A scheduler performance regression has been reported by Joseph Salisbury,
which he bisected back to:

  3d30544f0212 ("sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes)

The regression triggers when several levels of task groups are involved
(read: SystemD) and cpu_possible_mask != cpu_present_mask.

The root cause is that group entity's load (tg_child->se[i]->avg.load_avg)
is initialized to scale_load_down(se->load.weight). During the creation of
a child task group, its group entities on possible CPUs are attached to
parent's cfs_rq (tg_parent) and their loads are added to the parent's load
(tg_parent->load_avg) with update_tg_load_avg().

But only the load on online CPUs will then be updated to reflect real load,
whereas load on other CPUs will stay at the initial value.

The result is a tg_parent->load_avg that is higher than the real load, the
weight of group entities (tg_parent->se[i]->load.weight) on online CPUs is
smaller than it should be, and the task group gets a less running time than
what it could expect.

( This situation can be detected with /proc/sched_debug. The ".tg_load_avg"
  of the task group will be much higher than sum of ".tg_load_avg_contrib"
  of online cfs_rqs of the task group. )

The load of group entities don't have to be intialized to something else
than 0 because their load will increase when an entity is attached.

Reported-by: Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@canonical.com>
Tested-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.8.x
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: joonwoop@codeaurora.org
Fixes: 3d30544f0212 ("sched/fair: Apply more PELT fixes)
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1476881123-10159-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Pull scheduler fix from Ingo Molnar:
 "Fix a crash that can trigger when racing with CPU hotplug: we didn't
  use sched-domains data structures carefully enough in select_idle_cpu()"

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/fair: Fix sched domains NULL dereference in select_idle_sibling()

Pull gcc plugins update from Kees Cook:
 "This adds a new gcc plugin named "latent_entropy". It is designed to
  extract as much possible uncertainty from a running system at boot
  time as possible, hoping to capitalize on any possible variation in
  CPU operation (due to runtime data differences, hardware differences,
  SMP ordering, thermal timing variation, cache behavior, etc).

  At the very least, this plugin is a much more comprehensive example
  for how to manipulate kernel code using the gcc plugin internals"

* tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  latent_entropy: Mark functions with __latent_entropy
  gcc-plugins: Add latent_entropy plugin

Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:

 - tracepoints for basic cgroup management operations added

 - kernfs and cgroup path formatting functions updated to behave in the
   style of strlcpy()

 - non-critical bug fixes

* 'for-4.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  blkcg: Unlock blkcg_pol_mutex only once when cpd == NULL
  cgroup: fix error handling regressions in proc_cgroup_show() and cgroup_release_agent()
  cpuset: fix error handling regression in proc_cpuset_show()
  cgroup: add tracepoints for basic operations
  cgroup: make cgroup_path() and friends behave in the style of strlcpy()
  kernfs: remove kernfs_path_len()
  kernfs: make kernfs_path*() behave in the style of strlcpy()
  kernfs: add dummy implementation of kernfs_path_from_node()

Commit:

  10e2f1acd01 ("sched/core: Rewrite and improve select_idle_siblings()")

... improved select_idle_sibling(), but also triggered a regression (crash)
during CPU-hotplug:

  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000078
  IP: [<ffffffffb10cd332>] select_idle_sibling+0x1c2/0x4f0
  Call Trace:
   <IRQ>
    select_task_rq_fair+0x749/0x930
    ? select_task_rq_fair+0xb4/0x930
    ? __lock_is_held+0x54/0x70
    try_to_wake_up+0x19a/0x5b0
    default_wake_function+0x12/0x20
    autoremove_wake_function+0x12/0x40
    __wake_up_common+0x55/0x90
    __wake_up+0x39/0x50
    wake_up_klogd_work_func+0x40/0x60
    irq_work_run_list+0x57/0x80
    irq_work_run+0x2c/0x30
    smp_irq_work_interrupt+0x2e/0x40
    irq_work_interrupt+0x96/0xa0
   <EOI>
    ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x45/0x80
    try_to_wake_up+0x4a/0x5b0
    wake_up_state+0x10/0x20
    __kthread_unpark+0x67/0x70
    kthread_unpark+0x22/0x30
    cpuhp_online_idle+0x3e/0x70
    cpu_startup_entry+0x6a/0x450
    start_secondary+0x154/0x180

This can be reproduced by running the ftrace test case of kselftest, the
test case will hot-unplug the CPU and the CPU will attach to the NULL
sched-domain during scheduler teardown.

The step 2 for the rewrite select_idle_siblings():

  | Step 2) tracks the average cost of the scan and compares this to the
  | average idle time guestimate for the CPU doing the wakeup.

If the CPU which doing the wakeup is the going hot-unplug CPU, then NULL
sched domain will be dereferenced to acquire the average cost of the scan.

This patch fix it by failing the search of an idle CPU in the LLC process
if this sched domain is NULL.

Tested-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1475971443-3187-1-git-send-email-wanpeng.li@hotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

The __latent_entropy gcc attribute can be used only on functions and
variables.  If it is on a function then the plugin will instrument it for
gathering control-flow entropy. If the attribute is on a variable then
the plugin will initialize it with random contents.  The variable must
be an integer, an integer array type or a structure with integer fields.

These specific functions have been selected because they are init
functions (to help gather boot-time entropy), are called at unpredictable
times, or they have variable loops, each of which provide some level of
latent entropy.

Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
[kees: expanded commit message]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

When doing an nmi backtrace of many cores, most of which are idle, the
output is a little overwhelming and very uninformative.  Suppress
messages for cpus that are idling when they are interrupted and just
emit one line, "NMI backtrace for N skipped: idling at pc 0xNNN".

We do this by grouping all the cpuidle code together into a new
.cpuidle.text section, and then checking the address of the interrupted
PC to see if it lies within that section.

This commit suitably tags x86 and tile idle routines, and only adds in
the minimal framework for other architectures.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472487169-14923-5-git-send-email-cmetcalf@mellanox.com
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> [arm]
Tested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Pull low-level x86 updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "In this cycle this topic tree has become one of those 'super topics'
  that accumulated a lot of changes:

   - Add CONFIG_VMAP_STACK=y support to the core kernel and enable it on
     x86 - preceded by an array of changes. v4.8 saw preparatory changes
     in this area already - this is the rest of the work. Includes the
     thread stack caching performance optimization. (Andy Lutomirski)

   - switch_to() cleanups and all around enhancements. (Brian Gerst)

   - A large number of dumpstack infrastructure enhancements and an
     unwinder abstraction. The secret long term plan is safe(r) live
     patching plus maybe another attempt at debuginfo based unwinding -
     but all these current bits are standalone enhancements in a frame
     pointer based debug environment as well. (Josh Poimboeuf)

   - More __ro_after_init and const annotations. (Kees Cook)

   - Enable KASLR for the vmemmap memory region. (Thomas Garnier)"

[ The virtually mapped stack changes are pretty fundamental, and not
  x86-specific per se, even if they are only used on x86 right now. ]

* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (70 commits)
  x86/asm: Get rid of __read_cr4_safe()
  thread_info: Use unsigned long for flags
  x86/alternatives: Add stack frame dependency to alternative_call_2()
  x86/dumpstack: Fix show_stack() task pointer regression
  x86/dumpstack: Remove dump_trace() and related callbacks
  x86/dumpstack: Convert show_trace_log_lvl() to use the new unwinder
  oprofile/x86: Convert x86_backtrace() to use the new unwinder
  x86/stacktrace: Convert save_stack_trace_*() to use the new unwinder
  perf/x86: Convert perf_callchain_kernel() to use the new unwinder
  x86/unwind: Add new unwind interface and implementations
  x86/dumpstack: Remove NULL task pointer convention
  fork: Optimize task creation by caching two thread stacks per CPU if CONFIG_VMAP_STACK=y
  sched/core: Free the stack early if CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
  lib/syscall: Pin the task stack in collect_syscall()
  x86/process: Pin the target stack in get_wchan()
  x86/dumpstack: Pin the target stack when dumping it
  kthread: Pin the stack via try_get_task_stack()/put_task_stack() in to_live_kthread() function
  sched/core: Add try_get_task_stack() and put_task_stack()
  x86/entry/64: Fix a minor comment rebase error
  iommu/amd: Don't put completion-wait semaphore on stack
  ...

Pull scheduler changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes are:

   - irqtime accounting cleanups and enhancements. (Frederic Weisbecker)

   - schedstat debugging enhancements, make it more broadly runtime
     available. (Josh Poimboeuf)

   - More work on asymmetric topology/capacity scheduling. (Morten
     Rasmussen)

   - sched/wait fixes and cleanups. (Oleg Nesterov)

   - PELT (per entity load tracking) improvements. (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Rewrite and enhance select_idle_siblings(). (Peter Zijlstra)

   - sched/numa enhancements/fixes (Rik van Riel)

   - sched/cputime scalability improvements (Stanislaw Gruszka)

   - Load calculation arithmetics fixes. (Dietmar Eggemann)

   - sched/deadline enhancements (Tommaso Cucinotta)

   - Fix utilization accounting when switching to the SCHED_NORMAL
     policy. (Vincent Guittot)

   - ... plus misc cleanups and enhancements"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (64 commits)
  sched/irqtime: Consolidate irqtime flushing code
  sched/irqtime: Consolidate accounting synchronization with u64_stats API
  u64_stats: Introduce IRQs disabled helpers
  sched/irqtime: Remove needless IRQs disablement on kcpustat update
  sched/irqtime: No need for preempt-safe accessors
  sched/fair: Fix min_vruntime tracking
  sched/debug: Add SCHED_WARN_ON()
  sched/core: Fix set_user_nice()
  sched/fair: Introduce set_curr_task() helper
  sched/core, ia64: Rename set_curr_task()
  sched/core: Fix incorrect utilization accounting when switching to fair class
  sched/core: Optimize SCHED_SMT
  sched/core: Rewrite and improve select_idle_siblings()
  sched/core: Replace sd_busy/nr_busy_cpus with sched_domain_shared
  sched/core: Introduce 'struct sched_domain_shared'
  sched/core: Restructure destroy_sched_domain()
  sched/core: Remove unused @cpu argument from destroy_sched_domain*()
  sched/wait: Introduce init_wait_entry()
  sched/wait: Avoid abort_exclusive_wait() in __wait_on_bit_lock()
  sched/wait: Avoid abort_exclusive_wait() in ___wait_event()
  ...

Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - Expedited grace-period changes, most notably avoiding having user
     threads drive expedited grace periods, using a workqueue instead.

   - Miscellaneous fixes, including a performance fix for lists that was
     sent with the lists modifications.

   - CPU hotplug updates, most notably providing exact CPU-online
     tracking for RCU. This will in turn allow removal of the checks
     supporting RCU's prior heuristic that was based on the assumption
     that CPUs would take no longer than one jiffy to come online.

   - Torture-test updates.

   - Documentation updates"

* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (22 commits)
  list: Expand list_first_entry_or_null()
  torture: TOROUT_STRING(): Insert a space between flag and message
  rcuperf: Consistently insert space between flag and message
  rcutorture: Print out barrier error as document says
  torture: Add task state to writer-task stall printk()s
  torture: Convert torture_shutdown() to hrtimer
  rcutorture: Convert to hotplug state machine
  cpu/hotplug: Get rid of CPU_STARTING reference
  rcu: Provide exact CPU-online tracking for RCU
  rcu: Avoid redundant quiescent-state chasing
  rcu: Don't use modular infrastructure in non-modular code
  sched: Make wake_up_nohz_cpu() handle CPUs going offline
  rcu: Use rcu_gp_kthread_wake() to wake up grace period kthreads
  rcu: Use RCU's online-CPU state for expedited IPI retry
  rcu: Exclude RCU-offline CPUs from expedited grace periods
  rcu: Make expedited RCU CPU stall warnings respond to controls
  rcu: Stop disabling expedited RCU CPU stall warnings
  rcu: Drive expedited grace periods from workqueue
  rcu: Consolidate expedited grace period machinery
  documentation: Record reason for rcu_head two-byte alignment
  ...