linux-stable.git/kernel/sched/core.c, branch v4.18.2

sched/smt: Update sched_smt_present at runtime

2018-08-15T15:37:25+00:00

commit ba2591a5993eabcc8e874e30f361d8ffbb10d6d4 upstream.

The static key sched_smt_present is only updated at boot time when SMT
siblings have been detected. Booting with maxcpus=1 and bringing the
siblings online after boot rebuilds the scheduling domains correctly but
does not update the static key, so the SMT code is not enabled.

Let the key be updated in the scheduler CPU hotplug code to fix this.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kthread, sched/core: Fix kthread_parkme() (again...)

2018-07-03T07:17:30+00:00

Gaurav reports that commit:

  85f1abe0019f ("kthread, sched/wait: Fix kthread_parkme() completion issue")

isn't working for him. Because of the following race:

> controller Thread                               CPUHP Thread
> takedown_cpu
> kthread_park
> kthread_parkme
> Set KTHREAD_SHOULD_PARK
>                                                 smpboot_thread_fn
>                                                 set Task interruptible
>
>
> wake_up_process
>  if (!(p->state & state))
>                 goto out;
>
>                                                 Kthread_parkme
>                                                 SET TASK_PARKED
>                                                 schedule
>                                                 raw_spin_lock(&rq->lock)
> ttwu_remote
> waiting for __task_rq_lock
>                                                 context_switch
>
>                                                 finish_lock_switch
>
>
>
>                                                 Case TASK_PARKED
>                                                 kthread_park_complete
>
>
> SET Running

Furthermore, Oleg noticed that the whole scheduler TASK_PARKED
handling is buggered because the TASK_DEAD thing is done with
preemption disabled, the current code can still complete early on
preemption :/

So basically revert that earlier fix and go with a variant of the
alternative mentioned in the commit. Promote TASK_PARKED to special
state to avoid the store-store issue on task->state leading to the
WARN in kthread_unpark() -> __kthread_bind().

But in addition, add wait_task_inactive() to kthread_park() to ensure
the task really is PARKED when we return from kthread_park(). This
avoids the whole kthread still gets migrated nonsense -- although it
would be really good to get this done differently.

Reported-by: Gaurav Kohli 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Fixes: 85f1abe0019f ("kthread, sched/wait: Fix kthread_parkme() completion issue")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/nohz: Skip remote tick on idle task entirely

2018-07-03T07:17:28+00:00

Some people have reported that the warning in sched_tick_remote()
occasionally triggers, especially in favour of some RCU-Torture
pressure:

	WARNING: CPU: 11 PID: 906 at kernel/sched/core.c:3138 sched_tick_remote+0xb6/0xc0
	Modules linked in:
	CPU: 11 PID: 906 Comm: kworker/u32:3 Not tainted 4.18.0-rc2+ #1
	Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-1 04/01/2014
	Workqueue: events_unbound sched_tick_remote
	RIP: 0010:sched_tick_remote+0xb6/0xc0
	Code: e8 0f 06 b8 00 c6 03 00 fb eb 9d 8b 43 04 85 c0 75 8d 48 8b 83 e0 0a 00 00 48 85 c0 75 81 eb 88 48 89 df e8 bc fe ff ff eb aa <0f> 0b eb
	+c5 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 bf 17 00 00 00 e8 b6 2e fe ff 0f b6
	Call Trace:
	 process_one_work+0x1df/0x3b0
	 worker_thread+0x44/0x3d0
	 kthread+0xf3/0x130
	 ? set_worker_desc+0xb0/0xb0
	 ? kthread_create_worker_on_cpu+0x70/0x70
	 ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40

This happens when the remote tick applies on an idle task. Usually the
idle_cpu() check avoids that, but it is performed before we lock the
runqueue and it is therefore racy. It was intended to be that way in
order to prevent from useless runqueue locks since idle task tick
callback is a no-op.

Now if the racy check slips out of our hands and we end up remotely
ticking an idle task, the empty task_tick_idle() is harmless. Still
it won't pass the WARN_ON_ONCE() test that ensures rq_clock_task() is
not too far from curr->se.exec_start because update_curr_idle() doesn't
update the exec_start value like other scheduler policies. Hence the
reported false positive.

So let's have another check, while the rq is locked, to make sure we
don't remote tick on an idle task. The lockless idle_cpu() still applies
to avoid unecessary rq lock contention.

Reported-by: Jacek Tomaka 
Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Reported-by: Anna-Maria Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1530203381-31234-1-git-send-email-frederic@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/core / kcov: avoid kcov_area during task switch

2018-06-14T22:55:24+00:00

During a context switch, we first switch_mm() to the next task's mm,
then switch_to() that new task.  This means that vmalloc'd regions which
had previously been faulted in can transiently disappear in the context
of the prev task.

Functions instrumented by KCOV may try to access a vmalloc'd kcov_area
during this window, and as the fault handling code is instrumented, this
results in a recursive fault.

We must avoid accessing any kcov_area during this window.  We can do so
with a new flag in kcov_mode, set prior to switching the mm, and cleared
once the new task is live.  Since task_struct::kcov_mode isn't always a
specific enum kcov_mode value, this is made an unsigned int.

The manipulation is hidden behind kcov_{prepare,finish}_switch() helpers,
which are empty for !CONFIG_KCOV kernels.

The code uses macros because I can't use static inline functions without a
circular include dependency between  and ,
since the definition of task_struct uses things defined in 

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180504135535.53744-4-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland 
Acked-by: Andrey Ryabinin 
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

rseq: Introduce restartable sequences system call

2018-06-06T09:58:31+00:00

Expose a new system call allowing each thread to register one userspace
memory area to be used as an ABI between kernel and user-space for two
purposes: user-space restartable sequences and quick access to read the
current CPU number value from user-space.

* Restartable sequences (per-cpu atomics)

Restartables sequences allow user-space to perform update operations on
per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.

The restartable critical sections (percpu atomics) work has been started
by Paul Turner and Andrew Hunter. It lets the kernel handle restart of
critical sections. [1] [2] The re-implementation proposed here brings a
few simplifications to the ABI which facilitates porting to other
architectures and speeds up the user-space fast path.

Here are benchmarks of various rseq use-cases.

Test hardware:

arm32: ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v7l) "Cubietruck", 2-core
x86-64: Intel E5-2630 v3@2.40GHz, 16-core, hyperthreading

The following benchmarks were all performed on a single thread.

* Per-CPU statistic counter increment

                getcpu+atomic (ns/op)    rseq (ns/op)    speedup
arm32:                344.0                 31.4          11.0
x86-64:                15.3                  2.0           7.7

* LTTng-UST: write event 32-bit header, 32-bit payload into tracer
             per-cpu buffer

                getcpu+atomic (ns/op)    rseq (ns/op)    speedup
arm32:               2502.0                 2250.0         1.1
x86-64:               117.4                   98.0         1.2

* liburcu percpu: lock-unlock pair, dereference, read/compare word

                getcpu+atomic (ns/op)    rseq (ns/op)    speedup
arm32:                751.0                 128.5          5.8
x86-64:                53.4                  28.6          1.9

* jemalloc memory allocator adapted to use rseq

Using rseq with per-cpu memory pools in jemalloc at Facebook (based on
rseq 2016 implementation):

The production workload response-time has 1-2% gain avg. latency, and
the P99 overall latency drops by 2-3%.

* Reading the current CPU number

Speeding up reading the current CPU number on which the caller thread is
running is done by keeping the current CPU number up do date within the
cpu_id field of the memory area registered by the thread. This is done
by making scheduler preemption set the TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME flag on the
current thread. Upon return to user-space, a notify-resume handler
updates the current CPU value within the registered user-space memory
area. User-space can then read the current CPU number directly from
memory.

Keeping the current cpu id in a memory area shared between kernel and
user-space is an improvement over current mechanisms available to read
the current CPU number, which has the following benefits over
alternative approaches:

- 35x speedup on ARM vs system call through glibc
- 20x speedup on x86 compared to calling glibc, which calls vdso
  executing a "lsl" instruction,
- 14x speedup on x86 compared to inlined "lsl" instruction,
- Unlike vdso approaches, this cpu_id value can be read from an inline
  assembly, which makes it a useful building block for restartable
  sequences.
- The approach of reading the cpu id through memory mapping shared
  between kernel and user-space is portable (e.g. ARM), which is not the
  case for the lsl-based x86 vdso.

On x86, yet another possible approach would be to use the gs segment
selector to point to user-space per-cpu data. This approach performs
similarly to the cpu id cache, but it has two disadvantages: it is
not portable, and it is incompatible with existing applications already
using the gs segment selector for other purposes.

Benchmarking various approaches for reading the current CPU number:

ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v7l)
Machine model: Cubietruck
- Baseline (empty loop):                                    8.4 ns
- Read CPU from rseq cpu_id:                               16.7 ns
- Read CPU from rseq cpu_id (lazy register):               19.8 ns
- glibc 2.19-0ubuntu6.6 getcpu:                           301.8 ns
- getcpu system call:                                     234.9 ns

x86-64 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz:
- Baseline (empty loop):                                    0.8 ns
- Read CPU from rseq cpu_id:                                0.8 ns
- Read CPU from rseq cpu_id (lazy register):                0.8 ns
- Read using gs segment selector:                           0.8 ns
- "lsl" inline assembly:                                   13.0 ns
- glibc 2.19-0ubuntu6 getcpu:                              16.6 ns
- getcpu system call:                                      53.9 ns

- Speed (benchmark taken on v8 of patchset)

Running 10 runs of hackbench -l 100000 seems to indicate, contrary to
expectations, that enabling CONFIG_RSEQ slightly accelerates the
scheduler:

Configuration: 2 sockets * 8-core Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v3 @
2.40GHz (directly on hardware, hyperthreading disabled in BIOS, energy
saving disabled in BIOS, turboboost disabled in BIOS, cpuidle.off=1
kernel parameter), with a Linux v4.6 defconfig+localyesconfig,
restartable sequences series applied.

* CONFIG_RSEQ=n

avg.:      41.37 s
std.dev.:   0.36 s

* CONFIG_RSEQ=y

avg.:      40.46 s
std.dev.:   0.33 s

- Size

On x86-64, between CONFIG_RSEQ=n/y, the text size increase of vmlinux is
567 bytes, and the data size increase of vmlinux is 5696 bytes.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/650333/
[2] http://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/2013/ocw/system/presentations/1695/original/LPC%20-%20PerCpu%20Atomics.pdf

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Joel Fernandes 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Dave Watson 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Chris Lameter 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Andrew Hunter 
Cc: Michael Kerrisk 
Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" 
Cc: Paul Turner 
Cc: Boqun Feng 
Cc: Josh Triplett 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Ben Maurer 
Cc: Alexander Viro 
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151027235635.16059.11630.stgit@pjt-glaptop.roam.corp.google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150624222609.6116.86035.stgit@kitami.mtv.corp.google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180602124408.8430-3-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com

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

2018-06-05T00:45:38+00:00

Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - power-aware scheduling improvements (Patrick Bellasi)

 - NUMA balancing improvements (Mel Gorman)

 - vCPU scheduling fixes (Rohit Jain)

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/fair: Update util_est before updating schedutil
  sched/cpufreq: Modify aggregate utilization to always include blocked FAIR utilization
  sched/deadline/Documentation: Add overrun signal and GRUB-PA documentation
  sched/core: Distinguish between idle_cpu() calls based on desired effect, introduce available_idle_cpu()
  sched/wait: Include  in 
  sched/numa: Stagger NUMA balancing scan periods for new threads
  sched/core: Don't schedule threads on pre-empted vCPUs
  sched/fair: Avoid calling sync_entity_load_avg() unnecessarily
  sched/fair: Rearrange select_task_rq_fair() to optimize it

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

2018-06-04T22:54:04+00:00

Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - updates to the handling of expedited grace periods

 - updates to reduce lock contention in the rcu_node combining tree

   [ These are in preparation for the consolidation of RCU-bh,
     RCU-preempt, and RCU-sched into a single flavor, which was
     requested by Linus in response to a security flaw whose root cause
     included confusion between the multiple flavors of RCU ]

 - torture-test updates that save their users some time and effort

 - miscellaneous fixes

* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (44 commits)
  rcu/x86: Provide early rcu_cpu_starting() callback
  torture: Make kvm-find-errors.sh find build warnings
  rcutorture: Abbreviate kvm.sh summary lines
  rcutorture: Print end-of-test state in kvm.sh summary
  rcutorture: Print end-of-test state
  torture: Fold parse-torture.sh into parse-console.sh
  torture: Add a script to edit output from failed runs
  rcu: Update list of rcu_future_grace_period() trace events
  rcu: Drop early GP request check from rcu_gp_kthread()
  rcu: Simplify and inline cpu_needs_another_gp()
  rcu: The rcu_gp_cleanup() function does not need cpu_needs_another_gp()
  rcu: Make rcu_start_this_gp() check for out-of-range requests
  rcu: Add funnel locking to rcu_start_this_gp()
  rcu: Make rcu_start_future_gp() caller select grace period
  rcu: Inline rcu_start_gp_advanced() into rcu_start_future_gp()
  rcu: Clear request other than RCU_GP_FLAG_INIT at GP end
  rcu: Cleanup, don't put ->completed into an int
  rcu: Switch __rcu_process_callbacks() to rcu_accelerate_cbs()
  rcu: Avoid __call_rcu_core() root rcu_node ->lock acquisition
  rcu: Make rcu_migrate_callbacks wake GP kthread when needed
  ...

sched/core: Require cpu_active() in select_task_rq(), for user tasks

2018-05-31T10:24:25+00:00

select_task_rq() is used in a few paths to select the CPU upon which a
thread should be run - for example it is used by try_to_wake_up() & by
fork or exec balancing. As-is it allows use of any online CPU that is
present in the task's cpus_allowed mask.

This presents a problem because there is a period whilst CPUs are
brought online where a CPU is marked online, but is not yet fully
initialized - ie. the period where CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_IDLE <= state <
CPUHP_ONLINE. Usually we don't run any user tasks during this window,
but there are corner cases where this can happen. An example observed
is:

  - Some user task A, running on CPU X, forks to create task B.

  - sched_fork() calls __set_task_cpu() with cpu=X, setting task B's
    task_struct::cpu field to X.

  - CPU X is offlined.

  - Task A, currently somewhere between the __set_task_cpu() in
    copy_process() and the call to wake_up_new_task(), is migrated to
    CPU Y by migrate_tasks() when CPU X is offlined.

  - CPU X is onlined, but still in the CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_IDLE state. The
    scheduler is now active on CPU X, but there are no user tasks on
    the runqueue.

  - Task A runs on CPU Y & reaches wake_up_new_task(). This calls
    select_task_rq() with cpu=X, taken from task B's task_struct,
    and select_task_rq() allows CPU X to be returned.

  - Task A enqueues task B on CPU X's runqueue, via activate_task() &
    enqueue_task().

  - CPU X now has a user task on its runqueue before it has reached the
    CPUHP_ONLINE state.

In most cases, the user tasks that schedule on the newly onlined CPU
have no idea that anything went wrong, but one case observed to be
problematic is if the task goes on to invoke the sched_setaffinity
syscall. The newly onlined CPU reaches the CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_IDLE state
before the CPU that brought it online calls stop_machine_unpark(). This
means that for a portion of the window of time between
CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_IDLE & CPUHP_ONLINE the newly onlined CPU's struct
cpu_stopper has its enabled field set to false. If a user thread is
executed on the CPU during this window and it invokes sched_setaffinity
with a CPU mask that does not include the CPU it's running on, then when
__set_cpus_allowed_ptr() calls stop_one_cpu() intending to invoke
migration_cpu_stop() and perform the actual migration away from the CPU
it will simply return -ENOENT rather than calling migration_cpu_stop().
We then return from the sched_setaffinity syscall back to the user task
that is now running on a CPU which it just asked not to run on, and
which is not present in its cpus_allowed mask.

This patch resolves the problem by having select_task_rq() enforce that
user tasks run on CPUs that are active - the same requirement that
select_fallback_rq() already enforces. This should ensure that newly
onlined CPUs reach the CPUHP_AP_ACTIVE state before being able to
schedule user tasks, and also implies that bringup_wait_for_ap() will
have called stop_machine_unpark() which resolves the sched_setaffinity
issue above.

I haven't yet investigated them, but it may be of interest to review
whether any of the actions performed by hotplug states between
CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_IDLE & CPUHP_AP_ACTIVE could have similar unintended
effects on user tasks that might schedule before they are reached, which
might widen the scope of the problem from just affecting the behaviour
of sched_setaffinity.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180526154648.11635-2-paul.burton@mips.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/core: Fix rules for running on online && !active CPUs

2018-05-31T10:24:24+00:00

As already enforced by the WARN() in __set_cpus_allowed_ptr(), the rules
for running on an online && !active CPU are stricter than just being a
kthread, you need to be a per-cpu kthread.

If you're not strictly per-CPU, you have better CPUs to run on and
don't need the partially booted one to get your work done.

The exception is to allow smpboot threads to bootstrap the CPU itself
and get kernel 'services' initialized before we allow userspace on it.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Fixes: 955dbdf4ce87 ("sched: Allow migrating kthreads into online but inactive CPUs")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170725165821.cejhb7v2s3kecems@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu

2018-05-16T07:34:51+00:00

 - Updates to the handling of expedited grace periods, perhaps most
   notably parallelizing their initialization.  Other changes
   include fixes from Boqun Feng.

 - Miscellaneous fixes.  These include an nvme fix from Nitzan Carmi
   that I am carrying because it depends on a new SRCU function
   cleanup_srcu_struct_quiesced().  This branch also includes fixes
   from Byungchul Park and Yury Norov.

 - Updates to reduce lock contention in the rcu_node combining tree.
   These are in preparation for the consolidation of RCU-bh,
   RCU-preempt, and RCU-sched into a single flavor, which was
   requested by Linus Torvalds in response to a security flaw
   whose root cause included confusion between the multiple flavors
   of RCU.

 - Torture-test updates that save their users some time and effort.

Conflicts:
	drivers/nvme/host/core.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar