linux-toradex.git/kernel/sched, branch v4.4.13

sched/loadavg: Fix loadavg artifacts on fully idle and on fully loaded systems

2016-06-01T19:15:49+00:00

commit 20878232c52329f92423d27a60e48b6a6389e0dd upstream.

Systems show a minimal load average of 0.00, 0.01, 0.05 even when they
have no load at all.

Uptime and /proc/loadavg on all systems with kernels released during the
last five years up until kernel version 4.6-rc5, show a 5- and 15-minute
minimum loadavg of 0.01 and 0.05 respectively. This should be 0.00 on
idle systems, but the way the kernel calculates this value prevents it
from getting lower than the mentioned values.

Likewise but not as obviously noticeable, a fully loaded system with no
processes waiting, shows a maximum 1/5/15 loadavg of 1.00, 0.99, 0.95
(multiplied by number of cores).

Once the (old) load becomes 93 or higher, it mathematically can never
get lower than 93, even when the active (load) remains 0 forever.
This results in the strange 0.00, 0.01, 0.05 uptime values on idle
systems.  Note: 93/2048 = 0.0454..., which rounds up to 0.05.

It is not correct to add a 0.5 rounding (=1024/2048) here, since the
result from this function is fed back into the next iteration again,
so the result of that +0.5 rounding value then gets multiplied by
(2048-2037), and then rounded again, so there is a virtual "ghost"
load created, next to the old and active load terms.

By changing the way the internally kept value is rounded, that internal
value equivalent now can reach 0.00 on idle, and 1.00 on full load. Upon
increasing load, the internally kept load value is rounded up, when the
load is decreasing, the load value is rounded down.

The modified code was tested on nohz=off and nohz kernels. It was tested
on vanilla kernel 4.6-rc5 and on centos 7.1 kernel 3.10.0-327. It was
tested on single, dual, and octal cores system. It was tested on virtual
hosts and bare hardware. No unwanted effects have been observed, and the
problems that the patch intended to fix were indeed gone.

Tested-by: Damien Wyart 
Signed-off-by: Vik Heyndrickx 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Doug Smythies 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Fixes: 0f004f5a696a ("sched: Cure more NO_HZ load average woes")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e8d32bff-d544-7748-72b5-3c86cc71f09f@veribox.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sched/cgroup: Fix/cleanup cgroup teardown/init

2016-05-04T21:48:42+00:00

commit 2f5177f0fd7e531b26d54633be62d1d4cb94621c upstream.

The CPU controller hasn't kept up with the various changes in the whole
cgroup initialization / destruction sequence, and commit:

  2e91fa7f6d45 ("cgroup: keep zombies associated with their original cgroups")

caused it to explode.

The reason for this is that zombies do not inhibit css_offline() from
being called, but do stall css_released(). Now we tear down the cfs_rq
structures on css_offline() but zombies can run after that, leading to
use-after-free issues.

The solution is to move the tear-down to css_released(), which
guarantees nobody (including no zombies) is still using our cgroup.

Furthermore, a few simple cleanups are possible too. There doesn't
appear to be any point to us using css_online() (anymore?) so fold that
in css_alloc().

And since cgroup code guarantees an RCU grace period between
css_released() and css_free() we can forgo using call_rcu() and free the
stuff immediately.

Suggested-by: Tejun Heo 
Reported-by: Kazuki Yamaguchi 
Reported-by: Niklas Cassel 
Tested-by: Niklas Cassel 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Acked-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Fixes: 2e91fa7f6d45 ("cgroup: keep zombies associated with their original cgroups")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160316152245.GY6344@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sched/cputime: Fix steal time accounting vs. CPU hotplug

2016-04-12T16:09:05+00:00

commit e9532e69b8d1d1284e8ecf8d2586de34aec61244 upstream.

On CPU hotplug the steal time accounting can keep a stale rq->prev_steal_time
value over CPU down and up. So after the CPU comes up again the delta
calculation in steal_account_process_tick() wreckages itself due to the
unsigned math:

	 u64 steal = paravirt_steal_clock(smp_processor_id());

	 steal -= this_rq()->prev_steal_time;

So if steal is smaller than rq->prev_steal_time we end up with an insane large
value which then gets added to rq->prev_steal_time, resulting in a permanent
wreckage of the accounting. As a consequence the per CPU stats in /proc/stat
become stale.

Nice trick to tell the world how idle the system is (100%) while the CPU is
100% busy running tasks. Though we prefer realistic numbers.

None of the accounting values which use a previous value to account for
fractions is reset at CPU hotplug time. update_rq_clock_task() has a sanity
check for prev_irq_time and prev_steal_time_rq, but that sanity check solely
deals with clock warps and limits the /proc/stat visible wreckage. The
prev_time values are still wrong.

Solution is simple: Reset rq->prev_*_time when the CPU is plugged in again.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Acked-by: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Glauber Costa 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Fixes: commit 095c0aa83e52 "sched: adjust scheduler cpu power for stolen time"
Fixes: commit aa483808516c "sched: Remove irq time from available CPU power"
Fixes: commit e6e6685accfa "KVM guest: Steal time accounting"
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.11.1603041539490.3686@nanos
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sched/cputime: Fix steal_account_process_tick() to always return jiffies

2016-04-12T16:08:35+00:00

commit f9c904b7613b8b4c85b10cd6b33ad41b2843fa9d upstream.

The callers of steal_account_process_tick() expect it to return
whether a jiffy should be considered stolen or not.

Currently the return value of steal_account_process_tick() is in
units of cputime, which vary between either jiffies or nsecs
depending on CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN.

If cputime has nsecs granularity and there is a tiny amount of
stolen time (a few nsecs, say) then we will consider the entire
tick stolen and will not account the tick on user/system/idle,
causing /proc/stats to show invalid data.

The fix is to change steal_account_process_tick() to accumulate
the stolen time and only account it once it's worth a jiffy.

(Thanks to Frederic Weisbecker for suggestions to fix a bug in my
first version of the patch.)

Signed-off-by: Chris Friesen 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/56DBBDB8.40305@mail.usask.ca
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sched: Fix crash in sched_init_numa()

2016-02-17T20:31:02+00:00

commit 9c03ee147193645be4c186d3688232fa438c57c7 upstream.

The following PowerPC commit:

  c118baf80256 ("arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c: do not allocate bootmem memory for non existing nodes")

avoids allocating bootmem memory for non existent nodes.

But when DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS=y is enabled, my powerNV system failed to boot
because in sched_init_numa(), cpumask_or() operation was done on
unallocated nodes.

Fix that by making cpumask_or() operation only on existing nodes.

[ Tested with and w/o DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS=y on x86 and PowerPC. ]

Reported-by: Jan Stancek 
Tested-by: Jan Stancek 
Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T 
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Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1452884483-11676-1-git-send-email-raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sched/fair: Fix multiplication overflow on 32-bit systems

2016-01-06T10:01:05+00:00

Make 'r' 64-bit type to avoid overflow in 'r * LOAD_AVG_MAX'
on 32-bit systems:

	UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in kernel/sched/fair.c:2785:18
	signed integer overflow:
	87950 * 47742 cannot be represented in type 'int'

The most likely effect of this bug are bad load average numbers
resulting in weird scheduling. It's also likely that this can
persist for a longer time - until the system goes idle for
a long time so that all load avg numbers get reset.

[ This is the CFS load average metric, not the procfs output, which
  is separate. ]

Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Fixes: 9d89c257dfb9 ("sched/fair: Rewrite runnable load and utilization average tracking")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1450097243-30137-1-git-send-email-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com
[ Improved the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/wait: Fix the signal handling fix

2015-12-13T22:30:59+00:00

Jan Stancek reported that I wrecked things for him by fixing things for
Vladimir :/

His report was due to an UNINTERRUPTIBLE wait getting -EINTR, which
should not be possible, however my previous patch made this possible by
unconditionally checking signal_pending().

We cannot use current->state as was done previously, because the
instruction after the store to that variable it can be changed.  We must
instead pass the initial state along and use that.

Fixes: 68985633bccb ("sched/wait: Fix signal handling in bit wait helpers")
Reported-by: Jan Stancek 
Reported-by: Chris Mason 
Tested-by: Jan Stancek 
Tested-by: Vladimir Murzin 
Tested-by: Chris Mason 
Reviewed-by: Paul Turner 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-4.4-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup

2015-12-08T21:35:52+00:00

Pull cgroup fixes from Tejun Heo:
 "More change than I'd have liked at this stage.  The pids controller
  and the changes made to cgroup core to support it introduced and
  revealed several important issues.

   - Assigning membership to a newly created task and migrating it can
     race leading to incorrect accounting.  Oleg fixed it by widening
     threadgroup synchronization.  It looks like we'll be able to merge
     it with a different percpu rwsem which is used in fork path making
     things simpler and cheaper.

   - The recent change to extend cgroup membership to zombies (so that
     pid accounting can extend till the pid is actually released) missed
     pinning the underlying data structures leading to use-after-free.
     Fixed.

   - v2 hierarchy was calling subsystem callbacks with the wrong target
     cgroup_subsys_state based on the incorrect assumption that they
     share the same target.  pids is the first controller affected by
     this.  Subsys callbacks updated so that they can deal with
     multi-target migrations"

* 'for-4.4-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  cgroup_pids: don't account for the root cgroup
  cgroup: fix handling of multi-destination migration from subtree_control enabling
  cgroup_freezer: simplify propagation of CGROUP_FROZEN clearing in freezer_attach()
  cgroup: pids: kill pids_fork(), simplify pids_can_fork() and pids_cancel_fork()
  cgroup: pids: fix race between cgroup_post_fork() and cgroup_migrate()
  cgroup: make css_set pin its css's to avoid use-afer-free
  cgroup: fix cftype->file_offset handling

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

2015-12-08T21:01:23+00:00

Pull perf fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree includes four core perf fixes for misc bugs, three fixes to
  x86 PMU drivers, and two updates to old email addresses"

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf: Do not send exit event twice
  perf/x86/intel: Fix INTEL_FLAGS_UEVENT_CONSTRAINT_DATALA_NA macro
  perf/x86/intel: Make L1D_PEND_MISS.FB_FULL not constrained on Haswell
  perf: Fix PERF_EVENT_IOC_PERIOD deadlock
  treewide: Remove old email address
  perf/x86: Fix LBR call stack save/restore
  perf: Update email address in MAINTAINERS
  perf/core: Robustify the perf_cgroup_from_task() RCU checks
  perf/core: Fix RCU problem with cgroup context switching code

Merge branch 'master' into for-4.4-fixes

2015-12-07T15:09:03+00:00

The following commit which went into mainline through networking tree

  3b13758f51de ("cgroups: Allow dynamically changing net_classid")

conflicts in net/core/netclassid_cgroup.c with the following pending
fix in cgroup/for-4.4-fixes.

  1f7dd3e5a6e4 ("cgroup: fix handling of multi-destination migration from subtree_control enabling")

The former separates out update_classid() from cgrp_attach() and
updates it to walk all fds of all tasks in the target css so that it
can be used from both migration and config change paths.  The latter
drops @css from cgrp_attach().

Resolve the conflict by making cgrp_attach() call update_classid()
with the css from the first task.  We can revive @tset walking in
cgrp_attach() but given that net_cls is v1 only where there always is
only one target css during migration, this is fine.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell 
Cc: Nina Schiff