linux-stable.git/kernel/sched, branch v4.19.26

cpu/hotplug: Fix "SMT disabled by BIOS" detection for KVM

2019-02-12T18:47:25+00:00

commit b284909abad48b07d3071a9fc9b5692b3e64914b upstream.

With the following commit:

  73d5e2b47264 ("cpu/hotplug: detect SMT disabled by BIOS")

... the hotplug code attempted to detect when SMT was disabled by BIOS,
in which case it reported SMT as permanently disabled.  However, that
code broke a virt hotplug scenario, where the guest is booted with only
primary CPU threads, and a sibling is brought online later.

The problem is that there doesn't seem to be a way to reliably
distinguish between the HW "SMT disabled by BIOS" case and the virt
"sibling not yet brought online" case.  So the above-mentioned commit
was a bit misguided, as it permanently disabled SMT for both cases,
preventing future virt sibling hotplugs.

Going back and reviewing the original problems which were attempted to
be solved by that commit, when SMT was disabled in BIOS:

  1) /sys/devices/system/cpu/smt/control showed "on" instead of
     "notsupported"; and

  2) vmx_vm_init() was incorrectly showing the L1TF_MSG_SMT warning.

I'd propose that we instead consider #1 above to not actually be a
problem.  Because, at least in the virt case, it's possible that SMT
wasn't disabled by BIOS and a sibling thread could be brought online
later.  So it makes sense to just always default the smt control to "on"
to allow for that possibility (assuming cpuid indicates that the CPU
supports SMT).

The real problem is #2, which has a simple fix: change vmx_vm_init() to
query the actual current SMT state -- i.e., whether any siblings are
currently online -- instead of looking at the SMT "control" sysfs value.

So fix it by:

  a) reverting the original "fix" and its followup fix:

     73d5e2b47264 ("cpu/hotplug: detect SMT disabled by BIOS")
     bc2d8d262cba ("cpu/hotplug: Fix SMT supported evaluation")

     and

  b) changing vmx_vm_init() to query the actual current SMT state --
     instead of the sysfs control value -- to determine whether the L1TF
     warning is needed.  This also requires the 'sched_smt_present'
     variable to exported, instead of 'cpu_smt_control'.

Fixes: 73d5e2b47264 ("cpu/hotplug: detect SMT disabled by BIOS")
Reported-by: Igor Mammedov 
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Joe Mario 
Cc: Jiri Kosina 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e3a85d585da28cc333ecbc1e78ee9216e6da9396.1548794349.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sched/fair: Fix infinite loop in update_blocked_averages() by reverting a9e7f6544b9c

2019-01-13T08:51:09+00:00

commit c40f7d74c741a907cfaeb73a7697081881c497d0 upstream.

Zhipeng Xie, Xie XiuQi and Sargun Dhillon reported lockups in the
scheduler under high loads, starting at around the v4.18 time frame,
and Zhipeng Xie tracked it down to bugs in the rq->leaf_cfs_rq_list
manipulation.

Do a (manual) revert of:

  a9e7f6544b9c ("sched/fair: Fix O(nr_cgroups) in load balance path")

It turns out that the list_del_leaf_cfs_rq() introduced by this commit
is a surprising property that was not considered in followup commits
such as:

  9c2791f936ef ("sched/fair: Fix hierarchical order in rq->leaf_cfs_rq_list")

As Vincent Guittot explains:

 "I think that there is a bigger problem with commit a9e7f6544b9c and
  cfs_rq throttling:

  Let take the example of the following topology TG2 --> TG1 --> root:

   1) The 1st time a task is enqueued, we will add TG2 cfs_rq then TG1
      cfs_rq to leaf_cfs_rq_list and we are sure to do the whole branch in
      one path because it has never been used and can't be throttled so
      tmp_alone_branch will point to leaf_cfs_rq_list at the end.

   2) Then TG1 is throttled

   3) and we add TG3 as a new child of TG1.

   4) The 1st enqueue of a task on TG3 will add TG3 cfs_rq just before TG1
      cfs_rq and tmp_alone_branch will stay  on rq->leaf_cfs_rq_list.

  With commit a9e7f6544b9c, we can del a cfs_rq from rq->leaf_cfs_rq_list.
  So if the load of TG1 cfs_rq becomes NULL before step 2) above, TG1
  cfs_rq is removed from the list.
  Then at step 4), TG3 cfs_rq is added at the beginning of rq->leaf_cfs_rq_list
  but tmp_alone_branch still points to TG3 cfs_rq because its throttled
  parent can't be enqueued when the lock is released.
  tmp_alone_branch doesn't point to rq->leaf_cfs_rq_list whereas it should.

  So if TG3 cfs_rq is removed or destroyed before tmp_alone_branch
  points on another TG cfs_rq, the next TG cfs_rq that will be added,
  will be linked outside rq->leaf_cfs_rq_list - which is bad.

  In addition, we can break the ordering of the cfs_rq in
  rq->leaf_cfs_rq_list but this ordering is used to update and
  propagate the update from leaf down to root."

Instead of trying to work through all these cases and trying to reproduce
the very high loads that produced the lockup to begin with, simplify
the code temporarily by reverting a9e7f6544b9c - which change was clearly
not thought through completely.

This (hopefully) gives us a kernel that doesn't lock up so people
can continue to enjoy their holidays without worrying about regressions. ;-)

[ mingo: Wrote changelog, fixed weird spelling in code comment while at it. ]

Analyzed-by: Xie XiuQi 
Analyzed-by: Vincent Guittot 
Reported-by: Zhipeng Xie 
Reported-by: Sargun Dhillon 
Reported-by: Xie XiuQi 
Tested-by: Zhipeng Xie 
Tested-by: Sargun Dhillon 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Acked-by: Vincent Guittot 
Cc:  # v4.13+
Cc: Bin Li 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Fixes: a9e7f6544b9c ("sched/fair: Fix O(nr_cgroups) in load balance path")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1545879866-27809-1-git-send-email-xiexiuqi@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sched/pelt: Fix warning and clean up IRQ PELT config

2018-12-19T18:19:49+00:00

Commit 11d4afd4ff667f9b6178ee8c142c36cb78bd84db upstream.

Create a config for enabling irq load tracking in the scheduler.
irq load tracking is useful only when irq or paravirtual time is
accounted but it's only possible with SMP for now.

Also use __maybe_unused to remove the compilation warning in
update_rq_clock_task() that has been introduced by:

  2e62c4743adc ("sched/fair: Remove #ifdefs from scale_rt_capacity()")

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar 
Reported-by: Dou Liyang 
Reported-by: Miguel Ojeda 
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: dou_liyang@163.com
Fixes: 2e62c4743adc ("sched/fair: Remove #ifdefs from scale_rt_capacity()")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1537867062-27285-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

sched/smt: Expose sched_smt_present static key

2018-12-05T18:32:02+00:00

commit 321a874a7ef85655e93b3206d0f36b4a6097f948 upstream

Make the scheduler's 'sched_smt_present' static key globaly available, so
it can be used in the x86 speculation control code.

Provide a query function and a stub for the CONFIG_SMP=n case.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Jiri Kosina 
Cc: Tom Lendacky 
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: David Woodhouse 
Cc: Tim Chen 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Casey Schaufler 
Cc: Asit Mallick 
Cc: Arjan van de Ven 
Cc: Jon Masters 
Cc: Waiman Long 
Cc: Greg KH 
Cc: Dave Stewart 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181125185004.430168326@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sched/smt: Make sched_smt_present track topology

2018-12-05T18:32:02+00:00

commit c5511d03ec090980732e929c318a7a6374b5550e upstream

Currently the 'sched_smt_present' static key is enabled when at CPU bringup
SMT topology is observed, but it is never disabled. However there is demand
to also disable the key when the topology changes such that there is no SMT
present anymore.

Implement this by making the key count the number of cores that have SMT
enabled.

In particular, the SMT topology bits are set before interrrupts are enabled
and similarly, are cleared after interrupts are disabled for the last time
and the CPU dies.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Jiri Kosina 
Cc: Tom Lendacky 
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: David Woodhouse 
Cc: Tim Chen 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Casey Schaufler 
Cc: Asit Mallick 
Cc: Arjan van de Ven 
Cc: Jon Masters 
Cc: Waiman Long 
Cc: Greg KH 
Cc: Dave Stewart 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181125185004.246110444@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sched/fair: Fix cpu_util_wake() for 'execl' type workloads

2018-12-01T08:37:32+00:00

[ Upstream commit c469933e772132aad040bd6a2adc8edf9ad6f825 ]

A ~10% regression has been reported for UnixBench's execl throughput
test by Aaron Lu and Ye Xiaolong:

  https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/10/30/765

That test is pretty simple, it does a "recursive" execve() syscall on the
same binary. Starting from the syscall, this sequence is possible:

   do_execve()
     do_execveat_common()
       __do_execve_file()
         sched_exec()
           select_task_rq_fair()          <==| Task already enqueued
             find_idlest_cpu()
               find_idlest_group()
                 capacity_spare_wake()    <==| Functions not called from
		   cpu_util_wake()           | the wakeup path

which means we can end up calling cpu_util_wake() not only from the
"wakeup path", as its name would suggest. Indeed, the task doing an
execve() syscall is already enqueued on the CPU we want to get the
cpu_util_wake() for.

The estimated utilization for a CPU computed in cpu_util_wake() was
written under the assumption that function can be called only from the
wakeup path. If instead the task is already enqueued, we end up with a
utilization which does not remove the current task's contribution from
the estimated utilization of the CPU.
This will wrongly assume a reduced spare capacity on the current CPU and
increase the chances to migrate the task on execve.

The regression is tracked down to:

 commit d519329f72a6 ("sched/fair: Update util_est only on util_avg updates")

because in that patch we turn on by default the UTIL_EST sched feature.
However, the real issue is introduced by:

 commit f9be3e5961c5 ("sched/fair: Use util_est in LB and WU paths")

Let's fix this by ensuring to always discount the task estimated
utilization from the CPU's estimated utilization when the task is also
the current one. The same benchmark of the bug report, executed on a
dual socket 40 CPUs Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v2 @ 3.00GHz machine,
reports these "Execl Throughput" figures (higher the better):

   mainline     : 48136.5 lps
   mainline+fix : 55376.5 lps

which correspond to a 15% speedup.

Moreover, since {cpu_util,capacity_spare}_wake() are not really only
used from the wakeup path, let's remove this ambiguity by using a better
matching name: {cpu_util,capacity_spare}_without().

Since we are at that, let's also improve the existing documentation.

Reported-by: Aaron Lu 
Reported-by: Ye Xiaolong 
Tested-by: Aaron Lu 
Signed-off-by: Patrick Bellasi 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann 
Cc: Juri Lelli 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Morten Rasmussen 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Quentin Perret 
Cc: Steve Muckle 
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Todd Kjos 
Cc: Vincent Guittot 
Fixes: f9be3e5961c5 (sched/fair: Use util_est in LB and WU paths)
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181025093100.GB13236@e110439-lin/
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

sched/core: Take the hotplug lock in sched_init_smp()

2018-11-27T15:13:06+00:00

[ Upstream commit 40fa3780bac2b654edf23f6b13f4e2dd550aea10 ]

When running on linux-next (8c60c36d0b8c ("Add linux-next specific files
for 20181019")) + CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y on a big.LITTLE system (e.g.
Juno or HiKey960), we get the following report:

 [    0.748225] Call trace:
 [    0.750685]  lockdep_assert_cpus_held+0x30/0x40
 [    0.755236]  static_key_enable_cpuslocked+0x20/0xc8
 [    0.760137]  build_sched_domains+0x1034/0x1108
 [    0.764601]  sched_init_domains+0x68/0x90
 [    0.768628]  sched_init_smp+0x30/0x80
 [    0.772309]  kernel_init_freeable+0x278/0x51c
 [    0.776685]  kernel_init+0x10/0x108
 [    0.780190]  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18

The static_key in question is 'sched_asym_cpucapacity' introduced by
commit:

  df054e8445a4 ("sched/topology: Add static_key for asymmetric CPU capacity optimizations")

In this particular case, we enable it because smp_prepare_cpus() will
end up fetching the capacity-dmips-mhz entry from the devicetree,
so we already have some asymmetry detected when entering sched_init_smp().

This didn't get detected in tip/sched/core because we were missing:

  commit cb538267ea1e ("jump_label/lockdep: Assert we hold the hotplug lock for _cpuslocked() operations")

Calls to build_sched_domains() post sched_init_smp() will hold the
hotplug lock, it just so happens that this very first call is a
special case. As stated by a comment in sched_init_smp(), "There's no
userspace yet to cause hotplug operations" so this is a harmless
warning.

However, to both respect the semantics of underlying
callees and make lockdep happy, take the hotplug lock in
sched_init_smp(). This also satisfies the comment atop
sched_init_domains() that says "Callers must hold the hotplug lock".

Reported-by: Sudeep Holla 
Tested-by: Sudeep Holla 
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Dietmar.Eggemann@arm.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: morten.rasmussen@arm.com
Cc: quentin.perret@arm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1540301851-3048-1-git-send-email-valentin.schneider@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

sched/fair: Fix the min_vruntime update logic in dequeue_entity()

2018-10-16T07:36:01+00:00

The comment and the code around the update_min_vruntime() call in
dequeue_entity() are not in agreement.

From commit:

  b60205c7c558 ("sched/fair: Fix min_vruntime tracking")

I think that we want to update min_vruntime when a task is sleeping/migrating.
So, the check is inverted there - fix it.

Signed-off-by: Song Muchun 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Fixes: b60205c7c558 ("sched/fair: Fix min_vruntime tracking")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181014112612.2614-1-smuchun@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/fair: Fix throttle_list starvation with low CFS quota

2018-10-11T11:10:18+00:00

With a very low cpu.cfs_quota_us setting, such as the minimum of 1000,
distribute_cfs_runtime may not empty the throttled_list before it runs
out of runtime to distribute. In that case, due to the change from
c06f04c7048 to put throttled entries at the head of the list, later entries
on the list will starve.  Essentially, the same X processes will get pulled
off the list, given CPU time and then, when expired, get put back on the
head of the list where distribute_cfs_runtime will give runtime to the same
set of processes leaving the rest.

Fix the issue by setting a bit in struct cfs_bandwidth when
distribute_cfs_runtime is running, so that the code in throttle_cfs_rq can
decide to put the throttled entry on the tail or the head of the list.  The
bit is set/cleared by the callers of distribute_cfs_runtime while they hold
cfs_bandwidth->lock.

This is easy to reproduce with a handful of CPU consumers. I use 'crash' on
the live system. In some cases you can simply look at the throttled list and
see the later entries are not changing:

  crash> list cfs_rq.throttled_list -H 0xffff90b54f6ade40 -s cfs_rq.runtime_remaining | paste - - | awk '{print $1"  "$4}' | pr -t -n3
    1     ffff90b56cb2d200  -976050
    2     ffff90b56cb2cc00  -484925
    3     ffff90b56cb2bc00  -658814
    4     ffff90b56cb2ba00  -275365
    5     ffff90b166a45600  -135138
    6     ffff90b56cb2da00  -282505
    7     ffff90b56cb2e000  -148065
    8     ffff90b56cb2fa00  -872591
    9     ffff90b56cb2c000  -84687
   10     ffff90b56cb2f000  -87237
   11     ffff90b166a40a00  -164582

  crash> list cfs_rq.throttled_list -H 0xffff90b54f6ade40 -s cfs_rq.runtime_remaining | paste - - | awk '{print $1"  "$4}' | pr -t -n3
    1     ffff90b56cb2d200  -994147
    2     ffff90b56cb2cc00  -306051
    3     ffff90b56cb2bc00  -961321
    4     ffff90b56cb2ba00  -24490
    5     ffff90b166a45600  -135138
    6     ffff90b56cb2da00  -282505
    7     ffff90b56cb2e000  -148065
    8     ffff90b56cb2fa00  -872591
    9     ffff90b56cb2c000  -84687
   10     ffff90b56cb2f000  -87237
   11     ffff90b166a40a00  -164582

Sometimes it is easier to see by finding a process getting starved and looking
at the sched_info:

  crash> task ffff8eb765994500 sched_info
  PID: 7800   TASK: ffff8eb765994500  CPU: 16  COMMAND: "cputest"
    sched_info = {
      pcount = 8,
      run_delay = 697094208,
      last_arrival = 240260125039,
      last_queued = 240260327513
    },
  crash> task ffff8eb765994500 sched_info
  PID: 7800   TASK: ffff8eb765994500  CPU: 16  COMMAND: "cputest"
    sched_info = {
      pcount = 8,
      run_delay = 697094208,
      last_arrival = 240260125039,
      last_queued = 240260327513
    },

Signed-off-by: Phil Auld 
Reviewed-by: Ben Segall 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: c06f04c70489 ("sched: Fix potential near-infinite distribute_cfs_runtime() loop")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181008143639.GA4019@pauld.bos.csb
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/numa: Migrate pages to local nodes quicker early in the lifetime of a task

2018-10-02T09:31:33+00:00

Automatic NUMA Balancing uses a multi-stage pass to decide whether a page
should migrate to a local node. This filter avoids excessive ping-ponging
if a page is shared or used by threads that migrate cross-node frequently.

Threads inherit both page tables and the preferred node ID from the
parent. This means that threads can trigger hinting faults earlier than
a new task which delays scanning for a number of seconds. As it can be
load balanced very early in its lifetime there can be an unnecessary delay
before it starts migrating thread-local data. This patch migrates private
pages faster early in the lifetime of a thread using the sequence counter
as an identifier of new tasks.

With this patch applied, STREAM performance is the same as 4.17 even though
processes are not spread cross-node prematurely. Other workloads showed
a mix of minor gains and losses. This is somewhat expected most workloads
are not very sensitive to the starting conditions of a process.

                         4.19.0-rc5             4.19.0-rc5                 4.17.0
                         numab-v1r1       fastmigrate-v1r1                vanilla
MB/sec copy     43298.52 (   0.00%)    47335.46 (   9.32%)    47219.24 (   9.06%)
MB/sec scale    30115.06 (   0.00%)    32568.12 (   8.15%)    32527.56 (   8.01%)
MB/sec add      32825.12 (   0.00%)    36078.94 (   9.91%)    35928.02 (   9.45%)
MB/sec triad    32549.52 (   0.00%)    35935.94 (  10.40%)    35969.88 (  10.51%)

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Jirka Hladky 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Linux-MM 
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181001100525.29789-3-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar