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<title>linux-toradex.git/include/linux/sched, branch v6.0-rc1</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2022-08-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2022-08-05T23:32:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-05T23:32:45+00:00</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Most of the MM queue. A few things are still pending.

  Liam's maple tree rework didn't make it. This has resulted in a few
  other minor patch series being held over for next time.

  Multi-gen LRU still isn't merged as we were waiting for mapletree to
  stabilize. The current plan is to merge MGLRU into -mm soon and to
  later reintroduce mapletree, with a view to hopefully getting both
  into 6.1-rc1.

  Summary:

   - The usual batches of cleanups from Baoquan He, Muchun Song, Miaohe
     Lin, Yang Shi, Anshuman Khandual and Mike Rapoport

   - Some kmemleak fixes from Patrick Wang and Waiman Long

   - DAMON updates from SeongJae Park

   - memcg debug/visibility work from Roman Gushchin

   - vmalloc speedup from Uladzislau Rezki

   - more folio conversion work from Matthew Wilcox

   - enhancements for coherent device memory mapping from Alex Sierra

   - addition of shared pages tracking and CoW support for fsdax, from
     Shiyang Ruan

   - hugetlb optimizations from Mike Kravetz

   - Mel Gorman has contributed some pagealloc changes to improve
     latency and realtime behaviour.

   - mprotect soft-dirty checking has been improved by Peter Xu

   - Many other singleton patches all over the place"

 [ XFS merge from hell as per Darrick Wong in

   https://lore.kernel.org/all/YshKnxb4VwXycPO8@magnolia/ ]

* tag 'mm-stable-2022-08-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (282 commits)
  tools/testing/selftests/vm/hmm-tests.c: fix build
  mm: Kconfig: fix typo
  mm: memory-failure: convert to pr_fmt()
  mm: use is_zone_movable_page() helper
  hugetlbfs: fix inaccurate comment in hugetlbfs_statfs()
  hugetlbfs: cleanup some comments in inode.c
  hugetlbfs: remove unneeded header file
  hugetlbfs: remove unneeded hugetlbfs_ops forward declaration
  hugetlbfs: use helper macro SZ_1{K,M}
  mm: cleanup is_highmem()
  mm/hmm: add a test for cross device private faults
  selftests: add soft-dirty into run_vmtests.sh
  selftests: soft-dirty: add test for mprotect
  mm/mprotect: fix soft-dirty check in can_change_pte_writable()
  mm: memcontrol: fix potential oom_lock recursion deadlock
  mm/gup.c: fix formatting in check_and_migrate_movable_page()
  xfs: fail dax mount if reflink is enabled on a partition
  mm/memcontrol.c: remove the redundant updating of stats_flush_threshold
  userfaultfd: don't fail on unrecognized features
  hugetlb_cgroup: fix wrong hugetlb cgroup numa stat
  ...
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Most of the MM queue. A few things are still pending.

  Liam's maple tree rework didn't make it. This has resulted in a few
  other minor patch series being held over for next time.

  Multi-gen LRU still isn't merged as we were waiting for mapletree to
  stabilize. The current plan is to merge MGLRU into -mm soon and to
  later reintroduce mapletree, with a view to hopefully getting both
  into 6.1-rc1.

  Summary:

   - The usual batches of cleanups from Baoquan He, Muchun Song, Miaohe
     Lin, Yang Shi, Anshuman Khandual and Mike Rapoport

   - Some kmemleak fixes from Patrick Wang and Waiman Long

   - DAMON updates from SeongJae Park

   - memcg debug/visibility work from Roman Gushchin

   - vmalloc speedup from Uladzislau Rezki

   - more folio conversion work from Matthew Wilcox

   - enhancements for coherent device memory mapping from Alex Sierra

   - addition of shared pages tracking and CoW support for fsdax, from
     Shiyang Ruan

   - hugetlb optimizations from Mike Kravetz

   - Mel Gorman has contributed some pagealloc changes to improve
     latency and realtime behaviour.

   - mprotect soft-dirty checking has been improved by Peter Xu

   - Many other singleton patches all over the place"

 [ XFS merge from hell as per Darrick Wong in

   https://lore.kernel.org/all/YshKnxb4VwXycPO8@magnolia/ ]

* tag 'mm-stable-2022-08-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (282 commits)
  tools/testing/selftests/vm/hmm-tests.c: fix build
  mm: Kconfig: fix typo
  mm: memory-failure: convert to pr_fmt()
  mm: use is_zone_movable_page() helper
  hugetlbfs: fix inaccurate comment in hugetlbfs_statfs()
  hugetlbfs: cleanup some comments in inode.c
  hugetlbfs: remove unneeded header file
  hugetlbfs: remove unneeded hugetlbfs_ops forward declaration
  hugetlbfs: use helper macro SZ_1{K,M}
  mm: cleanup is_highmem()
  mm/hmm: add a test for cross device private faults
  selftests: add soft-dirty into run_vmtests.sh
  selftests: soft-dirty: add test for mprotect
  mm/mprotect: fix soft-dirty check in can_change_pte_writable()
  mm: memcontrol: fix potential oom_lock recursion deadlock
  mm/gup.c: fix formatting in check_and_migrate_movable_page()
  xfs: fail dax mount if reflink is enabled on a partition
  mm/memcontrol.c: remove the redundant updating of stats_flush_threshold
  userfaultfd: don't fail on unrecognized features
  hugetlb_cgroup: fix wrong hugetlb cgroup numa stat
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2022-08-04T21:59:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-04T21:59:54+00:00</published>
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Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Quite a large pull request due to a selftest API overhaul and some
  patches that had come in too late for 5.19.

  ARM:

   - Unwinder implementations for both nVHE modes (classic and
     protected), complete with an overflow stack

   - Rework of the sysreg access from userspace, with a complete rewrite
     of the vgic-v3 view to allign with the rest of the infrastructure

   - Disagregation of the vcpu flags in separate sets to better track
     their use model.

   - A fix for the GICv2-on-v3 selftest

   - A small set of cosmetic fixes

  RISC-V:

   - Track ISA extensions used by Guest using bitmap

   - Added system instruction emulation framework

   - Added CSR emulation framework

   - Added gfp_custom flag in struct kvm_mmu_memory_cache

   - Added G-stage ioremap() and iounmap() functions

   - Added support for Svpbmt inside Guest

  s390:

   - add an interface to provide a hypervisor dump for secure guests

   - improve selftests to use TAP interface

   - enable interpretive execution of zPCI instructions (for PCI
     passthrough)

   - First part of deferred teardown

   - CPU Topology

   - PV attestation

   - Minor fixes

  x86:

   - Permit guests to ignore single-bit ECC errors

   - Intel IPI virtualization

   - Allow getting/setting pending triple fault with
     KVM_GET/SET_VCPU_EVENTS

   - PEBS virtualization

   - Simplify PMU emulation by just using PERF_TYPE_RAW events

   - More accurate event reinjection on SVM (avoid retrying
     instructions)

   - Allow getting/setting the state of the speaker port data bit

   - Refuse starting the kvm-intel module if VM-Entry/VM-Exit controls
     are inconsistent

   - "Notify" VM exit (detect microarchitectural hangs) for Intel

   - Use try_cmpxchg64 instead of cmpxchg64

   - Ignore benign host accesses to PMU MSRs when PMU is disabled

   - Allow disabling KVM's "MONITOR/MWAIT are NOPs!" behavior

   - Allow NX huge page mitigation to be disabled on a per-vm basis

   - Port eager page splitting to shadow MMU as well

   - Enable CMCI capability by default and handle injected UCNA errors

   - Expose pid of vcpu threads in debugfs

   - x2AVIC support for AMD

   - cleanup PIO emulation

   - Fixes for LLDT/LTR emulation

   - Don't require refcounted "struct page" to create huge SPTEs

   - Miscellaneous cleanups:
      - MCE MSR emulation
      - Use separate namespaces for guest PTEs and shadow PTEs bitmasks
      - PIO emulation
      - Reorganize rmap API, mostly around rmap destruction
      - Do not workaround very old KVM bugs for L0 that runs with nesting enabled
      - new selftests API for CPUID

  Generic:

   - Fix races in gfn-&gt;pfn cache refresh; do not pin pages tracked by
     the cache

   - new selftests API using struct kvm_vcpu instead of a (vm, id)
     tuple"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (606 commits)
  selftests: kvm: set rax before vmcall
  selftests: KVM: Add exponent check for boolean stats
  selftests: KVM: Provide descriptive assertions in kvm_binary_stats_test
  selftests: KVM: Check stat name before other fields
  KVM: x86/mmu: remove unused variable
  RISC-V: KVM: Add support for Svpbmt inside Guest/VM
  RISC-V: KVM: Use PAGE_KERNEL_IO in kvm_riscv_gstage_ioremap()
  RISC-V: KVM: Add G-stage ioremap() and iounmap() functions
  KVM: Add gfp_custom flag in struct kvm_mmu_memory_cache
  RISC-V: KVM: Add extensible CSR emulation framework
  RISC-V: KVM: Add extensible system instruction emulation framework
  RISC-V: KVM: Factor-out instruction emulation into separate sources
  RISC-V: KVM: move preempt_disable() call in kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run
  RISC-V: KVM: Make kvm_riscv_guest_timer_init a void function
  RISC-V: KVM: Fix variable spelling mistake
  RISC-V: KVM: Improve ISA extension by using a bitmap
  KVM, x86/mmu: Fix the comment around kvm_tdp_mmu_zap_leafs()
  KVM: SVM: Dump Virtual Machine Save Area (VMSA) to klog
  KVM: x86/mmu: Treat NX as a valid SPTE bit for NPT
  KVM: x86: Do not block APIC write for non ICR registers
  ...
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<pre>
Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Quite a large pull request due to a selftest API overhaul and some
  patches that had come in too late for 5.19.

  ARM:

   - Unwinder implementations for both nVHE modes (classic and
     protected), complete with an overflow stack

   - Rework of the sysreg access from userspace, with a complete rewrite
     of the vgic-v3 view to allign with the rest of the infrastructure

   - Disagregation of the vcpu flags in separate sets to better track
     their use model.

   - A fix for the GICv2-on-v3 selftest

   - A small set of cosmetic fixes

  RISC-V:

   - Track ISA extensions used by Guest using bitmap

   - Added system instruction emulation framework

   - Added CSR emulation framework

   - Added gfp_custom flag in struct kvm_mmu_memory_cache

   - Added G-stage ioremap() and iounmap() functions

   - Added support for Svpbmt inside Guest

  s390:

   - add an interface to provide a hypervisor dump for secure guests

   - improve selftests to use TAP interface

   - enable interpretive execution of zPCI instructions (for PCI
     passthrough)

   - First part of deferred teardown

   - CPU Topology

   - PV attestation

   - Minor fixes

  x86:

   - Permit guests to ignore single-bit ECC errors

   - Intel IPI virtualization

   - Allow getting/setting pending triple fault with
     KVM_GET/SET_VCPU_EVENTS

   - PEBS virtualization

   - Simplify PMU emulation by just using PERF_TYPE_RAW events

   - More accurate event reinjection on SVM (avoid retrying
     instructions)

   - Allow getting/setting the state of the speaker port data bit

   - Refuse starting the kvm-intel module if VM-Entry/VM-Exit controls
     are inconsistent

   - "Notify" VM exit (detect microarchitectural hangs) for Intel

   - Use try_cmpxchg64 instead of cmpxchg64

   - Ignore benign host accesses to PMU MSRs when PMU is disabled

   - Allow disabling KVM's "MONITOR/MWAIT are NOPs!" behavior

   - Allow NX huge page mitigation to be disabled on a per-vm basis

   - Port eager page splitting to shadow MMU as well

   - Enable CMCI capability by default and handle injected UCNA errors

   - Expose pid of vcpu threads in debugfs

   - x2AVIC support for AMD

   - cleanup PIO emulation

   - Fixes for LLDT/LTR emulation

   - Don't require refcounted "struct page" to create huge SPTEs

   - Miscellaneous cleanups:
      - MCE MSR emulation
      - Use separate namespaces for guest PTEs and shadow PTEs bitmasks
      - PIO emulation
      - Reorganize rmap API, mostly around rmap destruction
      - Do not workaround very old KVM bugs for L0 that runs with nesting enabled
      - new selftests API for CPUID

  Generic:

   - Fix races in gfn-&gt;pfn cache refresh; do not pin pages tracked by
     the cache

   - new selftests API using struct kvm_vcpu instead of a (vm, id)
     tuple"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (606 commits)
  selftests: kvm: set rax before vmcall
  selftests: KVM: Add exponent check for boolean stats
  selftests: KVM: Provide descriptive assertions in kvm_binary_stats_test
  selftests: KVM: Check stat name before other fields
  KVM: x86/mmu: remove unused variable
  RISC-V: KVM: Add support for Svpbmt inside Guest/VM
  RISC-V: KVM: Use PAGE_KERNEL_IO in kvm_riscv_gstage_ioremap()
  RISC-V: KVM: Add G-stage ioremap() and iounmap() functions
  KVM: Add gfp_custom flag in struct kvm_mmu_memory_cache
  RISC-V: KVM: Add extensible CSR emulation framework
  RISC-V: KVM: Add extensible system instruction emulation framework
  RISC-V: KVM: Factor-out instruction emulation into separate sources
  RISC-V: KVM: move preempt_disable() call in kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run
  RISC-V: KVM: Make kvm_riscv_guest_timer_init a void function
  RISC-V: KVM: Fix variable spelling mistake
  RISC-V: KVM: Improve ISA extension by using a bitmap
  KVM, x86/mmu: Fix the comment around kvm_tdp_mmu_zap_leafs()
  KVM: SVM: Dump Virtual Machine Save Area (VMSA) to klog
  KVM: x86/mmu: Treat NX as a valid SPTE bit for NPT
  KVM: x86: Do not block APIC write for non ICR registers
  ...
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'sched-core-2022-08-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2022-08-01T18:49:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-01T18:49:06+00:00</published>
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Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Load-balancing improvements:

   - Improve NUMA balancing on AMD Zen systems for affine workloads.

   - Improve the handling of reduced-capacity CPUs in load-balancing.

   - Energy Model improvements: fix &amp; refine all the energy fairness
     metrics (PELT), and remove the conservative threshold requiring 6%
     energy savings to migrate a task. Doing this improves power
     efficiency for most workloads, and also increases the reliability
     of energy-efficiency scheduling.

   - Optimize/tweak select_idle_cpu() to spend (much) less time
     searching for an idle CPU on overloaded systems. There's reports of
     several milliseconds spent there on large systems with large
     workloads ...

     [ Since the search logic changed, there might be behavioral side
       effects. ]

   - Improve NUMA imbalance behavior. On certain systems with spare
     capacity, initial placement of tasks is non-deterministic, and such
     an artificial placement imbalance can persist for a long time,
     hurting (and sometimes helping) performance.

     The fix is to make fork-time task placement consistent with runtime
     NUMA balancing placement.

     Note that some performance regressions were reported against this,
     caused by workloads that are not memory bandwith limited, which
     benefit from the artificial locality of the placement bug(s). Mel
     Gorman's conclusion, with which we concur, was that consistency is
     better than random workload benefits from non-deterministic bugs:

        "Given there is no crystal ball and it's a tradeoff, I think
         it's better to be consistent and use similar logic at both fork
         time and runtime even if it doesn't have universal benefit."

   - Improve core scheduling by fixing a bug in
     sched_core_update_cookie() that caused unnecessary forced idling.

   - Improve wakeup-balancing by allowing same-LLC wakeup of idle CPUs
     for newly woken tasks.

   - Fix a newidle balancing bug that introduced unnecessary wakeup
     latencies.

  ABI improvements/fixes:

   - Do not check capabilities and do not issue capability check denial
     messages when a scheduler syscall doesn't require privileges. (Such
     as increasing niceness.)

   - Add forced-idle accounting to cgroups too.

   - Fix/improve the RSEQ ABI to not just silently accept unknown flags.
     (No existing tooling is known to have learned to rely on the
     previous behavior.)

   - Depreciate the (unused) RSEQ_CS_FLAG_NO_RESTART_ON_* flags.

  Optimizations:

   - Optimize &amp; simplify leaf_cfs_rq_list()

   - Micro-optimize set_nr_{and_not,if}_polling() via try_cmpxchg().

  Misc fixes &amp; cleanups:

   - Fix the RSEQ self-tests on RISC-V and Glibc 2.35 systems.

   - Fix a full-NOHZ bug that can in some cases result in the tick not
     being re-enabled when the last SCHED_RT task is gone from a
     runqueue but there's still SCHED_OTHER tasks around.

   - Various PREEMPT_RT related fixes.

   - Misc cleanups &amp; smaller fixes"

* tag 'sched-core-2022-08-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (32 commits)
  rseq: Kill process when unknown flags are encountered in ABI structures
  rseq: Deprecate RSEQ_CS_FLAG_NO_RESTART_ON_* flags
  sched/core: Fix the bug that task won't enqueue into core tree when update cookie
  nohz/full, sched/rt: Fix missed tick-reenabling bug in dequeue_task_rt()
  sched/core: Always flush pending blk_plug
  sched/fair: fix case with reduced capacity CPU
  sched/core: Use try_cmpxchg in set_nr_{and_not,if}_polling
  sched/core: add forced idle accounting for cgroups
  sched/fair: Remove the energy margin in feec()
  sched/fair: Remove task_util from effective utilization in feec()
  sched/fair: Use the same cpumask per-PD throughout find_energy_efficient_cpu()
  sched/fair: Rename select_idle_mask to select_rq_mask
  sched, drivers: Remove max param from effective_cpu_util()/sched_cpu_util()
  sched/fair: Decay task PELT values during wakeup migration
  sched/fair: Provide u64 read for 32-bits arch helper
  sched/fair: Introduce SIS_UTIL to search idle CPU based on sum of util_avg
  sched: only perform capability check on privileged operation
  sched: Remove unused function group_first_cpu()
  sched/fair: Remove redundant word " *"
  selftests/rseq: check if libc rseq support is registered
  ...
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<pre>
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Load-balancing improvements:

   - Improve NUMA balancing on AMD Zen systems for affine workloads.

   - Improve the handling of reduced-capacity CPUs in load-balancing.

   - Energy Model improvements: fix &amp; refine all the energy fairness
     metrics (PELT), and remove the conservative threshold requiring 6%
     energy savings to migrate a task. Doing this improves power
     efficiency for most workloads, and also increases the reliability
     of energy-efficiency scheduling.

   - Optimize/tweak select_idle_cpu() to spend (much) less time
     searching for an idle CPU on overloaded systems. There's reports of
     several milliseconds spent there on large systems with large
     workloads ...

     [ Since the search logic changed, there might be behavioral side
       effects. ]

   - Improve NUMA imbalance behavior. On certain systems with spare
     capacity, initial placement of tasks is non-deterministic, and such
     an artificial placement imbalance can persist for a long time,
     hurting (and sometimes helping) performance.

     The fix is to make fork-time task placement consistent with runtime
     NUMA balancing placement.

     Note that some performance regressions were reported against this,
     caused by workloads that are not memory bandwith limited, which
     benefit from the artificial locality of the placement bug(s). Mel
     Gorman's conclusion, with which we concur, was that consistency is
     better than random workload benefits from non-deterministic bugs:

        "Given there is no crystal ball and it's a tradeoff, I think
         it's better to be consistent and use similar logic at both fork
         time and runtime even if it doesn't have universal benefit."

   - Improve core scheduling by fixing a bug in
     sched_core_update_cookie() that caused unnecessary forced idling.

   - Improve wakeup-balancing by allowing same-LLC wakeup of idle CPUs
     for newly woken tasks.

   - Fix a newidle balancing bug that introduced unnecessary wakeup
     latencies.

  ABI improvements/fixes:

   - Do not check capabilities and do not issue capability check denial
     messages when a scheduler syscall doesn't require privileges. (Such
     as increasing niceness.)

   - Add forced-idle accounting to cgroups too.

   - Fix/improve the RSEQ ABI to not just silently accept unknown flags.
     (No existing tooling is known to have learned to rely on the
     previous behavior.)

   - Depreciate the (unused) RSEQ_CS_FLAG_NO_RESTART_ON_* flags.

  Optimizations:

   - Optimize &amp; simplify leaf_cfs_rq_list()

   - Micro-optimize set_nr_{and_not,if}_polling() via try_cmpxchg().

  Misc fixes &amp; cleanups:

   - Fix the RSEQ self-tests on RISC-V and Glibc 2.35 systems.

   - Fix a full-NOHZ bug that can in some cases result in the tick not
     being re-enabled when the last SCHED_RT task is gone from a
     runqueue but there's still SCHED_OTHER tasks around.

   - Various PREEMPT_RT related fixes.

   - Misc cleanups &amp; smaller fixes"

* tag 'sched-core-2022-08-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (32 commits)
  rseq: Kill process when unknown flags are encountered in ABI structures
  rseq: Deprecate RSEQ_CS_FLAG_NO_RESTART_ON_* flags
  sched/core: Fix the bug that task won't enqueue into core tree when update cookie
  nohz/full, sched/rt: Fix missed tick-reenabling bug in dequeue_task_rt()
  sched/core: Always flush pending blk_plug
  sched/fair: fix case with reduced capacity CPU
  sched/core: Use try_cmpxchg in set_nr_{and_not,if}_polling
  sched/core: add forced idle accounting for cgroups
  sched/fair: Remove the energy margin in feec()
  sched/fair: Remove task_util from effective utilization in feec()
  sched/fair: Use the same cpumask per-PD throughout find_energy_efficient_cpu()
  sched/fair: Rename select_idle_mask to select_rq_mask
  sched, drivers: Remove max param from effective_cpu_util()/sched_cpu_util()
  sched/fair: Decay task PELT values during wakeup migration
  sched/fair: Provide u64 read for 32-bits arch helper
  sched/fair: Introduce SIS_UTIL to search idle CPU based on sum of util_avg
  sched: only perform capability check on privileged operation
  sched: Remove unused function group_first_cpu()
  sched/fair: Remove redundant word " *"
  selftests/rseq: check if libc rseq support is registered
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge remote-tracking branch 'kvm/next' into kvm-next-5.20</title>
<updated>2022-08-01T07:21:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-07-29T13:46:01+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
KVM/s390, KVM/x86 and common infrastructure changes for 5.20

x86:

* Permit guests to ignore single-bit ECC errors

* Fix races in gfn-&gt;pfn cache refresh; do not pin pages tracked by the cache

* Intel IPI virtualization

* Allow getting/setting pending triple fault with KVM_GET/SET_VCPU_EVENTS

* PEBS virtualization

* Simplify PMU emulation by just using PERF_TYPE_RAW events

* More accurate event reinjection on SVM (avoid retrying instructions)

* Allow getting/setting the state of the speaker port data bit

* Refuse starting the kvm-intel module if VM-Entry/VM-Exit controls are inconsistent

* "Notify" VM exit (detect microarchitectural hangs) for Intel

* Cleanups for MCE MSR emulation

s390:

* add an interface to provide a hypervisor dump for secure guests

* improve selftests to use TAP interface

* enable interpretive execution of zPCI instructions (for PCI passthrough)

* First part of deferred teardown

* CPU Topology

* PV attestation

* Minor fixes

Generic:

* new selftests API using struct kvm_vcpu instead of a (vm, id) tuple

x86:

* Use try_cmpxchg64 instead of cmpxchg64

* Bugfixes

* Ignore benign host accesses to PMU MSRs when PMU is disabled

* Allow disabling KVM's "MONITOR/MWAIT are NOPs!" behavior

* x86/MMU: Allow NX huge pages to be disabled on a per-vm basis

* Port eager page splitting to shadow MMU as well

* Enable CMCI capability by default and handle injected UCNA errors

* Expose pid of vcpu threads in debugfs

* x2AVIC support for AMD

* cleanup PIO emulation

* Fixes for LLDT/LTR emulation

* Don't require refcounted "struct page" to create huge SPTEs

x86 cleanups:

* Use separate namespaces for guest PTEs and shadow PTEs bitmasks

* PIO emulation

* Reorganize rmap API, mostly around rmap destruction

* Do not workaround very old KVM bugs for L0 that runs with nesting enabled

* new selftests API for CPUID
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
KVM/s390, KVM/x86 and common infrastructure changes for 5.20

x86:

* Permit guests to ignore single-bit ECC errors

* Fix races in gfn-&gt;pfn cache refresh; do not pin pages tracked by the cache

* Intel IPI virtualization

* Allow getting/setting pending triple fault with KVM_GET/SET_VCPU_EVENTS

* PEBS virtualization

* Simplify PMU emulation by just using PERF_TYPE_RAW events

* More accurate event reinjection on SVM (avoid retrying instructions)

* Allow getting/setting the state of the speaker port data bit

* Refuse starting the kvm-intel module if VM-Entry/VM-Exit controls are inconsistent

* "Notify" VM exit (detect microarchitectural hangs) for Intel

* Cleanups for MCE MSR emulation

s390:

* add an interface to provide a hypervisor dump for secure guests

* improve selftests to use TAP interface

* enable interpretive execution of zPCI instructions (for PCI passthrough)

* First part of deferred teardown

* CPU Topology

* PV attestation

* Minor fixes

Generic:

* new selftests API using struct kvm_vcpu instead of a (vm, id) tuple

x86:

* Use try_cmpxchg64 instead of cmpxchg64

* Bugfixes

* Ignore benign host accesses to PMU MSRs when PMU is disabled

* Allow disabling KVM's "MONITOR/MWAIT are NOPs!" behavior

* x86/MMU: Allow NX huge pages to be disabled on a per-vm basis

* Port eager page splitting to shadow MMU as well

* Enable CMCI capability by default and handle injected UCNA errors

* Expose pid of vcpu threads in debugfs

* x2AVIC support for AMD

* cleanup PIO emulation

* Fixes for LLDT/LTR emulation

* Don't require refcounted "struct page" to create huge SPTEs

x86 cleanups:

* Use separate namespaces for guest PTEs and shadow PTEs bitmasks

* PIO emulation

* Reorganize rmap API, mostly around rmap destruction

* Do not workaround very old KVM bugs for L0 that runs with nesting enabled

* new selftests API for CPUID
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/core: Always flush pending blk_plug</title>
<updated>2022-07-13T09:29:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Keeping</name>
<email>john@metanate.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-07-08T16:27:02+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=401e4963bf45c800e3e9ea0d3a0289d738005fd4'/>
<id>401e4963bf45c800e3e9ea0d3a0289d738005fd4</id>
<content type='text'>
With CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT, it is possible to hit a deadlock between two
normal priority tasks (SCHED_OTHER, nice level zero):

	INFO: task kworker/u8:0:8 blocked for more than 491 seconds.
	      Not tainted 5.15.49-rt46 #1
	"echo 0 &gt; /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
	task:kworker/u8:0    state:D stack:    0 pid:    8 ppid:     2 flags:0x00000000
	Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-7:0)
	[&lt;c08a3a10&gt;] (__schedule) from [&lt;c08a3d84&gt;] (schedule+0xdc/0x134)
	[&lt;c08a3d84&gt;] (schedule) from [&lt;c08a65a0&gt;] (rt_mutex_slowlock_block.constprop.0+0xb8/0x174)
	[&lt;c08a65a0&gt;] (rt_mutex_slowlock_block.constprop.0) from [&lt;c08a6708&gt;]
	+(rt_mutex_slowlock.constprop.0+0xac/0x174)
	[&lt;c08a6708&gt;] (rt_mutex_slowlock.constprop.0) from [&lt;c0374d60&gt;] (fat_write_inode+0x34/0x54)
	[&lt;c0374d60&gt;] (fat_write_inode) from [&lt;c0297304&gt;] (__writeback_single_inode+0x354/0x3ec)
	[&lt;c0297304&gt;] (__writeback_single_inode) from [&lt;c0297998&gt;] (writeback_sb_inodes+0x250/0x45c)
	[&lt;c0297998&gt;] (writeback_sb_inodes) from [&lt;c0297c20&gt;] (__writeback_inodes_wb+0x7c/0xb8)
	[&lt;c0297c20&gt;] (__writeback_inodes_wb) from [&lt;c0297f24&gt;] (wb_writeback+0x2c8/0x2e4)
	[&lt;c0297f24&gt;] (wb_writeback) from [&lt;c0298c40&gt;] (wb_workfn+0x1a4/0x3e4)
	[&lt;c0298c40&gt;] (wb_workfn) from [&lt;c0138ab8&gt;] (process_one_work+0x1fc/0x32c)
	[&lt;c0138ab8&gt;] (process_one_work) from [&lt;c0139120&gt;] (worker_thread+0x22c/0x2d8)
	[&lt;c0139120&gt;] (worker_thread) from [&lt;c013e6e0&gt;] (kthread+0x16c/0x178)
	[&lt;c013e6e0&gt;] (kthread) from [&lt;c01000fc&gt;] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x38)
	Exception stack(0xc10e3fb0 to 0xc10e3ff8)
	3fa0:                                     00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
	3fc0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
	3fe0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000013 00000000

	INFO: task tar:2083 blocked for more than 491 seconds.
	      Not tainted 5.15.49-rt46 #1
	"echo 0 &gt; /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
	task:tar             state:D stack:    0 pid: 2083 ppid:  2082 flags:0x00000000
	[&lt;c08a3a10&gt;] (__schedule) from [&lt;c08a3d84&gt;] (schedule+0xdc/0x134)
	[&lt;c08a3d84&gt;] (schedule) from [&lt;c08a41b0&gt;] (io_schedule+0x14/0x24)
	[&lt;c08a41b0&gt;] (io_schedule) from [&lt;c08a455c&gt;] (bit_wait_io+0xc/0x30)
	[&lt;c08a455c&gt;] (bit_wait_io) from [&lt;c08a441c&gt;] (__wait_on_bit_lock+0x54/0xa8)
	[&lt;c08a441c&gt;] (__wait_on_bit_lock) from [&lt;c08a44f4&gt;] (out_of_line_wait_on_bit_lock+0x84/0xb0)
	[&lt;c08a44f4&gt;] (out_of_line_wait_on_bit_lock) from [&lt;c0371fb0&gt;] (fat_mirror_bhs+0xa0/0x144)
	[&lt;c0371fb0&gt;] (fat_mirror_bhs) from [&lt;c0372a68&gt;] (fat_alloc_clusters+0x138/0x2a4)
	[&lt;c0372a68&gt;] (fat_alloc_clusters) from [&lt;c0370b14&gt;] (fat_alloc_new_dir+0x34/0x250)
	[&lt;c0370b14&gt;] (fat_alloc_new_dir) from [&lt;c03787c0&gt;] (vfat_mkdir+0x58/0x148)
	[&lt;c03787c0&gt;] (vfat_mkdir) from [&lt;c0277b60&gt;] (vfs_mkdir+0x68/0x98)
	[&lt;c0277b60&gt;] (vfs_mkdir) from [&lt;c027b484&gt;] (do_mkdirat+0xb0/0xec)
	[&lt;c027b484&gt;] (do_mkdirat) from [&lt;c0100060&gt;] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x1c)
	Exception stack(0xc2e1bfa8 to 0xc2e1bff0)
	bfa0:                   01ee42f0 01ee4208 01ee42f0 000041ed 00000000 00004000
	bfc0: 01ee42f0 01ee4208 00000000 00000027 01ee4302 00000004 000dcb00 01ee4190
	bfe0: 000dc368 bed11924 0006d4b0 b6ebddfc

Here the kworker is waiting on msdos_sb_info::s_lock which is held by
tar which is in turn waiting for a buffer which is locked waiting to be
flushed, but this operation is plugged in the kworker.

The lock is a normal struct mutex, so tsk_is_pi_blocked() will always
return false on !RT and thus the behaviour changes for RT.

It seems that the intent here is to skip blk_flush_plug() in the case
where a non-preemptible lock (such as a spinlock) has been converted to
a rtmutex on RT, which is the case covered by the SM_RTLOCK_WAIT
schedule flag.  But sched_submit_work() is only called from schedule()
which is never called in this scenario, so the check can simply be
deleted.

Looking at the history of the -rt patchset, in fact this change was
present from v5.9.1-rt20 until being dropped in v5.13-rt1 as it was part
of a larger patch [1] most of which was replaced by commit b4bfa3fcfe3b
("sched/core: Rework the __schedule() preempt argument").

As described in [1]:

   The schedule process must distinguish between blocking on a regular
   sleeping lock (rwsem and mutex) and a RT-only sleeping lock (spinlock
   and rwlock):
   - rwsem and mutex must flush block requests (blk_schedule_flush_plug())
     even if blocked on a lock. This can not deadlock because this also
     happens for non-RT.
     There should be a warning if the scheduling point is within a RCU read
     section.

   - spinlock and rwlock must not flush block requests. This will deadlock
     if the callback attempts to acquire a lock which is already acquired.
     Similarly to being preempted, there should be no warning if the
     scheduling point is within a RCU read section.

and with the tsk_is_pi_blocked() in the scheduler path, we hit the first
issue.

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rt/linux-rt-devel.git/tree/patches/0022-locking-rtmutex-Use-custom-scheduling-function-for-s.patch?h=linux-5.10.y-rt-patches

Signed-off-by: John Keeping &lt;john@metanate.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220708162702.1758865-1-john@metanate.com
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
With CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT, it is possible to hit a deadlock between two
normal priority tasks (SCHED_OTHER, nice level zero):

	INFO: task kworker/u8:0:8 blocked for more than 491 seconds.
	      Not tainted 5.15.49-rt46 #1
	"echo 0 &gt; /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
	task:kworker/u8:0    state:D stack:    0 pid:    8 ppid:     2 flags:0x00000000
	Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-7:0)
	[&lt;c08a3a10&gt;] (__schedule) from [&lt;c08a3d84&gt;] (schedule+0xdc/0x134)
	[&lt;c08a3d84&gt;] (schedule) from [&lt;c08a65a0&gt;] (rt_mutex_slowlock_block.constprop.0+0xb8/0x174)
	[&lt;c08a65a0&gt;] (rt_mutex_slowlock_block.constprop.0) from [&lt;c08a6708&gt;]
	+(rt_mutex_slowlock.constprop.0+0xac/0x174)
	[&lt;c08a6708&gt;] (rt_mutex_slowlock.constprop.0) from [&lt;c0374d60&gt;] (fat_write_inode+0x34/0x54)
	[&lt;c0374d60&gt;] (fat_write_inode) from [&lt;c0297304&gt;] (__writeback_single_inode+0x354/0x3ec)
	[&lt;c0297304&gt;] (__writeback_single_inode) from [&lt;c0297998&gt;] (writeback_sb_inodes+0x250/0x45c)
	[&lt;c0297998&gt;] (writeback_sb_inodes) from [&lt;c0297c20&gt;] (__writeback_inodes_wb+0x7c/0xb8)
	[&lt;c0297c20&gt;] (__writeback_inodes_wb) from [&lt;c0297f24&gt;] (wb_writeback+0x2c8/0x2e4)
	[&lt;c0297f24&gt;] (wb_writeback) from [&lt;c0298c40&gt;] (wb_workfn+0x1a4/0x3e4)
	[&lt;c0298c40&gt;] (wb_workfn) from [&lt;c0138ab8&gt;] (process_one_work+0x1fc/0x32c)
	[&lt;c0138ab8&gt;] (process_one_work) from [&lt;c0139120&gt;] (worker_thread+0x22c/0x2d8)
	[&lt;c0139120&gt;] (worker_thread) from [&lt;c013e6e0&gt;] (kthread+0x16c/0x178)
	[&lt;c013e6e0&gt;] (kthread) from [&lt;c01000fc&gt;] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x38)
	Exception stack(0xc10e3fb0 to 0xc10e3ff8)
	3fa0:                                     00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
	3fc0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
	3fe0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000013 00000000

	INFO: task tar:2083 blocked for more than 491 seconds.
	      Not tainted 5.15.49-rt46 #1
	"echo 0 &gt; /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
	task:tar             state:D stack:    0 pid: 2083 ppid:  2082 flags:0x00000000
	[&lt;c08a3a10&gt;] (__schedule) from [&lt;c08a3d84&gt;] (schedule+0xdc/0x134)
	[&lt;c08a3d84&gt;] (schedule) from [&lt;c08a41b0&gt;] (io_schedule+0x14/0x24)
	[&lt;c08a41b0&gt;] (io_schedule) from [&lt;c08a455c&gt;] (bit_wait_io+0xc/0x30)
	[&lt;c08a455c&gt;] (bit_wait_io) from [&lt;c08a441c&gt;] (__wait_on_bit_lock+0x54/0xa8)
	[&lt;c08a441c&gt;] (__wait_on_bit_lock) from [&lt;c08a44f4&gt;] (out_of_line_wait_on_bit_lock+0x84/0xb0)
	[&lt;c08a44f4&gt;] (out_of_line_wait_on_bit_lock) from [&lt;c0371fb0&gt;] (fat_mirror_bhs+0xa0/0x144)
	[&lt;c0371fb0&gt;] (fat_mirror_bhs) from [&lt;c0372a68&gt;] (fat_alloc_clusters+0x138/0x2a4)
	[&lt;c0372a68&gt;] (fat_alloc_clusters) from [&lt;c0370b14&gt;] (fat_alloc_new_dir+0x34/0x250)
	[&lt;c0370b14&gt;] (fat_alloc_new_dir) from [&lt;c03787c0&gt;] (vfat_mkdir+0x58/0x148)
	[&lt;c03787c0&gt;] (vfat_mkdir) from [&lt;c0277b60&gt;] (vfs_mkdir+0x68/0x98)
	[&lt;c0277b60&gt;] (vfs_mkdir) from [&lt;c027b484&gt;] (do_mkdirat+0xb0/0xec)
	[&lt;c027b484&gt;] (do_mkdirat) from [&lt;c0100060&gt;] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x1c)
	Exception stack(0xc2e1bfa8 to 0xc2e1bff0)
	bfa0:                   01ee42f0 01ee4208 01ee42f0 000041ed 00000000 00004000
	bfc0: 01ee42f0 01ee4208 00000000 00000027 01ee4302 00000004 000dcb00 01ee4190
	bfe0: 000dc368 bed11924 0006d4b0 b6ebddfc

Here the kworker is waiting on msdos_sb_info::s_lock which is held by
tar which is in turn waiting for a buffer which is locked waiting to be
flushed, but this operation is plugged in the kworker.

The lock is a normal struct mutex, so tsk_is_pi_blocked() will always
return false on !RT and thus the behaviour changes for RT.

It seems that the intent here is to skip blk_flush_plug() in the case
where a non-preemptible lock (such as a spinlock) has been converted to
a rtmutex on RT, which is the case covered by the SM_RTLOCK_WAIT
schedule flag.  But sched_submit_work() is only called from schedule()
which is never called in this scenario, so the check can simply be
deleted.

Looking at the history of the -rt patchset, in fact this change was
present from v5.9.1-rt20 until being dropped in v5.13-rt1 as it was part
of a larger patch [1] most of which was replaced by commit b4bfa3fcfe3b
("sched/core: Rework the __schedule() preempt argument").

As described in [1]:

   The schedule process must distinguish between blocking on a regular
   sleeping lock (rwsem and mutex) and a RT-only sleeping lock (spinlock
   and rwlock):
   - rwsem and mutex must flush block requests (blk_schedule_flush_plug())
     even if blocked on a lock. This can not deadlock because this also
     happens for non-RT.
     There should be a warning if the scheduling point is within a RCU read
     section.

   - spinlock and rwlock must not flush block requests. This will deadlock
     if the callback attempts to acquire a lock which is already acquired.
     Similarly to being preempted, there should be no warning if the
     scheduling point is within a RCU read section.

and with the tsk_is_pi_blocked() in the scheduler path, we hit the first
issue.

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rt/linux-rt-devel.git/tree/patches/0022-locking-rtmutex-Use-custom-scheduling-function-for-s.patch?h=linux-5.10.y-rt-patches

Signed-off-by: John Keeping &lt;john@metanate.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220708162702.1758865-1-john@metanate.com
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fix race between exit_itimers() and /proc/pid/timers</title>
<updated>2022-07-11T16:52:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-07-11T16:16:25+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=d5b36a4dbd06c5e8e36ca8ccc552f679069e2946'/>
<id>d5b36a4dbd06c5e8e36ca8ccc552f679069e2946</id>
<content type='text'>
As Chris explains, the comment above exit_itimers() is not correct,
we can race with proc_timers_seq_ops. Change exit_itimers() to clear
signal-&gt;posix_timers with -&gt;siglock held.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: chris@accessvector.net
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
As Chris explains, the comment above exit_itimers() is not correct,
we can race with proc_timers_seq_ops. Change exit_itimers() to clear
signal-&gt;posix_timers with -&gt;siglock held.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: chris@accessvector.net
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: s390: pci: provide routines for enabling/disabling interrupt forwarding</title>
<updated>2022-07-11T07:54:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Rosato</name>
<email>mjrosato@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-06-06T20:33:19+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=3c5a1b6f0a18520a0edd0600fef6f1a8553b8fdc'/>
<id>3c5a1b6f0a18520a0edd0600fef6f1a8553b8fdc</id>
<content type='text'>
These routines will be wired into a kvm ioctl in order to respond to
requests to enable / disable a device for Adapter Event Notifications /
Adapter Interuption Forwarding.

Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Niklas Schnelle &lt;schnelle@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthew Rosato &lt;mjrosato@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220606203325.110625-16-mjrosato@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@linux.ibm.com&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
These routines will be wired into a kvm ioctl in order to respond to
requests to enable / disable a device for Adapter Event Notifications /
Adapter Interuption Forwarding.

Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Niklas Schnelle &lt;schnelle@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthew Rosato &lt;mjrosato@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220606203325.110625-16-mjrosato@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@linux.ibm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/fair: Introduce SIS_UTIL to search idle CPU based on sum of util_avg</title>
<updated>2022-06-28T07:08:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chen Yu</name>
<email>yu.c.chen@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-06-12T16:34:28+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=70fb5ccf2ebb09a0c8ebba775041567812d45f86'/>
<id>70fb5ccf2ebb09a0c8ebba775041567812d45f86</id>
<content type='text'>
[Problem Statement]
select_idle_cpu() might spend too much time searching for an idle CPU,
when the system is overloaded.

The following histogram is the time spent in select_idle_cpu(),
when running 224 instances of netperf on a system with 112 CPUs
per LLC domain:

@usecs:
[0]                  533 |                                                    |
[1]                 5495 |                                                    |
[2, 4)             12008 |                                                    |
[4, 8)            239252 |                                                    |
[8, 16)          4041924 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@                                      |
[16, 32)        12357398 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@         |
[32, 64)        14820255 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@|
[64, 128)       13047682 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@       |
[128, 256)       8235013 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@                        |
[256, 512)       4507667 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@                                     |
[512, 1K)        2600472 |@@@@@@@@@                                           |
[1K, 2K)          927912 |@@@                                                 |
[2K, 4K)          218720 |                                                    |
[4K, 8K)           98161 |                                                    |
[8K, 16K)          37722 |                                                    |
[16K, 32K)          6715 |                                                    |
[32K, 64K)           477 |                                                    |
[64K, 128K)            7 |                                                    |

netperf latency usecs:
=======
case            	load    	    Lat_99th	    std%
TCP_RR          	thread-224	      257.39	(  0.21)

The time spent in select_idle_cpu() is visible to netperf and might have a negative
impact.

[Symptom analysis]
The patch [1] from Mel Gorman has been applied to track the efficiency
of select_idle_sibling. Copy the indicators here:

SIS Search Efficiency(se_eff%):
        A ratio expressed as a percentage of runqueues scanned versus
        idle CPUs found. A 100% efficiency indicates that the target,
        prev or recent CPU of a task was idle at wakeup. The lower the
        efficiency, the more runqueues were scanned before an idle CPU
        was found.

SIS Domain Search Efficiency(dom_eff%):
        Similar, except only for the slower SIS
	patch.

SIS Fast Success Rate(fast_rate%):
        Percentage of SIS that used target, prev or
	recent CPUs.

SIS Success rate(success_rate%):
        Percentage of scans that found an idle CPU.

The test is based on Aubrey's schedtests tool, including netperf, hackbench,
schbench and tbench.

Test on vanilla kernel:
schedstat_parse.py -f netperf_vanilla.log
case	        load	    se_eff%	    dom_eff%	  fast_rate%	success_rate%
TCP_RR	   28 threads	     99.978	      18.535	      99.995	     100.000
TCP_RR	   56 threads	     99.397	       5.671	      99.964	     100.000
TCP_RR	   84 threads	     21.721	       6.818	      73.632	     100.000
TCP_RR	  112 threads	     12.500	       5.533	      59.000	     100.000
TCP_RR	  140 threads	      8.524	       4.535	      49.020	     100.000
TCP_RR	  168 threads	      6.438	       3.945	      40.309	      99.999
TCP_RR	  196 threads	      5.397	       3.718	      32.320	      99.982
TCP_RR	  224 threads	      4.874	       3.661	      25.775	      99.767
UDP_RR	   28 threads	     99.988	      17.704	      99.997	     100.000
UDP_RR	   56 threads	     99.528	       5.977	      99.970	     100.000
UDP_RR	   84 threads	     24.219	       6.992	      76.479	     100.000
UDP_RR	  112 threads	     13.907	       5.706	      62.538	     100.000
UDP_RR	  140 threads	      9.408	       4.699	      52.519	     100.000
UDP_RR	  168 threads	      7.095	       4.077	      44.352	     100.000
UDP_RR	  196 threads	      5.757	       3.775	      35.764	      99.991
UDP_RR	  224 threads	      5.124	       3.704	      28.748	      99.860

schedstat_parse.py -f schbench_vanilla.log
(each group has 28 tasks)
case	        load	    se_eff%	    dom_eff%	  fast_rate%	success_rate%
normal	   1   mthread	     99.152	       6.400	      99.941	     100.000
normal	   2   mthreads	     97.844	       4.003	      99.908	     100.000
normal	   3   mthreads	     96.395	       2.118	      99.917	      99.998
normal	   4   mthreads	     55.288	       1.451	      98.615	      99.804
normal	   5   mthreads	      7.004	       1.870	      45.597	      61.036
normal	   6   mthreads	      3.354	       1.346	      20.777	      34.230
normal	   7   mthreads	      2.183	       1.028	      11.257	      21.055
normal	   8   mthreads	      1.653	       0.825	       7.849	      15.549

schedstat_parse.py -f hackbench_vanilla.log
(each group has 28 tasks)
case			load	        se_eff%	    dom_eff%	  fast_rate%	success_rate%
process-pipe	     1 group	         99.991	       7.692	      99.999	     100.000
process-pipe	    2 groups	         99.934	       4.615	      99.997	     100.000
process-pipe	    3 groups	         99.597	       3.198	      99.987	     100.000
process-pipe	    4 groups	         98.378	       2.464	      99.958	     100.000
process-pipe	    5 groups	         27.474	       3.653	      89.811	      99.800
process-pipe	    6 groups	         20.201	       4.098	      82.763	      99.570
process-pipe	    7 groups	         16.423	       4.156	      77.398	      99.316
process-pipe	    8 groups	         13.165	       3.920	      72.232	      98.828
process-sockets	     1 group	         99.977	       5.882	      99.999	     100.000
process-sockets	    2 groups	         99.927	       5.505	      99.996	     100.000
process-sockets	    3 groups	         99.397	       3.250	      99.980	     100.000
process-sockets	    4 groups	         79.680	       4.258	      98.864	      99.998
process-sockets	    5 groups	          7.673	       2.503	      63.659	      92.115
process-sockets	    6 groups	          4.642	       1.584	      58.946	      88.048
process-sockets	    7 groups	          3.493	       1.379	      49.816	      81.164
process-sockets	    8 groups	          3.015	       1.407	      40.845	      75.500
threads-pipe	     1 group	         99.997	       0.000	     100.000	     100.000
threads-pipe	    2 groups	         99.894	       2.932	      99.997	     100.000
threads-pipe	    3 groups	         99.611	       4.117	      99.983	     100.000
threads-pipe	    4 groups	         97.703	       2.624	      99.937	     100.000
threads-pipe	    5 groups	         22.919	       3.623	      87.150	      99.764
threads-pipe	    6 groups	         18.016	       4.038	      80.491	      99.557
threads-pipe	    7 groups	         14.663	       3.991	      75.239	      99.247
threads-pipe	    8 groups	         12.242	       3.808	      70.651	      98.644
threads-sockets	     1 group	         99.990	       6.667	      99.999	     100.000
threads-sockets	    2 groups	         99.940	       5.114	      99.997	     100.000
threads-sockets	    3 groups	         99.469	       4.115	      99.977	     100.000
threads-sockets	    4 groups	         87.528	       4.038	      99.400	     100.000
threads-sockets	    5 groups	          6.942	       2.398	      59.244	      88.337
threads-sockets	    6 groups	          4.359	       1.954	      49.448	      87.860
threads-sockets	    7 groups	          2.845	       1.345	      41.198	      77.102
threads-sockets	    8 groups	          2.871	       1.404	      38.512	      74.312

schedstat_parse.py -f tbench_vanilla.log
case			load	      se_eff%	    dom_eff%	  fast_rate%	success_rate%
loopback	  28 threads	       99.976	      18.369	      99.995	     100.000
loopback	  56 threads	       99.222	       7.799	      99.934	     100.000
loopback	  84 threads	       19.723	       6.819	      70.215	     100.000
loopback	 112 threads	       11.283	       5.371	      55.371	      99.999
loopback	 140 threads	        0.000	       0.000	       0.000	       0.000
loopback	 168 threads	        0.000	       0.000	       0.000	       0.000
loopback	 196 threads	        0.000	       0.000	       0.000	       0.000
loopback	 224 threads	        0.000	       0.000	       0.000	       0.000

According to the test above, if the system becomes busy, the
SIS Search Efficiency(se_eff%) drops significantly. Although some
benchmarks would finally find an idle CPU(success_rate% = 100%), it is
doubtful whether it is worth it to search the whole LLC domain.

[Proposal]
It would be ideal to have a crystal ball to answer this question:
How many CPUs must a wakeup path walk down, before it can find an idle
CPU? Many potential metrics could be used to predict the number.
One candidate is the sum of util_avg in this LLC domain. The benefit
of choosing util_avg is that it is a metric of accumulated historic
activity, which seems to be smoother than instantaneous metrics
(such as rq-&gt;nr_running). Besides, choosing the sum of util_avg
would help predict the load of the LLC domain more precisely, because
SIS_PROP uses one CPU's idle time to estimate the total LLC domain idle
time.

In summary, the lower the util_avg is, the more select_idle_cpu()
should scan for idle CPU, and vice versa. When the sum of util_avg
in this LLC domain hits 85% or above, the scan stops. The reason to
choose 85% as the threshold is that this is the imbalance_pct(117)
when a LLC sched group is overloaded.

Introduce the quadratic function:

y = SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE - p * x^2
and y'= y / SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE

x is the ratio of sum_util compared to the CPU capacity:
x = sum_util / (llc_weight * SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE)
y' is the ratio of CPUs to be scanned in the LLC domain,
and the number of CPUs to scan is calculated by:

nr_scan = llc_weight * y'

Choosing quadratic function is because:
[1] Compared to the linear function, it scans more aggressively when the
    sum_util is low.
[2] Compared to the exponential function, it is easier to calculate.
[3] It seems that there is no accurate mapping between the sum of util_avg
    and the number of CPUs to be scanned. Use heuristic scan for now.

For a platform with 112 CPUs per LLC, the number of CPUs to scan is:
sum_util%   0    5   15   25  35  45  55   65   75   85   86 ...
scan_nr   112  111  108  102  93  81  65   47   25    1    0 ...

For a platform with 16 CPUs per LLC, the number of CPUs to scan is:
sum_util%   0    5   15   25  35  45  55   65   75   85   86 ...
scan_nr    16   15   15   14  13  11   9    6    3    0    0 ...

Furthermore, to minimize the overhead of calculating the metrics in
select_idle_cpu(), borrow the statistics from periodic load balance.
As mentioned by Abel, on a platform with 112 CPUs per LLC, the
sum_util calculated by periodic load balance after 112 ms would
decay to about 0.5 * 0.5 * 0.5 * 0.7 = 8.75%, thus bringing a delay
in reflecting the latest utilization. But it is a trade-off.
Checking the util_avg in newidle load balance would be more frequent,
but it brings overhead - multiple CPUs write/read the per-LLC shared
variable and introduces cache contention. Tim also mentioned that,
it is allowed to be non-optimal in terms of scheduling for the
short-term variations, but if there is a long-term trend in the load
behavior, the scheduler can adjust for that.

When SIS_UTIL is enabled, the select_idle_cpu() uses the nr_scan
calculated by SIS_UTIL instead of the one from SIS_PROP. As Peter and
Mel suggested, SIS_UTIL should be enabled by default.

This patch is based on the util_avg, which is very sensitive to the
CPU frequency invariance. There is an issue that, when the max frequency
has been clamp, the util_avg would decay insanely fast when
the CPU is idle. Commit addca285120b ("cpufreq: intel_pstate: Handle no_turbo
in frequency invariance") could be used to mitigate this symptom, by adjusting
the arch_max_freq_ratio when turbo is disabled. But this issue is still
not thoroughly fixed, because the current code is unaware of the user-specified
max CPU frequency.

[Test result]

netperf and tbench were launched with 25% 50% 75% 100% 125% 150%
175% 200% of CPU number respectively. Hackbench and schbench were launched
by 1, 2 ,4, 8 groups. Each test lasts for 100 seconds and repeats 3 times.

The following is the benchmark result comparison between
baseline:vanilla v5.19-rc1 and compare:patched kernel. Positive compare%
indicates better performance.

Each netperf test is a:
netperf -4 -H 127.0.1 -t TCP/UDP_RR -c -C -l 100
netperf.throughput
=======
case            	load    	baseline(std%)	compare%( std%)
TCP_RR          	28 threads	 1.00 (  0.34)	 -0.16 (  0.40)
TCP_RR          	56 threads	 1.00 (  0.19)	 -0.02 (  0.20)
TCP_RR          	84 threads	 1.00 (  0.39)	 -0.47 (  0.40)
TCP_RR          	112 threads	 1.00 (  0.21)	 -0.66 (  0.22)
TCP_RR          	140 threads	 1.00 (  0.19)	 -0.69 (  0.19)
TCP_RR          	168 threads	 1.00 (  0.18)	 -0.48 (  0.18)
TCP_RR          	196 threads	 1.00 (  0.16)	+194.70 ( 16.43)
TCP_RR          	224 threads	 1.00 (  0.16)	+197.30 (  7.85)
UDP_RR          	28 threads	 1.00 (  0.37)	 +0.35 (  0.33)
UDP_RR          	56 threads	 1.00 ( 11.18)	 -0.32 (  0.21)
UDP_RR          	84 threads	 1.00 (  1.46)	 -0.98 (  0.32)
UDP_RR          	112 threads	 1.00 ( 28.85)	 -2.48 ( 19.61)
UDP_RR          	140 threads	 1.00 (  0.70)	 -0.71 ( 14.04)
UDP_RR          	168 threads	 1.00 ( 14.33)	 -0.26 ( 11.16)
UDP_RR          	196 threads	 1.00 ( 12.92)	+186.92 ( 20.93)
UDP_RR          	224 threads	 1.00 ( 11.74)	+196.79 ( 18.62)

Take the 224 threads as an example, the SIS search metrics changes are
illustrated below:

    vanilla                    patched
   4544492          +237.5%   15338634        sched_debug.cpu.sis_domain_search.avg
     38539        +39686.8%   15333634        sched_debug.cpu.sis_failed.avg
  128300000          -87.9%   15551326        sched_debug.cpu.sis_scanned.avg
   5842896          +162.7%   15347978        sched_debug.cpu.sis_search.avg

There is -87.9% less CPU scans after patched, which indicates lower overhead.
Besides, with this patch applied, there is -13% less rq lock contention
in perf-profile.calltrace.cycles-pp._raw_spin_lock.raw_spin_rq_lock_nested
.try_to_wake_up.default_wake_function.woken_wake_function.
This might help explain the performance improvement - Because this patch allows
the waking task to remain on the previous CPU, rather than grabbing other CPUs'
lock.

Each hackbench test is a:
hackbench -g $job --process/threads --pipe/sockets -l 1000000 -s 100
hackbench.throughput
=========
case            	load    	baseline(std%)	compare%( std%)
process-pipe    	1 group 	 1.00 (  1.29)	 +0.57 (  0.47)
process-pipe    	2 groups 	 1.00 (  0.27)	 +0.77 (  0.81)
process-pipe    	4 groups 	 1.00 (  0.26)	 +1.17 (  0.02)
process-pipe    	8 groups 	 1.00 (  0.15)	 -4.79 (  0.02)
process-sockets 	1 group 	 1.00 (  0.63)	 -0.92 (  0.13)
process-sockets 	2 groups 	 1.00 (  0.03)	 -0.83 (  0.14)
process-sockets 	4 groups 	 1.00 (  0.40)	 +5.20 (  0.26)
process-sockets 	8 groups 	 1.00 (  0.04)	 +3.52 (  0.03)
threads-pipe    	1 group 	 1.00 (  1.28)	 +0.07 (  0.14)
threads-pipe    	2 groups 	 1.00 (  0.22)	 -0.49 (  0.74)
threads-pipe    	4 groups 	 1.00 (  0.05)	 +1.88 (  0.13)
threads-pipe    	8 groups 	 1.00 (  0.09)	 -4.90 (  0.06)
threads-sockets 	1 group 	 1.00 (  0.25)	 -0.70 (  0.53)
threads-sockets 	2 groups 	 1.00 (  0.10)	 -0.63 (  0.26)
threads-sockets 	4 groups 	 1.00 (  0.19)	+11.92 (  0.24)
threads-sockets 	8 groups 	 1.00 (  0.08)	 +4.31 (  0.11)

Each tbench test is a:
tbench -t 100 $job 127.0.0.1
tbench.throughput
======
case            	load    	baseline(std%)	compare%( std%)
loopback        	28 threads	 1.00 (  0.06)	 -0.14 (  0.09)
loopback        	56 threads	 1.00 (  0.03)	 -0.04 (  0.17)
loopback        	84 threads	 1.00 (  0.05)	 +0.36 (  0.13)
loopback        	112 threads	 1.00 (  0.03)	 +0.51 (  0.03)
loopback        	140 threads	 1.00 (  0.02)	 -1.67 (  0.19)
loopback        	168 threads	 1.00 (  0.38)	 +1.27 (  0.27)
loopback        	196 threads	 1.00 (  0.11)	 +1.34 (  0.17)
loopback        	224 threads	 1.00 (  0.11)	 +1.67 (  0.22)

Each schbench test is a:
schbench -m $job -t 28 -r 100 -s 30000 -c 30000
schbench.latency_90%_us
========
case            	load    	baseline(std%)	compare%( std%)
normal          	1 mthread	 1.00 ( 31.22)	 -7.36 ( 20.25)*
normal          	2 mthreads	 1.00 (  2.45)	 -0.48 (  1.79)
normal          	4 mthreads	 1.00 (  1.69)	 +0.45 (  0.64)
normal          	8 mthreads	 1.00 (  5.47)	 +9.81 ( 14.28)

*Consider the Standard Deviation, this -7.36% regression might not be valid.

Also, a OLTP workload with a commercial RDBMS has been tested, and there
is no significant change.

There were concerns that unbalanced tasks among CPUs would cause problems.
For example, suppose the LLC domain is composed of 8 CPUs, and 7 tasks are
bound to CPU0~CPU6, while CPU7 is idle:

          CPU0    CPU1    CPU2    CPU3    CPU4    CPU5    CPU6    CPU7
util_avg  1024    1024    1024    1024    1024    1024    1024    0

Since the util_avg ratio is 87.5%( = 7/8 ), which is higher than 85%,
select_idle_cpu() will not scan, thus CPU7 is undetected during scan.
But according to Mel, it is unlikely the CPU7 will be idle all the time
because CPU7 could pull some tasks via CPU_NEWLY_IDLE.

lkp(kernel test robot) has reported a regression on stress-ng.sock on a
very busy system. According to the sched_debug statistics, it might be caused
by SIS_UTIL terminates the scan and chooses a previous CPU earlier, and this
might introduce more context switch, especially involuntary preemption, which
impacts a busy stress-ng. This regression has shown that, not all benchmarks
in every scenario benefit from idle CPU scan limit, and it needs further
investigation.

Besides, there is slight regression in hackbench's 16 groups case when the
LLC domain has 16 CPUs. Prateek mentioned that we should scan aggressively
in an LLC domain with 16 CPUs. Because the cost to search for an idle one
among 16 CPUs is negligible. The current patch aims to propose a generic
solution and only considers the util_avg. Something like the below could
be applied on top of the current patch to fulfill the requirement:

	if (llc_weight &lt;= 16)
		nr_scan = nr_scan * 32 / llc_weight;

For LLC domain with 16 CPUs, the nr_scan will be expanded to 2 times large.
The smaller the CPU number this LLC domain has, the larger nr_scan will be
expanded. This needs further investigation.

There is also ongoing work[2] from Abel to filter out the busy CPUs during
wakeup, to further speed up the idle CPU scan. And it could be a following-up
optimization on top of this change.

Suggested-by: Tim Chen &lt;tim.c.chen@intel.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu &lt;yu.c.chen@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Yicong Yang &lt;yangyicong@hisilicon.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mohini Narkhede &lt;mohini.narkhede@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: K Prateek Nayak &lt;kprateek.nayak@amd.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220612163428.849378-1-yu.c.chen@intel.com
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[Problem Statement]
select_idle_cpu() might spend too much time searching for an idle CPU,
when the system is overloaded.

The following histogram is the time spent in select_idle_cpu(),
when running 224 instances of netperf on a system with 112 CPUs
per LLC domain:

@usecs:
[0]                  533 |                                                    |
[1]                 5495 |                                                    |
[2, 4)             12008 |                                                    |
[4, 8)            239252 |                                                    |
[8, 16)          4041924 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@                                      |
[16, 32)        12357398 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@         |
[32, 64)        14820255 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@|
[64, 128)       13047682 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@       |
[128, 256)       8235013 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@                        |
[256, 512)       4507667 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@                                     |
[512, 1K)        2600472 |@@@@@@@@@                                           |
[1K, 2K)          927912 |@@@                                                 |
[2K, 4K)          218720 |                                                    |
[4K, 8K)           98161 |                                                    |
[8K, 16K)          37722 |                                                    |
[16K, 32K)          6715 |                                                    |
[32K, 64K)           477 |                                                    |
[64K, 128K)            7 |                                                    |

netperf latency usecs:
=======
case            	load    	    Lat_99th	    std%
TCP_RR          	thread-224	      257.39	(  0.21)

The time spent in select_idle_cpu() is visible to netperf and might have a negative
impact.

[Symptom analysis]
The patch [1] from Mel Gorman has been applied to track the efficiency
of select_idle_sibling. Copy the indicators here:

SIS Search Efficiency(se_eff%):
        A ratio expressed as a percentage of runqueues scanned versus
        idle CPUs found. A 100% efficiency indicates that the target,
        prev or recent CPU of a task was idle at wakeup. The lower the
        efficiency, the more runqueues were scanned before an idle CPU
        was found.

SIS Domain Search Efficiency(dom_eff%):
        Similar, except only for the slower SIS
	patch.

SIS Fast Success Rate(fast_rate%):
        Percentage of SIS that used target, prev or
	recent CPUs.

SIS Success rate(success_rate%):
        Percentage of scans that found an idle CPU.

The test is based on Aubrey's schedtests tool, including netperf, hackbench,
schbench and tbench.

Test on vanilla kernel:
schedstat_parse.py -f netperf_vanilla.log
case	        load	    se_eff%	    dom_eff%	  fast_rate%	success_rate%
TCP_RR	   28 threads	     99.978	      18.535	      99.995	     100.000
TCP_RR	   56 threads	     99.397	       5.671	      99.964	     100.000
TCP_RR	   84 threads	     21.721	       6.818	      73.632	     100.000
TCP_RR	  112 threads	     12.500	       5.533	      59.000	     100.000
TCP_RR	  140 threads	      8.524	       4.535	      49.020	     100.000
TCP_RR	  168 threads	      6.438	       3.945	      40.309	      99.999
TCP_RR	  196 threads	      5.397	       3.718	      32.320	      99.982
TCP_RR	  224 threads	      4.874	       3.661	      25.775	      99.767
UDP_RR	   28 threads	     99.988	      17.704	      99.997	     100.000
UDP_RR	   56 threads	     99.528	       5.977	      99.970	     100.000
UDP_RR	   84 threads	     24.219	       6.992	      76.479	     100.000
UDP_RR	  112 threads	     13.907	       5.706	      62.538	     100.000
UDP_RR	  140 threads	      9.408	       4.699	      52.519	     100.000
UDP_RR	  168 threads	      7.095	       4.077	      44.352	     100.000
UDP_RR	  196 threads	      5.757	       3.775	      35.764	      99.991
UDP_RR	  224 threads	      5.124	       3.704	      28.748	      99.860

schedstat_parse.py -f schbench_vanilla.log
(each group has 28 tasks)
case	        load	    se_eff%	    dom_eff%	  fast_rate%	success_rate%
normal	   1   mthread	     99.152	       6.400	      99.941	     100.000
normal	   2   mthreads	     97.844	       4.003	      99.908	     100.000
normal	   3   mthreads	     96.395	       2.118	      99.917	      99.998
normal	   4   mthreads	     55.288	       1.451	      98.615	      99.804
normal	   5   mthreads	      7.004	       1.870	      45.597	      61.036
normal	   6   mthreads	      3.354	       1.346	      20.777	      34.230
normal	   7   mthreads	      2.183	       1.028	      11.257	      21.055
normal	   8   mthreads	      1.653	       0.825	       7.849	      15.549

schedstat_parse.py -f hackbench_vanilla.log
(each group has 28 tasks)
case			load	        se_eff%	    dom_eff%	  fast_rate%	success_rate%
process-pipe	     1 group	         99.991	       7.692	      99.999	     100.000
process-pipe	    2 groups	         99.934	       4.615	      99.997	     100.000
process-pipe	    3 groups	         99.597	       3.198	      99.987	     100.000
process-pipe	    4 groups	         98.378	       2.464	      99.958	     100.000
process-pipe	    5 groups	         27.474	       3.653	      89.811	      99.800
process-pipe	    6 groups	         20.201	       4.098	      82.763	      99.570
process-pipe	    7 groups	         16.423	       4.156	      77.398	      99.316
process-pipe	    8 groups	         13.165	       3.920	      72.232	      98.828
process-sockets	     1 group	         99.977	       5.882	      99.999	     100.000
process-sockets	    2 groups	         99.927	       5.505	      99.996	     100.000
process-sockets	    3 groups	         99.397	       3.250	      99.980	     100.000
process-sockets	    4 groups	         79.680	       4.258	      98.864	      99.998
process-sockets	    5 groups	          7.673	       2.503	      63.659	      92.115
process-sockets	    6 groups	          4.642	       1.584	      58.946	      88.048
process-sockets	    7 groups	          3.493	       1.379	      49.816	      81.164
process-sockets	    8 groups	          3.015	       1.407	      40.845	      75.500
threads-pipe	     1 group	         99.997	       0.000	     100.000	     100.000
threads-pipe	    2 groups	         99.894	       2.932	      99.997	     100.000
threads-pipe	    3 groups	         99.611	       4.117	      99.983	     100.000
threads-pipe	    4 groups	         97.703	       2.624	      99.937	     100.000
threads-pipe	    5 groups	         22.919	       3.623	      87.150	      99.764
threads-pipe	    6 groups	         18.016	       4.038	      80.491	      99.557
threads-pipe	    7 groups	         14.663	       3.991	      75.239	      99.247
threads-pipe	    8 groups	         12.242	       3.808	      70.651	      98.644
threads-sockets	     1 group	         99.990	       6.667	      99.999	     100.000
threads-sockets	    2 groups	         99.940	       5.114	      99.997	     100.000
threads-sockets	    3 groups	         99.469	       4.115	      99.977	     100.000
threads-sockets	    4 groups	         87.528	       4.038	      99.400	     100.000
threads-sockets	    5 groups	          6.942	       2.398	      59.244	      88.337
threads-sockets	    6 groups	          4.359	       1.954	      49.448	      87.860
threads-sockets	    7 groups	          2.845	       1.345	      41.198	      77.102
threads-sockets	    8 groups	          2.871	       1.404	      38.512	      74.312

schedstat_parse.py -f tbench_vanilla.log
case			load	      se_eff%	    dom_eff%	  fast_rate%	success_rate%
loopback	  28 threads	       99.976	      18.369	      99.995	     100.000
loopback	  56 threads	       99.222	       7.799	      99.934	     100.000
loopback	  84 threads	       19.723	       6.819	      70.215	     100.000
loopback	 112 threads	       11.283	       5.371	      55.371	      99.999
loopback	 140 threads	        0.000	       0.000	       0.000	       0.000
loopback	 168 threads	        0.000	       0.000	       0.000	       0.000
loopback	 196 threads	        0.000	       0.000	       0.000	       0.000
loopback	 224 threads	        0.000	       0.000	       0.000	       0.000

According to the test above, if the system becomes busy, the
SIS Search Efficiency(se_eff%) drops significantly. Although some
benchmarks would finally find an idle CPU(success_rate% = 100%), it is
doubtful whether it is worth it to search the whole LLC domain.

[Proposal]
It would be ideal to have a crystal ball to answer this question:
How many CPUs must a wakeup path walk down, before it can find an idle
CPU? Many potential metrics could be used to predict the number.
One candidate is the sum of util_avg in this LLC domain. The benefit
of choosing util_avg is that it is a metric of accumulated historic
activity, which seems to be smoother than instantaneous metrics
(such as rq-&gt;nr_running). Besides, choosing the sum of util_avg
would help predict the load of the LLC domain more precisely, because
SIS_PROP uses one CPU's idle time to estimate the total LLC domain idle
time.

In summary, the lower the util_avg is, the more select_idle_cpu()
should scan for idle CPU, and vice versa. When the sum of util_avg
in this LLC domain hits 85% or above, the scan stops. The reason to
choose 85% as the threshold is that this is the imbalance_pct(117)
when a LLC sched group is overloaded.

Introduce the quadratic function:

y = SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE - p * x^2
and y'= y / SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE

x is the ratio of sum_util compared to the CPU capacity:
x = sum_util / (llc_weight * SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE)
y' is the ratio of CPUs to be scanned in the LLC domain,
and the number of CPUs to scan is calculated by:

nr_scan = llc_weight * y'

Choosing quadratic function is because:
[1] Compared to the linear function, it scans more aggressively when the
    sum_util is low.
[2] Compared to the exponential function, it is easier to calculate.
[3] It seems that there is no accurate mapping between the sum of util_avg
    and the number of CPUs to be scanned. Use heuristic scan for now.

For a platform with 112 CPUs per LLC, the number of CPUs to scan is:
sum_util%   0    5   15   25  35  45  55   65   75   85   86 ...
scan_nr   112  111  108  102  93  81  65   47   25    1    0 ...

For a platform with 16 CPUs per LLC, the number of CPUs to scan is:
sum_util%   0    5   15   25  35  45  55   65   75   85   86 ...
scan_nr    16   15   15   14  13  11   9    6    3    0    0 ...

Furthermore, to minimize the overhead of calculating the metrics in
select_idle_cpu(), borrow the statistics from periodic load balance.
As mentioned by Abel, on a platform with 112 CPUs per LLC, the
sum_util calculated by periodic load balance after 112 ms would
decay to about 0.5 * 0.5 * 0.5 * 0.7 = 8.75%, thus bringing a delay
in reflecting the latest utilization. But it is a trade-off.
Checking the util_avg in newidle load balance would be more frequent,
but it brings overhead - multiple CPUs write/read the per-LLC shared
variable and introduces cache contention. Tim also mentioned that,
it is allowed to be non-optimal in terms of scheduling for the
short-term variations, but if there is a long-term trend in the load
behavior, the scheduler can adjust for that.

When SIS_UTIL is enabled, the select_idle_cpu() uses the nr_scan
calculated by SIS_UTIL instead of the one from SIS_PROP. As Peter and
Mel suggested, SIS_UTIL should be enabled by default.

This patch is based on the util_avg, which is very sensitive to the
CPU frequency invariance. There is an issue that, when the max frequency
has been clamp, the util_avg would decay insanely fast when
the CPU is idle. Commit addca285120b ("cpufreq: intel_pstate: Handle no_turbo
in frequency invariance") could be used to mitigate this symptom, by adjusting
the arch_max_freq_ratio when turbo is disabled. But this issue is still
not thoroughly fixed, because the current code is unaware of the user-specified
max CPU frequency.

[Test result]

netperf and tbench were launched with 25% 50% 75% 100% 125% 150%
175% 200% of CPU number respectively. Hackbench and schbench were launched
by 1, 2 ,4, 8 groups. Each test lasts for 100 seconds and repeats 3 times.

The following is the benchmark result comparison between
baseline:vanilla v5.19-rc1 and compare:patched kernel. Positive compare%
indicates better performance.

Each netperf test is a:
netperf -4 -H 127.0.1 -t TCP/UDP_RR -c -C -l 100
netperf.throughput
=======
case            	load    	baseline(std%)	compare%( std%)
TCP_RR          	28 threads	 1.00 (  0.34)	 -0.16 (  0.40)
TCP_RR          	56 threads	 1.00 (  0.19)	 -0.02 (  0.20)
TCP_RR          	84 threads	 1.00 (  0.39)	 -0.47 (  0.40)
TCP_RR          	112 threads	 1.00 (  0.21)	 -0.66 (  0.22)
TCP_RR          	140 threads	 1.00 (  0.19)	 -0.69 (  0.19)
TCP_RR          	168 threads	 1.00 (  0.18)	 -0.48 (  0.18)
TCP_RR          	196 threads	 1.00 (  0.16)	+194.70 ( 16.43)
TCP_RR          	224 threads	 1.00 (  0.16)	+197.30 (  7.85)
UDP_RR          	28 threads	 1.00 (  0.37)	 +0.35 (  0.33)
UDP_RR          	56 threads	 1.00 ( 11.18)	 -0.32 (  0.21)
UDP_RR          	84 threads	 1.00 (  1.46)	 -0.98 (  0.32)
UDP_RR          	112 threads	 1.00 ( 28.85)	 -2.48 ( 19.61)
UDP_RR          	140 threads	 1.00 (  0.70)	 -0.71 ( 14.04)
UDP_RR          	168 threads	 1.00 ( 14.33)	 -0.26 ( 11.16)
UDP_RR          	196 threads	 1.00 ( 12.92)	+186.92 ( 20.93)
UDP_RR          	224 threads	 1.00 ( 11.74)	+196.79 ( 18.62)

Take the 224 threads as an example, the SIS search metrics changes are
illustrated below:

    vanilla                    patched
   4544492          +237.5%   15338634        sched_debug.cpu.sis_domain_search.avg
     38539        +39686.8%   15333634        sched_debug.cpu.sis_failed.avg
  128300000          -87.9%   15551326        sched_debug.cpu.sis_scanned.avg
   5842896          +162.7%   15347978        sched_debug.cpu.sis_search.avg

There is -87.9% less CPU scans after patched, which indicates lower overhead.
Besides, with this patch applied, there is -13% less rq lock contention
in perf-profile.calltrace.cycles-pp._raw_spin_lock.raw_spin_rq_lock_nested
.try_to_wake_up.default_wake_function.woken_wake_function.
This might help explain the performance improvement - Because this patch allows
the waking task to remain on the previous CPU, rather than grabbing other CPUs'
lock.

Each hackbench test is a:
hackbench -g $job --process/threads --pipe/sockets -l 1000000 -s 100
hackbench.throughput
=========
case            	load    	baseline(std%)	compare%( std%)
process-pipe    	1 group 	 1.00 (  1.29)	 +0.57 (  0.47)
process-pipe    	2 groups 	 1.00 (  0.27)	 +0.77 (  0.81)
process-pipe    	4 groups 	 1.00 (  0.26)	 +1.17 (  0.02)
process-pipe    	8 groups 	 1.00 (  0.15)	 -4.79 (  0.02)
process-sockets 	1 group 	 1.00 (  0.63)	 -0.92 (  0.13)
process-sockets 	2 groups 	 1.00 (  0.03)	 -0.83 (  0.14)
process-sockets 	4 groups 	 1.00 (  0.40)	 +5.20 (  0.26)
process-sockets 	8 groups 	 1.00 (  0.04)	 +3.52 (  0.03)
threads-pipe    	1 group 	 1.00 (  1.28)	 +0.07 (  0.14)
threads-pipe    	2 groups 	 1.00 (  0.22)	 -0.49 (  0.74)
threads-pipe    	4 groups 	 1.00 (  0.05)	 +1.88 (  0.13)
threads-pipe    	8 groups 	 1.00 (  0.09)	 -4.90 (  0.06)
threads-sockets 	1 group 	 1.00 (  0.25)	 -0.70 (  0.53)
threads-sockets 	2 groups 	 1.00 (  0.10)	 -0.63 (  0.26)
threads-sockets 	4 groups 	 1.00 (  0.19)	+11.92 (  0.24)
threads-sockets 	8 groups 	 1.00 (  0.08)	 +4.31 (  0.11)

Each tbench test is a:
tbench -t 100 $job 127.0.0.1
tbench.throughput
======
case            	load    	baseline(std%)	compare%( std%)
loopback        	28 threads	 1.00 (  0.06)	 -0.14 (  0.09)
loopback        	56 threads	 1.00 (  0.03)	 -0.04 (  0.17)
loopback        	84 threads	 1.00 (  0.05)	 +0.36 (  0.13)
loopback        	112 threads	 1.00 (  0.03)	 +0.51 (  0.03)
loopback        	140 threads	 1.00 (  0.02)	 -1.67 (  0.19)
loopback        	168 threads	 1.00 (  0.38)	 +1.27 (  0.27)
loopback        	196 threads	 1.00 (  0.11)	 +1.34 (  0.17)
loopback        	224 threads	 1.00 (  0.11)	 +1.67 (  0.22)

Each schbench test is a:
schbench -m $job -t 28 -r 100 -s 30000 -c 30000
schbench.latency_90%_us
========
case            	load    	baseline(std%)	compare%( std%)
normal          	1 mthread	 1.00 ( 31.22)	 -7.36 ( 20.25)*
normal          	2 mthreads	 1.00 (  2.45)	 -0.48 (  1.79)
normal          	4 mthreads	 1.00 (  1.69)	 +0.45 (  0.64)
normal          	8 mthreads	 1.00 (  5.47)	 +9.81 ( 14.28)

*Consider the Standard Deviation, this -7.36% regression might not be valid.

Also, a OLTP workload with a commercial RDBMS has been tested, and there
is no significant change.

There were concerns that unbalanced tasks among CPUs would cause problems.
For example, suppose the LLC domain is composed of 8 CPUs, and 7 tasks are
bound to CPU0~CPU6, while CPU7 is idle:

          CPU0    CPU1    CPU2    CPU3    CPU4    CPU5    CPU6    CPU7
util_avg  1024    1024    1024    1024    1024    1024    1024    0

Since the util_avg ratio is 87.5%( = 7/8 ), which is higher than 85%,
select_idle_cpu() will not scan, thus CPU7 is undetected during scan.
But according to Mel, it is unlikely the CPU7 will be idle all the time
because CPU7 could pull some tasks via CPU_NEWLY_IDLE.

lkp(kernel test robot) has reported a regression on stress-ng.sock on a
very busy system. According to the sched_debug statistics, it might be caused
by SIS_UTIL terminates the scan and chooses a previous CPU earlier, and this
might introduce more context switch, especially involuntary preemption, which
impacts a busy stress-ng. This regression has shown that, not all benchmarks
in every scenario benefit from idle CPU scan limit, and it needs further
investigation.

Besides, there is slight regression in hackbench's 16 groups case when the
LLC domain has 16 CPUs. Prateek mentioned that we should scan aggressively
in an LLC domain with 16 CPUs. Because the cost to search for an idle one
among 16 CPUs is negligible. The current patch aims to propose a generic
solution and only considers the util_avg. Something like the below could
be applied on top of the current patch to fulfill the requirement:

	if (llc_weight &lt;= 16)
		nr_scan = nr_scan * 32 / llc_weight;

For LLC domain with 16 CPUs, the nr_scan will be expanded to 2 times large.
The smaller the CPU number this LLC domain has, the larger nr_scan will be
expanded. This needs further investigation.

There is also ongoing work[2] from Abel to filter out the busy CPUs during
wakeup, to further speed up the idle CPU scan. And it could be a following-up
optimization on top of this change.

Suggested-by: Tim Chen &lt;tim.c.chen@intel.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu &lt;yu.c.chen@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Yicong Yang &lt;yangyicong@hisilicon.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mohini Narkhede &lt;mohini.narkhede@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: K Prateek Nayak &lt;kprateek.nayak@amd.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220612163428.849378-1-yu.c.chen@intel.com
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<title>docs: rename Documentation/vm to Documentation/mm</title>
<updated>2022-06-27T19:52:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport</name>
<email>rppt@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-06-27T06:00:26+00:00</published>
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so it will be consistent with code mm directory and with
Documentation/admin-guide/mm and won't be confused with virtual machines.

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Ira Weiny &lt;ira.weiny@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Acked-by: Wu XiangCheng &lt;bobwxc@email.cn&gt;
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so it will be consistent with code mm directory and with
Documentation/admin-guide/mm and won't be confused with virtual machines.

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Ira Weiny &lt;ira.weiny@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Acked-by: Wu XiangCheng &lt;bobwxc@email.cn&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'ptrace_stop-cleanup-for-v5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace</title>
<updated>2022-06-03T23:13:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-06-03T23:13:25+00:00</published>
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Pull ptrace_stop cleanups from Eric Biederman:
 "While looking at the ptrace problems with PREEMPT_RT and the problems
  Peter Zijlstra was encountering with ptrace in his freezer rewrite I
  identified some cleanups to ptrace_stop that make sense on their own
  and move make resolving the other problems much simpler.

  The biggest issue is the habit of the ptrace code to change
  task-&gt;__state from the tracer to suppress TASK_WAKEKILL from waking up
  the tracee. No other code in the kernel does that and it is straight
  forward to update signal_wake_up and friends to make that unnecessary.

  Peter's task freezer sets frozen tasks to a new state TASK_FROZEN and
  then it stores them by calling "wake_up_state(t, TASK_FROZEN)" relying
  on the fact that all stopped states except the special stop states can
  tolerate spurious wake up and recover their state.

  The state of stopped and traced tasked is changed to be stored in
  task-&gt;jobctl as well as in task-&gt;__state. This makes it possible for
  the freezer to recover tasks in these special states, as well as
  serving as a general cleanup. With a little more work in that
  direction I believe TASK_STOPPED can learn to tolerate spurious wake
  ups and become an ordinary stop state.

  The TASK_TRACED state has to remain a special state as the registers
  for a process are only reliably available when the process is stopped
  in the scheduler. Fundamentally ptrace needs acess to the saved
  register values of a task.

  There are bunch of semi-random ptrace related cleanups that were found
  while looking at these issues.

  One cleanup that deserves to be called out is from commit 57b6de08b5f6
  ("ptrace: Admit ptrace_stop can generate spuriuos SIGTRAPs"). This
  makes a change that is technically user space visible, in the handling
  of what happens to a tracee when a tracer dies unexpectedly. According
  to our testing and our understanding of userspace nothing cares that
  spurious SIGTRAPs can be generated in that case"

* tag 'ptrace_stop-cleanup-for-v5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  sched,signal,ptrace: Rework TASK_TRACED, TASK_STOPPED state
  ptrace: Always take siglock in ptrace_resume
  ptrace: Don't change __state
  ptrace: Admit ptrace_stop can generate spuriuos SIGTRAPs
  ptrace: Document that wait_task_inactive can't fail
  ptrace: Reimplement PTRACE_KILL by always sending SIGKILL
  signal: Use lockdep_assert_held instead of assert_spin_locked
  ptrace: Remove arch_ptrace_attach
  ptrace/xtensa: Replace PT_SINGLESTEP with TIF_SINGLESTEP
  ptrace/um: Replace PT_DTRACE with TIF_SINGLESTEP
  signal: Replace __group_send_sig_info with send_signal_locked
  signal: Rename send_signal send_signal_locked
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Pull ptrace_stop cleanups from Eric Biederman:
 "While looking at the ptrace problems with PREEMPT_RT and the problems
  Peter Zijlstra was encountering with ptrace in his freezer rewrite I
  identified some cleanups to ptrace_stop that make sense on their own
  and move make resolving the other problems much simpler.

  The biggest issue is the habit of the ptrace code to change
  task-&gt;__state from the tracer to suppress TASK_WAKEKILL from waking up
  the tracee. No other code in the kernel does that and it is straight
  forward to update signal_wake_up and friends to make that unnecessary.

  Peter's task freezer sets frozen tasks to a new state TASK_FROZEN and
  then it stores them by calling "wake_up_state(t, TASK_FROZEN)" relying
  on the fact that all stopped states except the special stop states can
  tolerate spurious wake up and recover their state.

  The state of stopped and traced tasked is changed to be stored in
  task-&gt;jobctl as well as in task-&gt;__state. This makes it possible for
  the freezer to recover tasks in these special states, as well as
  serving as a general cleanup. With a little more work in that
  direction I believe TASK_STOPPED can learn to tolerate spurious wake
  ups and become an ordinary stop state.

  The TASK_TRACED state has to remain a special state as the registers
  for a process are only reliably available when the process is stopped
  in the scheduler. Fundamentally ptrace needs acess to the saved
  register values of a task.

  There are bunch of semi-random ptrace related cleanups that were found
  while looking at these issues.

  One cleanup that deserves to be called out is from commit 57b6de08b5f6
  ("ptrace: Admit ptrace_stop can generate spuriuos SIGTRAPs"). This
  makes a change that is technically user space visible, in the handling
  of what happens to a tracee when a tracer dies unexpectedly. According
  to our testing and our understanding of userspace nothing cares that
  spurious SIGTRAPs can be generated in that case"

* tag 'ptrace_stop-cleanup-for-v5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  sched,signal,ptrace: Rework TASK_TRACED, TASK_STOPPED state
  ptrace: Always take siglock in ptrace_resume
  ptrace: Don't change __state
  ptrace: Admit ptrace_stop can generate spuriuos SIGTRAPs
  ptrace: Document that wait_task_inactive can't fail
  ptrace: Reimplement PTRACE_KILL by always sending SIGKILL
  signal: Use lockdep_assert_held instead of assert_spin_locked
  ptrace: Remove arch_ptrace_attach
  ptrace/xtensa: Replace PT_SINGLESTEP with TIF_SINGLESTEP
  ptrace/um: Replace PT_DTRACE with TIF_SINGLESTEP
  signal: Replace __group_send_sig_info with send_signal_locked
  signal: Rename send_signal send_signal_locked
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