linux-toradex.git/kernel/sched/core.c, branch v3.10.51

sched: Fix hotplug vs. set_cpus_allowed_ptr()

2014-06-11T19:03:24+00:00

commit 6acbfb96976fc3350e30d964acb1dbbdf876d55e upstream.

Lai found that:

  WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 13 at arch/x86/kernel/smp.c:124 native_smp_send_reschedule+0x2d/0x4b()
  ...
  migration_cpu_stop+0x1d/0x22

was caused by set_cpus_allowed_ptr() assuming that cpu_active_mask is
always a sub-set of cpu_online_mask.

This isn't true since 5fbd036b552f ("sched: Cleanup cpu_active madness").

So set active and online at the same time to avoid this particular
problem.

Fixes: 5fbd036b552f ("sched: Cleanup cpu_active madness")
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Gautham R. Shenoy 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Michael wang 
Cc: Paul Gortmaker 
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat 
Cc: Toshi Kani 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/53758B12.8060609@cn.fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sched: Fix race on toggling cfs_bandwidth_used

2014-01-15T23:28:54+00:00

commit 1ee14e6c8cddeeb8a490d7b54cd9016e4bb900b4 upstream.

When we transition cfs_bandwidth_used to false, any currently
throttled groups will incorrectly return false from cfs_rq_throttled.
While tg_set_cfs_bandwidth will unthrottle them eventually, currently
running code (including at least dequeue_task_fair and
distribute_cfs_runtime) will cause errors.

Fix this by turning off cfs_bandwidth_used only after unthrottling all
cfs_rqs.

Tested: toggle bandwidth back and forth on a loaded cgroup. Caused
crashes in minutes without the patch, hasn't crashed with it.

Signed-off-by: Ben Segall 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: pjt@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131016181611.22647.80365.stgit@sword-of-the-dawn.mtv.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Chris J Arges 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sched: fix the theoretical signal_wake_up() vs schedule() race

2014-01-09T20:24:23+00:00

commit e0acd0a68ec7dbf6b7a81a87a867ebd7ac9b76c4 upstream.

This is only theoretical, but after try_to_wake_up(p) was changed
to check p->state under p->pi_lock the code like

	__set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
	schedule();

can miss a signal. This is the special case of wait-for-condition,
it relies on try_to_wake_up/schedule interaction and thus it does
not need mb() between __set_current_state() and if(signal_pending).

However, this __set_current_state() can move into the critical
section protected by rq->lock, now that try_to_wake_up() takes
another lock we need to ensure that it can't be reordered with
"if (signal_pending(current))" check inside that section.

The patch is actually one-liner, it simply adds smp_wmb() before
spin_lock_irq(rq->lock). This is what try_to_wake_up() already
does by the same reason.

We turn this wmb() into the new helper, smp_mb__before_spinlock(),
for better documentation and to allow the architectures to change
the default implementation.

While at it, kill smp_mb__after_lock(), it has no callers.

Perhaps we can also add smp_mb__before/after_spinunlock() for
prepare_to_wait().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

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

2013-06-20T18:18:35+00:00

Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Two smaller fixes - plus a context tracking tracing fix that is a bit
  bigger"

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  tracing/context-tracking: Add preempt_schedule_context() for tracing
  sched: Fix clear NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK
  sched/x86: Construct all sibling maps if smt

sched: Fix clear NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK

2013-06-19T10:55:09+00:00

I have faced a sequence where the Idle Load Balance was sometime not
triggered for a while on my platform, in the following scenario:

 CPU 0 and CPU 1 are running tasks and CPU 2 is idle

 CPU 1 kicks the Idle Load Balance
 CPU 1 selects CPU 2 as the new Idle Load Balancer
 CPU 2 sets NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK for CPU 2
 CPU 2 sends a reschedule IPI to CPU 2

 While CPU 3 wakes up, CPU 0 or CPU 1 migrates a waking up task A on CPU 2

 CPU 2 finally wakes up, runs task A and discards the Idle Load Balance
       task A quickly goes back to sleep (before a tick occurs on CPU 2)
 CPU 2 goes back to idle with NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK set

Whenever CPU 2 will be selected as the ILB, no reschedule IPI will be sent
because NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK is already set and no Idle Load Balance will be
performed.

We must wait for the sched softirq to be raised on CPU 2 thanks to another
part the kernel to come back to clear NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK.

The proposed solution clears NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK in schedule_ipi if
we can't raise the sched_softirq for the Idle Load Balance.

Change since V1:

- move the clear of NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK in got_nohz_idle_kick if the ILB
  can't run on this CPU (as suggested by Peter)

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1370419991-13870-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

vtime: Use consistent clocks among nohz accounting

2013-05-31T09:31:50+00:00

While computing the cputime delta of dynticks CPUs,
we are mixing up clocks of differents natures:

* local_clock() which takes care of unstable clock
sources and fix these if needed.

* sched_clock() which is the weaker version of
local_clock(). It doesn't compute any fixup in case
of unstable source.

If the clock source is stable, those two clocks are the
same and we can safely compute the difference against
two random points.

Otherwise it results in random deltas as sched_clock()
can randomly drift away, back or forward, from local_clock().

As a consequence, some strange behaviour with unstable tsc
has been observed such as non progressing constant zero cputime.
(The 'top' command showing no load).

Fix this by only using local_clock(), or its irq safe/remote
equivalent, in vtime code.

Reported-by: Mike Galbraith 
Suggested-by: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Li Zhong 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

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

2013-05-05T20:23:27+00:00

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
...

sched: Keep at least 1 tick per second for active dynticks tasks

2013-05-04T06:32:02+00:00

The scheduler doesn't yet fully support environments
with a single task running without a periodic tick.

In order to ensure we still maintain the duties of scheduler_tick(),
keep at least 1 tick per second.

This makes sure that we keep the progression of various scheduler
accounting and background maintainance even with a very low granularity.
Examples include cpu load, sched average, CFS entity vruntime,
avenrun and events such as load balancing, amongst other details
handled in sched_class::task_tick().

This limitation will be removed in the future once we get
these individual items to work in full dynticks CPUs.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Hakan Akkan 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Kevin Hilman 
Cc: Li Zhong 
Cc: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Paul Gortmaker 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner

Merge commit '8700c95adb03' into timers/nohz

2013-05-02T15:54:19+00:00

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

workqueue: include workqueue info when printing debug dump of a worker task

2013-05-01T00:04:02+00:00

One of the problems that arise when converting dedicated custom
threadpool to workqueue is that the shared worker pool used by workqueue
anonimizes each worker making it more difficult to identify what the
worker was doing on which target from the output of sysrq-t or debug
dump from oops, BUG() and friends.

This patch implements set_worker_desc() which can be called from any
workqueue work function to set its description.  When the worker task is
dumped for whatever reason - sysrq-t, WARN, BUG, oops, lockdep assertion
and so on - the description will be printed out together with the
workqueue name and the worker function pointer.

The printing side is implemented by print_worker_info() which is called
from functions in task dump paths - sched_show_task() and
dump_stack_print_info().  print_worker_info() can be safely called on
any task in any state as long as the task struct itself is accessible.
It uses probe_*() functions to access worker fields.  It may print
garbage if something went very wrong, but it wouldn't cause (another)
oops.

The description is currently limited to 24bytes including the
terminating \0.  worker->desc_valid and workder->desc[] are added and
the 64 bytes marker which was already incorrect before adding the new
fields is moved to the correct position.

Here's an example dump with writeback updated to set the bdi name as
worker desc.

 Hardware name: Bochs
 Modules linked in:
 Pid: 7, comm: kworker/u9:0 Not tainted 3.9.0-rc1-work+ #1
 Workqueue: writeback bdi_writeback_workfn (flush-8:0)
  ffffffff820a3ab0 ffff88000f6e9cb8 ffffffff81c61845 ffff88000f6e9cf8
  ffffffff8108f50f 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff88000cde16b0
  ffff88000cde1aa8 ffff88001ee19240 ffff88000f6e9fd8 ffff88000f6e9d08
 Call Trace:
  [] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
  [] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0
  [] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
  [] bdi_writeback_workfn+0x2a0/0x3b0
 ...

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Acked-by: Jan Kara 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Dave Chinner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds