mutex.c which is where they should belong.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Chandramouleeswaran Aswin <aswin@hp.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: Norton Scott J <scott.norton@hp.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366226594-5506-2-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-19 09:33:34 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker c5bfece2d6 nohz: Switch from "extended nohz" to "full nohz" based naming
"Extended nohz" was used as a naming base for the full dynticks
API and Kconfig symbols. It reflects the fact the system tries
to stop the tick in more places than just idle.

But that "extended" name is a bit opaque and vague. Rename it to
"full" makes it clearer what the system tries to do under this
config: try to shutdown the tick anytime it can. The various
constraints that prevent that to happen shouldn't be considered
as fundamental properties of this feature but rather technical
issues that may be solved in the future.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.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: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2013-04-15 19:58:17 +02:00
Linus Torvalds af788e35bf Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Misc fixlets"

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/cputime: Fix accounting on multi-threaded processes
  sched/debug: Fix sd->*_idx limit range avoiding overflow
  sched_clock: Prevent 64bit inatomicity on 32bit systems
  sched: Convert BUG_ON()s in try_to_wake_up_local() to WARN_ON_ONCE()s
2013-04-14 11:12:17 -07:00
Ingo Molnar b329fd5b01 sched/cpuacct/UML: Fix header file dependency bug on the UML build
The cpuacct split caused this build failure on UML:

  kernel/sched/cpuacct.c:94:2: error: implicit declaration of  function 'ERR_PTR'

Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-10 15:12:41 +02:00
Li Zefan a2b0ae25fc sched/cpuacct: No need to check subsys active state
Now we're guaranteed when cpuacct_charge() and
cpuacct_account_field() are called, cpuacct has already been
properly initialized, so we no longer need those checks.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5155384C.7000508@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-10 13:54:22 +02:00
Li Zefan 621e2de024 sched/cpuacct: Initialize cpuacct subsystem earlier
Initialize cpuacct before the scheduler is functioning, so when
cpuacct_charge() and cpuacct_account_field() are called,
task_ca() won't return NULL.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5155383F.8000005@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-10 13:54:21 +02:00
Li Zefan 14c6d3c8a4 sched/cpuacct: Initialize root cpuacct earlier
Now we don't need cpuacct_init(), and instead we just initialize
root_cpuacct when it's defined.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51553834.9090701@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-10 13:54:20 +02:00
Li Zefan 7943e15a3e sched/cpuacct: Allocate per_cpu cpuusage for root cpuacct statically
This is a preparation, so later we can initialize cpuacct
earlier.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51553822.5000403@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-10 13:54:20 +02:00
Li Zefan d1712796a8 sched/cpuacct: Clean up cpuacct.h
Now most of the code in cpuacct.h can be moved to cpuacct.c

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/515536D5.2080401@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-10 13:54:19 +02:00
Li Zefan 5f40d80432 sched/cpuacct: Remove redundant NULL checks in cpuacct_acount_field()
This is a micro optimazation for a hot path.

- We don't need to check if @ca returned from task_ca() is NULL.
- We don't need to check if @ca returned from parent_ca() is NULL.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/515536B7.6060602@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-10 13:54:18 +02:00
Li Zefan 543bc0e76e sched/cpuacct: Remove redundant NULL checks in cpuacct_charge()
This is a micro optimization for the hot path.

- We don't need to check if @ca is NULL in parent_ca().
- We don't need to check if @ca is NULL in the beginning of the for loop.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/515536A9.5000700@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-10 13:54:18 +02:00
Li Zefan 1966aaf7d5 sched/cpuacct: Add cpuacct_acount_field()
So we can remove open-coded cpuacct code in cputime.c.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51553692.9060008@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-10 13:54:17 +02:00
Li Zefan dbe4b41f98 sched/cpuacct: Add cpuacct_init()
So we don't open-coded initialization of cpuacct in core.c.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51553687.1060906@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-10 13:54:16 +02:00
Li Zefan 60fed7891d sched: Split cpuacct code out of sched.h
Add cpuacct.h and let sched.h include it.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5155367B.2060506@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-10 13:54:16 +02:00
Li Zefan 2e76c24d72 sched: Split cpuacct code out of core.c
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5155366F.5060404@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-10 13:54:15 +02:00
Libin b9b0853a4b sched: Fix comment in rebalance_domains()
A comment in function rebalance_domains() mentions
arch_init_sched_domains(), but that function does not exist
anymore. The proper function is init_sched_domains().

Signed-off-by: Libin <huawei.libin@huawei.com>
Cc: <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1364814841-49156-1-git-send-email-huawei.libin@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-10 13:39:57 +02:00
Zhang Hang 4e2dcb73ae sched: Simplify can_migrate_task()
At this point tsk_cache_hot is always true, so no need to check it.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Hang <bob.zhanghang@huawei.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51650107.9040606@huawei.com
[ Also remove unnecessary schedstat #ifdefs. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-10 11:15:45 +02:00
Stanislaw Gruszka e614b3332a sched/cputime: Fix accounting on multi-threaded processes
Recent commit 6fac4829 ("cputime: Use accessors to read task
cputime stats") introduced a bug, where we account many times
the cputime of the first thread, instead of cputimes of all
the different threads.

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130404085740.GA2495@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-08 17:40:52 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner ee761f629d arch: Consolidate tsk_is_polling()
Move it to a common place. Preparatory patch for implementing
set/clear for the idle need_resched poll implementation.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130321215233.446034505@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2013-04-08 17:39:22 +02:00
Viresh Kumar 28b4a521f6 sched: Fix typo inside comment
Fix typo:

 sched_domains_nume_distance ->
 sched_domains_numa_distance

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org
Cc: patches@linaro.org
Cc: robin.randhawa@arm.com
Cc: Steve.Bannister@arm.com
Cc: Liviu.Dudau@arm.com
Cc: charles.garcia-tobin@arm.com
Cc: arvind.chauhan@arm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/cd8084746ac932106d6fa6be388b8f2d6aa9617c.1365159023.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-08 13:55:39 +02:00
libin fd9b86d37a sched/debug: Fix sd->*_idx limit range avoiding overflow
Commit 201c373e8e ("sched/debug: Limit sd->*_idx range on
sysctl") was an incomplete bug fix.

This patch fixes sd->*_idx limit range to [0 ~ CPU_LOAD_IDX_MAX-1]
avoiding array overflow caused by setting sd->*_idx to CPU_LOAD_IDX_MAX
on sysctl.

Signed-off-by: Libin <huawei.libin@huawei.com>
Cc: <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
Cc: <guohanjun@huawei.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51626610.2040607@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-08 13:23:03 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner a1cbcaa9ea sched_clock: Prevent 64bit inatomicity on 32bit systems
The sched_clock_remote() implementation has the following inatomicity
problem on 32bit systems when accessing the remote scd->clock, which
is a 64bit value.

CPU0			CPU1

sched_clock_local()	sched_clock_remote(CPU0)
...
			remote_clock = scd[CPU0]->clock
			    read_low32bit(scd[CPU0]->clock)
cmpxchg64(scd->clock,...)
			    read_high32bit(scd[CPU0]->clock)

While the update of scd->clock is using an atomic64 mechanism, the
readout on the remote cpu is not, which can cause completely bogus
readouts.

It is a quite rare problem, because it requires the update to hit the
narrow race window between the low/high readout and the update must go
across the 32bit boundary.

The resulting misbehaviour is, that CPU1 will see the sched_clock on
CPU1 ~4 seconds ahead of it's own and update CPU1s sched_clock value
to this bogus timestamp. This stays that way due to the clamping
implementation for about 4 seconds until the synchronization with
CLOCK_MONOTONIC undoes the problem.

The issue is hard to observe, because it might only result in a less
accurate SCHED_OTHER timeslicing behaviour. To create observable
damage on realtime scheduling classes, it is necessary that the bogus
update of CPU1 sched_clock happens in the context of an realtime
thread, which then gets charged 4 seconds of RT runtime, which results
in the RT throttler mechanism to trigger and prevent scheduling of RT
tasks for a little less than 4 seconds. So this is quite unlikely as
well.

The issue was quite hard to decode as the reproduction time is between
2 days and 3 weeks and intrusive tracing makes it less likely, but the
following trace recorded with trace_clock=global, which uses
sched_clock_local(), gave the final hint:

  <idle>-0   0d..30 400269.477150: hrtimer_cancel: hrtimer=0xf7061e80
  <idle>-0   0d..30 400269.477151: hrtimer_start:  hrtimer=0xf7061e80 ...
irq/20-S-587 1d..32 400273.772118: sched_wakeup:   comm= ... target_cpu=0
  <idle>-0   0dN.30 400273.772118: hrtimer_cancel: hrtimer=0xf7061e80

What happens is that CPU0 goes idle and invokes
sched_clock_idle_sleep_event() which invokes sched_clock_local() and
CPU1 runs a remote wakeup for CPU0 at the same time, which invokes
sched_remote_clock(). The time jump gets propagated to CPU0 via
sched_remote_clock() and stays stale on both cores for ~4 seconds.

There are only two other possibilities, which could cause a stale
sched clock:

1) ktime_get() which reads out CLOCK_MONOTONIC returns a sporadic
   wrong value.

2) sched_clock() which reads the TSC returns a sporadic wrong value.

#1 can be excluded because sched_clock would continue to increase for
   one jiffy and then go stale.

#2 can be excluded because it would not make the clock jump
   forward. It would just result in a stale sched_clock for one jiffy.

After quite some brain twisting and finding the same pattern on other
traces, sched_clock_remote() remained the only place which could cause
such a problem and as explained above it's indeed racy on 32bit
systems.

So while on 64bit systems the readout is atomic, we need to verify the
remote readout on 32bit machines. We need to protect the local->clock
readout in sched_clock_remote() on 32bit as well because an NMI could
hit between the low and the high readout, call sched_clock_local() and
modify local->clock.

Thanks to Siegfried Wulsch for bearing with my debug requests and
going through the tedious tasks of running a bunch of reproducer
systems to generate the debug information which let me decode the
issue.

Reported-by: Siegfried Wulsch <Siegfried.Wulsch@rovema.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1304051544160.21884@ionos
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2013-04-08 11:50:44 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 3451d0243c nohz: Rename CONFIG_NO_HZ to CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON
We are planning to convert the dynticks Kconfig options layout
into a choice menu. The user must be able to easily pick
any of the following implementations: constant periodic tick,
idle dynticks, full dynticks.

As this implies a mutual exclusion, the two dynticks implementions
need to converge on the selection of a common Kconfig option in order
to ease the sharing of a common infrastructure.

It would thus seem pretty natural to reuse CONFIG_NO_HZ to
that end. It already implements all the idle dynticks code
and the full dynticks depends on all that code for now.
So ideally the choice menu would propose CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and
CONFIG_NO_HZ_EXTENDED then both would select CONFIG_NO_HZ.

On the other hand we want to stay backward compatible: if
CONFIG_NO_HZ is set in an older config file, we want to
enable CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE by default.

But we can't afford both at the same time or we run into
a circular dependency:

1) CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and CONFIG_NO_HZ_EXTENDED both select
   CONFIG_NO_HZ
2) If CONFIG_NO_HZ is set, we default to CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE

We might be able to support that from Kconfig/Kbuild but it
may not be wise to introduce such a confusing behaviour.

So to solve this, create a new CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON option
which gathers the common code between idle and full dynticks
(that common code for now is simply the idle dynticks code)
and select it from their referring Kconfig.

Then we'll later create CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and map CONFIG_NO_HZ
to it for backward compatibility.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2013-04-03 13:56:03 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 1c20091e77 nohz: Wake up full dynticks CPUs when a timer gets enqueued
Wake up a CPU when a timer list timer is enqueued there and
the target is part of the full dynticks range. Sending an IPI
to it makes it reconsidering the next timer to program on top
of recent updates.

This may later be improved by checking if the tick is really
stopped on the target. This would need some careful
synchronization though. So deal with such optimization later
and start simple.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2013-03-21 15:55:59 +01:00
Tejun Heo 383efcd000 sched: Convert BUG_ON()s in try_to_wake_up_local() to WARN_ON_ONCE()s
try_to_wake_up_local() should only be invoked to wake up another
task in the same runqueue and BUG_ON()s are used to enforce the
rule. Missing try_to_wake_up_local() can stall workqueue
execution but such stalls are likely to be finite either by
another work item being queued or the one blocked getting
unblocked.  There's no reason to trigger BUG while holding rq
lock crashing the whole system.

Convert BUG_ON()s in try_to_wake_up_local() to WARN_ON_ONCE()s.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130318192234.GD3042@htj.dyndns.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-03-21 11:48:20 +01:00
Tejun Heo 14a40ffccd sched: replace PF_THREAD_BOUND with PF_NO_SETAFFINITY
PF_THREAD_BOUND was originally used to mark kernel threads which were
bound to a specific CPU using kthread_bind() and a task with the flag
set allows cpus_allowed modifications only to itself.  Workqueue is
currently abusing it to prevent userland from meddling with
cpus_allowed of workqueue workers.

What we need is a flag to prevent userland from messing with
cpus_allowed of certain kernel tasks.  In kernel, anyone can
(incorrectly) squash the flag, and, for worker-type usages,
restricting cpus_allowed modification to the task itself doesn't
provide meaningful extra proection as other tasks can inject work
items to the task anyway.

This patch replaces PF_THREAD_BOUND with PF_NO_SETAFFINITY.
sched_setaffinity() checks the flag and return -EINVAL if set.
set_cpus_allowed_ptr() is no longer affected by the flag.

This will allow simplifying workqueue worker CPU affinity management.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2013-03-19 13:45:20 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra a8d7ad52a7 sched/tracing: Allow tracing the preemption decision on wakeup
Thomas noted that we do the wakeup preemption check after the
wakeup trace point, this means the tracepoint cannot test/report
this decision; which is rather important for latency sensitive
workloads. Therefore move the tracepoint after doing the
preemption check.

Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1363254519.26965.9.camel@laptop
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-03-18 10:18:08 +01:00
Ingo Molnar e75c8b475e Merge branch 'sched/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks into sched/core
Pull CPU runtime stats/accounting fixes from Frederic Weisbecker:

 " Some users are complaining that their threadgroup's runtime accounting
   freezes after a week or so of intense cpu-bound workload. This set tries
   to fix the issue by reducing the risk of multiplication overflow in the
   cputime scaling code. "

Stanislaw Gruszka further explained the historic context and impact of the
bug:

 " Commit 0cf55e1ec0 start to use scalling
   for whole thread group, so increase chances of hitting multiplication
   overflow, depending on how many CPUs are on the system.

   We have multiplication utime * rtime for one thread since commit
   b27f03d4bd.

   Overflow will happen after:

   rtime * utime > 0xffffffffffffffff jiffies

   if thread utilize 100% of CPU time, that gives:

   rtime > sqrt(0xffffffffffffffff) jiffies

   ritme > sqrt(0xffffffffffffffff) / (24 * 60 * 60 * HZ) days

   For HZ 100 it will be 497 days for HZ 1000 it will be 49 days.

   Bug affect only users, who run CPU intensive application for that
   long period. Also they have to be interested on utime,stime values,
   as bug has no other visible effect as making those values incorrect. "

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-03-18 10:09:31 +01:00
Andrei Epure 1bf08230f7 sched: Fix variable name misnomer, add comments
The min_vruntime variable actually stores the maximum value.
The added comment was taken from place_entity function.

Signed-off-by: Andrei Epure <epure.andrei@gmail.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1363115544-1964-1-git-send-email-epure.andrei@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-03-14 08:22:29 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker d9a3c9823a sched: Lower chances of cputime scaling overflow
Some users have reported that after running a process with
hundreds of threads on intensive CPU-bound loads, the cputime
of the group started to freeze after a few days.

This is due to how we scale the tick-based cputime against
the scheduler precise execution time value.

We add the values of all threads in the group and we multiply
that against the sum of the scheduler exec runtime of the whole
group.

This easily overflows after a few days/weeks of execution.

A proposed solution to solve this was to compute that multiplication
on stime instead of utime:
   62188451f0
   ("cputime: Avoid multiplication overflow on utime scaling")

The rationale behind that was that it's easy for a thread to
spend most of its time in userspace under intensive CPU-bound workload
but it's much harder to do CPU-bound intensive long run in the kernel.

This postulate got defeated when a user recently reported he was still
seeing cputime freezes after the above patch. The workload that
triggers this issue relates to intensive networking workloads where
most of the cputime is consumed in the kernel.

To reduce much more the opportunities for multiplication overflow,
lets reduce the multiplication factors to the remainders of the division
between sched exec runtime and cputime. Assuming the difference between
these shouldn't ever be that large, it could work on many situations.

This gets the same results as in the upstream scaling code except for
a small difference: the upstream code always rounds the results to
the nearest integer not greater to what would be the precise result.
The new code rounds to the nearest integer either greater or not
greater. In practice this difference probably shouldn't matter but
it's worth mentioning.

If this solution appears not to be enough in the end, we'll
need to partly revert back to the behaviour prior to commit
     0cf55e1ec0
     ("sched, cputime: Introduce thread_group_times()")

Back then, the scaling was done on exit() time before adding the cputime
of an exiting thread to the signal struct. And then we'll need to
scale one-by-one the live threads cputime in thread_group_cputime(). The
drawback may be a slightly slower code on exit time.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2013-03-13 18:18:14 +01:00