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Ingo Molnar af6d596fd6 sched: prevent divide by zero error in cpu_avg_load_per_task, update
Regarding the bug addressed in:

  4cd4262: sched: prevent divide by zero error in cpu_avg_load_per_task

Linus points out that the fix is not complete:

> There's nothing that keeps gcc from deciding not to reload
> rq->nr_running.
>
> Of course, in _practice_, I don't think gcc ever will (if it decides
> that it will spill, gcc is likely going to decide that it will
> literally spill the local variable to the stack rather than decide to
> reload off the pointer), but it's a valid compiler optimization, and
> it even has a name (rematerialization).
>
> So I suspect that your patch does fix the bug, but it still leaves the
> fairly unlikely _potential_ for it to re-appear at some point.
>
> We have ACCESS_ONCE() as a macro to guarantee that the compiler
> doesn't rematerialize a pointer access. That also would clarify
> the fact that we access something unsafe outside a lock.

So make sure our nr_running value is immutable and cannot change
after we check it for nonzero.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-29 20:45:15 +01:00
Alexey Dobriyan 70574a996f sched: move double_unlock_balance() higher
Move double_lock_balance()/double_unlock_balance() higher to fix the following
with gcc-3.4.6:

   CC      kernel/sched.o
 In file included from kernel/sched.c:1605:
 kernel/sched_rt.c: In function `find_lock_lowest_rq':
 kernel/sched_rt.c:914: sorry, unimplemented: inlining failed in call to 'double_unlock_balance': function body not available
 kernel/sched_rt.c:1077: sorry, unimplemented: called from here
 make[2]: *** [kernel/sched.o] Error 1

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-28 20:11:15 +01:00
Ingo Molnar f1860c34b3 Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core 2008-11-28 20:11:05 +01:00
Steven Rostedt 4cd4262034 sched: prevent divide by zero error in cpu_avg_load_per_task
Impact: fix divide by zero crash in scheduler rebalance irq

While testing the branch profiler, I hit this crash:

divide error: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
[...]
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8024a008>]  [<ffffffff8024a008>] cpu_avg_load_per_task+0x50/0x7f
[...]
Call Trace:
 <IRQ> <0> [<ffffffff8024fd43>] find_busiest_group+0x3e5/0xcaa
 [<ffffffff8025da75>] rebalance_domains+0x2da/0xa21
 [<ffffffff80478769>] ? find_next_bit+0x1b2/0x1e6
 [<ffffffff8025e2ce>] run_rebalance_domains+0x112/0x19f
 [<ffffffff8026d7c2>] __do_softirq+0xa8/0x232
 [<ffffffff8020ea7c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x3e
 [<ffffffff8021047a>] do_softirq+0x94/0x1cd
 [<ffffffff8026d5eb>] irq_exit+0x6b/0x10e
 [<ffffffff8022e6ec>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0xd3/0xff
 [<ffffffff8020e4b3>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x13/0x20

The code for cpu_avg_load_per_task has:

	if (rq->nr_running)
		rq->avg_load_per_task = rq->load.weight / rq->nr_running;

The runqueue lock is not held here, and there is nothing that prevents
the rq->nr_running from going to zero after it passes the if condition.

The branch profiler simply made the race window bigger.

This patch saves off the rq->nr_running to a local variable and uses that
for both the condition and the division.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-27 10:29:52 +01:00
Rusty Russell 1224e376f2 sched: avoid stack var in move_task_off_dead_cpu, fix
Impact: locking fix

We can't call cpuset_cpus_allowed_locked() with the rq lock held.
However, the rq lock merely protects us from (1) cpu_online_mask changing
and (2) someone else changing p->cpus_allowed.

The first can't happen because we're being called from a cpu hotplug
notifier.  The second doesn't really matter: we are forcing the task off
a CPU it was affine to, so we're not doing very well anyway.

So we remove the rq lock from this path, and all is good.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-26 07:58:29 +01:00
Rusty Russell bf4d83f664 sched: convert nohz struct to cpumask_var_t, fix
Impact: build fix

Fix the !CONFIG_SMP case.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-26 07:58:27 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker fb52607afc tracing/function-return-tracer: change the name into function-graph-tracer
Impact: cleanup

This patch changes the name of the "return function tracer" into
function-graph-tracer which is a more suitable name for a tracing
which makes one able to retrieve the ordered call stack during
the code flow.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-26 01:59:45 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra ca109491f6 hrtimer: removing all ur callback modes
Impact: cleanup, move all hrtimer processing into hardirq context

This is an attempt at removing some of the hrtimer complexity by
reducing the number of callback modes to 1.

This means that all hrtimer callback functions will be ran from HARD-irq
context.

I went through all the 30 odd hrtimer callback functions in the kernel
and saw only one that I'm not quite sure of, which is the one in
net/can/bcm.c - hence I'm CC-ing the folks responsible for that code.

Furthermore, the hrtimer core now calls callbacks directly with IRQs
disabled in case you try to enqueue an expired timer. If this timer is a
periodic timer (which should use hrtimer_forward() to advance its time)
then it might be possible to end up in an inf. recursive loop due to the
fact that hrtimer_forward() doesn't round up to the next timer
granularity, and therefore keeps on calling the callback - obviously
this needs a fix.

Aside from that, this seems to compile and actually boot on my dual core
test box - although I'm sure there are some bugs in, me not hitting any
makes me certain :-)

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-25 15:45:46 +01:00
Rusty Russell 96f874e264 sched: convert remaining old-style cpumask operators
Impact: Trivial API conversion

  NR_CPUS -> nr_cpu_ids
  cpumask_t -> struct cpumask
  sizeof(cpumask_t) -> cpumask_size()
  cpumask_a = cpumask_b -> cpumask_copy(&cpumask_a, &cpumask_b)

  cpu_set() -> cpumask_set_cpu()
  first_cpu() -> cpumask_first()
  cpumask_of_cpu() -> cpumask_of()
  cpus_* -> cpumask_*

There are some FIXMEs where we all archs to complete infrastructure
(patches have been sent):

  cpu_coregroup_map -> cpu_coregroup_mask
  node_to_cpumask* -> cpumask_of_node

There is also one FIXME where we pass an array of cpumasks to
partition_sched_domains(): this implies knowing the definition of
'struct cpumask' and the size of a cpumask.  This will be fixed in a
future patch.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24 17:52:42 +01:00
Rusty Russell 0e3900e6d3 sched: convert local_cpu_mask to cpumask_var_t.
Impact: (future) size reduction for large NR_CPUS.

Dynamically allocating cpumasks (when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK) saves
space for small nr_cpu_ids but big CONFIG_NR_CPUS.  cpumask_var_t
is just a struct cpumask for !CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24 17:52:35 +01:00
Rusty Russell 68e74568fb sched: convert struct cpupri_vec cpumask_var_t.
Impact: stack usage reduction, (future) size reduction for large NR_CPUS.

Dynamically allocating cpumasks (when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK) saves
space for small nr_cpu_ids but big CONFIG_NR_CPUS.

The fact cpupro_init is called both before and after the slab is
available makes for an ugly parameter unfortunately.

We also use cpumask_any_and to get rid of a temporary in cpupri_find.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24 17:52:22 +01:00
Rusty Russell 4212823fb4 sched: convert falback_doms to cpumask_var_t.
Impact: (future) size reduction for large NR_CPUS.

Dynamically allocating cpumasks (when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK) saves
space for small nr_cpu_ids but big CONFIG_NR_CPUS.  cpumask_var_t
is just a struct cpumask for !CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24 17:52:15 +01:00
Rusty Russell dcc30a35f7 sched: convert cpu_isolated_map to cpumask_var_t.
Impact: stack usage reduction, (future) size reduction, cleanup

Dynamically allocating cpumasks (when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK) saves
space for small nr_cpu_ids but big CONFIG_NR_CPUS.  cpumask_var_t
is just a struct cpumask for !CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK.

We can also use cpulist_parse() instead of doing it manually in
isolated_cpu_setup.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24 17:52:10 +01:00
Rusty Russell d5dd3db1dc sched: convert sched_domain_debug to cpumask_var_t.
Impact: stack usage reduction

Dynamically allocating cpumasks (when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK) saves
stack space.  cpumask_var_t is just a struct cpumask for
!CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK.

In this case, we always alloced, but we don't need to any more.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24 17:52:03 +01:00
Rusty Russell 5a16f3d30c sched: convert struct (sys_)sched_setaffinity() to cpumask_var_t.
Impact: stack usage reduction

Dynamically allocating cpumasks (when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK) saves
space on the stack.  cpumask_var_t is just a struct cpumask for
!CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK.

Note the removal of the initializer of new_mask: since the first thing
we did was "cpus_and(new_mask, new_mask, cpus_allowed)" I just changed
that to "cpumask_and(new_mask, in_mask, cpus_allowed);".

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24 17:51:59 +01:00
Rusty Russell e76bd8d985 sched: avoid stack var in move_task_off_dead_cpu
Impact: stack usage reduction

With some care, we can avoid needing a temporary cpumask (we can't
really allocate here, since we can't fail).

This version calls cpuset_cpus_allowed_locked() with the task_rq_lock
held.  I'm fairly sure this works, but there might be a deadlock
hiding.

And of course, we can't get rid of the last cpumask on stack until we
can use cpumask_of_node instead of node_to_cpumask.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24 17:51:52 +01:00
Rusty Russell f17c860760 sched: convert sys_sched_getaffinity() to cpumask_var_t.
Impact: stack usage reduction

Dynamically allocating cpumasks (when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK) saves
space in the stack.  cpumask_var_t is just a struct cpumask for
!CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK.

Some jiggling here to make sure we always exit at the bottom (so we hit
the free_cpumask_var there).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24 17:51:45 +01:00
Rusty Russell a0e902452d sched: convert rebalance_domains() to cpumask_var_t.
Impact: stack usage reduction

Dynamically allocating cpumasks (when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK) saves
space in the stack.  cpumask_var_t is just a struct cpumask for
!CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24 17:51:37 +01:00
Rusty Russell 4d2732c63e sched: convert idle_balance() to cpumask_var_t.
Impact: stack usage reduction

Dynamically allocating cpumasks (when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK) saves
space in the stack.  cpumask_var_t is just a struct cpumask for
!CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24 17:51:30 +01:00
Rusty Russell 7d1e6a9b95 sched: convert nohz struct to cpumask_var_t.
Impact: (future) size reduction for large NR_CPUS.

Dynamically allocating cpumasks (when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK) saves
space for small nr_cpu_ids but big CONFIG_NR_CPUS.  cpumask_var_t
is just a struct cpumask for !CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24 17:51:24 +01:00
Rusty Russell c6c4927b22 sched: convert struct root_domain to cpumask_var_t.
Impact: (future) size reduction for large NR_CPUS.

Dynamically allocating cpumasks (when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK) saves
space for small nr_cpu_ids but big CONFIG_NR_CPUS.  cpumask_var_t
is just a struct cpumask for !CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK.

def_root_domain is static, and so its masks are initialized with
alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var.  After that, alloc_cpumask_var is used.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24 17:51:18 +01:00
Rusty Russell 6a7b3dc344 sched: convert nohz_cpu_mask to cpumask_var_t.
Impact: (future) size reduction for large NR_CPUS.

Dynamically allocating cpumasks (when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK) saves
space for small nr_cpu_ids but big CONFIG_NR_CPUS.  cpumask_var_t
is just a struct cpumask for !CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24 17:51:10 +01:00
Rusty Russell 6c99e9ad47 sched: convert struct sched_group/sched_domain cpumask_ts to variable bitmaps
Impact: (future) size reduction for large NR_CPUS.

We move the 'cpumask' member of sched_group to the end, so when we
kmalloc it we can do a minimal allocation: saves space for small
nr_cpu_ids but big CONFIG_NR_CPUS.  Similar trick for 'span' in
sched_domain.

This isn't quite as good as converting to a cpumask_var_t, as some
sched_groups are actually static, but it's safer: we don't have to
figure out where to call alloc_cpumask_var/free_cpumask_var.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24 17:50:57 +01:00
Rusty Russell 758b2cdc6f sched: wrap sched_group and sched_domain cpumask accesses.
Impact: trivial wrap of member accesses

This eases the transition in the next patch.

We also get rid of a temporary cpumask in find_idlest_cpu() thanks to
for_each_cpu_and, and sched_balance_self() due to getting weight before
setting sd to NULL.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24 17:50:45 +01:00
Rusty Russell 1e5ce4f4a7 sched: remove any_online_cpu()
Impact: use new API

any_online_cpu() is a good name, but it takes a cpumask_t, not a
pointer.

There are several places where any_online_cpu() doesn't really want a
mask arg at all.  Replace all callers with cpumask_any() and
cpumask_any_and().

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24 17:50:17 +01:00
Rusty Russell 3404c8d97c sched: get rid of boutique sched.c allocations, use cpumask_var_t.
Impact: use new general API

Using lots of allocs rather than one big alloc is less efficient, but
who cares for this setup function?

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24 17:50:04 +01:00
Rusty Russell abcd083a1a sched: convert sched.c from for_each_cpu_mask to for_each_cpu.
Impact: trivial API conversion

This is a simple conversion, but note that for_each_cpu() terminates
with i >= nr_cpu_ids, not i == NR_CPUS like for_each_cpu_mask() did.

I don't convert all of them: sd->span changes in a later patch, so
change those iterators there rather than here.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24 17:49:47 +01:00
Mike Travis ea6f18ed5a sched: reduce stack size requirements in kernel/sched.c
Impact: cleanup

  * use node_to_cpumask_ptr in place of node_to_cpumask to reduce stack
    requirements in sched.c

Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24 17:49:27 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 943f3d0300 Merge branches 'sched/core', 'core/core' and 'tracing/core' into cpus4096 2008-11-24 17:46:57 +01:00
Ingo Molnar b19b3c74c7 Merge branches 'core/debug', 'core/futexes', 'core/locking', 'core/rcu', 'core/signal', 'core/urgent' and 'core/xen' into core/core 2008-11-24 17:44:55 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 64b7482de2 Merge branch 'sched/rt' into sched/core 2008-11-24 17:37:12 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 82f60f0bc8 tracing/function-return-tracer: clean up task start/exit callbacks
Impact: cleanup

Eliminate #ifdefs in core code by using empty inline functions.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-23 09:19:35 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker f201ae2356 tracing/function-return-tracer: store return stack into task_struct and allocate it dynamically
Impact: use deeper function tracing depth safely

Some tests showed that function return tracing needed a more deeper depth
of function calls. But it could be unsafe to store these return addresses
to the stack.

So these arrays will now be allocated dynamically into task_struct of current
only when the tracer is activated.

Typical scheme when tracer is activated:
- allocate a return stack for each task in global list.
- fork: allocate the return stack for the newly created task
- exit: free return stack of current
- idle init: same as fork

I chose a default depth of 50. I don't have overruns anymore.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-23 09:17:26 +01:00
Vegard Nossum 957ad0166e sched: update comment for move_task_off_dead_cpu
Impact: cleanup

This commit:

commit f7b4cddcc5
Author: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Date:   Tue Oct 16 23:30:56 2007 -0700

    do CPU_DEAD migrating under read_lock(tasklist) instead of write_lock_irq(ta

    Currently move_task_off_dead_cpu() is called under
    write_lock_irq(tasklist).  This means it can't use task_lock() which is
    needed to improve migrating to take task's ->cpuset into account.

    Change the code to call move_task_off_dead_cpu() with irqs enabled, and
    change migrate_live_tasks() to use read_lock(tasklist).

...forgot to update the comment in front of move_task_off_dead_cpu.

Reference: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/23/135

Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-21 08:57:28 +01:00
Ken Chen ec4e0e2fe0 sched: fix inconsistency when redistribute per-cpu tg->cfs_rq shares
Impact: make load-balancing more consistent

In the update_shares() path leading to tg_shares_up(), the calculation of
per-cpu cfs_rq shares is rather erratic even under moderate task wake up
rate.  The problem is that the per-cpu tg->cfs_rq load weight used in the
sd_rq_weight aggregation and actual redistribution of the cfs_rq->shares
are collected at different time.  Under moderate system load, we've seen
quite a bit of variation on the cfs_rq->shares and ultimately wildly
affects sched_entity's load weight.

This patch caches the result of initial per-cpu load weight when doing the
sum calculation, and then pass it down to update_group_shares_cpu() for
redistributing per-cpu cfs_rq shares.  This allows consistent total cfs_rq
shares across all CPUs. It also simplifies the rounding and zero load
weight check.

Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-19 18:39:37 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 9676e73a9e Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace' and 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core
Conflicts:
	kernel/trace/ftrace.c

[ We conflicted here because we backported a few fixes to
  tracing/urgent - which has different internal APIs. ]
2008-11-19 10:04:25 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 3ac3ba0b39 Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core
Conflicts:
	kernel/Makefile
2008-11-19 09:44:37 +01:00
Li Zefan 700018e0a7 cpuset: fix regression when failed to generate sched domains
Impact: properly rebuild sched-domains on kmalloc() failure

When cpuset failed to generate sched domains due to kmalloc()
failure, the scheduler should fallback to the single partition
'fallback_doms' and rebuild sched domains, but now it only
destroys but not rebuilds sched domains.

The regression was introduced by:

| commit dfb512ec48
| Author: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
| Date:   Fri Aug 29 13:11:41 2008 -0700
|
|    sched: arch_reinit_sched_domains() must destroy domains to force rebuild

After the above commit, partition_sched_domains(0, NULL, NULL) will
only destroy sched domains and partition_sched_domains(1, NULL, NULL)
will create the default sched domain.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-18 08:44:51 +01:00
Oleg Nesterov 74fcd524e8 account_steal_time: kill the unneeded account_group_system_time()
Impact: remove unnecessary accounting call

I don't actually understand account_steal_time() and I failed to find the
commit which added account_group_system_time(), but this looks bogus.
In any case rq->idle must be single-threaded, so it can't have ->totals.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-17 16:55:53 +01:00
Mathieu Desnoyers 7e066fb870 tracepoints: add DECLARE_TRACE() and DEFINE_TRACE()
Impact: API *CHANGE*. Must update all tracepoint users.

Add DEFINE_TRACE() to tracepoints to let them declare the tracepoint
structure in a single spot for all the kernel. It helps reducing memory
consumption, especially when declaring a lot of tracepoints, e.g. for
kmalloc tracing.

*API CHANGE WARNING*: now, DECLARE_TRACE() must be used in headers for
tracepoint declarations rather than DEFINE_TRACE(). This is the sane way
to do it. The name previously used was misleading.

Updates scheduler instrumentation to follow this API change.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-16 09:01:36 +01:00
James Morris 2b82892565 Merge branch 'master' into next
Conflicts:
	security/keys/internal.h
	security/keys/process_keys.c
	security/keys/request_key.c

Fixed conflicts above by using the non 'tsk' versions.

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 11:29:12 +11:00
David Howells c69e8d9c01 CRED: Use RCU to access another task's creds and to release a task's own creds
Use RCU to access another task's creds and to release a task's own creds.
This means that it will be possible for the credentials of a task to be
replaced without another task (a) requiring a full lock to read them, and (b)
seeing deallocated memory.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 10:39:19 +11:00
David Howells b6dff3ec5e CRED: Separate task security context from task_struct
Separate the task security context from task_struct.  At this point, the
security data is temporarily embedded in the task_struct with two pointers
pointing to it.

Note that the Alpha arch is altered as it refers to (E)UID and (E)GID in
entry.S via asm-offsets.

With comment fixes Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 10:39:16 +11:00
David Howells 76aac0e9a1 CRED: Wrap task credential accesses in the core kernel
Wrap access to task credentials so that they can be separated more easily from
the task_struct during the introduction of COW creds.

Change most current->(|e|s|fs)[ug]id to current_(|e|s|fs)[ug]id().

Change some task->e?[ug]id to task_e?[ug]id().  In some places it makes more
sense to use RCU directly rather than a convenient wrapper; these will be
addressed by later patches.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com
Cc: containers@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 10:39:12 +11:00
Ingo Molnar 5cbd54ef47 sched: fix init_idle()'s use of sched_clock()
Maciej Rutecki reported:

> I have this bug during suspend to disk:
>
> [  188.592151] Enabling non-boot CPUs ...
> [  188.592151] SMP alternatives: switching to SMP code
> [  188.666058] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible
> [00000000]
> code: suspend_to_disk/2934
> [  188.666064] caller is native_sched_clock+0x2b/0x80

Which, as noted by Linus, was caused by me, via:

  7cbaef9c "sched: optimize sched_clock() a bit"

Move the rq locking a bit earlier in the initialization sequence,
that will make the sched_clock() call in init_idle() non-preemptible.

Reported-by: Maciej Rutecki <maciej.rutecki@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-12 20:05:50 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 708b8eae0f Merge branch 'linus' into core/locking 2008-11-12 12:39:21 +01:00
Balbir Singh a2d477778e sched: fix stale value in average load per task
Impact: fix load balancer load average calculation accuracy

cpu_avg_load_per_task() returns a stale value when nr_running is 0.
It returns an older stale (caculated when nr_running was non zero) value.

This patch returns and sets rq->avg_load_per_task to zero when nr_running
is 0.

Compile and boot tested on a x86_64 box.

Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-12 12:33:50 +01:00
Bharata B Rao 934352f214 sched: add hierarchical accounting to cpu accounting controller
Impact: improve CPU time accounting of tasks under the cpu accounting controller

Add hierarchical accounting to cpu accounting controller and include
cpuacct documentation.

Currently, while charging the task's cputime to its accounting group,
the accounting group hierarchy isn't updated. This patch charges the cputime
of a task to its accounting group and all its parent accounting groups.

Reported-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-11 12:13:28 +01:00
Oleg Nesterov ad474caca3 fix for account_group_exec_runtime(), make sure ->signal can't be freed under rq->lock
Impact: fix hang/crash on ia64 under high load

This is ugly, but the simplest patch by far.

Unlike other similar routines, account_group_exec_runtime() could be
called "implicitly" from within scheduler after exit_notify(). This
means we can race with the parent doing release_task(), we can't just
check ->signal != NULL.

Change __exit_signal() to do spin_unlock_wait(&task_rq(tsk)->lock)
before __cleanup_signal() to make sure ->signal can't be freed under
task_rq(tsk)->lock. Note that task_rq_unlock_wait() doesn't care
about the case when tsk changes cpu/rq under us, this should be OK.

Thanks to Ingo who nacked my previous buggy patch.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Reported-by: Doug Chapman <doug.chapman@hp.com>
2008-11-11 08:01:43 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 5ac5c4d604 sched: clean up debug info
Impact: clean up and fix debug info printout

While looking over the sched_debug code I noticed that we printed the rq
schedstats for every cfs_rq, ammend this.

Also change nr_spead_over into an int, and fix a little buglet in
min_vruntime printing.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-10 10:51:51 +01:00
Li Zefan 6d21cd6251 sched: clean up SCHED_CPUMASK_ALLOC
Impact: cleanup

The #if/#endif is ugly. Change SCHED_CPUMASK_ALLOC and
SCHED_CPUMASK_FREE to static inline functions.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-07 10:30:35 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 258594a138 Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core 2008-11-07 10:29:58 +01:00
Li Zefan ca3273f964 sched: fix memory leak in a failure path
Impact: fix rare memory leak in the sched-domains manual reconfiguration code

In the failure path, rd is not attached to a sched domain,
so it causes a leak.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-07 08:29:58 +01:00
Li Zefan f29c9b1ccb sched: fix a bug in sched domain degenerate
Impact: re-add incorrectly eliminated sched domain layers

(1) on i386 with SCHED_SMT and SCHED_MC enabled
	# mount -t cgroup -o cpuset xxx /mnt
	# echo 0 > /mnt/cpuset.sched_load_balance
	# mkdir /mnt/0
	# echo 0 > /mnt/0/cpuset.cpus
	# dmesg
	CPU0 attaching sched-domain:
	 domain 0: span 0 level CPU
	  groups: 0

(2) on i386 with SCHED_MC enabled but SCHED_SMT disabled
	# same with (1)
	# dmesg
	CPU0 attaching NULL sched-domain.

The bug is that some sched domains may be skipped unintentionally when
degenerating (optimizing) sched domains.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-07 08:29:57 +01:00
Sripathi Kodi cf7f8690e8 sched, lockdep: inline double_unlock_balance()
We have a test case which measures the variation in the amount of time
needed to perform a fixed amount of work on the preempt_rt kernel. We
started seeing deterioration in it's performance recently. The test
should never take more than 10 microseconds, but we started 5-10%
failure rate.

Using elimination method, we traced the problem to commit
1b12bbc747 (lockdep: re-annotate
scheduler runqueues).

When LOCKDEP is disabled, this patch only adds an additional function
call to double_unlock_balance(). Hence I inlined double_unlock_balance()
and the problem went away. Here is a patch to make this change.

Signed-off-by: Sripathi Kodi <sripathik@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-06 22:12:09 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 4793241be4 sched: backward looking buddy
Impact: improve/change/fix wakeup-buddy scheduling

Currently we only have a forward looking buddy, that is, we prefer to
schedule to the task we last woke up, under the presumption that its
going to consume the data we just produced, and therefore will have
cache hot benefits.

This allows co-waking producer/consumer task pairs to run ahead of the
pack for a little while, keeping their cache warm. Without this, we
would interleave all pairs, utterly trashing the cache.

This patch introduces a backward looking buddy, that is, suppose that
in the above scenario, the consumer preempts the producer before it
can go to sleep, we will therefore miss the wakeup from consumer to
producer (its already running, after all), breaking the cycle and
reverting to the cache-trashing interleaved schedule pattern.

The backward buddy will try to schedule back to the task that woke us
up in case the forward buddy is not available, under the assumption
that the last task will be the one with the most cache hot task around
barring current.

This will basically allow a task to continue after it got preempted.

In order to avoid starvation, we allow either buddy to get wakeup_gran
ahead of the pack.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-05 10:30:14 +01:00
Li Zefan faa2f98f85 sched: add sanity check in partition_sched_domains()
Impact: cleanup, add debug check

It's wrong to make dattr_new = NULL if doms_new == NULL, it introduces
memory leak if dattr_new != NULL. Fortunately dattr_new is always NULL
in this case. So remove the code and add a sanity check.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-04 10:25:13 +01:00
Li Zefan a17e226092 sched: remove redundant call to unregister_sched_domain_sysctl()
Impact: cleanup

The sysctl has been unregistered by partition_sched_domains().

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-04 10:23:42 +01:00
Li Zefan eefd796a8e sched debug: remove sd_level_to_string()
Impact: cleanup

Just use the newly introduced sd->name.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-04 10:21:49 +01:00
Li Zefan 34f3a814ee sched: switch sched_features to seqfile
Impact: cleanup

So handling of sched_features read is simplified.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-30 11:38:35 +01:00
Li Zefan eab172294d sched: cleanup for alloc_rt/fair_sched_group()
Impact: cleanup

Remove checking parent == NULL. It won't be NULLL, because we dynamically
create sub task_group only, and sub task_group always has its parent.
(root task_group is statically defined)

Also replace kmalloc_node(GFP_ZERO) with kzalloc_node().

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-29 11:53:26 +01:00
Ingo Molnar d1a76187a5 Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc2' into core/locking
Conflicts:
	arch/um/include/asm/system.h
2008-10-28 16:54:49 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 3f3a490480 sched: virtual time buddy preemption
Since we moved wakeup preemption back to virtual time, it makes sense to move
the buddy stuff back as well. The purpose of the buddy scheduling is to allow
a quickly scheduling pair of tasks to run away from the group as far as a
regular busy task would be allowed under wakeup preemption.

This has the advantage that the pair can ping-pong for a while, enjoying
cache-hotness. Without buddy scheduling other tasks would interleave destroying
the cache.

Also, it saves a word in cfs_rq.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-24 12:51:03 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 01c8c57d66 sched: fix a find_busiest_group buglet
In one of the group load balancer patches:

	commit 408ed066b1
	Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
	Date:   Fri Jun 27 13:41:28 2008 +0200
	Subject: sched: hierarchical load vs find_busiest_group

The following change:

-               if (max_load - this_load + SCHED_LOAD_SCALE_FUZZ >=
+               if (max_load - this_load + 2*busiest_load_per_task >=
                                        busiest_load_per_task * imbn) {

made the condition always true, because imbn is [1,2].
Therefore, remove the 2*, and give the it a fair chance.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-24 12:50:59 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 88ed86fee6 Merge branch 'proc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/adobriyan/proc
* 'proc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/adobriyan/proc: (35 commits)
  proc: remove fs/proc/proc_misc.c
  proc: move /proc/vmcore creation to fs/proc/vmcore.c
  proc: move pagecount stuff to fs/proc/page.c
  proc: move all /proc/kcore stuff to fs/proc/kcore.c
  proc: move /proc/schedstat boilerplate to kernel/sched_stats.h
  proc: move /proc/modules boilerplate to kernel/module.c
  proc: move /proc/diskstats boilerplate to block/genhd.c
  proc: move /proc/zoneinfo boilerplate to mm/vmstat.c
  proc: move /proc/vmstat boilerplate to mm/vmstat.c
  proc: move /proc/pagetypeinfo boilerplate to mm/vmstat.c
  proc: move /proc/buddyinfo boilerplate to mm/vmstat.c
  proc: move /proc/vmallocinfo to mm/vmalloc.c
  proc: move /proc/slabinfo boilerplate to mm/slub.c, mm/slab.c
  proc: move /proc/slab_allocators boilerplate to mm/slab.c
  proc: move /proc/interrupts boilerplate code to fs/proc/interrupts.c
  proc: move /proc/stat to fs/proc/stat.c
  proc: move rest of /proc/partitions code to block/genhd.c
  proc: move /proc/cpuinfo code to fs/proc/cpuinfo.c
  proc: move /proc/devices code to fs/proc/devices.c
  proc: move rest of /proc/locks to fs/locks.c
  ...
2008-10-23 12:04:37 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 1f6d6e8ebe Merge branch 'v28-range-hrtimers-for-linus-v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'v28-range-hrtimers-for-linus-v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (37 commits)
  hrtimers: add missing docbook comments to struct hrtimer
  hrtimers: simplify hrtimer_peek_ahead_timers()
  hrtimers: fix docbook comments
  DECLARE_PER_CPU needs linux/percpu.h
  hrtimers: fix typo
  rangetimers: fix the bug reported by Ingo for real
  rangetimer: fix BUG_ON reported by Ingo
  rangetimer: fix x86 build failure for the !HRTIMERS case
  select: fix alpha OSF wrapper
  select: fix alpha OSF wrapper
  hrtimer: peek at the timer queue just before going idle
  hrtimer: make the futex() system call use the per process slack value
  hrtimer: make the nanosleep() syscall use the per process slack
  hrtimer: fix signed/unsigned bug in slack estimator
  hrtimer: show the timer ranges in /proc/timer_list
  hrtimer: incorporate feedback from Peter Zijlstra
  hrtimer: add a hrtimer_start_range() function
  hrtimer: another build fix
  hrtimer: fix build bug found by Ingo
  hrtimer: make select() and poll() use the hrtimer range feature
  ...
2008-10-23 10:53:02 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 133e887f90 Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: disable the hrtick for now
  sched: revert back to per-rq vruntime
  sched: fair scheduler should not resched rt tasks
  sched: optimize group load balancer
  sched: minor fast-path overhead reduction
  sched: fix the wrong mask_len, cleanup
  sched: kill unused scheduler decl.
  sched: fix the wrong mask_len
  sched: only update rq->clock while holding rq->lock
2008-10-23 09:37:16 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan b5aadf7f14 proc: move /proc/schedstat boilerplate to kernel/sched_stats.h
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
2008-10-23 18:06:12 +04:00
Thomas Gleixner 268a3dcfea Merge branch 'timers/range-hrtimers' into v28-range-hrtimers-for-linus-v2
Conflicts:

	kernel/time/tick-sched.c

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-10-22 09:48:06 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 92b29b86fe Merge branch 'tracing-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (131 commits)
  tracing/fastboot: improve help text
  tracing/stacktrace: improve help text
  tracing/fastboot: fix initcalls disposition in bootgraph.pl
  tracing/fastboot: fix bootgraph.pl initcall name regexp
  tracing/fastboot: fix issues and improve output of bootgraph.pl
  tracepoints: synchronize unregister static inline
  tracepoints: tracepoint_synchronize_unregister()
  ftrace: make ftrace_test_p6nop disassembler-friendly
  markers: fix synchronize marker unregister static inline
  tracing/fastboot: add better resolution to initcall debug/tracing
  trace: add build-time check to avoid overrunning hex buffer
  ftrace: fix hex output mode of ftrace
  tracing/fastboot: fix initcalls disposition in bootgraph.pl
  tracing/fastboot: fix printk format typo in boot tracer
  ftrace: return an error when setting a nonexistent tracer
  ftrace: make some tracers reentrant
  ring-buffer: make reentrant
  ring-buffer: move page indexes into page headers
  tracing/fastboot: only trace non-module initcalls
  ftrace: move pc counter in irqtrace
  ...

Manually fix conflicts:
 - init/main.c: initcall tracing
 - kernel/module.c: verbose level vs tracepoints
 - scripts/bootgraph.pl: fallout from cherry-picking commits.
2008-10-20 13:35:07 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra ffda12a17a sched: optimize group load balancer
I noticed that tg_shares_up() unconditionally takes rq-locks for all cpus
in the sched_domain. This hurts.

We need the rq-locks whenever we change the weight of the per-cpu group sched
entities. To allevate this a little, only change the weight when the new
weight is at least shares_thresh away from the old value.

This avoids the rq-lock for the top level entries, since those will never
be re-weighted, and fuzzes the lower level entries a little to gain performance
in semi-stable situations.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-20 14:05:02 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner c465a76af6 Merge branches 'timers/clocksource', 'timers/hrtimers', 'timers/nohz', 'timers/ntp', 'timers/posixtimers' and 'timers/debug' into v28-timers-for-linus 2008-10-20 13:14:06 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven 651dab4264 Merge commit 'linus/master' into merge-linus
Conflicts:

	arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c
2008-10-17 09:20:26 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra 8cd162ce23 sched: only update rq->clock while holding rq->lock
Vatsa noticed rq->clock going funny and tracked it down to an update_rq_clock()
outside a rq->lock section.

This is a problem because things like double_rq_lock() update the rq->clock
value for both rqs. Therefore disabling interrupts isn't strong enough.

Reported-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-15 20:43:27 +02:00
Mathieu Desnoyers 0a16b60758 tracing, sched: LTTng instrumentation - scheduler
Instrument the scheduler activity (sched_switch, migration, wakeups,
wait for a task, signal delivery) and process/thread
creation/destruction (fork, exit, kthread stop). Actually, kthread
creation is not instrumented in this patch because it is architecture
dependent. It allows to connect tracers such as ftrace which detects
scheduling latencies, good/bad scheduler decisions. Tools like LTTng can
export this scheduler information along with instrumentation of the rest
of the kernel activity to perform post-mortem analysis on the scheduler
activity.

About the performance impact of tracepoints (which is comparable to
markers), even without immediate values optimizations, tests done by
Hideo Aoki on ia64 show no regression. His test case was using hackbench
on a kernel where scheduler instrumentation (about 5 events in code
scheduler code) was added. See the "Tracepoints" patch header for
performance result detail.

Changelog :

- Change instrumentation location and parameter to match ftrace
  instrumentation, previously done with kernel markers.

[ mingo@elte.hu: conflict resolutions ]
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Acked-by: 'Peter Zijlstra' <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:30:52 +02:00
Ingo Molnar a5d8c3483a sched debug: add name to sched_domain sysctl entries
add /proc/sys/kernel/sched_domain/cpu0/domain0/name, to make
it easier to see which specific scheduler domain remained at
that entry.

Since we process the scheduler domain tree and
simplify it, it's not always immediately clear during debugging
which domain came from where.

depends on CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-09 17:13:06 +02:00
Li Zefan 34b3ede235 sched: remove redundant code in cpu_cgroup_create()
css will be initialized by cgroup core.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-06 08:13:34 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 2c10c22af0 Merge branch 'linus' into sched/devel 2008-10-06 08:13:18 +02:00
Nick Piggin 7317d7b87e sched: improve preempt debugging
This patch helped me out with a problem I recently had....

Basically, when the kernel lock is held, then preempt_count underflow does not
get detected until it is released which may be a long time (and arbitrarily,
eg at different points it may be rescheduled). If the bkl is released at
schedule, the resulting output is actually fairly cryptic...

With any other lock that elevates preempt_count, it is illegal to schedule
under it (which would get found pretty quickly). bkl allows scheduling with
preempt_count elevated, which makes underflows hard to debug.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-30 12:56:25 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 1508487e7f timers: fix itimer/many thread hang, fix
fix bogus rq dereference: v3 removed the locking but also removed the rq
initialization.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-30 08:28:17 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner ccc7dadf73 hrtimer: prevent migration of per CPU hrtimers
Impact: per CPU hrtimers can be migrated from a dead CPU

The hrtimer code has no knowledge about per CPU timers, but we need to
prevent the migration of such timers and warn when such a timer is
active at migration time.

Explicitely mark the timers as per CPU and use a more understandable
mode descriptor for the interrupts safe unlocked callback mode, which
is used by hrtimer_sleeper and the scheduler code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-29 17:09:14 +02:00
Frank Mayhar 7086efe1c1 timers: fix itimer/many thread hang, v3
- fix UP lockup
- another set of UP/SMP cleanups and simplifications

Signed-off-by: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-27 20:04:45 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 4653f803e6 sched: more sanity checks on the bandwidth settings
While playing around with it, I noticed we missed some sanity checks.
Also add some comments while we're there.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23 16:23:16 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 63e5c39859 Merge branches 'sched/urgent' and 'sched/rt' into sched/devel 2008-09-23 16:23:05 +02:00
Frank Mayhar bb34d92f64 timers: fix itimer/many thread hang, v2
This is the second resubmission of the posix timer rework patch, posted
a few days ago.

This includes the changes from the previous resubmittion, which addressed
Oleg Nesterov's comments, removing the RCU stuff from the patch and
un-inlining the thread_group_cputime() function for SMP.

In addition, per Ingo Molnar it simplifies the UP code, consolidating much
of it with the SMP version and depending on lower-level SMP/UP handling to
take care of the differences.

It also cleans up some UP compile errors, moves the scheduler stats-related
macros into kernel/sched_stats.h, cleans up a merge error in
kernel/fork.c and has a few other minor fixes and cleanups as suggested
by Oleg and Ingo. Thanks for the review, guys.

Signed-off-by: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23 13:38:44 +02:00
Andrew Morton 006c75f146 sched: clarify ifdef tangle
- Add some comments to try to make the ifdef puzzle a bit clearer

- Explicitly inline one of the three init_hrtick() implementations.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23 11:02:31 +02:00
Rakib Mullick fa74820317 sched: fix init_hrtick() section mismatch warning
LD      kernel/built-in.o
WARNING: kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x326): Section mismatch in reference
from the function init_hrtick() to the variable
.cpuinit.data:hotplug_hrtick_nb.8
The function init_hrtick() references
the variable __cpuinitdata hotplug_hrtick_nb.8.
This is often because init_hrtick lacks a __cpuinitdata
annotation or the annotation of hotplug_hrtick_nb.8 is wrong.

Signed-off-by: Md.Rakib H. Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23 11:02:13 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 15afe09bf4 sched: wakeup preempt when small overlap
Lin Ming reported a 10% OLTP regression against 2.6.27-rc4.

The difference seems to come from different preemption agressiveness,
which affects the cache footprint of the workload and its effective
cache trashing.

Aggresively preempt a task if its avg overlap is very small, this should
avoid the task going to sleep and find it still running when we schedule
back to it - saving a wakeup.

Reported-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-22 16:28:32 +02:00
Frank Mayhar f06febc96b timers: fix itimer/many thread hang
Overview

This patch reworks the handling of POSIX CPU timers, including the
ITIMER_PROF, ITIMER_VIRT timers and rlimit handling.  It was put together
with the help of Roland McGrath, the owner and original writer of this code.

The problem we ran into, and the reason for this rework, has to do with using
a profiling timer in a process with a large number of threads.  It appears
that the performance of the old implementation of run_posix_cpu_timers() was
at least O(n*3) (where "n" is the number of threads in a process) or worse.
Everything is fine with an increasing number of threads until the time taken
for that routine to run becomes the same as or greater than the tick time, at
which point things degrade rather quickly.

This patch fixes bug 9906, "Weird hang with NPTL and SIGPROF."

Code Changes

This rework corrects the implementation of run_posix_cpu_timers() to make it
run in constant time for a particular machine.  (Performance may vary between
one machine and another depending upon whether the kernel is built as single-
or multiprocessor and, in the latter case, depending upon the number of
running processors.)  To do this, at each tick we now update fields in
signal_struct as well as task_struct.  The run_posix_cpu_timers() function
uses those fields to make its decisions.

We define a new structure, "task_cputime," to contain user, system and
scheduler times and use these in appropriate places:

struct task_cputime {
	cputime_t utime;
	cputime_t stime;
	unsigned long long sum_exec_runtime;
};

This is included in the structure "thread_group_cputime," which is a new
substructure of signal_struct and which varies for uniprocessor versus
multiprocessor kernels.  For uniprocessor kernels, it uses "task_cputime" as
a simple substructure, while for multiprocessor kernels it is a pointer:

struct thread_group_cputime {
	struct task_cputime totals;
};

struct thread_group_cputime {
	struct task_cputime *totals;
};

We also add a new task_cputime substructure directly to signal_struct, to
cache the earliest expiration of process-wide timers, and task_cputime also
replaces the it_*_expires fields of task_struct (used for earliest expiration
of thread timers).  The "thread_group_cputime" structure contains process-wide
timers that are updated via account_user_time() and friends.  In the non-SMP
case the structure is a simple aggregator; unfortunately in the SMP case that
simplicity was not achievable due to cache-line contention between CPUs (in
one measured case performance was actually _worse_ on a 16-cpu system than
the same test on a 4-cpu system, due to this contention).  For SMP, the
thread_group_cputime counters are maintained as a per-cpu structure allocated
using alloc_percpu().  The timer functions update only the timer field in
the structure corresponding to the running CPU, obtained using per_cpu_ptr().

We define a set of inline functions in sched.h that we use to maintain the
thread_group_cputime structure and hide the differences between UP and SMP
implementations from the rest of the kernel.  The thread_group_cputime_init()
function initializes the thread_group_cputime structure for the given task.
The thread_group_cputime_alloc() is a no-op for UP; for SMP it calls the
out-of-line function thread_group_cputime_alloc_smp() to allocate and fill
in the per-cpu structures and fields.  The thread_group_cputime_free()
function, also a no-op for UP, in SMP frees the per-cpu structures.  The
thread_group_cputime_clone_thread() function (also a UP no-op) for SMP calls
thread_group_cputime_alloc() if the per-cpu structures haven't yet been
allocated.  The thread_group_cputime() function fills the task_cputime
structure it is passed with the contents of the thread_group_cputime fields;
in UP it's that simple but in SMP it must also safely check that tsk->signal
is non-NULL (if it is it just uses the appropriate fields of task_struct) and,
if so, sums the per-cpu values for each online CPU.  Finally, the three
functions account_group_user_time(), account_group_system_time() and
account_group_exec_runtime() are used by timer functions to update the
respective fields of the thread_group_cputime structure.

Non-SMP operation is trivial and will not be mentioned further.

The per-cpu structure is always allocated when a task creates its first new
thread, via a call to thread_group_cputime_clone_thread() from copy_signal().
It is freed at process exit via a call to thread_group_cputime_free() from
cleanup_signal().

All functions that formerly summed utime/stime/sum_sched_runtime values from
from all threads in the thread group now use thread_group_cputime() to
snapshot the values in the thread_group_cputime structure or the values in
the task structure itself if the per-cpu structure hasn't been allocated.

Finally, the code in kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c has changed quite a bit.
The run_posix_cpu_timers() function has been split into a fast path and a
slow path; the former safely checks whether there are any expired thread
timers and, if not, just returns, while the slow path does the heavy lifting.
With the dedicated thread group fields, timers are no longer "rebalanced" and
the process_timer_rebalance() function and related code has gone away.  All
summing loops are gone and all code that used them now uses the
thread_group_cputime() inline.  When process-wide timers are set, the new
task_cputime structure in signal_struct is used to cache the earliest
expiration; this is checked in the fast path.

Performance

The fix appears not to add significant overhead to existing operations.  It
generally performs the same as the current code except in two cases, one in
which it performs slightly worse (Case 5 below) and one in which it performs
very significantly better (Case 2 below).  Overall it's a wash except in those
two cases.

I've since done somewhat more involved testing on a dual-core Opteron system.

Case 1: With no itimer running, for a test with 100,000 threads, the fixed
	kernel took 1428.5 seconds, 513 seconds more than the unfixed system,
	all of which was spent in the system.  There were twice as many
	voluntary context switches with the fix as without it.

Case 2: With an itimer running at .01 second ticks and 4000 threads (the most
	an unmodified kernel can handle), the fixed kernel ran the test in
	eight percent of the time (5.8 seconds as opposed to 70 seconds) and
	had better tick accuracy (.012 seconds per tick as opposed to .023
	seconds per tick).

Case 3: A 4000-thread test with an initial timer tick of .01 second and an
	interval of 10,000 seconds (i.e. a timer that ticks only once) had
	very nearly the same performance in both cases:  6.3 seconds elapsed
	for the fixed kernel versus 5.5 seconds for the unfixed kernel.

With fewer threads (eight in these tests), the Case 1 test ran in essentially
the same time on both the modified and unmodified kernels (5.2 seconds versus
5.8 seconds).  The Case 2 test ran in about the same time as well, 5.9 seconds
versus 5.4 seconds but again with much better tick accuracy, .013 seconds per
tick versus .025 seconds per tick for the unmodified kernel.

Since the fix affected the rlimit code, I also tested soft and hard CPU limits.

Case 4: With a hard CPU limit of 20 seconds and eight threads (and an itimer
	running), the modified kernel was very slightly favored in that while
	it killed the process in 19.997 seconds of CPU time (5.002 seconds of
	wall time), only .003 seconds of that was system time, the rest was
	user time.  The unmodified kernel killed the process in 20.001 seconds
	of CPU (5.014 seconds of wall time) of which .016 seconds was system
	time.  Really, though, the results were too close to call.  The results
	were essentially the same with no itimer running.

Case 5: With a soft limit of 20 seconds and a hard limit of 2000 seconds
	(where the hard limit would never be reached) and an itimer running,
	the modified kernel exhibited worse tick accuracy than the unmodified
	kernel: .050 seconds/tick versus .028 seconds/tick.  Otherwise,
	performance was almost indistinguishable.  With no itimer running this
	test exhibited virtually identical behavior and times in both cases.

In times past I did some limited performance testing.  those results are below.

On a four-cpu Opteron system without this fix, a sixteen-thread test executed
in 3569.991 seconds, of which user was 3568.435s and system was 1.556s.  On
the same system with the fix, user and elapsed time were about the same, but
system time dropped to 0.007 seconds.  Performance with eight, four and one
thread were comparable.  Interestingly, the timer ticks with the fix seemed
more accurate:  The sixteen-thread test with the fix received 149543 ticks
for 0.024 seconds per tick, while the same test without the fix received 58720
for 0.061 seconds per tick.  Both cases were configured for an interval of
0.01 seconds.  Again, the other tests were comparable.  Each thread in this
test computed the primes up to 25,000,000.

I also did a test with a large number of threads, 100,000 threads, which is
impossible without the fix.  In this case each thread computed the primes only
up to 10,000 (to make the runtime manageable).  System time dominated, at
1546.968 seconds out of a total 2176.906 seconds (giving a user time of
629.938s).  It received 147651 ticks for 0.015 seconds per tick, still quite
accurate.  There is obviously no comparable test without the fix.

Signed-off-by: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-14 16:25:35 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 09b22a2f67 Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc6' into sched/devel 2008-09-11 13:37:28 +02:00
Hiroshi Shimamoto ec5d498991 sched: fix deadlock in setting scheduler parameter to zero
Andrei Gusev wrote:

> I played witch scheduler settings. After doing something like:
> echo -n 1000000 >sched_rt_period_us
>
> command is locked. I found in kernel.log:
>
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra Pid: 4495, comm: bash Tainted: G        W
> (2.6.26.3 #12)
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra EIP: 0060:[<c0213fc7>] EFLAGS: 00210246 CPU: 0
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra EIP is at div64_u64+0x57/0x80
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra EAX: 0000389f EBX: 00000000 ECX: 00000000
> EDX: 00000000
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra ESI: d9800000 EDI: d9800000 EBP: 0000389f
> ESP: ea7a6edc
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 0033 SS: 0068
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra Process bash (pid: 4495, ti=ea7a6000
> task=ea744000 task.ti=ea7a6000)
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra Stack: 00000000 000003e8 d9800000 0000389f
> c0119042 00000000 00000000 00000001
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra 00000000 00000000 ea7a6f54 00010000 00000000
> c04d2e80 00000001 000e7ef0
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra c01191a3 00000000 00000000 ea7a6fa0 00000001
> ffffffff c04d2e80 ea5b2480
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra Call Trace:
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra [<c0119042>] __rt_schedulable+0x52/0x130
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra [<c01191a3>] sched_rt_handler+0x83/0x120
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra [<c01a76a6>] proc_sys_call_handler+0xb6/0xd0
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra [<c01a76c0>] proc_sys_write+0x0/0x20
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra [<c01a76d9>] proc_sys_write+0x19/0x20
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra [<c016cc68>] vfs_write+0xa8/0x140
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra [<c016cdd1>] sys_write+0x41/0x80
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra [<c0103051>] sysenter_past_esp+0x6a/0x91
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra =======================
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra Code: c8 41 0f ad f3 d3 ee f6 c1 20 0f 45 de
> 31 f6 0f ad ef d3 ed f6 c1 20 0f 45 fd 0f 45 ee 31 c9 39 eb 89 fe 89 ea
> 77 08 89 e8 31 d2 <f7> f3 89 c1 89 f0 8b 7c 24 08 f7 f3 8b 74 24 04 89
> ca 8b 1c 24
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra EIP: [<c0213fc7>] div64_u64+0x57/0x80 SS:ESP
> 0068:ea7a6edc
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra ---[ end trace 4eaa2a86a8e2da22 ]---

fix the boundary condition.

sysctl_sched_rt_period=0 makes exception at to_ratio().

Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-11 09:39:18 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 291c54ff76 Merge branch 'sched/cpuset' into sched/urgent 2008-09-06 21:03:16 +02:00
Max Krasnyansky dfb512ec48 sched: arch_reinit_sched_domains() must destroy domains to force rebuild
What I realized recently is that calling rebuild_sched_domains() in
arch_reinit_sched_domains() by itself is not enough when cpusets are enabled.
partition_sched_domains() code is trying to avoid unnecessary domain rebuilds
and will not actually rebuild anything if new domain masks match the old ones.

What this means is that doing
     echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/sched_mc_power_savings
on a system with cpusets enabled will not take affect untill something changes
in the cpuset setup (ie new sets created or deleted).

This patch fixes restore correct behaviour where domains must be rebuilt in
order to enable MC powersaving flags.

Test on quad-core Core2 box with both CONFIG_CPUSETS and !CONFIG_CPUSETS.
Also tested on dual-core Core2 laptop. Lockdep is happy and things are working
as expected.

Signed-off-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Tested-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-06 19:22:15 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 7f79d852ed Merge branch 'linus' into sched/devel 2008-09-06 16:51:57 +02:00
Krzysztof Helt c8bfff6dd4 sched: compilation fix with gcc 3.4.6
I found that 2.6.27-rc5-mm1 does not compile with gcc 3.4.6.
The error is:
  CC      kernel/sched.o
kernel/sched.c: In function `start_rt_bandwidth':
kernel/sched.c:208: sorry, unimplemented: inlining failed in call to 'rt_bandwidth_enabled': function body not available
kernel/sched.c:214: sorry, unimplemented: called from here
make[1]: *** [kernel/sched.o] Error 1
make: *** [kernel] Error 2

It seems that the gcc 3.4.6 requires full inline definition before first usage.
The patch below fixes the compilation problem.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl> (if needed>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-06 15:17:09 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven cc584b213f hrtimer: convert kernel/* to the new hrtimer apis
In order to be able to do range hrtimers we need to use accessor functions
to the "expire" member of the hrtimer struct.
This patch converts kernel/* to these accessors.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2008-09-05 21:35:13 -07:00
Balbir Singh 49048622ea sched: fix process time monotonicity
Spencer reported a problem where utime and stime were going negative despite
the fixes in commit b27f03d4bd. The suspected
reason for the problem is that signal_struct maintains it's own utime and
stime (of exited tasks), these are not updated using the new task_utime()
routine, hence sig->utime can go backwards and cause the same problem
to occur (sig->utime, adds tsk->utime and not task_utime()). This patch
fixes the problem

TODO: using max(task->prev_utime, derived utime) works for now, but a more
generic solution is to implement cputime_max() and use the cputime_gt()
function for comparison.

Reported-by: spencer@bluehost.com
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-05 18:14:35 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 7940ca3605 sched: extract walk_tg_tree(), fix
fix:

 kernel/sched.c: In function '__rt_schedulable':
 kernel/sched.c:8771: error: implicit declaration of function 'walk_tg_tree'
 kernel/sched.c:8771: error: 'tg_nop' undeclared (first use in this function)
 kernel/sched.c:8771: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
 kernel/sched.c:8771: error: for each function it appears in.)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-28 12:08:00 +02:00
Ingo Molnar aef745fca0 sched: clean up __might_sleep()
add KERN_ to the printout and clean up the flow a bit.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-28 11:36:03 +02:00
Joe Korty 29cbef4869 make might_sleep() display the oopsing process
Expand might_sleep's printk to indicate the oopsing process.

Signed-off-by: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-28 11:36:02 +02:00