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<entry>
<title>sched/fair: Test list head instead of list entry in throttle_cfs_rq()</title>
<updated>2015-07-06T12:15:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Cong Wang</name>
<email>xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-24T19:41:47+00:00</published>
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According to the comments, we need to test if this is
the first throttled task, however, list_empty() tests on
the entry cfs_rq-&gt;throttled_list, not the head, this is wrong.

This is a bug because we don't re-init the list entry after
removing it from the list, so list_empty() could return false
even if the list is really empty.

Signed-off-by: Cong Wang &lt;xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang &lt;cwang@twopensource.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ben Segall &lt;bsegall@google.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/1435174907-432-1-git-send-email-xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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According to the comments, we need to test if this is
the first throttled task, however, list_empty() tests on
the entry cfs_rq-&gt;throttled_list, not the head, this is wrong.

This is a bug because we don't re-init the list entry after
removing it from the list, so list_empty() could return false
even if the list is really empty.

Signed-off-by: Cong Wang &lt;xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang &lt;cwang@twopensource.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ben Segall &lt;bsegall@google.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/1435174907-432-1-git-send-email-xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2015-07-04T15:56:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-04T15:56:53+00:00</published>
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Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Debug info and other statistics fixes and related enhancements"

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/numa: Fix numa balancing stats in /proc/pid/sched
  sched/numa: Show numa_group ID in /proc/sched_debug task listings
  sched/debug: Move print_cfs_rq() declaration to kernel/sched/sched.h
  sched/stat: Expose /proc/pid/schedstat if CONFIG_SCHED_INFO=y
  sched/stat: Simplify the sched_info accounting dependency
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<pre>
Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Debug info and other statistics fixes and related enhancements"

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/numa: Fix numa balancing stats in /proc/pid/sched
  sched/numa: Show numa_group ID in /proc/sched_debug task listings
  sched/debug: Move print_cfs_rq() declaration to kernel/sched/sched.h
  sched/stat: Expose /proc/pid/schedstat if CONFIG_SCHED_INFO=y
  sched/stat: Simplify the sched_info accounting dependency
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/numa: Fix numa balancing stats in /proc/pid/sched</title>
<updated>2015-07-04T08:04:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Srikar Dronamraju</name>
<email>srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-25T17:21:43+00:00</published>
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Commit 44dba3d5d6a1 ("sched: Refactor task_struct to use
numa_faults instead of numa_* pointers") modified the way
tsk-&gt;numa_faults stats are accounted.

However that commit never touched show_numa_stats() that is displayed
in /proc/pid/sched and thus the numbers displayed in /proc/pid/sched
don't match the actual numbers.

Fix it by making sure that /proc/pid/sched reflects the task
fault numbers. Also add group fault stats too.

Also couple of more modifications are added here:

1. Format changes:

  - Previously we would list two entries per node, one for private
    and one for shared. Also the home node info was listed in each entry.

  - Now preferred node, total_faults and current node are
    displayed separately.

  - Now there is one entry per node, that lists private,shared task and
    group faults.

2. Unit changes:

  - p-&gt;numa_pages_migrated was getting reset after every read of
    /proc/pid/sched. It's more useful to have absolute numbers since
    differential migrations between two accesses can be more easily
    calculated.

Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Iulia Manda &lt;iulia.manda21@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1435252903-1081-4-git-send-email-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Commit 44dba3d5d6a1 ("sched: Refactor task_struct to use
numa_faults instead of numa_* pointers") modified the way
tsk-&gt;numa_faults stats are accounted.

However that commit never touched show_numa_stats() that is displayed
in /proc/pid/sched and thus the numbers displayed in /proc/pid/sched
don't match the actual numbers.

Fix it by making sure that /proc/pid/sched reflects the task
fault numbers. Also add group fault stats too.

Also couple of more modifications are added here:

1. Format changes:

  - Previously we would list two entries per node, one for private
    and one for shared. Also the home node info was listed in each entry.

  - Now preferred node, total_faults and current node are
    displayed separately.

  - Now there is one entry per node, that lists private,shared task and
    group faults.

2. Unit changes:

  - p-&gt;numa_pages_migrated was getting reset after every read of
    /proc/pid/sched. It's more useful to have absolute numbers since
    differential migrations between two accesses can be more easily
    calculated.

Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Iulia Manda &lt;iulia.manda21@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1435252903-1081-4-git-send-email-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'sched-hrtimers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2015-06-24T22:09:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-24T22:09:40+00:00</published>
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<id>98ec21a01896751b673b6c731ca8881daa8b2c6d</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull scheduler updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "This series of scheduler updates depends on sched/core and timers/core
  branches, which are already in your tree:

   - Scheduler balancing overhaul to plug a hard to trigger race which
     causes an oops in the balancer (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Lockdep updates which are related to the balancing updates (Peter
     Zijlstra)"

* 'sched-hrtimers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched,lockdep: Employ lock pinning
  lockdep: Implement lock pinning
  lockdep: Simplify lock_release()
  sched: Streamline the task migration locking a little
  sched: Move code around
  sched,dl: Fix sched class hopping CBS hole
  sched, dl: Convert switched_{from, to}_dl() / prio_changed_dl() to balance callbacks
  sched,dl: Remove return value from pull_dl_task()
  sched, rt: Convert switched_{from, to}_rt() / prio_changed_rt() to balance callbacks
  sched,rt: Remove return value from pull_rt_task()
  sched: Allow balance callbacks for check_class_changed()
  sched: Use replace normalize_task() with __sched_setscheduler()
  sched: Replace post_schedule with a balance callback list
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<pre>
Pull scheduler updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "This series of scheduler updates depends on sched/core and timers/core
  branches, which are already in your tree:

   - Scheduler balancing overhaul to plug a hard to trigger race which
     causes an oops in the balancer (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Lockdep updates which are related to the balancing updates (Peter
     Zijlstra)"

* 'sched-hrtimers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched,lockdep: Employ lock pinning
  lockdep: Implement lock pinning
  lockdep: Simplify lock_release()
  sched: Streamline the task migration locking a little
  sched: Move code around
  sched,dl: Fix sched class hopping CBS hole
  sched, dl: Convert switched_{from, to}_dl() / prio_changed_dl() to balance callbacks
  sched,dl: Remove return value from pull_dl_task()
  sched, rt: Convert switched_{from, to}_rt() / prio_changed_rt() to balance callbacks
  sched,rt: Remove return value from pull_rt_task()
  sched: Allow balance callbacks for check_class_changed()
  sched: Use replace normalize_task() with __sched_setscheduler()
  sched: Replace post_schedule with a balance callback list
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2015-06-23T01:57:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-23T01:57:44+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=43224b96af3154cedd7220f7b90094905f07ac78'/>
<id>43224b96af3154cedd7220f7b90094905f07ac78</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A rather largish update for everything time and timer related:

   - Cache footprint optimizations for both hrtimers and timer wheel

   - Lower the NOHZ impact on systems which have NOHZ or timer migration
     disabled at runtime.

   - Optimize run time overhead of hrtimer interrupt by making the clock
     offset updates smarter

   - hrtimer cleanups and removal of restrictions to tackle some
     problems in sched/perf

   - Some more leap second tweaks

   - Another round of changes addressing the 2038 problem

   - First step to change the internals of clock event devices by
     introducing the necessary infrastructure

   - Allow constant folding for usecs/msecs_to_jiffies()

   - The usual pile of clockevent/clocksource driver updates

  The hrtimer changes contain updates to sched, perf and x86 as they
  depend on them plus changes all over the tree to cleanup API changes
  and redundant code, which got copied all over the place.  The y2038
  changes touch s390 to remove the last non 2038 safe code related to
  boot/persistant clock"

* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (114 commits)
  clocksource: Increase dependencies of timer-stm32 to limit build wreckage
  timer: Minimize nohz off overhead
  timer: Reduce timer migration overhead if disabled
  timer: Stats: Simplify the flags handling
  timer: Replace timer base by a cpu index
  timer: Use hlist for the timer wheel hash buckets
  timer: Remove FIFO "guarantee"
  timers: Sanitize catchup_timer_jiffies() usage
  hrtimer: Allow hrtimer::function() to free the timer
  seqcount: Introduce raw_write_seqcount_barrier()
  seqcount: Rename write_seqcount_barrier()
  hrtimer: Fix hrtimer_is_queued() hole
  hrtimer: Remove HRTIMER_STATE_MIGRATE
  selftest: Timers: Avoid signal deadlock in leap-a-day
  timekeeping: Copy the shadow-timekeeper over the real timekeeper last
  clockevents: Check state instead of mode in suspend/resume path
  selftests: timers: Add leap-second timer edge testing to leap-a-day.c
  ntp: Do leapsecond adjustment in adjtimex read path
  time: Prevent early expiry of hrtimers[CLOCK_REALTIME] at the leap second edge
  ntp: Introduce and use SECS_PER_DAY macro instead of 86400
  ...
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<pre>
Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A rather largish update for everything time and timer related:

   - Cache footprint optimizations for both hrtimers and timer wheel

   - Lower the NOHZ impact on systems which have NOHZ or timer migration
     disabled at runtime.

   - Optimize run time overhead of hrtimer interrupt by making the clock
     offset updates smarter

   - hrtimer cleanups and removal of restrictions to tackle some
     problems in sched/perf

   - Some more leap second tweaks

   - Another round of changes addressing the 2038 problem

   - First step to change the internals of clock event devices by
     introducing the necessary infrastructure

   - Allow constant folding for usecs/msecs_to_jiffies()

   - The usual pile of clockevent/clocksource driver updates

  The hrtimer changes contain updates to sched, perf and x86 as they
  depend on them plus changes all over the tree to cleanup API changes
  and redundant code, which got copied all over the place.  The y2038
  changes touch s390 to remove the last non 2038 safe code related to
  boot/persistant clock"

* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (114 commits)
  clocksource: Increase dependencies of timer-stm32 to limit build wreckage
  timer: Minimize nohz off overhead
  timer: Reduce timer migration overhead if disabled
  timer: Stats: Simplify the flags handling
  timer: Replace timer base by a cpu index
  timer: Use hlist for the timer wheel hash buckets
  timer: Remove FIFO "guarantee"
  timers: Sanitize catchup_timer_jiffies() usage
  hrtimer: Allow hrtimer::function() to free the timer
  seqcount: Introduce raw_write_seqcount_barrier()
  seqcount: Rename write_seqcount_barrier()
  hrtimer: Fix hrtimer_is_queued() hole
  hrtimer: Remove HRTIMER_STATE_MIGRATE
  selftest: Timers: Avoid signal deadlock in leap-a-day
  timekeeping: Copy the shadow-timekeeper over the real timekeeper last
  clockevents: Check state instead of mode in suspend/resume path
  selftests: timers: Add leap-second timer edge testing to leap-a-day.c
  ntp: Do leapsecond adjustment in adjtimex read path
  time: Prevent early expiry of hrtimers[CLOCK_REALTIME] at the leap second edge
  ntp: Introduce and use SECS_PER_DAY macro instead of 86400
  ...
</pre>
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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>2015-06-22T22:52:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-22T22:52:04+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=23b7776290b10297fe2cae0fb5f166a4f2c68121'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes are:

   - lockless wakeup support for futexes and IPC message queues
     (Davidlohr Bueso, Peter Zijlstra)

   - Replace spinlocks with atomics in thread_group_cputimer(), to
     improve scalability (Jason Low)

   - NUMA balancing improvements (Rik van Riel)

   - SCHED_DEADLINE improvements (Wanpeng Li)

   - clean up and reorganize preemption helpers (Frederic Weisbecker)

   - decouple page fault disabling machinery from the preemption
     counter, to improve debuggability and robustness (David
     Hildenbrand)

   - SCHED_DEADLINE documentation updates (Luca Abeni)

   - topology CPU masks cleanups (Bartosz Golaszewski)

   - /proc/sched_debug improvements (Srikar Dronamraju)"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (79 commits)
  sched/deadline: Remove needless parameter in dl_runtime_exceeded()
  sched: Remove superfluous resetting of the p-&gt;dl_throttled flag
  sched/deadline: Drop duplicate init_sched_dl_class() declaration
  sched/deadline: Reduce rq lock contention by eliminating locking of non-feasible target
  sched/deadline: Make init_sched_dl_class() __init
  sched/deadline: Optimize pull_dl_task()
  sched/preempt: Add static_key() to preempt_notifiers
  sched/preempt: Fix preempt notifiers documentation about hlist_del() within unsafe iteration
  sched/stop_machine: Fix deadlock between multiple stop_two_cpus()
  sched/debug: Add sum_sleep_runtime to /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/sched
  sched/debug: Replace vruntime with wait_sum in /proc/sched_debug
  sched/debug: Properly format runnable tasks in /proc/sched_debug
  sched/numa: Only consider less busy nodes as numa balancing destinations
  Revert 095bebf61a46 ("sched/numa: Do not move past the balance point if unbalanced")
  sched/fair: Prevent throttling in early pick_next_task_fair()
  preempt: Reorganize the notrace definitions a bit
  preempt: Use preempt_schedule_context() as the official tracing preemption point
  sched: Make preempt_schedule_context() function-tracing safe
  x86: Remove cpu_sibling_mask() and cpu_core_mask()
  x86: Replace cpu_**_mask() with topology_**_cpumask()
  ...
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<pre>
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes are:

   - lockless wakeup support for futexes and IPC message queues
     (Davidlohr Bueso, Peter Zijlstra)

   - Replace spinlocks with atomics in thread_group_cputimer(), to
     improve scalability (Jason Low)

   - NUMA balancing improvements (Rik van Riel)

   - SCHED_DEADLINE improvements (Wanpeng Li)

   - clean up and reorganize preemption helpers (Frederic Weisbecker)

   - decouple page fault disabling machinery from the preemption
     counter, to improve debuggability and robustness (David
     Hildenbrand)

   - SCHED_DEADLINE documentation updates (Luca Abeni)

   - topology CPU masks cleanups (Bartosz Golaszewski)

   - /proc/sched_debug improvements (Srikar Dronamraju)"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (79 commits)
  sched/deadline: Remove needless parameter in dl_runtime_exceeded()
  sched: Remove superfluous resetting of the p-&gt;dl_throttled flag
  sched/deadline: Drop duplicate init_sched_dl_class() declaration
  sched/deadline: Reduce rq lock contention by eliminating locking of non-feasible target
  sched/deadline: Make init_sched_dl_class() __init
  sched/deadline: Optimize pull_dl_task()
  sched/preempt: Add static_key() to preempt_notifiers
  sched/preempt: Fix preempt notifiers documentation about hlist_del() within unsafe iteration
  sched/stop_machine: Fix deadlock between multiple stop_two_cpus()
  sched/debug: Add sum_sleep_runtime to /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/sched
  sched/debug: Replace vruntime with wait_sum in /proc/sched_debug
  sched/debug: Properly format runnable tasks in /proc/sched_debug
  sched/numa: Only consider less busy nodes as numa balancing destinations
  Revert 095bebf61a46 ("sched/numa: Do not move past the balance point if unbalanced")
  sched/fair: Prevent throttling in early pick_next_task_fair()
  preempt: Reorganize the notrace definitions a bit
  preempt: Use preempt_schedule_context() as the official tracing preemption point
  sched: Make preempt_schedule_context() function-tracing safe
  x86: Remove cpu_sibling_mask() and cpu_core_mask()
  x86: Replace cpu_**_mask() with topology_**_cpumask()
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched,lockdep: Employ lock pinning</title>
<updated>2015-06-18T22:25:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-11T12:46:54+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=cbce1a686700595de65ee363b9b3283ae85d8fc5'/>
<id>cbce1a686700595de65ee363b9b3283ae85d8fc5</id>
<content type='text'>
Employ the new lockdep lock pinning annotation to ensure no
'accidental' lock-breaks happen with rq-&gt;lock.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: ktkhai@parallels.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: juri.lelli@gmail.com
Cc: pang.xunlei@linaro.org
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: wanpeng.li@linux.intel.com
Cc: umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150611124744.003233193@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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<pre>
Employ the new lockdep lock pinning annotation to ensure no
'accidental' lock-breaks happen with rq-&gt;lock.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: ktkhai@parallels.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: juri.lelli@gmail.com
Cc: pang.xunlei@linaro.org
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: wanpeng.li@linux.intel.com
Cc: umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150611124744.003233193@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'timers/core' into sched/hrtimers</title>
<updated>2015-06-18T22:17:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
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<published>2015-06-18T22:17:47+00:00</published>
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Merge sched/core and timers/core so we can apply the sched balancing
patch queue, which depends on both.
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Merge sched/core and timers/core so we can apply the sched balancing
patch queue, which depends on both.
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<entry>
<title>sched, numa: do not hint for NUMA balancing on VM_MIXEDMAP mappings</title>
<updated>2015-06-10T23:43:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-10T18:15:00+00:00</published>
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Jovi Zhangwei reported the following problem

  Below kernel vm bug can be triggered by tcpdump which mmaped a lot of pages
  with GFP_COMP flag.

  [Mon May 25 05:29:33 2015] page:ffffea0015414000 count:66 mapcount:1 mapping:          (null) index:0x0
  [Mon May 25 05:29:33 2015] flags: 0x20047580004000(head)
  [Mon May 25 05:29:33 2015] page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(compound_order(page) &amp;&amp; !PageTransHuge(page))
  [Mon May 25 05:29:33 2015] ------------[ cut here ]------------
  [Mon May 25 05:29:33 2015] kernel BUG at mm/migrate.c:1661!
  [Mon May 25 05:29:33 2015] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP

In this case it was triggered by running tcpdump but it's not necessary
reproducible on all systems.

  sudo tcpdump -i bond0.100 'tcp port 4242' -c 100000000000 -w 4242.pcap

Compound pages cannot be migrated and it was not expected that such pages
be marked for NUMA balancing.  This did not take into account that drivers
such as net/packet/af_packet.c may insert compound pages into userspace
with vm_insert_page.  This patch tells the NUMA balancing protection
scanner to skip all VM_MIXEDMAP mappings which avoids the possibility that
compound pages are marked for migration.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Reported-by: Jovi Zhangwei &lt;jovi@cloudflare.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Jovi Zhangwei reported the following problem

  Below kernel vm bug can be triggered by tcpdump which mmaped a lot of pages
  with GFP_COMP flag.

  [Mon May 25 05:29:33 2015] page:ffffea0015414000 count:66 mapcount:1 mapping:          (null) index:0x0
  [Mon May 25 05:29:33 2015] flags: 0x20047580004000(head)
  [Mon May 25 05:29:33 2015] page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(compound_order(page) &amp;&amp; !PageTransHuge(page))
  [Mon May 25 05:29:33 2015] ------------[ cut here ]------------
  [Mon May 25 05:29:33 2015] kernel BUG at mm/migrate.c:1661!
  [Mon May 25 05:29:33 2015] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP

In this case it was triggered by running tcpdump but it's not necessary
reproducible on all systems.

  sudo tcpdump -i bond0.100 'tcp port 4242' -c 100000000000 -w 4242.pcap

Compound pages cannot be migrated and it was not expected that such pages
be marked for NUMA balancing.  This did not take into account that drivers
such as net/packet/af_packet.c may insert compound pages into userspace
with vm_insert_page.  This patch tells the NUMA balancing protection
scanner to skip all VM_MIXEDMAP mappings which avoids the possibility that
compound pages are marked for migration.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Reported-by: Jovi Zhangwei &lt;jovi@cloudflare.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sched/numa: Only consider less busy nodes as numa balancing destinations</title>
<updated>2015-06-07T13:57:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rik van Riel</name>
<email>riel@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-28T13:52:49+00:00</published>
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Changeset a43455a1d572 ("sched/numa: Ensure task_numa_migrate() checks
the preferred node") fixes an issue where workloads would never
converge on a fully loaded (or overloaded) system.

However, it introduces a regression on less than fully loaded systems,
where workloads converge on a few NUMA nodes, instead of properly
staying spread out across the whole system. This leads to a reduction
in available memory bandwidth, and usable CPU cache, with predictable
performance problems.

The root cause appears to be an interaction between the load balancer
and NUMA balancing, where the short term load represented by the load
balancer differs from the long term load the NUMA balancing code would
like to base its decisions on.

Simply reverting a43455a1d572 would re-introduce the non-convergence
of workloads on fully loaded systems, so that is not a good option. As
an aside, the check done before a43455a1d572 only applied to a task's
preferred node, not to other candidate nodes in the system, so the
converge-on-too-few-nodes problem still happens, just to a lesser
degree.

Instead, try to compensate for the impedance mismatch between the load
balancer and NUMA balancing by only ever considering a lesser loaded
node as a destination for NUMA balancing, regardless of whether the
task is trying to move to the preferred node, or to another node.

This patch also addresses the issue that a system with a single
runnable thread would never migrate that thread to near its memory,
introduced by 095bebf61a46 ("sched/numa: Do not move past the balance
point if unbalanced").

A test where the main thread creates a large memory area, and spawns a
worker thread to iterate over the memory (placed on another node by
select_task_rq_fair), after which the main thread goes to sleep and
waits for the worker thread to loop over all the memory now sees the
worker thread migrated to where the memory is, instead of having all
the memory migrated over like before.

Jirka has run a number of performance tests on several systems: single
instance SpecJBB 2005 performance is 7-15% higher on a 4 node system,
with higher gains on systems with more cores per socket.
Multi-instance SpecJBB 2005 (one per node), linpack, and stream see
little or no changes with the revert of 095bebf61a46 and this patch.

Reported-by: Artem Bityutski &lt;dedekind1@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Jirka Hladky &lt;jhladky@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Jirka Hladky &lt;jhladky@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;dedekind1@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150528095249.3083ade0@annuminas.surriel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Changeset a43455a1d572 ("sched/numa: Ensure task_numa_migrate() checks
the preferred node") fixes an issue where workloads would never
converge on a fully loaded (or overloaded) system.

However, it introduces a regression on less than fully loaded systems,
where workloads converge on a few NUMA nodes, instead of properly
staying spread out across the whole system. This leads to a reduction
in available memory bandwidth, and usable CPU cache, with predictable
performance problems.

The root cause appears to be an interaction between the load balancer
and NUMA balancing, where the short term load represented by the load
balancer differs from the long term load the NUMA balancing code would
like to base its decisions on.

Simply reverting a43455a1d572 would re-introduce the non-convergence
of workloads on fully loaded systems, so that is not a good option. As
an aside, the check done before a43455a1d572 only applied to a task's
preferred node, not to other candidate nodes in the system, so the
converge-on-too-few-nodes problem still happens, just to a lesser
degree.

Instead, try to compensate for the impedance mismatch between the load
balancer and NUMA balancing by only ever considering a lesser loaded
node as a destination for NUMA balancing, regardless of whether the
task is trying to move to the preferred node, or to another node.

This patch also addresses the issue that a system with a single
runnable thread would never migrate that thread to near its memory,
introduced by 095bebf61a46 ("sched/numa: Do not move past the balance
point if unbalanced").

A test where the main thread creates a large memory area, and spawns a
worker thread to iterate over the memory (placed on another node by
select_task_rq_fair), after which the main thread goes to sleep and
waits for the worker thread to loop over all the memory now sees the
worker thread migrated to where the memory is, instead of having all
the memory migrated over like before.

Jirka has run a number of performance tests on several systems: single
instance SpecJBB 2005 performance is 7-15% higher on a 4 node system,
with higher gains on systems with more cores per socket.
Multi-instance SpecJBB 2005 (one per node), linpack, and stream see
little or no changes with the revert of 095bebf61a46 and this patch.

Reported-by: Artem Bityutski &lt;dedekind1@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Jirka Hladky &lt;jhladky@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Jirka Hladky &lt;jhladky@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;dedekind1@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150528095249.3083ade0@annuminas.surriel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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