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<title>sched/cputime: Fix omitted ticks passed in parameter</title>
<updated>2016-08-11T14:34:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>fweisbec@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-11T12:58:24+00:00</published>
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Commit:

  f9bcf1e0e014 ("sched/cputime: Fix steal time accounting")

... fixes a leak on steal time accounting but forgets to account
the ticks passed in parameters, assuming there is only one to
take into account.

Let's consider that parameter back.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Wanpeng Li &lt;kernellwp@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Radim &lt;rkrcmar@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Wanpeng Li &lt;wanpeng.li@hotmail.com&gt;
Cc: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160811125822.GB4214@lerouge
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Commit:

  f9bcf1e0e014 ("sched/cputime: Fix steal time accounting")

... fixes a leak on steal time accounting but forgets to account
the ticks passed in parameters, assuming there is only one to
take into account.

Let's consider that parameter back.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Wanpeng Li &lt;kernellwp@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Radim &lt;rkrcmar@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Wanpeng Li &lt;wanpeng.li@hotmail.com&gt;
Cc: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160811125822.GB4214@lerouge
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sched/cputime: Fix steal time accounting</title>
<updated>2016-08-11T09:02:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wanpeng Li</name>
<email>wanpeng.li@hotmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-11T05:36:35+00:00</published>
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Commit:

  57430218317 ("sched/cputime: Count actually elapsed irq &amp; softirq time")

... didn't take steal time into consideration with passing the noirqtime
kernel parameter.

As Paolo pointed out before:

| Why not? If idle=poll, for example, any time the guest is suspended (and
| thus cannot poll) does count as stolen time.

This patch fixes it by reducing steal time from idle time accounting when
the noirqtime parameter is true. The average idle time drops from 56.8%
to 54.75% for nohz idle kvm guest(noirqtime, idle=poll, four vCPUs running
on one pCPU).

Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li &lt;wanpeng.li@hotmail.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Radim &lt;rkrcmar@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470893795-3527-1-git-send-email-wanpeng.li@hotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Commit:

  57430218317 ("sched/cputime: Count actually elapsed irq &amp; softirq time")

... didn't take steal time into consideration with passing the noirqtime
kernel parameter.

As Paolo pointed out before:

| Why not? If idle=poll, for example, any time the guest is suspended (and
| thus cannot poll) does count as stolen time.

This patch fixes it by reducing steal time from idle time accounting when
the noirqtime parameter is true. The average idle time drops from 56.8%
to 54.75% for nohz idle kvm guest(noirqtime, idle=poll, four vCPUs running
on one pCPU).

Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li &lt;wanpeng.li@hotmail.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Radim &lt;rkrcmar@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470893795-3527-1-git-send-email-wanpeng.li@hotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sched/deadline: Fix lock pinning warning during CPU hotplug</title>
<updated>2016-08-10T12:02:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wanpeng Li</name>
<email>wanpeng.li@hotmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-04T01:42:20+00:00</published>
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The following warning can be triggered by hot-unplugging the CPU
on which an active SCHED_DEADLINE task is running on:

  WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3531 lock_release+0x690/0x6a0
  releasing a pinned lock
  Call Trace:
   dump_stack+0x99/0xd0
   __warn+0xd1/0xf0
   ? dl_task_timer+0x1a1/0x2b0
   warn_slowpath_fmt+0x4f/0x60
   ? sched_clock+0x13/0x20
   lock_release+0x690/0x6a0
   ? enqueue_pushable_dl_task+0x9b/0xa0
   ? enqueue_task_dl+0x1ca/0x480
   _raw_spin_unlock+0x1f/0x40
   dl_task_timer+0x1a1/0x2b0
   ? push_dl_task.part.31+0x190/0x190
  WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3649 lock_unpin_lock+0x181/0x1a0
  unpinning an unpinned lock
  Call Trace:
   dump_stack+0x99/0xd0
   __warn+0xd1/0xf0
   warn_slowpath_fmt+0x4f/0x60
   lock_unpin_lock+0x181/0x1a0
   dl_task_timer+0x127/0x2b0
   ? push_dl_task.part.31+0x190/0x190

As per the comment before this code, its safe to drop the RQ lock
here, and since we (potentially) change rq, unpin and repin to avoid
the splat.

Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li &lt;wanpeng.li@hotmail.com&gt;
[ Rewrote changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Luca Abeni &lt;luca.abeni@unitn.it&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470274940-17976-1-git-send-email-wanpeng.li@hotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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The following warning can be triggered by hot-unplugging the CPU
on which an active SCHED_DEADLINE task is running on:

  WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3531 lock_release+0x690/0x6a0
  releasing a pinned lock
  Call Trace:
   dump_stack+0x99/0xd0
   __warn+0xd1/0xf0
   ? dl_task_timer+0x1a1/0x2b0
   warn_slowpath_fmt+0x4f/0x60
   ? sched_clock+0x13/0x20
   lock_release+0x690/0x6a0
   ? enqueue_pushable_dl_task+0x9b/0xa0
   ? enqueue_task_dl+0x1ca/0x480
   _raw_spin_unlock+0x1f/0x40
   dl_task_timer+0x1a1/0x2b0
   ? push_dl_task.part.31+0x190/0x190
  WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3649 lock_unpin_lock+0x181/0x1a0
  unpinning an unpinned lock
  Call Trace:
   dump_stack+0x99/0xd0
   __warn+0xd1/0xf0
   warn_slowpath_fmt+0x4f/0x60
   lock_unpin_lock+0x181/0x1a0
   dl_task_timer+0x127/0x2b0
   ? push_dl_task.part.31+0x190/0x190

As per the comment before this code, its safe to drop the RQ lock
here, and since we (potentially) change rq, unpin and repin to avoid
the splat.

Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li &lt;wanpeng.li@hotmail.com&gt;
[ Rewrote changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Luca Abeni &lt;luca.abeni@unitn.it&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470274940-17976-1-git-send-email-wanpeng.li@hotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sched/cputime: Mitigate performance regression in times()/clock_gettime()</title>
<updated>2016-08-10T11:32:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Giovanni Gherdovich</name>
<email>ggherdovich@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-05T08:21:56+00:00</published>
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Commit:

  6e998916dfe3 ("sched/cputime: Fix clock_nanosleep()/clock_gettime() inconsistency")

fixed a problem whereby clock_nanosleep() followed by clock_gettime() could
allow a task to wake early. It addressed the problem by calling the scheduling
classes update_curr() when the cputimer starts.

Said change induced a considerable performance regression on the syscalls
times() and clock_gettimes(CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID). There are some
debuggers and applications that monitor their own performance that
accidentally depend on the performance of these specific calls.

This patch mitigates the performace loss by prefetching data in the CPU
cache, as stalls due to cache misses appear to be where most time is spent
in our benchmarks.

Here are the performance gain of this patch over v4.7-rc7 on a Sandy Bridge
box with 32 logical cores and 2 NUMA nodes. The test is repeated with a
variable number of threads, from 2 to 4*num_cpus; the results are in
seconds and correspond to the average of 10 runs; the percentage gain is
computed with (before-after)/before so a positive value is an improvement
(it's faster). The improvement varies between a few percents for 5-20
threads and more than 10% for 2 or &gt;20 threads.

pound_clock_gettime:

    threads       4.7-rc7     patched 4.7-rc7
    [num]         [secs]      [secs (percent)]
      2           3.48        3.06 ( 11.83%)
      5           3.33        3.25 (  2.40%)
      8           3.37        3.26 (  3.30%)
     12           3.32        3.37 ( -1.60%)
     21           4.01        3.90 (  2.74%)
     30           3.63        3.36 (  7.41%)
     48           3.71        3.11 ( 16.27%)
     79           3.75        3.16 ( 15.74%)
    110           3.81        3.25 ( 14.80%)
    128           3.88        3.31 ( 14.76%)

pound_times:

    threads       4.7-rc7     patched 4.7-rc7
    [num]         [secs]      [secs (percent)]
      2           3.65        3.25 ( 11.03%)
      5           3.45        3.17 (  7.92%)
      8           3.52        3.22 (  8.69%)
     12           3.29        3.36 ( -2.04%)
     21           4.07        3.92 (  3.78%)
     30           3.87        3.40 ( 12.17%)
     48           3.79        3.16 ( 16.61%)
     79           3.88        3.28 ( 15.42%)
    110           3.90        3.38 ( 13.35%)
    128           4.00        3.38 ( 15.45%)

pound_clock_gettime and pound_clock_gettime are two benchmarks included in
the MMTests framework. They launch a given number of threads which
repeatedly call times() or clock_gettimes(). The results above can be
reproduced with cloning MMTests from github.com and running the "poundtime"
workload:

  $ git clone https://github.com/gormanm/mmtests.git
  $ cd mmtests
  $ cp configs/config-global-dhp__workload_poundtime config
  $ ./run-mmtests.sh --run-monitor $(uname -r)

The above will run "poundtime" measuring the kernel currently running on
the machine; Once a new kernel is installed and the machine rebooted,
running again

  $ cd mmtests
  $ ./run-mmtests.sh --run-monitor $(uname -r)

will produce results to compare with. A comparison table will be output
with:

  $ cd mmtests/work/log
  $ ../../compare-kernels.sh

the table will contain a lot of entries; grepping for "Amean" (as in
"arithmetic mean") will give the tables presented above. The source code
for the two benchmarks is reported at the end of this changelog for
clairity.

The cache misses addressed by this patch were found using a combination of
`perf top`, `perf record` and `perf annotate`. The incriminated lines were
found to be

    struct sched_entity *curr = cfs_rq-&gt;curr;

and

    delta_exec = now - curr-&gt;exec_start;

in the function update_curr() from kernel/sched/fair.c. This patch
prefetches the data from memory just before update_curr is called in the
interested execution path.

A comparison of the total number of cycles before and after the patch
follows; the data is obtained using `perf stat -r 10 -ddd &lt;program&gt;`
running over the same sequence of number of threads used above (a positive
gain is an improvement):

  threads   cycles before                 cycles after                gain

    2      19,699,563,964  +-1.19%      17,358,917,517  +-1.85%      11.88%
    5      47,401,089,566  +-2.96%      45,103,730,829  +-0.97%       4.85%
    8      80,923,501,004  +-3.01%      71,419,385,977  +-0.77%      11.74%
   12     112,326,485,473  +-0.47%     110,371,524,403  +-0.47%       1.74%
   21     193,455,574,299  +-0.72%     180,120,667,904  +-0.36%       6.89%
   30     315,073,519,013  +-1.64%     271,222,225,950  +-1.29%      13.92%
   48     321,969,515,332  +-1.48%     273,353,977,321  +-1.16%      15.10%
   79     337,866,003,422  +-0.97%     289,462,481,538  +-1.05%      14.33%
  110     338,712,691,920  +-0.78%     290,574,233,170  +-0.77%      14.21%
  128     348,384,794,006  +-0.50%     292,691,648,206  +-0.66%      15.99%

A comparison of cache miss vs total cache loads ratios, before and after
the patch (again from the `perf stat -r 10 -ddd &lt;program&gt;` tables):

  threads   L1 misses/total*100     L1 misses/total*100            gain
		         before                   after
      2           7.43  +-4.90%           7.36  +-4.70%           0.94%
      5          13.09  +-4.74%          13.52  +-3.73%          -3.28%
      8          13.79  +-5.61%          12.90  +-3.27%           6.45%
     12          11.57  +-2.44%           8.71  +-1.40%          24.72%
     21          12.39  +-3.92%           9.97  +-1.84%          19.53%
     30          13.91  +-2.53%          11.73  +-2.28%          15.67%
     48          13.71  +-1.59%          12.32  +-1.97%          10.14%
     79          14.44  +-0.66%          13.40  +-1.06%           7.20%
    110          15.86  +-0.50%          14.46  +-0.59%           8.83%
    128          16.51  +-0.32%          15.06  +-0.78%           8.78%

As a final note, the following shows the evolution of performance figures
in the "poundtime" benchmark and pinpoints commit 6e998916dfe3
("sched/cputime: Fix clock_nanosleep()/clock_gettime() inconsistency") as a
major source of degradation, mostly unaddressed to this day (figures
expressed in seconds).

pound_clock_gettime:

  threads   parent of         6e998916dfe3        4.7-rc7
	    6e998916dfe3            itself
    2        2.23          3.68 ( -64.56%)        3.48 (-55.48%)
    5        2.83          3.78 ( -33.42%)        3.33 (-17.43%)
    8        2.84          4.31 ( -52.12%)        3.37 (-18.76%)
    12       3.09          3.61 ( -16.74%)        3.32 ( -7.17%)
    21       3.14          4.63 ( -47.36%)        4.01 (-27.71%)
    30       3.28          5.75 ( -75.37%)        3.63 (-10.80%)
    48       3.02          6.05 (-100.56%)        3.71 (-22.99%)
    79       2.88          6.30 (-118.90%)        3.75 (-30.26%)
    110      2.95          6.46 (-119.00%)        3.81 (-29.24%)
    128      3.05          6.42 (-110.08%)        3.88 (-27.04%)

pound_times:

  threads   parent of         6e998916dfe3        4.7-rc7
	    6e998916dfe3            itself
    2        2.27          3.73 ( -64.71%)        3.65 (-61.14%)
    5        2.78          3.77 ( -35.56%)        3.45 (-23.98%)
    8        2.79          4.41 ( -57.71%)        3.52 (-26.05%)
    12       3.02          3.56 ( -17.94%)        3.29 ( -9.08%)
    21       3.10          4.61 ( -48.74%)        4.07 (-31.34%)
    30       3.33          5.75 ( -72.53%)        3.87 (-16.01%)
    48       2.96          6.06 (-105.04%)        3.79 (-28.10%)
    79       2.88          6.24 (-116.83%)        3.88 (-34.81%)
    110      2.98          6.37 (-114.08%)        3.90 (-31.12%)
    128      3.10          6.35 (-104.61%)        4.00 (-28.87%)

The source code of the two benchmarks follows. To compile the two:

  NR_THREADS=42
  for FILE in pound_times pound_clock_gettime; do
      gcc -lrt -O2 -lpthread -DNUM_THREADS=$NR_THREADS $FILE.c -o $FILE
  done

==== BEGIN pound_times.c ====

struct tms start;

void *pound (void *threadid)
{
  struct tms end;
  int oldutime = 0;
  int utime;
  int i;
  for (i = 0; i &lt; 5000000 / NUM_THREADS; i++) {
          times(&amp;end);
          utime = ((int)end.tms_utime - (int)start.tms_utime);
          if (oldutime &gt; utime) {
            printf("utime decreased, was %d, now %d!\n", oldutime, utime);
          }
          oldutime = utime;
  }
  pthread_exit(NULL);
}

int main()
{
  pthread_t th[NUM_THREADS];
  long i;
  times(&amp;start);
  for (i = 0; i &lt; NUM_THREADS; i++) {
    pthread_create (&amp;th[i], NULL, pound, (void *)i);
  }
  pthread_exit(NULL);
  return 0;
}
==== END pound_times.c ====

==== BEGIN pound_clock_gettime.c ====

void *pound (void *threadid)
{
	struct timespec ts;
	int rc, i;
	unsigned long prev = 0, this = 0;

	for (i = 0; i &lt; 5000000 / NUM_THREADS; i++) {
		rc = clock_gettime(CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID, &amp;ts);
		if (rc &lt; 0)
			perror("clock_gettime");
		this = (ts.tv_sec * 1000000000) + ts.tv_nsec;
		if (0 &amp;&amp; this &lt; prev)
			printf("%lu ns timewarp at iteration %d\n", prev - this, i);
		prev = this;
	}
	pthread_exit(NULL);
}

int main()
{
	pthread_t th[NUM_THREADS];
	long rc, i;
	pid_t pgid;

	for (i = 0; i &lt; NUM_THREADS; i++) {
		rc = pthread_create(&amp;th[i], NULL, pound, (void *)i);
		if (rc &lt; 0)
			perror("pthread_create");
	}

	pthread_exit(NULL);
	return 0;
}
==== END pound_clock_gettime.c ====

Suggested-by: Mike Galbraith &lt;mgalbraith@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Giovanni Gherdovich &lt;ggherdovich@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka &lt;sgruszka@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470385316-15027-2-git-send-email-ggherdovich@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Commit:

  6e998916dfe3 ("sched/cputime: Fix clock_nanosleep()/clock_gettime() inconsistency")

fixed a problem whereby clock_nanosleep() followed by clock_gettime() could
allow a task to wake early. It addressed the problem by calling the scheduling
classes update_curr() when the cputimer starts.

Said change induced a considerable performance regression on the syscalls
times() and clock_gettimes(CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID). There are some
debuggers and applications that monitor their own performance that
accidentally depend on the performance of these specific calls.

This patch mitigates the performace loss by prefetching data in the CPU
cache, as stalls due to cache misses appear to be where most time is spent
in our benchmarks.

Here are the performance gain of this patch over v4.7-rc7 on a Sandy Bridge
box with 32 logical cores and 2 NUMA nodes. The test is repeated with a
variable number of threads, from 2 to 4*num_cpus; the results are in
seconds and correspond to the average of 10 runs; the percentage gain is
computed with (before-after)/before so a positive value is an improvement
(it's faster). The improvement varies between a few percents for 5-20
threads and more than 10% for 2 or &gt;20 threads.

pound_clock_gettime:

    threads       4.7-rc7     patched 4.7-rc7
    [num]         [secs]      [secs (percent)]
      2           3.48        3.06 ( 11.83%)
      5           3.33        3.25 (  2.40%)
      8           3.37        3.26 (  3.30%)
     12           3.32        3.37 ( -1.60%)
     21           4.01        3.90 (  2.74%)
     30           3.63        3.36 (  7.41%)
     48           3.71        3.11 ( 16.27%)
     79           3.75        3.16 ( 15.74%)
    110           3.81        3.25 ( 14.80%)
    128           3.88        3.31 ( 14.76%)

pound_times:

    threads       4.7-rc7     patched 4.7-rc7
    [num]         [secs]      [secs (percent)]
      2           3.65        3.25 ( 11.03%)
      5           3.45        3.17 (  7.92%)
      8           3.52        3.22 (  8.69%)
     12           3.29        3.36 ( -2.04%)
     21           4.07        3.92 (  3.78%)
     30           3.87        3.40 ( 12.17%)
     48           3.79        3.16 ( 16.61%)
     79           3.88        3.28 ( 15.42%)
    110           3.90        3.38 ( 13.35%)
    128           4.00        3.38 ( 15.45%)

pound_clock_gettime and pound_clock_gettime are two benchmarks included in
the MMTests framework. They launch a given number of threads which
repeatedly call times() or clock_gettimes(). The results above can be
reproduced with cloning MMTests from github.com and running the "poundtime"
workload:

  $ git clone https://github.com/gormanm/mmtests.git
  $ cd mmtests
  $ cp configs/config-global-dhp__workload_poundtime config
  $ ./run-mmtests.sh --run-monitor $(uname -r)

The above will run "poundtime" measuring the kernel currently running on
the machine; Once a new kernel is installed and the machine rebooted,
running again

  $ cd mmtests
  $ ./run-mmtests.sh --run-monitor $(uname -r)

will produce results to compare with. A comparison table will be output
with:

  $ cd mmtests/work/log
  $ ../../compare-kernels.sh

the table will contain a lot of entries; grepping for "Amean" (as in
"arithmetic mean") will give the tables presented above. The source code
for the two benchmarks is reported at the end of this changelog for
clairity.

The cache misses addressed by this patch were found using a combination of
`perf top`, `perf record` and `perf annotate`. The incriminated lines were
found to be

    struct sched_entity *curr = cfs_rq-&gt;curr;

and

    delta_exec = now - curr-&gt;exec_start;

in the function update_curr() from kernel/sched/fair.c. This patch
prefetches the data from memory just before update_curr is called in the
interested execution path.

A comparison of the total number of cycles before and after the patch
follows; the data is obtained using `perf stat -r 10 -ddd &lt;program&gt;`
running over the same sequence of number of threads used above (a positive
gain is an improvement):

  threads   cycles before                 cycles after                gain

    2      19,699,563,964  +-1.19%      17,358,917,517  +-1.85%      11.88%
    5      47,401,089,566  +-2.96%      45,103,730,829  +-0.97%       4.85%
    8      80,923,501,004  +-3.01%      71,419,385,977  +-0.77%      11.74%
   12     112,326,485,473  +-0.47%     110,371,524,403  +-0.47%       1.74%
   21     193,455,574,299  +-0.72%     180,120,667,904  +-0.36%       6.89%
   30     315,073,519,013  +-1.64%     271,222,225,950  +-1.29%      13.92%
   48     321,969,515,332  +-1.48%     273,353,977,321  +-1.16%      15.10%
   79     337,866,003,422  +-0.97%     289,462,481,538  +-1.05%      14.33%
  110     338,712,691,920  +-0.78%     290,574,233,170  +-0.77%      14.21%
  128     348,384,794,006  +-0.50%     292,691,648,206  +-0.66%      15.99%

A comparison of cache miss vs total cache loads ratios, before and after
the patch (again from the `perf stat -r 10 -ddd &lt;program&gt;` tables):

  threads   L1 misses/total*100     L1 misses/total*100            gain
		         before                   after
      2           7.43  +-4.90%           7.36  +-4.70%           0.94%
      5          13.09  +-4.74%          13.52  +-3.73%          -3.28%
      8          13.79  +-5.61%          12.90  +-3.27%           6.45%
     12          11.57  +-2.44%           8.71  +-1.40%          24.72%
     21          12.39  +-3.92%           9.97  +-1.84%          19.53%
     30          13.91  +-2.53%          11.73  +-2.28%          15.67%
     48          13.71  +-1.59%          12.32  +-1.97%          10.14%
     79          14.44  +-0.66%          13.40  +-1.06%           7.20%
    110          15.86  +-0.50%          14.46  +-0.59%           8.83%
    128          16.51  +-0.32%          15.06  +-0.78%           8.78%

As a final note, the following shows the evolution of performance figures
in the "poundtime" benchmark and pinpoints commit 6e998916dfe3
("sched/cputime: Fix clock_nanosleep()/clock_gettime() inconsistency") as a
major source of degradation, mostly unaddressed to this day (figures
expressed in seconds).

pound_clock_gettime:

  threads   parent of         6e998916dfe3        4.7-rc7
	    6e998916dfe3            itself
    2        2.23          3.68 ( -64.56%)        3.48 (-55.48%)
    5        2.83          3.78 ( -33.42%)        3.33 (-17.43%)
    8        2.84          4.31 ( -52.12%)        3.37 (-18.76%)
    12       3.09          3.61 ( -16.74%)        3.32 ( -7.17%)
    21       3.14          4.63 ( -47.36%)        4.01 (-27.71%)
    30       3.28          5.75 ( -75.37%)        3.63 (-10.80%)
    48       3.02          6.05 (-100.56%)        3.71 (-22.99%)
    79       2.88          6.30 (-118.90%)        3.75 (-30.26%)
    110      2.95          6.46 (-119.00%)        3.81 (-29.24%)
    128      3.05          6.42 (-110.08%)        3.88 (-27.04%)

pound_times:

  threads   parent of         6e998916dfe3        4.7-rc7
	    6e998916dfe3            itself
    2        2.27          3.73 ( -64.71%)        3.65 (-61.14%)
    5        2.78          3.77 ( -35.56%)        3.45 (-23.98%)
    8        2.79          4.41 ( -57.71%)        3.52 (-26.05%)
    12       3.02          3.56 ( -17.94%)        3.29 ( -9.08%)
    21       3.10          4.61 ( -48.74%)        4.07 (-31.34%)
    30       3.33          5.75 ( -72.53%)        3.87 (-16.01%)
    48       2.96          6.06 (-105.04%)        3.79 (-28.10%)
    79       2.88          6.24 (-116.83%)        3.88 (-34.81%)
    110      2.98          6.37 (-114.08%)        3.90 (-31.12%)
    128      3.10          6.35 (-104.61%)        4.00 (-28.87%)

The source code of the two benchmarks follows. To compile the two:

  NR_THREADS=42
  for FILE in pound_times pound_clock_gettime; do
      gcc -lrt -O2 -lpthread -DNUM_THREADS=$NR_THREADS $FILE.c -o $FILE
  done

==== BEGIN pound_times.c ====

struct tms start;

void *pound (void *threadid)
{
  struct tms end;
  int oldutime = 0;
  int utime;
  int i;
  for (i = 0; i &lt; 5000000 / NUM_THREADS; i++) {
          times(&amp;end);
          utime = ((int)end.tms_utime - (int)start.tms_utime);
          if (oldutime &gt; utime) {
            printf("utime decreased, was %d, now %d!\n", oldutime, utime);
          }
          oldutime = utime;
  }
  pthread_exit(NULL);
}

int main()
{
  pthread_t th[NUM_THREADS];
  long i;
  times(&amp;start);
  for (i = 0; i &lt; NUM_THREADS; i++) {
    pthread_create (&amp;th[i], NULL, pound, (void *)i);
  }
  pthread_exit(NULL);
  return 0;
}
==== END pound_times.c ====

==== BEGIN pound_clock_gettime.c ====

void *pound (void *threadid)
{
	struct timespec ts;
	int rc, i;
	unsigned long prev = 0, this = 0;

	for (i = 0; i &lt; 5000000 / NUM_THREADS; i++) {
		rc = clock_gettime(CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID, &amp;ts);
		if (rc &lt; 0)
			perror("clock_gettime");
		this = (ts.tv_sec * 1000000000) + ts.tv_nsec;
		if (0 &amp;&amp; this &lt; prev)
			printf("%lu ns timewarp at iteration %d\n", prev - this, i);
		prev = this;
	}
	pthread_exit(NULL);
}

int main()
{
	pthread_t th[NUM_THREADS];
	long rc, i;
	pid_t pgid;

	for (i = 0; i &lt; NUM_THREADS; i++) {
		rc = pthread_create(&amp;th[i], NULL, pound, (void *)i);
		if (rc &lt; 0)
			perror("pthread_create");
	}

	pthread_exit(NULL);
	return 0;
}
==== END pound_clock_gettime.c ====

Suggested-by: Mike Galbraith &lt;mgalbraith@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Giovanni Gherdovich &lt;ggherdovich@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka &lt;sgruszka@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470385316-15027-2-git-send-email-ggherdovich@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/fair: Fix typo in sync_throttle()</title>
<updated>2016-08-10T11:32:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xunlei Pang</name>
<email>xlpang@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-09T07:54:22+00:00</published>
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We should update cfs_rq-&gt;throttled_clock_task, not
pcfs_rq-&gt;throttle_clock_task.

The effects of this bug was probably occasionally erratic
group scheduling, particularly in cgroups-intense workloads.

Signed-off-by: Xunlei Pang &lt;xlpang@redhat.com&gt;
[ Added changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Fixes: 55e16d30bd99 ("sched/fair: Rework throttle_count sync")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1468050862-18864-1-git-send-email-xlpang@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
We should update cfs_rq-&gt;throttled_clock_task, not
pcfs_rq-&gt;throttle_clock_task.

The effects of this bug was probably occasionally erratic
group scheduling, particularly in cgroups-intense workloads.

Signed-off-by: Xunlei Pang &lt;xlpang@redhat.com&gt;
[ Added changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Fixes: 55e16d30bd99 ("sched/fair: Rework throttle_count sync")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1468050862-18864-1-git-send-email-xlpang@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/deadline: Fix wrap-around in DL heap</title>
<updated>2016-08-10T11:32:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tommaso Cucinotta</name>
<email>tommaso.cucinotta@sssup.it</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-19T09:44:50+00:00</published>
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Current code in cpudeadline.c has a bug in re-heapifying when adding a
new element at the end of the heap, because a deadline value of 0 is
temporarily set in the new elem, then cpudl_change_key() is called
with the actual elem deadline as param.

However, the function compares the new deadline to set with the one
previously in the elem, which is 0.  So, if current absolute deadlines
grew so much to have negative values as s64, the comparison in
cpudl_change_key() makes the wrong decision.  Instead, as from
dl_time_before(), the kernel should handle correctly abs deadlines
wrap-arounds.

This patch fixes the problem with a minimally invasive change that
forces cpudl_change_key() to heapify up in this case.

Signed-off-by: Tommaso Cucinotta &lt;tommaso.cucinotta@sssup.it&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Luca Abeni &lt;luca.abeni@unitn.it&gt;
Cc: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1468921493-10054-2-git-send-email-tommaso.cucinotta@sssup.it
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Current code in cpudeadline.c has a bug in re-heapifying when adding a
new element at the end of the heap, because a deadline value of 0 is
temporarily set in the new elem, then cpudl_change_key() is called
with the actual elem deadline as param.

However, the function compares the new deadline to set with the one
previously in the elem, which is 0.  So, if current absolute deadlines
grew so much to have negative values as s64, the comparison in
cpudl_change_key() makes the wrong decision.  Instead, as from
dl_time_before(), the kernel should handle correctly abs deadlines
wrap-arounds.

This patch fixes the problem with a minimally invasive change that
forces cpudl_change_key() to heapify up in this case.

Signed-off-by: Tommaso Cucinotta &lt;tommaso.cucinotta@sssup.it&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Luca Abeni &lt;luca.abeni@unitn.it&gt;
Cc: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1468921493-10054-2-git-send-email-tommaso.cucinotta@sssup.it
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus-4.8-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip</title>
<updated>2016-07-27T18:35:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-27T18:35:37+00:00</published>
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Pull xen updates from David Vrabel:
 "Features and fixes for 4.8-rc0:

   - ACPI support for guests on ARM platforms.
   - Generic steal time support for arm and x86.
   - Support cases where kernel cpu is not Xen VCPU number (e.g., if
     in-guest kexec is used).
   - Use the system workqueue instead of a custom workqueue in various
     places"

* tag 'for-linus-4.8-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: (47 commits)
  xen: add static initialization of steal_clock op to xen_time_ops
  xen/pvhvm: run xen_vcpu_setup() for the boot CPU
  xen/evtchn: use xen_vcpu_id mapping
  xen/events: fifo: use xen_vcpu_id mapping
  xen/events: use xen_vcpu_id mapping in events_base
  x86/xen: use xen_vcpu_id mapping when pointing vcpu_info to shared_info
  x86/xen: use xen_vcpu_id mapping for HYPERVISOR_vcpu_op
  xen: introduce xen_vcpu_id mapping
  x86/acpi: store ACPI ids from MADT for future usage
  x86/xen: update cpuid.h from Xen-4.7
  xen/evtchn: add IOCTL_EVTCHN_RESTRICT
  xen-blkback: really don't leak mode property
  xen-blkback: constify instance of "struct attribute_group"
  xen-blkfront: prefer xenbus_scanf() over xenbus_gather()
  xen-blkback: prefer xenbus_scanf() over xenbus_gather()
  xen: support runqueue steal time on xen
  arm/xen: add support for vm_assist hypercall
  xen: update xen headers
  xen-pciback: drop superfluous variables
  xen-pciback: short-circuit read path used for merging write values
  ...
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Pull xen updates from David Vrabel:
 "Features and fixes for 4.8-rc0:

   - ACPI support for guests on ARM platforms.
   - Generic steal time support for arm and x86.
   - Support cases where kernel cpu is not Xen VCPU number (e.g., if
     in-guest kexec is used).
   - Use the system workqueue instead of a custom workqueue in various
     places"

* tag 'for-linus-4.8-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: (47 commits)
  xen: add static initialization of steal_clock op to xen_time_ops
  xen/pvhvm: run xen_vcpu_setup() for the boot CPU
  xen/evtchn: use xen_vcpu_id mapping
  xen/events: fifo: use xen_vcpu_id mapping
  xen/events: use xen_vcpu_id mapping in events_base
  x86/xen: use xen_vcpu_id mapping when pointing vcpu_info to shared_info
  x86/xen: use xen_vcpu_id mapping for HYPERVISOR_vcpu_op
  xen: introduce xen_vcpu_id mapping
  x86/acpi: store ACPI ids from MADT for future usage
  x86/xen: update cpuid.h from Xen-4.7
  xen/evtchn: add IOCTL_EVTCHN_RESTRICT
  xen-blkback: really don't leak mode property
  xen-blkback: constify instance of "struct attribute_group"
  xen-blkfront: prefer xenbus_scanf() over xenbus_gather()
  xen-blkback: prefer xenbus_scanf() over xenbus_gather()
  xen: support runqueue steal time on xen
  arm/xen: add support for vm_assist hypercall
  xen: update xen headers
  xen-pciback: drop superfluous variables
  xen-pciback: short-circuit read path used for merging write values
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pm-4.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm</title>
<updated>2016-07-27T00:29:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-27T00:29:07+00:00</published>
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Pull power management updates from Rafael  Wysocki:
 "Again, the majority of changes go into the cpufreq subsystem, but
  there are no big features this time.  The cpufreq changes that stand
  out somewhat are the governor interface rework and improvements
  related to the handling of frequency tables.  Apart from those, there
  are fixes and new device/CPU IDs in drivers, cleanups and an
  improvement of the new schedutil governor.

  Next, there are some changes in the hibernation core, including a fix
  for a nasty problem related to the MONITOR/MWAIT usage by CPU offline
  during resume from hibernation, a few core improvements related to
  memory management during resume, a couple of additional debug features
  and cleanups.

  Finally, we have some fixes and cleanups in the devfreq subsystem,
  generic power domains framework improvements related to system
  suspend/resume, support for some new chips in intel_idle and in the
  power capping RAPL driver, a new version of the AnalyzeSuspend utility
  and some assorted fixes and cleanups.

  Specifics:

   - Rework the cpufreq governor interface to make it more
     straightforward and modify the conservative governor to avoid using
     transition notifications (Rafael Wysocki).

   - Rework the handling of frequency tables by the cpufreq core to make
     it more efficient (Viresh Kumar).

   - Modify the schedutil governor to reduce the number of wakeups it
     causes to occur in cases when the CPU frequency doesn't need to be
     changed (Steve Muckle, Viresh Kumar).

   - Fix some minor issues and clean up code in the cpufreq core and
     governors (Rafael Wysocki, Viresh Kumar).

   - Add Intel Broxton support to the intel_pstate driver (Srinivas
     Pandruvada).

   - Fix problems related to the config TDP feature and to the validity
     of the MSR_HWP_INTERRUPT register in intel_pstate (Jan Kiszka,
     Srinivas Pandruvada).

   - Make intel_pstate update the cpu_frequency tracepoint even if the
     frequency doesn't change to avoid confusing powertop (Rafael
     Wysocki).

   - Clean up the usage of __init/__initdata in intel_pstate, mark some
     of its internal variables as __read_mostly and drop an unused
     structure element from it (Jisheng Zhang, Carsten Emde).

   - Clean up the usage of some duplicate MSR symbols in intel_pstate
     and turbostat (Srinivas Pandruvada).

   - Update/fix the powernv, s3c24xx and mvebu cpufreq drivers (Akshay
     Adiga, Viresh Kumar, Ben Dooks).

   - Fix a regression (introduced during the 4.5 cycle) in the
     pcc-cpufreq driver by reverting the problematic commit (Andreas
     Herrmann).

   - Add support for Intel Denverton to intel_idle, clean up Broxton
     support in it and make it explicitly non-modular (Jacob Pan, Jan
     Beulich, Paul Gortmaker).

   - Add support for Denverton and Ivy Bridge server to the Intel RAPL
     power capping driver and make it more careful about the handing of
     MSRs that may not be present (Jacob Pan, Xiaolong Wang).

   - Fix resume from hibernation on x86-64 by making the CPU offline
     during resume avoid using MONITOR/MWAIT in the "play dead" loop
     which may lead to an inadvertent "revival" of a "dead" CPU and a
     page fault leading to a kernel crash from it (Rafael Wysocki).

   - Make memory management during resume from hibernation more
     straightforward (Rafael Wysocki).

   - Add debug features that should help to detect problems related to
     hibernation and resume from it (Rafael Wysocki, Chen Yu).

   - Clean up hibernation core somewhat (Rafael Wysocki).

   - Prevent KASAN from instrumenting the hibernation core which leads
     to large numbers of false-positives from it (James Morse).

   - Prevent PM (hibernate and suspend) notifiers from being called
     during the cleanup phase if they have not been called during the
     corresponding preparation phase which is possible if one of the
     other notifiers returns an error at that time (Lianwei Wang).

   - Improve suspend-related debug printout in the tasks freezer and
     clean up suspend-related console handling (Roger Lu, Borislav
     Petkov).

   - Update the AnalyzeSuspend script in the kernel sources to version
     4.2 (Todd Brandt).

   - Modify the generic power domains framework to make it handle system
     suspend/resume better (Ulf Hansson).

   - Make the runtime PM framework avoid resuming devices synchronously
     when user space changes the runtime PM settings for them and
     improve its error reporting (Rafael Wysocki, Linus Walleij).

   - Fix error paths in devfreq drivers (exynos, exynos-ppmu,
     exynos-bus) and in the core, make some devfreq code explicitly
     non-modular and change some of it into tristate (Bartlomiej
     Zolnierkiewicz, Peter Chen, Paul Gortmaker).

   - Add DT support to the generic PM clocks management code and make it
     export some more symbols (Jon Hunter, Paul Gortmaker).

   - Make the PCI PM core code slightly more robust against possible
     driver errors (Andy Shevchenko).

   - Make it possible to change DESTDIR and PREFIX in turbostat (Andy
     Shevchenko)"

* tag 'pm-4.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (89 commits)
  Revert "cpufreq: pcc-cpufreq: update default value of cpuinfo_transition_latency"
  PM / hibernate: Introduce test_resume mode for hibernation
  cpufreq: export cpufreq_driver_resolve_freq()
  cpufreq: Disallow -&gt;resolve_freq() for drivers providing -&gt;target_index()
  PCI / PM: check all fields in pci_set_platform_pm()
  cpufreq: acpi-cpufreq: use cached frequency mapping when possible
  cpufreq: schedutil: map raw required frequency to driver frequency
  cpufreq: add cpufreq_driver_resolve_freq()
  cpufreq: intel_pstate: Check cpuid for MSR_HWP_INTERRUPT
  intel_pstate: Update cpu_frequency tracepoint every time
  cpufreq: intel_pstate: clean remnant struct element
  PM / tools: scripts: AnalyzeSuspend v4.2
  x86 / hibernate: Use hlt_play_dead() when resuming from hibernation
  cpufreq: powernv: Replacing pstate_id with frequency table index
  intel_pstate: Fix MSR_CONFIG_TDP_x addressing in core_get_max_pstate()
  PM / hibernate: Image data protection during restoration
  PM / hibernate: Add missing braces in __register_nosave_region()
  PM / hibernate: Clean up comments in snapshot.c
  PM / hibernate: Clean up function headers in snapshot.c
  PM / hibernate: Add missing braces in hibernate_setup()
  ...
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Pull power management updates from Rafael  Wysocki:
 "Again, the majority of changes go into the cpufreq subsystem, but
  there are no big features this time.  The cpufreq changes that stand
  out somewhat are the governor interface rework and improvements
  related to the handling of frequency tables.  Apart from those, there
  are fixes and new device/CPU IDs in drivers, cleanups and an
  improvement of the new schedutil governor.

  Next, there are some changes in the hibernation core, including a fix
  for a nasty problem related to the MONITOR/MWAIT usage by CPU offline
  during resume from hibernation, a few core improvements related to
  memory management during resume, a couple of additional debug features
  and cleanups.

  Finally, we have some fixes and cleanups in the devfreq subsystem,
  generic power domains framework improvements related to system
  suspend/resume, support for some new chips in intel_idle and in the
  power capping RAPL driver, a new version of the AnalyzeSuspend utility
  and some assorted fixes and cleanups.

  Specifics:

   - Rework the cpufreq governor interface to make it more
     straightforward and modify the conservative governor to avoid using
     transition notifications (Rafael Wysocki).

   - Rework the handling of frequency tables by the cpufreq core to make
     it more efficient (Viresh Kumar).

   - Modify the schedutil governor to reduce the number of wakeups it
     causes to occur in cases when the CPU frequency doesn't need to be
     changed (Steve Muckle, Viresh Kumar).

   - Fix some minor issues and clean up code in the cpufreq core and
     governors (Rafael Wysocki, Viresh Kumar).

   - Add Intel Broxton support to the intel_pstate driver (Srinivas
     Pandruvada).

   - Fix problems related to the config TDP feature and to the validity
     of the MSR_HWP_INTERRUPT register in intel_pstate (Jan Kiszka,
     Srinivas Pandruvada).

   - Make intel_pstate update the cpu_frequency tracepoint even if the
     frequency doesn't change to avoid confusing powertop (Rafael
     Wysocki).

   - Clean up the usage of __init/__initdata in intel_pstate, mark some
     of its internal variables as __read_mostly and drop an unused
     structure element from it (Jisheng Zhang, Carsten Emde).

   - Clean up the usage of some duplicate MSR symbols in intel_pstate
     and turbostat (Srinivas Pandruvada).

   - Update/fix the powernv, s3c24xx and mvebu cpufreq drivers (Akshay
     Adiga, Viresh Kumar, Ben Dooks).

   - Fix a regression (introduced during the 4.5 cycle) in the
     pcc-cpufreq driver by reverting the problematic commit (Andreas
     Herrmann).

   - Add support for Intel Denverton to intel_idle, clean up Broxton
     support in it and make it explicitly non-modular (Jacob Pan, Jan
     Beulich, Paul Gortmaker).

   - Add support for Denverton and Ivy Bridge server to the Intel RAPL
     power capping driver and make it more careful about the handing of
     MSRs that may not be present (Jacob Pan, Xiaolong Wang).

   - Fix resume from hibernation on x86-64 by making the CPU offline
     during resume avoid using MONITOR/MWAIT in the "play dead" loop
     which may lead to an inadvertent "revival" of a "dead" CPU and a
     page fault leading to a kernel crash from it (Rafael Wysocki).

   - Make memory management during resume from hibernation more
     straightforward (Rafael Wysocki).

   - Add debug features that should help to detect problems related to
     hibernation and resume from it (Rafael Wysocki, Chen Yu).

   - Clean up hibernation core somewhat (Rafael Wysocki).

   - Prevent KASAN from instrumenting the hibernation core which leads
     to large numbers of false-positives from it (James Morse).

   - Prevent PM (hibernate and suspend) notifiers from being called
     during the cleanup phase if they have not been called during the
     corresponding preparation phase which is possible if one of the
     other notifiers returns an error at that time (Lianwei Wang).

   - Improve suspend-related debug printout in the tasks freezer and
     clean up suspend-related console handling (Roger Lu, Borislav
     Petkov).

   - Update the AnalyzeSuspend script in the kernel sources to version
     4.2 (Todd Brandt).

   - Modify the generic power domains framework to make it handle system
     suspend/resume better (Ulf Hansson).

   - Make the runtime PM framework avoid resuming devices synchronously
     when user space changes the runtime PM settings for them and
     improve its error reporting (Rafael Wysocki, Linus Walleij).

   - Fix error paths in devfreq drivers (exynos, exynos-ppmu,
     exynos-bus) and in the core, make some devfreq code explicitly
     non-modular and change some of it into tristate (Bartlomiej
     Zolnierkiewicz, Peter Chen, Paul Gortmaker).

   - Add DT support to the generic PM clocks management code and make it
     export some more symbols (Jon Hunter, Paul Gortmaker).

   - Make the PCI PM core code slightly more robust against possible
     driver errors (Andy Shevchenko).

   - Make it possible to change DESTDIR and PREFIX in turbostat (Andy
     Shevchenko)"

* tag 'pm-4.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (89 commits)
  Revert "cpufreq: pcc-cpufreq: update default value of cpuinfo_transition_latency"
  PM / hibernate: Introduce test_resume mode for hibernation
  cpufreq: export cpufreq_driver_resolve_freq()
  cpufreq: Disallow -&gt;resolve_freq() for drivers providing -&gt;target_index()
  PCI / PM: check all fields in pci_set_platform_pm()
  cpufreq: acpi-cpufreq: use cached frequency mapping when possible
  cpufreq: schedutil: map raw required frequency to driver frequency
  cpufreq: add cpufreq_driver_resolve_freq()
  cpufreq: intel_pstate: Check cpuid for MSR_HWP_INTERRUPT
  intel_pstate: Update cpu_frequency tracepoint every time
  cpufreq: intel_pstate: clean remnant struct element
  PM / tools: scripts: AnalyzeSuspend v4.2
  x86 / hibernate: Use hlt_play_dead() when resuming from hibernation
  cpufreq: powernv: Replacing pstate_id with frequency table index
  intel_pstate: Fix MSR_CONFIG_TDP_x addressing in core_get_max_pstate()
  PM / hibernate: Image data protection during restoration
  PM / hibernate: Add missing braces in __register_nosave_region()
  PM / hibernate: Clean up comments in snapshot.c
  PM / hibernate: Clean up function headers in snapshot.c
  PM / hibernate: Add missing braces in hibernate_setup()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2016-07-25T21:43:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-25T21:43:00+00:00</published>
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Pull NOHZ updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - fix system/idle cputime leaked on cputime accounting (all nohz
   configs) (Rik van Riel)

 - remove the messy, ad-hoc irqtime account on nohz-full and make it
   compatible with CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING=y instead (Rik van Riel)

 - cleanups (Frederic Weisbecker)

 - remove unecessary irq disablement in the irqtime code (Rik van Riel)

* 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/cputime: Drop local_irq_save/restore from irqtime_account_irq()
  sched/cputime: Reorganize vtime native irqtime accounting headers
  sched/cputime: Clean up the old vtime gen irqtime accounting completely
  sched/cputime: Replace VTIME_GEN irq time code with IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING code
  sched/cputime: Count actually elapsed irq &amp; softirq time
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Pull NOHZ updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - fix system/idle cputime leaked on cputime accounting (all nohz
   configs) (Rik van Riel)

 - remove the messy, ad-hoc irqtime account on nohz-full and make it
   compatible with CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING=y instead (Rik van Riel)

 - cleanups (Frederic Weisbecker)

 - remove unecessary irq disablement in the irqtime code (Rik van Riel)

* 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/cputime: Drop local_irq_save/restore from irqtime_account_irq()
  sched/cputime: Reorganize vtime native irqtime accounting headers
  sched/cputime: Clean up the old vtime gen irqtime accounting completely
  sched/cputime: Replace VTIME_GEN irq time code with IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING code
  sched/cputime: Count actually elapsed irq &amp; softirq time
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2016-07-25T20:59:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-25T20:59:34+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=cca08cd66ce6cc37812b6b36986ba7eaabd33e0b'/>
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Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - introduce and use task_rcu_dereference()/try_get_task_struct() to fix
   and generalize task_struct handling (Oleg Nesterov)

 - do various per entity load tracking (PELT) fixes and optimizations
   (Peter Zijlstra)

 - cputime virt-steal time accounting enhancements/fixes (Wanpeng Li)

 - introduce consolidated cputime output file cpuacct.usage_all and
   related refactorings (Zhao Lei)

 - ... plus misc fixes and enhancements

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/core: Panic on scheduling while atomic bugs if kernel.panic_on_warn is set
  sched/cpuacct: Introduce cpuacct.usage_all to show all CPU stats together
  sched/cpuacct: Use loop to consolidate code in cpuacct_stats_show()
  sched/cpuacct: Merge cpuacct_usage_index and cpuacct_stat_index enums
  sched/fair: Rework throttle_count sync
  sched/core: Fix sched_getaffinity() return value kerneldoc comment
  sched/fair: Reorder cgroup creation code
  sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes
  sched/fair: Fix PELT integrity for new tasks
  sched/cgroup: Fix cpu_cgroup_fork() handling
  sched/fair: Fix PELT integrity for new groups
  sched/fair: Fix and optimize the fork() path
  sched/cputime: Add steal time support to full dynticks CPU time accounting
  sched/cputime: Fix prev steal time accouting during CPU hotplug
  KVM: Fix steal clock warp during guest CPU hotplug
  sched/debug: Always show 'nr_migrations'
  sched/fair: Use task_rcu_dereference()
  sched/api: Introduce task_rcu_dereference() and try_get_task_struct()
  sched/idle: Optimize the generic idle loop
  sched/fair: Fix the wrong throttled clock time for cfs_rq_clock_task()
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<pre>
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - introduce and use task_rcu_dereference()/try_get_task_struct() to fix
   and generalize task_struct handling (Oleg Nesterov)

 - do various per entity load tracking (PELT) fixes and optimizations
   (Peter Zijlstra)

 - cputime virt-steal time accounting enhancements/fixes (Wanpeng Li)

 - introduce consolidated cputime output file cpuacct.usage_all and
   related refactorings (Zhao Lei)

 - ... plus misc fixes and enhancements

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/core: Panic on scheduling while atomic bugs if kernel.panic_on_warn is set
  sched/cpuacct: Introduce cpuacct.usage_all to show all CPU stats together
  sched/cpuacct: Use loop to consolidate code in cpuacct_stats_show()
  sched/cpuacct: Merge cpuacct_usage_index and cpuacct_stat_index enums
  sched/fair: Rework throttle_count sync
  sched/core: Fix sched_getaffinity() return value kerneldoc comment
  sched/fair: Reorder cgroup creation code
  sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes
  sched/fair: Fix PELT integrity for new tasks
  sched/cgroup: Fix cpu_cgroup_fork() handling
  sched/fair: Fix PELT integrity for new groups
  sched/fair: Fix and optimize the fork() path
  sched/cputime: Add steal time support to full dynticks CPU time accounting
  sched/cputime: Fix prev steal time accouting during CPU hotplug
  KVM: Fix steal clock warp during guest CPU hotplug
  sched/debug: Always show 'nr_migrations'
  sched/fair: Use task_rcu_dereference()
  sched/api: Introduce task_rcu_dereference() and try_get_task_struct()
  sched/idle: Optimize the generic idle loop
  sched/fair: Fix the wrong throttled clock time for cfs_rq_clock_task()
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