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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2018-04-15T19:43:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-15T19:43:30+00:00</published>
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Pull scheduler fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A few scheduler fixes:

   - Prevent a bogus warning vs. runqueue clock update flags in
     do_sched_rt_period_timer()

   - Simplify the helper functions which handle requests for skipping
     the runqueue clock updat.

   - Do not unlock the tunables mutex in the error path of the cpu
     frequency scheduler utils. Its not held.

   - Enforce proper alignement for 'struct util_est' in sched_avg to
     prevent a misalignment fault on IA64"

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/core: Force proper alignment of 'struct util_est'
  sched/core: Simplify helpers for rq clock update skip requests
  sched/rt: Fix rq-&gt;clock_update_flags &lt; RQCF_ACT_SKIP warning
  sched/cpufreq/schedutil: Fix error path mutex unlock
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Pull scheduler fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A few scheduler fixes:

   - Prevent a bogus warning vs. runqueue clock update flags in
     do_sched_rt_period_timer()

   - Simplify the helper functions which handle requests for skipping
     the runqueue clock updat.

   - Do not unlock the tunables mutex in the error path of the cpu
     frequency scheduler utils. Its not held.

   - Enforce proper alignement for 'struct util_est' in sched_avg to
     prevent a misalignment fault on IA64"

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/core: Force proper alignment of 'struct util_est'
  sched/core: Simplify helpers for rq clock update skip requests
  sched/rt: Fix rq-&gt;clock_update_flags &lt; RQCF_ACT_SKIP warning
  sched/cpufreq/schedutil: Fix error path mutex unlock
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pm-4.17-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm</title>
<updated>2018-04-12T00:03:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-12T00:03:20+00:00</published>
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Pull more power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "These include one big-ticket item which is the rework of the idle loop
  in order to prevent CPUs from spending too much time in shallow idle
  states. It reduces idle power on some systems by 10% or more and may
  improve performance of workloads in which the idle loop overhead
  matters. This has been in the works for several weeks and it has been
  tested and reviewed quite thoroughly.

  Also included are changes that finalize the cpufreq cleanup moving
  frequency table validation from drivers to the core, a few fixes and
  cleanups of cpufreq drivers, a cpuidle documentation update and a PM
  QoS core update to mark the expected switch fall-throughs in it.

  Specifics:

   - Rework the idle loop in order to prevent CPUs from spending too
     much time in shallow idle states by making it stop the scheduler
     tick before putting the CPU into an idle state only if the idle
     duration predicted by the idle governor is long enough.

     That required the code to be reordered to invoke the idle governor
     before stopping the tick, among other things (Rafael Wysocki,
     Frederic Weisbecker, Arnd Bergmann).

   - Add the missing description of the residency sysfs attribute to the
     cpuidle documentation (Prashanth Prakash).

   - Finalize the cpufreq cleanup moving frequency table validation from
     drivers to the core (Viresh Kumar).

   - Fix a clock leak regression in the armada-37xx cpufreq driver
     (Gregory Clement).

   - Fix the initialization of the CPU performance data structures for
     shared policies in the CPPC cpufreq driver (Shunyong Yang).

   - Clean up the ti-cpufreq, intel_pstate and CPPC cpufreq drivers a
     bit (Viresh Kumar, Rafael Wysocki).

   - Mark the expected switch fall-throughs in the PM QoS core (Gustavo
     Silva)"

* tag 'pm-4.17-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (23 commits)
  tick-sched: avoid a maybe-uninitialized warning
  cpufreq: Drop cpufreq_table_validate_and_show()
  cpufreq: SCMI: Don't validate the frequency table twice
  cpufreq: CPPC: Initialize shared perf capabilities of CPUs
  cpufreq: armada-37xx: Fix clock leak
  cpufreq: CPPC: Don't set transition_latency
  cpufreq: ti-cpufreq: Use builtin_platform_driver()
  cpufreq: intel_pstate: Do not include debugfs.h
  PM / QoS: mark expected switch fall-throughs
  cpuidle: Add definition of residency to sysfs documentation
  time: hrtimer: Use timerqueue_iterate_next() to get to the next timer
  nohz: Avoid duplication of code related to got_idle_tick
  nohz: Gather tick_sched booleans under a common flag field
  cpuidle: menu: Avoid selecting shallow states with stopped tick
  cpuidle: menu: Refine idle state selection for running tick
  sched: idle: Select idle state before stopping the tick
  time: hrtimer: Introduce hrtimer_next_event_without()
  time: tick-sched: Split tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick()
  cpuidle: Return nohz hint from cpuidle_select()
  jiffies: Introduce USER_TICK_USEC and redefine TICK_USEC
  ...
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Pull more power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "These include one big-ticket item which is the rework of the idle loop
  in order to prevent CPUs from spending too much time in shallow idle
  states. It reduces idle power on some systems by 10% or more and may
  improve performance of workloads in which the idle loop overhead
  matters. This has been in the works for several weeks and it has been
  tested and reviewed quite thoroughly.

  Also included are changes that finalize the cpufreq cleanup moving
  frequency table validation from drivers to the core, a few fixes and
  cleanups of cpufreq drivers, a cpuidle documentation update and a PM
  QoS core update to mark the expected switch fall-throughs in it.

  Specifics:

   - Rework the idle loop in order to prevent CPUs from spending too
     much time in shallow idle states by making it stop the scheduler
     tick before putting the CPU into an idle state only if the idle
     duration predicted by the idle governor is long enough.

     That required the code to be reordered to invoke the idle governor
     before stopping the tick, among other things (Rafael Wysocki,
     Frederic Weisbecker, Arnd Bergmann).

   - Add the missing description of the residency sysfs attribute to the
     cpuidle documentation (Prashanth Prakash).

   - Finalize the cpufreq cleanup moving frequency table validation from
     drivers to the core (Viresh Kumar).

   - Fix a clock leak regression in the armada-37xx cpufreq driver
     (Gregory Clement).

   - Fix the initialization of the CPU performance data structures for
     shared policies in the CPPC cpufreq driver (Shunyong Yang).

   - Clean up the ti-cpufreq, intel_pstate and CPPC cpufreq drivers a
     bit (Viresh Kumar, Rafael Wysocki).

   - Mark the expected switch fall-throughs in the PM QoS core (Gustavo
     Silva)"

* tag 'pm-4.17-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (23 commits)
  tick-sched: avoid a maybe-uninitialized warning
  cpufreq: Drop cpufreq_table_validate_and_show()
  cpufreq: SCMI: Don't validate the frequency table twice
  cpufreq: CPPC: Initialize shared perf capabilities of CPUs
  cpufreq: armada-37xx: Fix clock leak
  cpufreq: CPPC: Don't set transition_latency
  cpufreq: ti-cpufreq: Use builtin_platform_driver()
  cpufreq: intel_pstate: Do not include debugfs.h
  PM / QoS: mark expected switch fall-throughs
  cpuidle: Add definition of residency to sysfs documentation
  time: hrtimer: Use timerqueue_iterate_next() to get to the next timer
  nohz: Avoid duplication of code related to got_idle_tick
  nohz: Gather tick_sched booleans under a common flag field
  cpuidle: menu: Avoid selecting shallow states with stopped tick
  cpuidle: menu: Refine idle state selection for running tick
  sched: idle: Select idle state before stopping the tick
  time: hrtimer: Introduce hrtimer_next_event_without()
  time: tick-sched: Split tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick()
  cpuidle: Return nohz hint from cpuidle_select()
  jiffies: Introduce USER_TICK_USEC and redefine TICK_USEC
  ...
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<entry>
<title>sched: idle: Select idle state before stopping the tick</title>
<updated>2018-04-09T09:54:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-03T21:17:11+00:00</published>
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In order to address the issue with short idle duration predictions
by the idle governor after the scheduler tick has been stopped,
reorder the code in cpuidle_idle_call() so that the governor idle
state selection runs before tick_nohz_idle_go_idle() and use the
"nohz" hint returned by cpuidle_select() to decide whether or not
to stop the tick.

This isn't straightforward, because menu_select() invokes
tick_nohz_get_sleep_length() to get the time to the next timer
event and the number returned by the latter comes from
__tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick().  Fortunately, however, it is possible
to compute that number without actually stopping the tick and with
the help of the existing code.

Namely, tick_nohz_get_sleep_length() can be made call
tick_nohz_next_event(), introduced earlier, to get the time to the
next non-highres timer event.  If that happens, tick_nohz_next_event()
need not be called by __tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick() again.

If it turns out that the scheduler tick cannot be stopped going
forward or the next timer event is too close for the tick to be
stopped, tick_nohz_get_sleep_length() can simply return the time to
the next event currently programmed into the corresponding clock
event device.

In addition to knowing the return value of tick_nohz_next_event(),
however, tick_nohz_get_sleep_length() needs to know the time to the
next highres timer event, but with the scheduler tick timer excluded,
which can be computed with the help of hrtimer_get_next_event().

That minimum of that number and the tick_nohz_next_event() return
value is the total time to the next timer event with the assumption
that the tick will be stopped.  It can be returned to the idle
governor which can use it for predicting idle duration (under the
assumption that the tick will be stopped) and deciding whether or
not it makes sense to stop the tick before putting the CPU into the
selected idle state.

With the above, the sleep_length field in struct tick_sched is not
necessary any more, so drop it.

Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199227
Reported-by: Doug Smythies &lt;dsmythies@telus.net&gt;
Reported-by: Thomas Ilsche &lt;thomas.ilsche@tu-dresden.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
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In order to address the issue with short idle duration predictions
by the idle governor after the scheduler tick has been stopped,
reorder the code in cpuidle_idle_call() so that the governor idle
state selection runs before tick_nohz_idle_go_idle() and use the
"nohz" hint returned by cpuidle_select() to decide whether or not
to stop the tick.

This isn't straightforward, because menu_select() invokes
tick_nohz_get_sleep_length() to get the time to the next timer
event and the number returned by the latter comes from
__tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick().  Fortunately, however, it is possible
to compute that number without actually stopping the tick and with
the help of the existing code.

Namely, tick_nohz_get_sleep_length() can be made call
tick_nohz_next_event(), introduced earlier, to get the time to the
next non-highres timer event.  If that happens, tick_nohz_next_event()
need not be called by __tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick() again.

If it turns out that the scheduler tick cannot be stopped going
forward or the next timer event is too close for the tick to be
stopped, tick_nohz_get_sleep_length() can simply return the time to
the next event currently programmed into the corresponding clock
event device.

In addition to knowing the return value of tick_nohz_next_event(),
however, tick_nohz_get_sleep_length() needs to know the time to the
next highres timer event, but with the scheduler tick timer excluded,
which can be computed with the help of hrtimer_get_next_event().

That minimum of that number and the tick_nohz_next_event() return
value is the total time to the next timer event with the assumption
that the tick will be stopped.  It can be returned to the idle
governor which can use it for predicting idle duration (under the
assumption that the tick will be stopped) and deciding whether or
not it makes sense to stop the tick before putting the CPU into the
selected idle state.

With the above, the sleep_length field in struct tick_sched is not
necessary any more, so drop it.

Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199227
Reported-by: Doug Smythies &lt;dsmythies@telus.net&gt;
Reported-by: Thomas Ilsche &lt;thomas.ilsche@tu-dresden.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>cpuidle: Return nohz hint from cpuidle_select()</title>
<updated>2018-04-06T07:29:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-22T16:50:49+00:00</published>
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Add a new pointer argument to cpuidle_select() and to the -&gt;select
cpuidle governor callback to allow a boolean value indicating
whether or not the tick should be stopped before entering the
selected state to be returned from there.

Make the ladder governor ignore that pointer (to preserve its
current behavior) and make the menu governor return 'false" through
it if:
 (1) the idle exit latency is constrained at 0, or
 (2) the selected state is a polling one, or
 (3) the expected idle period duration is within the tick period
     range.

In addition to that, the correction factor computations in the menu
governor need to take the possibility that the tick may not be
stopped into account to avoid artificially small correction factor
values.  To that end, add a mechanism to record tick wakeups, as
suggested by Peter Zijlstra, and use it to modify the menu_update()
behavior when tick wakeup occurs.  Namely, if the CPU is woken up by
the tick and the return value of tick_nohz_get_sleep_length() is not
within the tick boundary, the predicted idle duration is likely too
short, so make menu_update() try to compensate for that by updating
the governor statistics as though the CPU was idle for a long time.

Since the value returned through the new argument pointer of
cpuidle_select() is not used by its caller yet, this change by
itself is not expected to alter the functionality of the code.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
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Add a new pointer argument to cpuidle_select() and to the -&gt;select
cpuidle governor callback to allow a boolean value indicating
whether or not the tick should be stopped before entering the
selected state to be returned from there.

Make the ladder governor ignore that pointer (to preserve its
current behavior) and make the menu governor return 'false" through
it if:
 (1) the idle exit latency is constrained at 0, or
 (2) the selected state is a polling one, or
 (3) the expected idle period duration is within the tick period
     range.

In addition to that, the correction factor computations in the menu
governor need to take the possibility that the tick may not be
stopped into account to avoid artificially small correction factor
values.  To that end, add a mechanism to record tick wakeups, as
suggested by Peter Zijlstra, and use it to modify the menu_update()
behavior when tick wakeup occurs.  Namely, if the CPU is woken up by
the tick and the return value of tick_nohz_get_sleep_length() is not
within the tick boundary, the predicted idle duration is likely too
short, so make menu_update() try to compensate for that by updating
the governor statistics as though the CPU was idle for a long time.

Since the value returned through the new argument pointer of
cpuidle_select() is not used by its caller yet, this change by
itself is not expected to alter the functionality of the code.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernel/fork.c: detect early free of a live mm</title>
<updated>2018-04-06T04:36:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-05T23:25:12+00:00</published>
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KASAN splats indicate that in some cases we free a live mm, then
continue to access it, with potentially disastrous results.  This is
likely due to a mismatched mmdrop() somewhere in the kernel, but so far
the culprit remains elusive.

Let's have __mmdrop() verify that the mm isn't live for the current
task, similar to the existing check for init_mm.  This way, we can catch
this class of issue earlier, and without requiring KASAN.

Currently, idle_task_exit() leaves active_mm stale after it switches to
init_mm.  This isn't harmful, but will trigger the new assertions, so we
must adjust idle_task_exit() to update active_mm.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180312140103.19235-1-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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KASAN splats indicate that in some cases we free a live mm, then
continue to access it, with potentially disastrous results.  This is
likely due to a mismatched mmdrop() somewhere in the kernel, but so far
the culprit remains elusive.

Let's have __mmdrop() verify that the mm isn't live for the current
task, similar to the existing check for init_mm.  This way, we can catch
this class of issue earlier, and without requiring KASAN.

Currently, idle_task_exit() leaves active_mm stale after it switches to
init_mm.  This isn't harmful, but will trigger the new assertions, so we
must adjust idle_task_exit() to update active_mm.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180312140103.19235-1-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched: idle: Do not stop the tick before cpuidle_idle_call()</title>
<updated>2018-04-05T17:01:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-15T22:07:41+00:00</published>
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Make cpuidle_idle_call() decide whether or not to stop the tick.

First, the cpuidle_enter_s2idle() path deals with the tick (and with
the entire timekeeping for that matter) by itself and it doesn't need
the tick to be stopped beforehand.

Second, to address the issue with short idle duration predictions
by the idle governor after the tick has been stopped, it will be
necessary to change the ordering of cpuidle_select() with respect
to tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick().  To prepare for that, put a
tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick() call in the same branch in which
cpuidle_select() is called.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
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Make cpuidle_idle_call() decide whether or not to stop the tick.

First, the cpuidle_enter_s2idle() path deals with the tick (and with
the entire timekeeping for that matter) by itself and it doesn't need
the tick to be stopped beforehand.

Second, to address the issue with short idle duration predictions
by the idle governor after the tick has been stopped, it will be
necessary to change the ordering of cpuidle_select() with respect
to tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick().  To prepare for that, put a
tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick() call in the same branch in which
cpuidle_select() is called.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched: idle: Do not stop the tick upfront in the idle loop</title>
<updated>2018-04-05T17:01:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-15T22:05:50+00:00</published>
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Push the decision whether or not to stop the tick somewhat deeper
into the idle loop.

Stopping the tick upfront leads to unpleasant outcomes in case the
idle governor doesn't agree with the nohz code on the duration of the
upcoming idle period.  Specifically, if the tick has been stopped and
the idle governor predicts short idle, the situation is bad regardless
of whether or not the prediction is accurate.  If it is accurate, the
tick has been stopped unnecessarily which means excessive overhead.
If it is not accurate, the CPU is likely to spend too much time in
the (shallow, because short idle has been predicted) idle state
selected by the governor [1].

As the first step towards addressing this problem, change the code
to make the tick stopping decision inside of the loop in do_idle().
In particular, do not stop the tick in the cpu_idle_poll() code path.
Also don't do that in tick_nohz_irq_exit() which doesn't really have
enough information on whether or not to stop the tick.

Link: https://marc.info/?l=linux-pm&amp;m=150116085925208&amp;w=2 # [1]
Link: https://tu-dresden.de/zih/forschung/ressourcen/dateien/projekte/haec/powernightmares.pdf
Suggested-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
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Push the decision whether or not to stop the tick somewhat deeper
into the idle loop.

Stopping the tick upfront leads to unpleasant outcomes in case the
idle governor doesn't agree with the nohz code on the duration of the
upcoming idle period.  Specifically, if the tick has been stopped and
the idle governor predicts short idle, the situation is bad regardless
of whether or not the prediction is accurate.  If it is accurate, the
tick has been stopped unnecessarily which means excessive overhead.
If it is not accurate, the CPU is likely to spend too much time in
the (shallow, because short idle has been predicted) idle state
selected by the governor [1].

As the first step towards addressing this problem, change the code
to make the tick stopping decision inside of the loop in do_idle().
In particular, do not stop the tick in the cpu_idle_poll() code path.
Also don't do that in tick_nohz_irq_exit() which doesn't really have
enough information on whether or not to stop the tick.

Link: https://marc.info/?l=linux-pm&amp;m=150116085925208&amp;w=2 # [1]
Link: https://tu-dresden.de/zih/forschung/ressourcen/dateien/projekte/haec/powernightmares.pdf
Suggested-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
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<title>time: tick-sched: Reorganize idle tick management code</title>
<updated>2018-04-05T16:58:47+00:00</updated>
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<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
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<published>2018-04-05T16:58:27+00:00</published>
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Prepare the scheduler tick code for reworking the idle loop to
avoid stopping the tick in some cases.

The idea is to split the nohz idle entry call to decouple the idle
time stats accounting and preparatory work from the actual tick stop
code, in order to later be able to delay the tick stop once we reach
more power-knowledgeable callers.

Move away the tick_nohz_start_idle() invocation from
__tick_nohz_idle_enter(), rename the latter to
__tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick() and define tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick()
as a wrapper around it for calling it from the outside.

Make tick_nohz_idle_enter() only call tick_nohz_start_idle() instead
of calling the entire __tick_nohz_idle_enter(), add another wrapper
disabling and enabling interrupts around tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick()
and make the current callers of tick_nohz_idle_enter() call it too
to retain their current functionality.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
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Prepare the scheduler tick code for reworking the idle loop to
avoid stopping the tick in some cases.

The idea is to split the nohz idle entry call to decouple the idle
time stats accounting and preparatory work from the actual tick stop
code, in order to later be able to delay the tick stop once we reach
more power-knowledgeable callers.

Move away the tick_nohz_start_idle() invocation from
__tick_nohz_idle_enter(), rename the latter to
__tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick() and define tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick()
as a wrapper around it for calling it from the outside.

Make tick_nohz_idle_enter() only call tick_nohz_start_idle() instead
of calling the entire __tick_nohz_idle_enter(), add another wrapper
disabling and enabling interrupts around tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick()
and make the current callers of tick_nohz_idle_enter() call it too
to retain their current functionality.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
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<title>sched/core: Simplify helpers for rq clock update skip requests</title>
<updated>2018-04-05T07:20:46+00:00</updated>
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<name>Davidlohr Bueso</name>
<email>dave@stgolabs.net</email>
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<published>2018-04-04T16:15:39+00:00</published>
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By renaming the functions we can get rid of the skip parameter
and have better code redability. It makes zero sense to have
things such as:

  rq_clock_skip_update(rq, false)

When the skip request is in fact not going to happen. Ever. Rename
things such that we end up with:

  rq_clock_skip_update(rq)
  rq_clock_cancel_skipupdate(rq)

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dbueso@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180404161539.nhadkff2aats74jh@linux-n805
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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By renaming the functions we can get rid of the skip parameter
and have better code redability. It makes zero sense to have
things such as:

  rq_clock_skip_update(rq, false)

When the skip request is in fact not going to happen. Ever. Rename
things such that we end up with:

  rq_clock_skip_update(rq)
  rq_clock_cancel_skipupdate(rq)

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dbueso@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180404161539.nhadkff2aats74jh@linux-n805
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>sched/rt: Fix rq-&gt;clock_update_flags &lt; RQCF_ACT_SKIP warning</title>
<updated>2018-04-05T07:20:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Davidlohr Bueso</name>
<email>dave@stgolabs.net</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-02T16:49:54+00:00</published>
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While running rt-tests' pi_stress program I got the following splat:

  rq-&gt;clock_update_flags &lt; RQCF_ACT_SKIP
  WARNING: CPU: 27 PID: 0 at kernel/sched/sched.h:960 assert_clock_updated.isra.38.part.39+0x13/0x20

  [...]

  &lt;IRQ&gt;
  enqueue_top_rt_rq+0xf4/0x150
  ? cpufreq_dbs_governor_start+0x170/0x170
  sched_rt_rq_enqueue+0x65/0x80
  sched_rt_period_timer+0x156/0x360
  ? sched_rt_rq_enqueue+0x80/0x80
  __hrtimer_run_queues+0xfa/0x260
  hrtimer_interrupt+0xcb/0x220
  smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x62/0x120
  apic_timer_interrupt+0xf/0x20
  &lt;/IRQ&gt;

  [...]

  do_idle+0x183/0x1e0
  cpu_startup_entry+0x5f/0x70
  start_secondary+0x192/0x1d0
  secondary_startup_64+0xa5/0xb0

We can get rid of it be the "traditional" means of adding an
update_rq_clock() call after acquiring the rq-&gt;lock in
do_sched_rt_period_timer().

The case for the RT task throttling (which this workload also hits)
can be ignored in that the skip_update call is actually bogus and
quite the contrary (the request bits are removed/reverted).

By setting RQCF_UPDATED we really don't care if the skip is happening
or not and will therefore make the assert_clock_updated() check happy.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dbueso@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: dave@stgolabs.net
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180402164954.16255-1-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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While running rt-tests' pi_stress program I got the following splat:

  rq-&gt;clock_update_flags &lt; RQCF_ACT_SKIP
  WARNING: CPU: 27 PID: 0 at kernel/sched/sched.h:960 assert_clock_updated.isra.38.part.39+0x13/0x20

  [...]

  &lt;IRQ&gt;
  enqueue_top_rt_rq+0xf4/0x150
  ? cpufreq_dbs_governor_start+0x170/0x170
  sched_rt_rq_enqueue+0x65/0x80
  sched_rt_period_timer+0x156/0x360
  ? sched_rt_rq_enqueue+0x80/0x80
  __hrtimer_run_queues+0xfa/0x260
  hrtimer_interrupt+0xcb/0x220
  smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x62/0x120
  apic_timer_interrupt+0xf/0x20
  &lt;/IRQ&gt;

  [...]

  do_idle+0x183/0x1e0
  cpu_startup_entry+0x5f/0x70
  start_secondary+0x192/0x1d0
  secondary_startup_64+0xa5/0xb0

We can get rid of it be the "traditional" means of adding an
update_rq_clock() call after acquiring the rq-&gt;lock in
do_sched_rt_period_timer().

The case for the RT task throttling (which this workload also hits)
can be ignored in that the skip_update call is actually bogus and
quite the contrary (the request bits are removed/reverted).

By setting RQCF_UPDATED we really don't care if the skip is happening
or not and will therefore make the assert_clock_updated() check happy.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dbueso@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: dave@stgolabs.net
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180402164954.16255-1-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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