linux-toradex.git/include/linux/sched.h, branch v4.16-rc4

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2018-02-07T06:15:42+00:00

Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:

 - kasan updates

 - procfs

 - lib/bitmap updates

 - other lib/ updates

 - checkpatch tweaks

 - rapidio

 - ubsan

 - pipe fixes and cleanups

 - lots of other misc bits

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (114 commits)
  Documentation/sysctl/user.txt: fix typo
  MAINTAINERS: update ARM/QUALCOMM SUPPORT patterns
  MAINTAINERS: update various PALM patterns
  MAINTAINERS: update "ARM/OXNAS platform support" patterns
  MAINTAINERS: update Cortina/Gemini patterns
  MAINTAINERS: remove ARM/CLKDEV SUPPORT file pattern
  MAINTAINERS: remove ANDROID ION pattern
  mm: docs: add blank lines to silence sphinx "Unexpected indentation" errors
  mm: docs: fix parameter names mismatch
  mm: docs: fixup punctuation
  pipe: read buffer limits atomically
  pipe: simplify round_pipe_size()
  pipe: reject F_SETPIPE_SZ with size over UINT_MAX
  pipe: fix off-by-one error when checking buffer limits
  pipe: actually allow root to exceed the pipe buffer limits
  pipe, sysctl: remove pipe_proc_fn()
  pipe, sysctl: drop 'min' parameter from pipe-max-size converter
  kasan: rework Kconfig settings
  crash_dump: is_kdump_kernel can be boolean
  kernel/mutex: mutex_is_locked can be boolean
  ...

pids: introduce find_get_task_by_vpid() helper

2018-02-07T02:32:46+00:00

There are several functions that do find_task_by_vpid() followed by
get_task_struct().  We can use a helper function instead.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1509602027-11337-1-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport 
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sched/fair: Use a recently used CPU as an idle candidate and the basis for SIS

2018-02-06T09:20:37+00:00

The select_idle_sibling() (SIS) rewrite in commit:

  10e2f1acd010 ("sched/core: Rewrite and improve select_idle_siblings()")

... replaced a domain iteration with a search that broadly speaking
does a wrapped walk of the scheduler domain sharing a last-level-cache.

While this had a number of improvements, one consequence is that two tasks
that share a waker/wakee relationship push each other around a socket. Even
though two tasks may be active, all cores are evenly used. This is great from
a search perspective and spreads a load across individual cores, but it has
adverse consequences for cpufreq. As each CPU has relatively low utilisation,
cpufreq may decide the utilisation is too low to used a higher P-state and
overall computation throughput suffers.

While individual cpufreq and cpuidle drivers may compensate by artifically
boosting P-state (at c0) or avoiding lower C-states (during idle), it does
not help if hardware-based cpufreq (e.g. HWP) is used.

This patch tracks a recently used CPU based on what CPU a task was running
on when it last was a waker a CPU it was recently using when a task is a
wakee. During SIS, the recently used CPU is used as a target if it's still
allowed by the task and is idle.

The benefit may be non-obvious so consider an example of two tasks
communicating back and forth. Task A may be an application doing IO where
task B is a kworker or kthread like journald. Task A may issue IO, wake
B and B wakes up A on completion.  With the existing scheme this may look
like the following (potentially different IDs if SMT is in use but similar
principal applies).

 A (cpu 0)	wake	B (wakes on cpu 1)
 B (cpu 1)	wake	A (wakes on cpu 2)
 A (cpu 2)	wake	B (wakes on cpu 3)
 etc.

A careful reader may wonder why CPU 0 was not idle when B wakes A the
first time and it's simply due to the fact that A can be rescheduled to
another CPU and the pattern is that prev == target when B tries to wakeup A
and the information about CPU 0 has been lost.

With this patch, the pattern is more likely to be:

 A (cpu 0)	wake	B (wakes on cpu 1)
 B (cpu 1)	wake	A (wakes on cpu 0)
 A (cpu 0)	wake	B (wakes on cpu 1)
 etc

i.e. two communicating casts are more likely to use just two cores instead
of all available cores sharing a LLC.

The most dramatic speedup was noticed on dbench using the XFS filesystem on
UMA as clients interact heavily with workqueues in that configuration. Note
that a similar speedup is not observed on ext4 as the wakeup pattern
is different:

                          4.15.0-rc9             4.15.0-rc9
                           waprev-v1        biasancestor-v1
 Hmean      1      287.54 (   0.00%)      817.01 ( 184.14%)
 Hmean      2     1268.12 (   0.00%)     1781.24 (  40.46%)
 Hmean      4     1739.68 (   0.00%)     1594.47 (  -8.35%)
 Hmean      8     2464.12 (   0.00%)     2479.56 (   0.63%)
 Hmean     64     1455.57 (   0.00%)     1434.68 (  -1.44%)

The results can be less dramatic on NUMA where automatic balancing interferes
with the test. It's also known that network benchmarks running on localhost
also benefit quite a bit from this patch (roughly 10% on netperf RR for UDP
and TCP depending on the machine). Hackbench also seens small improvements
(6-11% depending on machine and thread count). The facebook schbench was also
tested but in most cases showed little or no different to wakeup latencies.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Matt Fleming 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180130104555.4125-5-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2018-01-30T19:55:56+00:00

Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - Implement frequency/CPU invariance and OPP selection for
     SCHED_DEADLINE (Juri Lelli)

   - Tweak the task migration logic for better multi-tasking
     workload scalability (Mel Gorman)

   - Misc cleanups, fixes and improvements"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/deadline: Make bandwidth enforcement scale-invariant
  sched/cpufreq: Move arch_scale_{freq,cpu}_capacity() outside of #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
  sched/cpufreq: Remove arch_scale_freq_capacity()'s 'sd' parameter
  sched/cpufreq: Always consider all CPUs when deciding next freq
  sched/cpufreq: Split utilization signals
  sched/cpufreq: Change the worker kthread to SCHED_DEADLINE
  sched/deadline: Move CPU frequency selection triggering points
  sched/cpufreq: Use the DEADLINE utilization signal
  sched/deadline: Implement "runtime overrun signal" support
  sched/fair: Only immediately migrate tasks due to interrupts if prev and target CPUs share cache
  sched/fair: Correct obsolete comment about cpufreq_update_util()
  sched/fair: Remove impossible condition from find_idlest_group_cpu()
  sched/cpufreq: Don't pass flags to sugov_set_iowait_boost()
  sched/cpufreq: Initialize sg_cpu->flags to 0
  sched/fair: Consider RT/IRQ pressure in capacity_spare_wake()
  sched/fair: Use 'unsigned long' for utilization, consistently
  sched/core: Rework and clarify prepare_lock_switch()
  sched/fair: Remove unused 'curr' parameter from wakeup_gran
  sched/headers: Constify object_is_on_stack()

sched/cpufreq: Change the worker kthread to SCHED_DEADLINE

2018-01-10T11:53:29+00:00

Worker kthread needs to be able to change frequency for all other
threads.

Make it special, just under STOP class.

Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Claudio Scordino 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Luca Abeni 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Viresh Kumar 
Cc: alessio.balsini@arm.com
Cc: bristot@redhat.com
Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com
Cc: joelaf@google.com
Cc: juri.lelli@redhat.com
Cc: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org
Cc: morten.rasmussen@arm.com
Cc: patrick.bellasi@arm.com
Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: tkjos@android.com
Cc: tommaso.cucinotta@santannapisa.it
Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171204102325.5110-4-juri.lelli@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/deadline: Implement "runtime overrun signal" support

2018-01-10T10:30:31+00:00

This patch adds the possibility of getting the delivery of a SIGXCPU
signal whenever there is a runtime overrun. The request is done through
the sched_flags field within the sched_attr structure.

Forward port of https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/16/170

Tested-by: Mathieu Poirier 
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli 
Signed-off-by: Claudio Scordino 
Signed-off-by: Luca Abeni 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Tommaso Cucinotta 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1513077024-25461-1-git-send-email-claudio@evidence.eu.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Construct init thread stack in the linker script rather than by union

2018-01-09T23:21:02+00:00

Construct the init thread stack in the linker script rather than doing it
by means of a union so that ia64's init_task.c can be got rid of.

The following symbols are then made available from INIT_TASK_DATA() linker
script macro:

	init_thread_union
	init_stack

INIT_TASK_DATA() also expands the region to THREAD_SIZE to accommodate the
size of the init stack.  init_thread_union is given its own section so that
it can be placed into the stack space in the right order.  I'm assuming
that the ia64 ordering is correct and that the task_struct is first and the
thread_info second.

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Tested-by: Tony Luck 
Tested-by: Will Deacon  (arm64)
Tested-by: Palmer Dabbelt 
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner

Merge branch 'locking-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2017-12-15T19:44:59+00:00

Pull locking fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Misc fixes:

   - Fix a S390 boot hang that was caused by the lock-break logic.
     Remove lock-break to begin with, as review suggested it was
     unreasonably fragile and our confidence in its continued good
     health is lower than our confidence in its removal.

   - Remove the lockdep cross-release checking code for now, because of
     unresolved false positive warnings. This should make lockdep work
     well everywhere again.

   - Get rid of the final (and single) ACCESS_ONCE() straggler and
     remove the API from v4.15.

   - Fix a liblockdep build warning"

* 'locking-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  tools/lib/lockdep: Add missing declaration of 'pr_cont()'
  checkpatch: Remove ACCESS_ONCE() warning
  compiler.h: Remove ACCESS_ONCE()
  tools/include: Remove ACCESS_ONCE()
  tools/perf: Convert ACCESS_ONCE() to READ_ONCE()
  locking/lockdep: Remove the cross-release locking checks
  locking/core: Remove break_lock field when CONFIG_GENERIC_LOCKBREAK=y
  locking/core: Fix deadlock during boot on systems with GENERIC_LOCKBREAK

exec: avoid gcc-8 warning for get_task_comm

2017-12-15T00:00:48+00:00

gcc-8 warns about using strncpy() with the source size as the limit:

  fs/exec.c:1223:32: error: argument to 'sizeof' in 'strncpy' call is the same expression as the source; did you mean to use the size of the destination? [-Werror=sizeof-pointer-memaccess]

This is indeed slightly suspicious, as it protects us from source
arguments without NUL-termination, but does not guarantee that the
destination is terminated.

This keeps the strncpy() to ensure we have properly padded target
buffer, but ensures that we use the correct length, by passing the
actual length of the destination buffer as well as adding a build-time
check to ensure it is exactly TASK_COMM_LEN.

There are only 23 callsites which I all reviewed to ensure this is
currently the case.  We could get away with doing only the check or
passing the right length, but it doesn't hurt to do both.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171205151724.1764896-1-arnd@arndb.de
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Suggested-by: Kees Cook 
Acked-by: Kees Cook 
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Alexander Viro 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Serge Hallyn 
Cc: James Morris 
Cc: Aleksa Sarai 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

locking/lockdep: Remove the cross-release locking checks

2017-12-12T11:38:51+00:00

This code (CONFIG_LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE=y and CONFIG_LOCKDEP_COMPLETIONS=y),
while it found a number of old bugs initially, was also causing too many
false positives that caused people to disable lockdep - which is arguably
a worse overall outcome.

If we disable cross-release by default but keep the code upstream then
in practice the most likely outcome is that we'll allow the situation
to degrade gradually, by allowing entropy to introduce more and more
false positives, until it overwhelms maintenance capacity.

Another bad side effect was that people were trying to work around
the false positives by uglifying/complicating unrelated code. There's
a marked difference between annotating locking operations and
uglifying good code just due to bad lock debugging code ...

This gradual decrease in quality happened to a number of debugging
facilities in the kernel, and lockdep is pretty complex already,
so we cannot risk this outcome.

Either cross-release checking can be done right with no false positives,
or it should not be included in the upstream kernel.

( Note that it might make sense to maintain it out of tree and go through
  the false positives every now and then and see whether new bugs were
  introduced. )

Cc: Byungchul Park 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar