linux-toradex.git/include/linux/sched/task.h, branch v5.12-rc8

kernel: provide create_io_thread() helper

2021-03-04T22:45:03+00:00

Provide a generic helper for setting up an io_uring worker. Returns a
task_struct so that the caller can do whatever setup is needed, then call
wake_up_new_task() to kick it into gear.

Add a kernel_clone_args member, io_thread, which tells copy_process() to
mark the task with PF_IO_WORKER.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

sched: Un-hide lockdep_tasklist_lock_is_held() for !LOCKDEP

2020-11-03T01:09:59+00:00

Currently, variables used only within lockdep expressions are flagged as
unused, requiring that these variables' declarations be decorated with
either #ifdef or __maybe_unused.  This results in ugly code.  This commit
therefore causes the lockdep_tasklist_lock_is_held() function to be
visible even when lockdep is not enabled, thus removing the need for
these decorations.  This approach further relies on dead-code elimination
to remove any references to functions or variables that are not available
in non-lockdep kernels.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski 
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

sched: remove _do_fork()

2020-08-20T11:12:59+00:00

Now that all callers of _do_fork() have been switched to kernel_clone() remove
the _do_fork() helper.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200819104655.436656-12-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com

fork: introduce kernel_clone()

2020-08-20T11:12:57+00:00

The old _do_fork() helper doesn't follow naming conventions of in-kernel
helpers for syscalls. The process creation cleanup in [1] didn't change the
name to something more reasonable mainly because _do_fork() was used in quite a
few places. So sending this as a separate series seemed the better strategy.

This commit does two things:
1. renames _do_fork() to kernel_clone() but keeps _do_fork() as a simple static
   inline wrapper around kernel_clone().
2. Changes the return type from long to pid_t. This aligns kernel_thread() and
   kernel_clone(). Also, the return value from kernel_clone that is surfaced in
   fork(), vfork(), clone(), and clone3() is taken from pid_vrn() which returns
   a pid_t too.

Follow-up patches will switch each caller of _do_fork() and each place where it
is referenced over to kernel_clone(). After all these changes are done, we can
remove _do_fork() completely and will only be left with kernel_clone().

[1]: 9ba27414f2ec ("Merge tag 'fork-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux")

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200819104655.436656-2-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com

kernel: add a kernel_wait helper

2020-08-12T17:57:59+00:00

Add a helper that waits for a pid and stores the status in the passed in
kernel pointer.  Use it to fix the usage of kernel_wait4 in
call_usermodehelper_exec_sync that only happens to work due to the
implicit set_fs(KERNEL_DS) for kernel threads.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton 
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: Luis Chamberlain 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200721130449.5008-1-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'fork-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux

2020-08-04T21:47:45+00:00

Pull fork cleanups from Christian Brauner:
 "This is cleanup series from when we reworked a chunk of the process
  creation paths in the kernel and switched to struct
  {kernel_}clone_args.

  High-level this does two main things:

   - Remove the double export of both do_fork() and _do_fork() where
     do_fork() used the incosistent legacy clone calling convention.

     Now we only export _do_fork() which is based on struct
     kernel_clone_args.

   - Remove the copy_thread_tls()/copy_thread() split making the
     architecture specific HAVE_COYP_THREAD_TLS config option obsolete.

  This switches all remaining architectures to select
  HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS and thus to the copy_thread_tls() calling
  convention. The current split makes the process creation codepaths
  more convoluted than they need to be. Each architecture has their own
  copy_thread() function unless it selects HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS then it
  has a copy_thread_tls() function.

  The split is not needed anymore nowadays, all architectures support
  CLONE_SETTLS but quite a few of them never bothered to select
  HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS and instead simply continued to use copy_thread()
  and use the old calling convention. Removing this split cleans up the
  process creation codepaths and paves the way for implementing clone3()
  on such architectures since it requires the copy_thread_tls() calling
  convention.

  After having made each architectures support copy_thread_tls() this
  series simply renames that function back to copy_thread(). It also
  switches all architectures that call do_fork() directly over to
  _do_fork() and the struct kernel_clone_args calling convention. This
  is a corollary of switching the architectures that did not yet support
  it over to copy_thread_tls() since do_fork() is conditional on not
  supporting copy_thread_tls() (Mostly because it lacks a separate
  argument for tls which is trivial to fix but there's no need for this
  function to exist.).

  The do_fork() removal is in itself already useful as it allows to to
  remove the export of both do_fork() and _do_fork() we currently have
  in favor of only _do_fork(). This has already been discussed back when
  we added clone3(). The legacy clone() calling convention is - as is
  probably well-known - somewhat odd:

    #
    # ABI hall of shame
    #
    config CLONE_BACKWARDS
    config CLONE_BACKWARDS2
    config CLONE_BACKWARDS3

  that is aggravated by the fact that some architectures such as sparc
  follow the CLONE_BACKWARDSx calling convention but don't really select
  the corresponding config option since they call do_fork() directly.

  So do_fork() enforces a somewhat arbitrary calling convention in the
  first place that doesn't really help the individual architectures that
  deviate from it. They can thus simply be switched to _do_fork()
  enforcing a single calling convention. (I really hope that any new
  architectures will __not__ try to implement their own calling
  conventions...)

  Most architectures already have made a similar switch (m68k comes to
  mind).

  Overall this removes more code than it adds even with a good portion
  of added comments. It simplifies a chunk of arch specific assembly
  either by moving the code into C or by simply rewriting the assembly.

  Architectures that have been touched in non-trivial ways have all been
  actually boot and stress tested: sparc and ia64 have been tested with
  Debian 9 images. They are the two architectures which have been
  touched the most. All non-trivial changes to architectures have seen
  acks from the relevant maintainers. nios2 with a custom built
  buildroot image. h8300 I couldn't get something bootable to test on
  but the changes have been fairly automatic and I'm sure we'll hear
  people yell if I broke something there.

  All other architectures that have been touched in trivial ways have
  been compile tested for each single patch of the series via git rebase
  -x "make ..." v5.8-rc2. arm{64} and x86{_64} have been boot tested
  even though they have just been trivially touched (removal of the
  HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS macro from their Kconfig) because well they are
  basically "core architectures" and since it is trivial to get your
  hands on a useable image"

* tag 'fork-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
  arch: rename copy_thread_tls() back to copy_thread()
  arch: remove HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS
  unicore: switch to copy_thread_tls()
  sh: switch to copy_thread_tls()
  nds32: switch to copy_thread_tls()
  microblaze: switch to copy_thread_tls()
  hexagon: switch to copy_thread_tls()
  c6x: switch to copy_thread_tls()
  alpha: switch to copy_thread_tls()
  fork: remove do_fork()
  h8300: select HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS, switch to kernel_clone_args
  nios2: enable HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS, switch to kernel_clone_args
  ia64: enable HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS, switch to kernel_clone_args
  sparc: unconditionally enable HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS
  sparc: share process creation helpers between sparc and sparc64
  sparc64: enable HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS
  fork: fold legacy_clone_args_valid() into _do_fork()

Merge tag 'sched-core-2020-08-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2020-08-03T21:58:38+00:00

Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Improve uclamp performance by using a static key for the fast path

 - Add the "sched_util_clamp_min_rt_default" sysctl, to optimize for
   better power efficiency of RT tasks on battery powered devices.
   (The default is to maximize performance & reduce RT latencies.)

 - Improve utime and stime tracking accuracy, which had a fixed boundary
   of error, which created larger and larger relative errors as the
   values become larger. This is now replaced with more precise
   arithmetics, using the new mul_u64_u64_div_u64() helper in math64.h.

 - Improve the deadline scheduler, such as making it capacity aware

 - Improve frequency-invariant scheduling

 - Misc cleanups in energy/power aware scheduling

 - Add sched_update_nr_running tracepoint to track changes to nr_running

 - Documentation additions and updates

 - Misc cleanups and smaller fixes

* tag 'sched-core-2020-08-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (54 commits)
  sched/doc: Factorize bits between sched-energy.rst & sched-capacity.rst
  sched/doc: Document capacity aware scheduling
  sched: Document arch_scale_*_capacity()
  arm, arm64: Fix selection of CONFIG_SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE
  Documentation/sysctl: Document uclamp sysctl knobs
  sched/uclamp: Add a new sysctl to control RT default boost value
  sched/uclamp: Fix a deadlock when enabling uclamp static key
  sched: Remove duplicated tick_nohz_full_enabled() check
  sched: Fix a typo in a comment
  sched/uclamp: Remove unnecessary mutex_init()
  arm, arm64: Select CONFIG_SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE
  sched: Cleanup SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE kconfig entry
  arch_topology, sched/core: Cleanup thermal pressure definition
  trace/events/sched.h: fix duplicated word
  linux/sched/mm.h: drop duplicated words in comments
  smp: Fix a potential usage of stale nr_cpus
  sched/fair: update_pick_idlest() Select group with lowest group_util when idle_cpus are equal
  sched: nohz: stop passing around unused "ticks" parameter.
  sched: Better document ttwu()
  sched: Add a tracepoint to track rq->nr_running
  ...

sched/uclamp: Add a new sysctl to control RT default boost value

2020-07-29T11:51:47+00:00

RT tasks by default run at the highest capacity/performance level. When
uclamp is selected this default behavior is retained by enforcing the
requested uclamp.min (p->uclamp_req[UCLAMP_MIN]) of the RT tasks to be
uclamp_none(UCLAMP_MAX), which is SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE; the maximum
value.

This is also referred to as 'the default boost value of RT tasks'.

See commit 1a00d999971c ("sched/uclamp: Set default clamps for RT tasks").

On battery powered devices, it is desired to control this default
(currently hardcoded) behavior at runtime to reduce energy consumed by
RT tasks.

For example, a mobile device manufacturer where big.LITTLE architecture
is dominant, the performance of the little cores varies across SoCs, and
on high end ones the big cores could be too power hungry.

Given the diversity of SoCs, the new knob allows manufactures to tune
the best performance/power for RT tasks for the particular hardware they
run on.

They could opt to further tune the value when the user selects
a different power saving mode or when the device is actively charging.

The runtime aspect of it further helps in creating a single kernel image
that can be run on multiple devices that require different tuning.

Keep in mind that a lot of RT tasks in the system are created by the
kernel. On Android for instance I can see over 50 RT tasks, only
a handful of which created by the Android framework.

To control the default behavior globally by system admins and device
integrator, introduce the new sysctl_sched_uclamp_util_min_rt_default
to change the default boost value of the RT tasks.

I anticipate this to be mostly in the form of modifying the init script
of a particular device.

To avoid polluting the fast path with unnecessary code, the approach
taken is to synchronously do the update by traversing all the existing
tasks in the system. This could race with a concurrent fork(), which is
dealt with by introducing sched_post_fork() function which will ensure
the racy fork will get the right update applied.

Tested on Juno-r2 in combination with the RT capacity awareness [1].
By default an RT task will go to the highest capacity CPU and run at the
maximum frequency, which is particularly energy inefficient on high end
mobile devices because the biggest core[s] are 'huge' and power hungry.

With this patch the RT task can be controlled to run anywhere by
default, and doesn't cause the frequency to be maximum all the time.
Yet any task that really needs to be boosted can easily escape this
default behavior by modifying its requested uclamp.min value
(p->uclamp_req[UCLAMP_MIN]) via sched_setattr() syscall.

[1] 804d402fb6f6: ("sched/rt: Make RT capacity-aware")

Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200716110347.19553-2-qais.yousef@arm.com

tasks: add put_task_struct_many()

2020-07-24T19:00:45+00:00

put_task_struct_many() is as put_task_struct() but puts several
references at once. Useful to batching it.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

arch: rename copy_thread_tls() back to copy_thread()

2020-07-04T21:41:37+00:00

Now that HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS has been removed, rename copy_thread_tls()
back simply copy_thread(). It's a simpler name, and doesn't imply that only
tls is copied here. This finishes an outstanding chunk of internal process
creation work since we've added clone3().

Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer A
Acked-by: Stafford Horne 
Acked-by: Greentime Hu 
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven A
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner