linux-stable.git/kernel/sched/fair.c, branch v4.9.78

sched/fair: Make select_idle_cpu() more aggressive

2017-12-14T08:28:17+00:00

[ Upstream commit 4c77b18cf8b7ab37c7d5737b4609010d2ceec5f0 ]

Kitsunyan reported desktop latency issues on his Celeron 887 because
of commit:

  1b568f0aabf2 ("sched/core: Optimize SCHED_SMT")

... even though his CPU doesn't do SMT.

The effect of running the SMT code on a !SMT part is basically a more
aggressive select_idle_cpu(). Removing the avg condition fixed things
for him.

I also know FB likes this test gone, even though other workloads like
having it.

For now, take it out by default, until we get a better idea.

Reported-by: kitsunyan 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Chris Mason 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sched/fair, cpumask: Export for_each_cpu_wrap()

2017-07-21T05:42:23+00:00

commit c6508a39640b9a27fc2bc10cb708152672c82045 upstream.

commit c743f0a5c50f2fcbc628526279cfa24f3dabe182 upstream.

More users for for_each_cpu_wrap() have appeared. Promote the construct
to generic cpumask interface.

The implementation is slightly modified to reduce arguments.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Lauro Ramos Venancio 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: lwang@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170414122005.o35me2h5nowqkxbv@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Revert "sched/core: Optimize SCHED_SMT"

2017-07-21T05:42:23+00:00

This reverts commit 1b568f0aabf280555125bc7cefc08321ff0ebaba.

For the 4.9 kernel tree, this patch causes scheduler regressions.  It is
fixed in newer kernels with a large number of individual patches, the
sum of which is too big for the stable kernel tree.

Ingo recommended just reverting the single patch for this tree, as it's
much simpler.

Reported-by: Ben Guthro 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sched/fair: Remove unused but set variable 'rq'

2016-10-27T06:33:52+00:00

Since commit:

  8663e24d56dc ("sched/fair: Reorder cgroup creation code")

... the variable 'rq' in alloc_fair_sched_group() is set but no longer used.
Remove it to fix the following GCC warning when building with 'W=1':

  kernel/sched/fair.c:8842:13: warning: variable ‘rq’ set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161026113704.8981-1-tklauser@distanz.ch
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/fair: Fix incorrect task group ->load_avg

2016-10-19T13:04:47+00:00

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 
Tested-by: Dietmar Eggemann 
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc:  # 4.8.x
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
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

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

2016-10-18T16:53:59+00:00

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()

Merge tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux

2016-10-15T17:03:15+00:00

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

sched/fair: Fix sched domains NULL dereference in select_idle_sibling()

2016-10-11T08:40:06+00:00

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: [] select_idle_sibling+0x1c2/0x4f0
  Call Trace:
   
    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
   
    ? _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 
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1475971443-3187-1-git-send-email-wanpeng.li@hotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

latent_entropy: Mark functions with __latent_entropy

2016-10-10T21:51:45+00:00

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 
[kees: expanded commit message]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

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

2016-10-03T20:39:00+00:00

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()
  ...