linux-toradex.git/kernel/sched, branch v3.12.23

sched: Fix hotplug vs. set_cpus_allowed_ptr()

2014-06-20T15:34:01+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: Jiri Slaby

sched: Sanitize irq accounting madness

2014-06-20T15:33:51+00:00

commit 2d513868e2a33e1d5315490ef4c861ee65babd65 upstream.

Russell reported, that irqtime_account_idle_ticks() takes ages due to:

       for (i = 0; i < ticks; i++)
               irqtime_account_process_tick(current, 0, rq);

It's sad, that this code was written way _AFTER_ the NOHZ idle
functionality was available. I charge myself guitly for not paying
attention when that crap got merged with commit abb74cefa ("sched:
Export ns irqtimes through /proc/stat")

So instead of looping nr_ticks times just apply the whole thing at
once.

As a side note: The whole cputime_t vs. u64 business in that context
wants to be cleaned up as well. There is no point in having all these
back and forth conversions. Lets standardise on u64 nsec for all
kernel internal accounting and be done with it. Everything else does
not make sense at all for fine grained accounting. Frederic, can you
please take care of that?

Reported-by: Russell King 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi 
Cc: Shaun Ruffell 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.02.1405022307000.6261@ionos.tec.linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

sched: Use CPUPRI_NR_PRIORITIES instead of MAX_RT_PRIO in cpupri check

2014-06-20T15:33:50+00:00

commit 6227cb00cc120f9a43ce8313bb0475ddabcb7d01 upstream.

The check at the beginning of cpupri_find() makes sure that the task_pri
variable does not exceed the cp->pri_to_cpu array length. But that length
is CPUPRI_NR_PRIORITIES not MAX_RT_PRIO, where it will miss the last two
priorities in that array.

As task_pri is computed from convert_prio() which should never be bigger
than CPUPRI_NR_PRIORITIES, if the check should cause a panic if it is
hit.

Reported-by: Mike Galbraith 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1397015410.5212.13.camel@marge.simpson.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

sched: Fix double normalization of vruntime

2014-03-22T21:01:48+00:00

commit 791c9e0292671a3bfa95286bb5c08129d8605618 upstream.

dequeue_entity() is called when p->on_rq and sets se->on_rq = 0
which appears to guarentee that the !se->on_rq condition is met.
If the task has done set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE) without
schedule() the second condition will be met and vruntime will be
incorrectly adjusted twice.

In certain cases this can result in the task's vruntime never increasing
past the vruntime of other tasks on the CFS' run queue, starving them of
CPU time.

This patch changes switched_from_fair() to use !p->on_rq instead of
!se->on_rq.

I'm able to cause a task with a priority of 120 to starve all other
tasks with the same priority on an ARM platform running 3.2.51-rt72
PREEMPT RT by writing one character at time to a serial tty (16550 UART)
in a tight loop. I'm also able to verify making this change corrects the
problem on that platform and kernel version.

Signed-off-by: George McCollister 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1392767811-28916-1-git-send-email-george.mccollister@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

sched/rt: Remove redundant nr_cpus_allowed test

2014-03-12T12:25:40+00:00

commit 6bfa687c19b7ab8adee03f0d43c197c2945dd869 upstream.

In 76854c7e8f3f4172fef091e78d88b3b751463ac6 ("sched: Use
rt.nr_cpus_allowed to recover select_task_rq() cycles") an
optimization was added to select_task_rq_rt() that immediately
returns when p->nr_cpus_allowed == 1 at the beginning of the
function.

This makes the latter p->nr_cpus_allowed > 1 check redundant,
which can now be removed.

Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer 
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: tomk@rgmadvisors.com
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1380914693-24634-1-git-send-email-shawn.bohrer@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

sched/rt: Add missing rmb()

2014-03-12T12:25:39+00:00

commit 7c3f2ab7b844f1a859afbc3d41925e8a0faba5fa upstream.

While discussing the proposed SCHED_DEADLINE patches which in parts
mimic the existing FIFO code it was noticed that the wmb in
rt_set_overloaded() didn't have a matching barrier.

The only site using rt_overloaded() to test the rto_count is
pull_rt_task() and we should issue a matching rmb before then assuming
there's an rto_mask bit set.

Without that smp_rmb() in there we could actually miss seeing the
rto_mask bit.

Also, change to using smp_[wr]mb(), even though this is SMP only code;
memory barriers without smp_ always make me think they're against
hardware of some sort.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Cc: luca.abeni@unitn.it
Cc: bruce.ashfield@windriver.com
Cc: dhaval.giani@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: hgu1972@gmail.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: darren@dvhart.com
Cc: johan.eker@ericsson.com
Cc: p.faure@akatech.ch
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: raistlin@linux.it
Cc: claudio@evidence.eu.com
Cc: insop.song@gmail.com
Cc: michael@amarulasolutions.com
Cc: liming.wang@windriver.com
Cc: fchecconi@gmail.com
Cc: jkacur@redhat.com
Cc: tommaso.cucinotta@sssup.it
Cc: Juri Lelli 
Cc: harald.gustafsson@ericsson.com
Cc: nicola.manica@disi.unitn.it
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131015103507.GF10651@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

sched: Assign correct scheduling domain to 'sd_llc'

2014-03-12T12:25:39+00:00

commit 5d4cf996cf134e8ddb4f906b8197feb9267c2b77 upstream.

Commit 42eb088e (sched: Avoid NULL dereference on sd_busy) corrected a NULL
dereference on sd_busy but the fix also altered what scheduling domain it
used for the 'sd_llc' percpu variable.

One impact of this is that a task selecting a runqueue may consider
idle CPUs that are not cache siblings as candidates for running.
Tasks are then running on CPUs that are not cache hot.

This was found through bisection where ebizzy threads were not seeing equal
performance and it looked like a scheduling fairness issue. This patch
mitigates but does not completely fix the problem on all machines tested
implying there may be an additional bug or a common root cause. Here are
the average range of performance seen by individual ebizzy threads. It
was tested on top of candidate patches related to x86 TLB range flushing.

	4-core machine
			    3.13.0-rc3            3.13.0-rc3
			       vanilla            fixsd-v3r3
	Mean   1        0.00 (  0.00%)        0.00 (  0.00%)
	Mean   2        0.34 (  0.00%)        0.10 ( 70.59%)
	Mean   3        1.29 (  0.00%)        0.93 ( 27.91%)
	Mean   4        7.08 (  0.00%)        0.77 ( 89.12%)
	Mean   5      193.54 (  0.00%)        2.14 ( 98.89%)
	Mean   6      151.12 (  0.00%)        2.06 ( 98.64%)
	Mean   7      115.38 (  0.00%)        2.04 ( 98.23%)
	Mean   8      108.65 (  0.00%)        1.92 ( 98.23%)

	8-core machine
	Mean   1         0.00 (  0.00%)        0.00 (  0.00%)
	Mean   2         0.40 (  0.00%)        0.21 ( 47.50%)
	Mean   3        23.73 (  0.00%)        0.89 ( 96.25%)
	Mean   4        12.79 (  0.00%)        1.04 ( 91.87%)
	Mean   5        13.08 (  0.00%)        2.42 ( 81.50%)
	Mean   6        23.21 (  0.00%)       69.46 (-199.27%)
	Mean   7        15.85 (  0.00%)      101.72 (-541.77%)
	Mean   8       109.37 (  0.00%)       19.13 ( 82.51%)
	Mean   12      124.84 (  0.00%)       28.62 ( 77.07%)
	Mean   16      113.50 (  0.00%)       24.16 ( 78.71%)

It's eliminated for one machine and reduced for another.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Alex Shi 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Fengguang Wu 
Cc: H Peter Anvin 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131217092124.GV11295@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

sched: Initialize power_orig for overlapping groups

2014-03-12T12:25:38+00:00

commit 8e8339a3a1069141985daaa2521ba304509ddecd upstream.

Yinghai reported that he saw a /0 in sg_capacity on his EX parts.
Make sure to always initialize power_orig now that we actually use it.

Ideally build_sched_domains() -> init_sched_groups_power() would also
initialize this; but for some yet unexplained reason some setups seem
to miss updates there.

Reported-by: Yinghai Lu 
Tested-by: Yinghai Lu 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-l8ng2m9uml6fhibln8wqpom7@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

sched: Avoid NULL dereference on sd_busy

2014-03-12T12:25:38+00:00

commit 42eb088ed246a5a817bb45a8b32fe234cf1c0f8b upstream.

Commit 37dc6b50cee9 ("sched: Remove unnecessary iteration over sched
domains to update nr_busy_cpus") forgot to clear 'sd_busy' under some
conditions leading to a possible NULL deref in set_cpu_sd_state_idle().

Reported-by: Anton Blanchard 
Cc: Preeti U Murthy 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131118113701.GF3866@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

sched: Remove unnecessary iteration over sched domains to update nr_busy_cpus

2014-03-12T12:25:37+00:00

commit 37dc6b50cee97954c4e6edcd5b1fa614b76038ee upstream.

nr_busy_cpus parameter is used by nohz_kick_needed() to find out the
number of busy cpus in a sched domain which has SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES
flag set.  Therefore instead of updating nr_busy_cpus at every level
of sched domain, since it is irrelevant, we can update this parameter
only at the parent domain of the sd which has this flag set. Introduce
a per-cpu parameter sd_busy which represents this parent domain.

In nohz_kick_needed() we directly query the nr_busy_cpus parameter
associated with the groups of sd_busy.

By associating sd_busy with the highest domain which has
SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES flag set, we cover all lower level domains
which could have this flag set and trigger nohz_idle_balancing if any
of the levels have more than one busy cpu.

sd_busy is irrelevant for asymmetric load balancing. However sd_asym
has been introduced to represent the highest sched domain which has
SD_ASYM_PACKING flag set so that it can be queried directly when
required.

While we are at it, we might as well change the nohz_idle parameter to
be updated at the sd_busy domain level alone and not the base domain
level of a CPU.  This will unify the concept of busy cpus at just one
level of sched domain where it is currently used.

Signed-off-by: Preeti U Murthy
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Cc: bitbucket@online.de
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: anton@samba.org
Cc: Morten.Rasmussen@arm.com
Cc: pjt@google.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: mikey@neuling.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131030031252.23426.4417.stgit@preeti.in.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby