linux-stable.git/kernel/sched/core.c, branch v3.4.8

sched/nohz: Rewrite and fix load-avg computation -- again

2012-07-19T15:58:56+00:00

commit 5167e8d5417bf5c322a703d2927daec727ea40dd upstream.

Thanks to Charles Wang for spotting the defects in the current code:

 - If we go idle during the sample window -- after sampling, we get a
   negative bias because we can negate our own sample.

 - If we wake up during the sample window we get a positive bias
   because we push the sample to a known active period.

So rewrite the entire nohz load-avg muck once again, now adding
copious documentation to the code.

Reported-and-tested-by: Doug Smythies 
Reported-and-tested-by: Charles Wang 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340373782.18025.74.camel@twins
[ minor edits ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sched: Fix the relax_domain_level boot parameter

2012-06-17T18:21:28+00:00

commit a841f8cef4bb124f0f5563314d0beaf2e1249d72 upstream.

It does not get processed because sched_domain_level_max is 0 at the
time that setup_relax_domain_level() is run.

Simply accept the value as it is, as we don't know the value of
sched_domain_level_max until sched domain construction is completed.

Fix sched_relax_domain_level in cpuset.  The build_sched_domain() routine calls
the set_domain_attribute() routine prior to setting the sd->level, however,
the set_domain_attribute() routine relies on the sd->level to decide whether
idle load balancing will be off/on.

Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120605184436.GA15668@sgi.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sched: Fix KVM and ia64 boot crash due to sched_groups circular linked list assumption

2012-05-09T10:27:35+00:00

If we have one cpu that failed to boot and boot cpu gave up on
waiting for it and then another cpu is being booted, kernel
might crash with following OOPS:

   BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000018
   IP: [] __bitmap_weight+0x30/0x80
   Call Trace:
       [] build_sched_domains+0x7b6/0xa50

The crash happens in init_sched_groups_power() that expects
sched_groups to be circular linked list. However it is not
always true, since sched_groups preallocated in __sdt_alloc are
initialized in build_sched_groups and it may exit early

        if (cpu != cpumask_first(sched_domain_span(sd)))
                return 0;

without initializing sd->groups->next field.

Fix bug by initializing next field right after sched_group was
allocated.

Also-Reported-by: Jiang Liu 
Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov 
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: pjt@google.com
Cc: seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336559908-32533-1-git-send-email-imammedo@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched: Fix OOPS when build_sched_domains() percpu allocation fails

2012-04-26T10:54:53+00:00

Under extreme memory used up situations, percpu allocation
might fail. We hit it when system goes to suspend-to-ram,
causing a kworker panic:

 EIP: [] build_sched_domains+0x23a/0xad0
 Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
 Pid: 3026, comm: kworker/u:3
 3.0.8-137473-gf42fbef #1

 Call Trace:
  [] panic+0x66/0x16c
  [...]
  [] partition_sched_domains+0x287/0x4b0
  [] cpuset_update_active_cpus+0x1fe/0x210
  [] cpuset_cpu_inactive+0x1d/0x30
  [...]

With this fix applied build_sched_domains() will return -ENOMEM and
the suspend attempt fails.

Signed-off-by: he, bo 
Reviewed-by: Zhang, Yanmin 
Reviewed-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1335355161.5892.17.camel@hebo
[ So, we fail to deallocate a CPU because we cannot allocate RAM :-/
  I don't like that kind of sad behavior but nevertheless it should
  not crash under high memory load. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

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

2012-03-31T20:35:31+00:00

Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar.

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched: Fix incorrect usage of for_each_cpu_mask() in select_fallback_rq()
  sched: Fix __schedule_bug() output when called from an interrupt
  sched/arch: Introduce the finish_arch_post_lock_switch() scheduler callback

sched: Fix incorrect usage of for_each_cpu_mask() in select_fallback_rq()

2012-03-31T08:43:36+00:00

The function for_each_cpu_mask() expects a *pointer* to struct
cpumask as its second argument, whereas select_fallback_rq()
passes the value itself.

And moreover, for_each_cpu_mask() has been marked as obselete
in include/linux/cpumask.h. So move to the more appropriate
for_each_cpu() variant.

Reported-by: Sasha Levin 
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Dave Jones 
Cc: Liu Chuansheng 
Cc: vapier@gentoo.org
Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4F75BED4.9050005@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

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

2012-03-29T21:46:05+00:00

Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar.

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  cpusets: Remove an unused variable
  sched/rt: Improve pick_next_highest_task_rt()
  sched: Fix select_fallback_rq() vs cpu_active/cpu_online
  sched/x86/smp: Do not enable IRQs over calibrate_delay()
  sched: Fix compiler warning about declared inline after use
  MAINTAINERS: Update email address for SCHEDULER and PERF EVENTS

Merge branch 'sched/arch' into sched/urgent

2012-03-29T10:48:22+00:00

Merge reason: It has not gone upstream via the ARM tree, merge it via
              the scheduler tree.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched: Fix __schedule_bug() output when called from an interrupt

2012-03-29T06:34:45+00:00

If schedule is called from an interrupt handler __schedule_bug()
will call show_regs() with the registers saved during the
interrupt handling done in do_IRQ(). This means we'll see the
registers and the backtrace for the process that was interrupted
and not the full backtrace explaining who called schedule().

This is due to 838225b ("sched: use show_regs() to improve
__schedule_bug() output", 2007-10-24) which improperly assumed
that get_irq_regs() would return the registers for the current
stack because it is being called from within an interrupt
handler. Simply remove the show_reg() code so that we dump a
backtrace for the interrupt handler that called schedule().

[ I ran across this when I was presented with a scheduling while
  atomic log with a stacktrace pointing at spin_unlock_irqrestore().
  It made no sense and I had to guess what interrupt handler could
  be called and poke around for someone calling schedule() in an
  interrupt handler. A simple test of putting an msleep() in
  an interrupt handler works better with this patch because you
  can actually see the msleep() call in the backtrace. ]

Also-reported-by: Chris Metcalf 
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd 
Cc: Satyam Sharma 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1332979847-27102-1-git-send-email-sboyd@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Add #includes needed to permit the removal of asm/system.h

2012-03-28T17:30:03+00:00

asm/system.h is a cause of circular dependency problems because it contains
commonly used primitive stuff like barrier definitions and uncommonly used
stuff like switch_to() that might require MMU definitions.

asm/system.h has been disintegrated by this point on all arches into the
following common segments:

 (1) asm/barrier.h

     Moved memory barrier definitions here.

 (2) asm/cmpxchg.h

     Moved xchg() and cmpxchg() here.  #included in asm/atomic.h.

 (3) asm/bug.h

     Moved die() and similar here.

 (4) asm/exec.h

     Moved arch_align_stack() here.

 (5) asm/elf.h

     Moved AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH here.

 (6) asm/switch_to.h

     Moved switch_to() here.

Signed-off-by: David Howells