Introduces the data structures, constants and symbols needed for SCHED_DEADLINE implementation. Core data structure of SCHED_DEADLINE are defined, along with their initializers. Hooks for checking if a task belong to the new policy are also added where they are needed. Adds a scheduling class, in sched/dl.c and a new policy called SCHED_DEADLINE. It is an implementation of the Earliest Deadline First (EDF) scheduling algorithm, augmented with a mechanism (called Constant Bandwidth Server, CBS) that makes it possible to isolate the behaviour of tasks between each other. The typical -deadline task will be made up of a computation phase (instance) which is activated on a periodic or sporadic fashion. The expected (maximum) duration of such computation is called the task's runtime; the time interval by which each instance need to be completed is called the task's relative deadline. The task's absolute deadline is dynamically calculated as the time instant a task (better, an instance) activates plus the relative deadline. The EDF algorithms selects the task with the smallest absolute deadline as the one to be executed first, while the CBS ensures each task to run for at most its runtime every (relative) deadline length time interval, avoiding any interference between different tasks (bandwidth isolation). Thanks to this feature, also tasks that do not strictly comply with the computational model sketched above can effectively use the new policy. To summarize, this patch: - introduces the data structures, constants and symbols needed; - implements the core logic of the scheduling algorithm in the new scheduling class file; - provides all the glue code between the new scheduling class and the core scheduler and refines the interactions between sched/dl and the other existing scheduling classes. Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it> Signed-off-by: Michael Trimarchi <michael@amarulasolutions.com> Signed-off-by: Fabio Checconi <fchecconi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1383831828-15501-4-git-send-email-juri.lelli@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense
some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings
do not offset the cost and complications. For example, the fix in
commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time")
is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created
with improper use of the various __init prefixes.
After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go
the way of devinit and be phased out. Once all the users are gone,
we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h.
This removes all the uses of the __cpuinit macros from C files in
the core kernel directories (kernel, init, lib, mm, and include)
that don't really have a specific maintainer.
[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Pull timer core updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"The timer changes contain:
- posix timer code consolidation and fixes for odd corner cases
- sched_clock implementation moved from ARM to core code to avoid
duplication by other architectures
- alarm timer updates
- clocksource and clockevents unregistration facilities
- clocksource/events support for new hardware
- precise nanoseconds RTC readout (Xen feature)
- generic support for Xen suspend/resume oddities
- the usual lot of fixes and cleanups all over the place
The parts which touch other areas (ARM/XEN) have been coordinated with
the relevant maintainers. Though this results in an handful of
trivial to solve merge conflicts, which we preferred over nasty cross
tree merge dependencies.
The patches which have been committed in the last few days are bug
fixes plus the posix timer lot. The latter was in akpms queue and
next for quite some time; they just got forgotten and Frederic
collected them last minute."
* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (59 commits)
hrtimer: Remove unused variable
hrtimers: Move SMP function call to thread context
clocksource: Reselect clocksource when watchdog validated high-res capability
posix-cpu-timers: don't account cpu timer after stopped thread runtime accounting
posix_timers: fix racy timer delta caching on task exit
posix-timers: correctly get dying task time sample in posix_cpu_timer_schedule()
selftests: add basic posix timers selftests
posix_cpu_timers: consolidate expired timers check
posix_cpu_timers: consolidate timer list cleanups
posix_cpu_timer: consolidate expiry time type
tick: Sanitize broadcast control logic
tick: Prevent uncontrolled switch to oneshot mode
tick: Make oneshot broadcast robust vs. CPU offlining
x86: xen: Sync the CMOS RTC as well as the Xen wallclock
x86: xen: Sync the wallclock when the system time is set
timekeeping: Indicate that clock was set in the pvclock gtod notifier
timekeeping: Pass flags instead of multiple bools to timekeeping_update()
xen: Remove clock_was_set() call in the resume path
hrtimers: Support resuming with two or more CPUs online (but stopped)
timer: Fix jiffies wrap behavior of round_jiffies_common()
...
Sigh, should have noticed myself. Reported-by: fengguang.wu@intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
smp_call_function_* must not be called from softirq context. But clock_was_set() which calls on_each_cpu() is called from softirq context to implement a delayed clock_was_set() for the timer interrupt handler. Though that almost never gets invoked. A recent change in the resume code uses the softirq based delayed clock_was_set to support Xens resume mechanism. linux-next contains a new warning which warns if smp_call_function_* is called from softirq context which gets triggered by that Xen change. Fix this by moving the delayed clock_was_set() call to a work context. Reported-and-tested-by: Artem Savkov <artem.savkov@gmail.com> Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>, Cc: Konrad Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
hrtimers_resume() only reprograms the timers for the current CPU as it assumes that all other CPUs are offline at this point in the resume process. If other CPUs are online then their timers will not be corrected and they may fire at the wrong time. When running as a Xen guest, this assumption is not true. Non-boot CPUs are only stopped with IRQs disabled instead of offlining them. This is a performance optimization as disabling the CPUs would add an unacceptable amount of additional downtime during a live migration (> 200 ms for a 4 VCPU guest). hrtimers_resume() cannot call on_each_cpu(retrigger_next_event,...) as the other CPUs will be stopped with IRQs disabled. Instead, defer the call to the next softirq. [ tglx: Separated the xen change out ] Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: <xen-devel@lists.xen.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1372329348-20841-2-git-send-email-david.vrabel@citrix.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Avoid waking up every thread sleeping in a nanosleep call during suspend and resume by calling a freezable blocking call. Previous patches modified the freezer to avoid sending wakeups to threads that are blocked in freezable blocking calls. This call was selected to be converted to a freezable call because it doesn't hold any locks or release any resources when interrupted that might be needed by another freezing task or a kernel driver during suspend, and is a common site where idle userspace tasks are blocked. Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Pull 'full dynticks' support from Ingo Molnar:
"This tree from Frederic Weisbecker adds a new, (exciting! :-) core
kernel feature to the timer and scheduler subsystems: 'full dynticks',
or CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y.
This feature extends the nohz variable-size timer tick feature from
idle to busy CPUs (running at most one task) as well, potentially
reducing the number of timer interrupts significantly.
This feature got motivated by real-time folks and the -rt tree, but
the general utility and motivation of full-dynticks runs wider than
that:
- HPC workloads get faster: CPUs running a single task should be able
to utilize a maximum amount of CPU power. A periodic timer tick at
HZ=1000 can cause a constant overhead of up to 1.0%. This feature
removes that overhead - and speeds up the system by 0.5%-1.0% on
typical distro configs even on modern systems.
- Real-time workload latency reduction: CPUs running critical tasks
should experience as little jitter as possible. The last remaining
source of kernel-related jitter was the periodic timer tick.
- A single task executing on a CPU is a pretty common situation,
especially with an increasing number of cores/CPUs, so this feature
helps desktop and mobile workloads as well.
The cost of the feature is mainly related to increased timer
reprogramming overhead when a CPU switches its tick period, and thus
slightly longer to-idle and from-idle latency.
Configuration-wise a third mode of operation is added to the existing
two NOHZ kconfig modes:
- CONFIG_HZ_PERIODIC: [formerly !CONFIG_NO_HZ], now explicitly named
as a config option. This is the traditional Linux periodic tick
design: there's a HZ tick going on all the time, regardless of
whether a CPU is idle or not.
- CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE: [formerly CONFIG_NO_HZ=y], this turns off the
periodic tick when a CPU enters idle mode.
- CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL: this new mode, in addition to turning off the
tick when a CPU is idle, also slows the tick down to 1 Hz (one
timer interrupt per second) when only a single task is running on a
CPU.
The .config behavior is compatible: existing !CONFIG_NO_HZ and
CONFIG_NO_HZ=y settings get translated to the new values, without the
user having to configure anything. CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL is turned off by
default.
This feature is based on a lot of infrastructure work that has been
steadily going upstream in the last 2-3 cycles: related RCU support
and non-periodic cputime support in particular is upstream already.
This tree adds the final pieces and activates the feature. The pull
request is marked RFC because:
- it's marked 64-bit only at the moment - the 32-bit support patch is
small but did not get ready in time.
- it has a number of fresh commits that came in after the merge
window. The overwhelming majority of commits are from before the
merge window, but still some aspects of the tree are fresh and so I
marked it RFC.
- it's a pretty wide-reaching feature with lots of effects - and
while the components have been in testing for some time, the full
combination is still not very widely used. That it's default-off
should reduce its regression abilities and obviously there are no
known regressions with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y enabled either.
- the feature is not completely idempotent: there is no 100%
equivalent replacement for a periodic scheduler/timer tick. In
particular there's ongoing work to map out and reduce its effects
on scheduler load-balancing and statistics. This should not impact
correctness though, there are no known regressions related to this
feature at this point.
- it's a pretty ambitious feature that with time will likely be
enabled by most Linux distros, and we'd like you to make input on
its design/implementation, if you dislike some aspect we missed.
Without flaming us to crisp! :-)
Future plans:
- there's ongoing work to reduce 1Hz to 0Hz, to essentially shut off
the periodic tick altogether when there's a single busy task on a
CPU. We'd first like 1 Hz to be exposed more widely before we go
for the 0 Hz target though.
- once we reach 0 Hz we can remove the periodic tick assumption from
nr_running>=2 as well, by essentially interrupting busy tasks only
as frequently as the sched_latency constraints require us to do -
once every 4-40 msecs, depending on nr_running.
I am personally leaning towards biting the bullet and doing this in
v3.10, like the -rt tree this effort has been going on for too long -
but the final word is up to you as usual.
More technical details can be found in Documentation/timers/NO_HZ.txt"
* 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (39 commits)
sched: Keep at least 1 tick per second for active dynticks tasks
rcu: Fix full dynticks' dependency on wide RCU nocb mode
nohz: Protect smp_processor_id() in tick_nohz_task_switch()
nohz_full: Add documentation.
cputime_nsecs: use math64.h for nsec resolution conversion helpers
nohz: Select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN from full dynticks config
nohz: Reduce overhead under high-freq idling patterns
nohz: Remove full dynticks' superfluous dependency on RCU tree
nohz: Fix unavailable tick_stop tracepoint in dynticks idle
nohz: Add basic tracing
nohz: Select wide RCU nocb for full dynticks
nohz: Disable the tick when irq resume in full dynticks CPU
nohz: Re-evaluate the tick for the new task after a context switch
nohz: Prepare to stop the tick on irq exit
nohz: Implement full dynticks kick
nohz: Re-evaluate the tick from the scheduler IPI
sched: New helper to prevent from stopping the tick in full dynticks
sched: Kick full dynticks CPU that have more than one task enqueued.
perf: New helper to prevent full dynticks CPUs from stopping tick
perf: Kick full dynticks CPU if events rotation is needed
...
The full dynticks tree needs the latest RCU and sched upstream updates in order to fix some dependencies. Merge a common upstream merge point that has these updates. Conflicts: include/linux/perf_event.h kernel/rcutree.h kernel/rcutree_plugin.h Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Reason: Get upstream fixes before adding conflicting code. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>