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<title>sched/features: Fix !CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL case</title>
<updated>2020-10-29T08:58:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Juri Lelli</name>
<email>juri.lelli@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-13T05:31:14+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit a73f863af4ce9730795eab7097fb2102e6854365 ]

Commit:

  765cc3a4b224e ("sched/core: Optimize sched_feat() for !CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG builds")

made sched features static for !CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG configurations, but
overlooked the CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y and !CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL cases.

For the latter echoing changes to /sys/kernel/debug/sched_features has
the nasty effect of effectively changing what sched_features reports,
but without actually changing the scheduler behaviour (since different
translation units get different sysctl_sched_features).

Fix CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y and !CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL configurations by properly
restructuring ifdefs.

Fixes: 765cc3a4b224e ("sched/core: Optimize sched_feat() for !CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG builds")
Co-developed-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Patrick Bellasi &lt;patrick.bellasi@matbug.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;valentin.schneider@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201013053114.160628-1-juri.lelli@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit a73f863af4ce9730795eab7097fb2102e6854365 ]

Commit:

  765cc3a4b224e ("sched/core: Optimize sched_feat() for !CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG builds")

made sched features static for !CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG configurations, but
overlooked the CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y and !CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL cases.

For the latter echoing changes to /sys/kernel/debug/sched_features has
the nasty effect of effectively changing what sched_features reports,
but without actually changing the scheduler behaviour (since different
translation units get different sysctl_sched_features).

Fix CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y and !CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL configurations by properly
restructuring ifdefs.

Fixes: 765cc3a4b224e ("sched/core: Optimize sched_feat() for !CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG builds")
Co-developed-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Patrick Bellasi &lt;patrick.bellasi@matbug.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;valentin.schneider@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201013053114.160628-1-juri.lelli@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sched/fair: Fix wrong cpu selecting from isolated domain</title>
<updated>2020-10-29T08:57:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xunlei Pang</name>
<email>xlpang@linux.alibaba.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-24T06:48:47+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit df3cb4ea1fb63ff326488efd671ba3c39034255e ]

We've met problems that occasionally tasks with full cpumask
(e.g. by putting it into a cpuset or setting to full affinity)
were migrated to our isolated cpus in production environment.

After some analysis, we found that it is due to the current
select_idle_smt() not considering the sched_domain mask.

Steps to reproduce on my 31-CPU hyperthreads machine:
1. with boot parameter: "isolcpus=domain,2-31"
   (thread lists: 0,16 and 1,17)
2. cgcreate -g cpu:test; cgexec -g cpu:test "test_threads"
3. some threads will be migrated to the isolated cpu16~17.

Fix it by checking the valid domain mask in select_idle_smt().

Fixes: 10e2f1acd010 ("sched/core: Rewrite and improve select_idle_siblings())
Reported-by: Wetp Zhang &lt;wetp.zy@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Xunlei Pang &lt;xlpang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiang Biao &lt;benbjiang@tencent.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1600930127-76857-1-git-send-email-xlpang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit df3cb4ea1fb63ff326488efd671ba3c39034255e ]

We've met problems that occasionally tasks with full cpumask
(e.g. by putting it into a cpuset or setting to full affinity)
were migrated to our isolated cpus in production environment.

After some analysis, we found that it is due to the current
select_idle_smt() not considering the sched_domain mask.

Steps to reproduce on my 31-CPU hyperthreads machine:
1. with boot parameter: "isolcpus=domain,2-31"
   (thread lists: 0,16 and 1,17)
2. cgcreate -g cpu:test; cgexec -g cpu:test "test_threads"
3. some threads will be migrated to the isolated cpu16~17.

Fix it by checking the valid domain mask in select_idle_smt().

Fixes: 10e2f1acd010 ("sched/core: Rewrite and improve select_idle_siblings())
Reported-by: Wetp Zhang &lt;wetp.zy@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Xunlei Pang &lt;xlpang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiang Biao &lt;benbjiang@tencent.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1600930127-76857-1-git-send-email-xlpang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sched/fair: Eliminate bandwidth race between throttling and distribution</title>
<updated>2020-10-01T11:17:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Turner</name>
<email>pjt@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-10T22:52:07+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit e98fa02c4f2ea4991dae422ac7e34d102d2f0599 ]

There is a race window in which an entity begins throttling before quota
is added to the pool, but does not finish throttling until after we have
finished with distribute_cfs_runtime(). This entity is not observed by
distribute_cfs_runtime() because it was not on the throttled list at the
time that distribution was running. This race manifests as rare
period-length statlls for such entities.

Rather than heavy-weight the synchronization with the progress of
distribution, we can fix this by aborting throttling if bandwidth has
become available. Otherwise, we immediately add the entity to the
throttled list so that it can be observed by a subsequent distribution.

Additionally, we can remove the case of adding the throttled entity to
the head of the throttled list, and simply always add to the tail.
Thanks to 26a8b12747c97, distribute_cfs_runtime() no longer holds onto
its own pool of runtime. This means that if we do hit the !assign and
distribute_running case, we know that distribution is about to end.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner &lt;pjt@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Segall &lt;bsegall@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Don &lt;joshdon@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Phil Auld &lt;pauld@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200410225208.109717-2-joshdon@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit e98fa02c4f2ea4991dae422ac7e34d102d2f0599 ]

There is a race window in which an entity begins throttling before quota
is added to the pool, but does not finish throttling until after we have
finished with distribute_cfs_runtime(). This entity is not observed by
distribute_cfs_runtime() because it was not on the throttled list at the
time that distribution was running. This race manifests as rare
period-length statlls for such entities.

Rather than heavy-weight the synchronization with the progress of
distribution, we can fix this by aborting throttling if bandwidth has
become available. Otherwise, we immediately add the entity to the
throttled list so that it can be observed by a subsequent distribution.

Additionally, we can remove the case of adding the throttled entity to
the head of the throttled list, and simply always add to the tail.
Thanks to 26a8b12747c97, distribute_cfs_runtime() no longer holds onto
its own pool of runtime. This means that if we do hit the !assign and
distribute_running case, we know that distribution is about to end.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner &lt;pjt@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Segall &lt;bsegall@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Don &lt;joshdon@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Phil Auld &lt;pauld@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200410225208.109717-2-joshdon@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>workqueue: Remove the warning in wq_worker_sleeping()</title>
<updated>2020-10-01T11:17:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sebastian Andrzej Siewior</name>
<email>bigeasy@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-27T23:29:59+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 62849a9612924a655c67cf6962920544aa5c20db ]

The kernel test robot triggered a warning with the following race:
   task-ctx A                            interrupt-ctx B
 worker
  -&gt; process_one_work()
    -&gt; work_item()
      -&gt; schedule();
         -&gt; sched_submit_work()
           -&gt; wq_worker_sleeping()
             -&gt; -&gt;sleeping = 1
               atomic_dec_and_test(nr_running)
         __schedule();                *interrupt*
                                       async_page_fault()
                                       -&gt; local_irq_enable();
                                       -&gt; schedule();
                                          -&gt; sched_submit_work()
                                            -&gt; wq_worker_sleeping()
                                               -&gt; if (WARN_ON(-&gt;sleeping)) return
                                          -&gt; __schedule()
                                            -&gt;  sched_update_worker()
                                              -&gt; wq_worker_running()
                                                 -&gt; atomic_inc(nr_running);
                                                 -&gt; -&gt;sleeping = 0;

      -&gt;  sched_update_worker()
        -&gt; wq_worker_running()
          if (!-&gt;sleeping) return

In this context the warning is pointless everything is fine.
An interrupt before wq_worker_sleeping() will perform the -&gt;sleeping
assignment (0 -&gt; 1 &gt; 0) twice.
An interrupt after wq_worker_sleeping() will trigger the warning and
nr_running will be decremented (by A) and incremented once (only by B, A
will skip it). This is the case until the -&gt;sleeping is zeroed again in
wq_worker_running().

Remove the WARN statement because this condition may happen. Document
that preemption around wq_worker_sleeping() needs to be disabled to
protect -&gt;sleeping and not just as an optimisation.

Fixes: 6d25be5782e48 ("sched/core, workqueues: Distangle worker accounting from rq lock")
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200327074308.GY11705@shao2-debian
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 62849a9612924a655c67cf6962920544aa5c20db ]

The kernel test robot triggered a warning with the following race:
   task-ctx A                            interrupt-ctx B
 worker
  -&gt; process_one_work()
    -&gt; work_item()
      -&gt; schedule();
         -&gt; sched_submit_work()
           -&gt; wq_worker_sleeping()
             -&gt; -&gt;sleeping = 1
               atomic_dec_and_test(nr_running)
         __schedule();                *interrupt*
                                       async_page_fault()
                                       -&gt; local_irq_enable();
                                       -&gt; schedule();
                                          -&gt; sched_submit_work()
                                            -&gt; wq_worker_sleeping()
                                               -&gt; if (WARN_ON(-&gt;sleeping)) return
                                          -&gt; __schedule()
                                            -&gt;  sched_update_worker()
                                              -&gt; wq_worker_running()
                                                 -&gt; atomic_inc(nr_running);
                                                 -&gt; -&gt;sleeping = 0;

      -&gt;  sched_update_worker()
        -&gt; wq_worker_running()
          if (!-&gt;sleeping) return

In this context the warning is pointless everything is fine.
An interrupt before wq_worker_sleeping() will perform the -&gt;sleeping
assignment (0 -&gt; 1 &gt; 0) twice.
An interrupt after wq_worker_sleeping() will trigger the warning and
nr_running will be decremented (by A) and incremented once (only by B, A
will skip it). This is the case until the -&gt;sleeping is zeroed again in
wq_worker_running().

Remove the WARN statement because this condition may happen. Document
that preemption around wq_worker_sleeping() needs to be disabled to
protect -&gt;sleeping and not just as an optimisation.

Fixes: 6d25be5782e48 ("sched/core, workqueues: Distangle worker accounting from rq lock")
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200327074308.GY11705@shao2-debian
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sched/uclamp: Fix a deadlock when enabling uclamp static key</title>
<updated>2020-09-03T09:26:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Qais Yousef</name>
<email>qais.yousef@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-28T12:56:10+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit e65855a52b479f98674998cb23b21ef5a8144b04 ]

The following splat was caught when setting uclamp value of a task:

  BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at ./include/linux/percpu-rwsem.h:49

   cpus_read_lock+0x68/0x130
   static_key_enable+0x1c/0x38
   __sched_setscheduler+0x900/0xad8

Fix by ensuring we enable the key outside of the critical section in
__sched_setscheduler()

Fixes: 46609ce22703 ("sched/uclamp: Protect uclamp fast path code with static key")
Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef &lt;qais.yousef@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200716110347.19553-4-qais.yousef@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef &lt;qais.yousef@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit e65855a52b479f98674998cb23b21ef5a8144b04 ]

The following splat was caught when setting uclamp value of a task:

  BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at ./include/linux/percpu-rwsem.h:49

   cpus_read_lock+0x68/0x130
   static_key_enable+0x1c/0x38
   __sched_setscheduler+0x900/0xad8

Fix by ensuring we enable the key outside of the critical section in
__sched_setscheduler()

Fixes: 46609ce22703 ("sched/uclamp: Protect uclamp fast path code with static key")
Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef &lt;qais.yousef@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200716110347.19553-4-qais.yousef@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef &lt;qais.yousef@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sched/uclamp: Protect uclamp fast path code with static key</title>
<updated>2020-09-03T09:26:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Qais Yousef</name>
<email>qais.yousef@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-28T12:56:09+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 46609ce227039fd192e0ecc7d940bed587fd2c78 ]

There is a report that when uclamp is enabled, a netperf UDP test
regresses compared to a kernel compiled without uclamp.

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200529100806.GA3070@suse.de/

While investigating the root cause, there were no sign that the uclamp
code is doing anything particularly expensive but could suffer from bad
cache behavior under certain circumstances that are yet to be
understood.

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200616110824.dgkkbyapn3io6wik@e107158-lin/

To reduce the pressure on the fast path anyway, add a static key that is
by default will skip executing uclamp logic in the
enqueue/dequeue_task() fast path until it's needed.

As soon as the user start using util clamp by:

	1. Changing uclamp value of a task with sched_setattr()
	2. Modifying the default sysctl_sched_util_clamp_{min, max}
	3. Modifying the default cpu.uclamp.{min, max} value in cgroup

We flip the static key now that the user has opted to use util clamp.
Effectively re-introducing uclamp logic in the enqueue/dequeue_task()
fast path. It stays on from that point forward until the next reboot.

This should help minimize the effect of util clamp on workloads that
don't need it but still allow distros to ship their kernels with uclamp
compiled in by default.

SCHED_WARN_ON() in uclamp_rq_dec_id() was removed since now we can end
up with unbalanced call to uclamp_rq_dec_id() if we flip the key while
a task is running in the rq. Since we know it is harmless we just
quietly return if we attempt a uclamp_rq_dec_id() when
rq-&gt;uclamp[].bucket[].tasks is 0.

In schedutil, we introduce a new uclamp_is_enabled() helper which takes
the static key into account to ensure RT boosting behavior is retained.

The following results demonstrates how this helps on 2 Sockets Xeon E5
2x10-Cores system.

                                   nouclamp                 uclamp      uclamp-static-key
Hmean     send-64         162.43 (   0.00%)      157.84 *  -2.82%*      163.39 *   0.59%*
Hmean     send-128        324.71 (   0.00%)      314.78 *  -3.06%*      326.18 *   0.45%*
Hmean     send-256        641.55 (   0.00%)      628.67 *  -2.01%*      648.12 *   1.02%*
Hmean     send-1024      2525.28 (   0.00%)     2448.26 *  -3.05%*     2543.73 *   0.73%*
Hmean     send-2048      4836.14 (   0.00%)     4712.08 *  -2.57%*     4867.69 *   0.65%*
Hmean     send-3312      7540.83 (   0.00%)     7425.45 *  -1.53%*     7621.06 *   1.06%*
Hmean     send-4096      9124.53 (   0.00%)     8948.82 *  -1.93%*     9276.25 *   1.66%*
Hmean     send-8192     15589.67 (   0.00%)    15486.35 *  -0.66%*    15819.98 *   1.48%*
Hmean     send-16384    26386.47 (   0.00%)    25752.25 *  -2.40%*    26773.74 *   1.47%*

The perf diff between nouclamp and uclamp-static-key when uclamp is
disabled in the fast path:

     8.73%     -1.55%  [kernel.kallsyms]        [k] try_to_wake_up
     0.07%     +0.04%  [kernel.kallsyms]        [k] deactivate_task
     0.13%     -0.02%  [kernel.kallsyms]        [k] activate_task

The diff between nouclamp and uclamp-static-key when uclamp is enabled
in the fast path:

     8.73%     -0.72%  [kernel.kallsyms]        [k] try_to_wake_up
     0.13%     +0.39%  [kernel.kallsyms]        [k] activate_task
     0.07%     +0.38%  [kernel.kallsyms]        [k] deactivate_task

Fixes: 69842cba9ace ("sched/uclamp: Add CPU's clamp buckets refcounting")
Reported-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef &lt;qais.yousef@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Lukasz Luba &lt;lukasz.luba@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200630112123.12076-3-qais.yousef@arm.com
[ Fix minor conflict with kernel/sched.h because of function renamed
later ]
Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef &lt;qais.yousef@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 46609ce227039fd192e0ecc7d940bed587fd2c78 ]

There is a report that when uclamp is enabled, a netperf UDP test
regresses compared to a kernel compiled without uclamp.

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200529100806.GA3070@suse.de/

While investigating the root cause, there were no sign that the uclamp
code is doing anything particularly expensive but could suffer from bad
cache behavior under certain circumstances that are yet to be
understood.

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200616110824.dgkkbyapn3io6wik@e107158-lin/

To reduce the pressure on the fast path anyway, add a static key that is
by default will skip executing uclamp logic in the
enqueue/dequeue_task() fast path until it's needed.

As soon as the user start using util clamp by:

	1. Changing uclamp value of a task with sched_setattr()
	2. Modifying the default sysctl_sched_util_clamp_{min, max}
	3. Modifying the default cpu.uclamp.{min, max} value in cgroup

We flip the static key now that the user has opted to use util clamp.
Effectively re-introducing uclamp logic in the enqueue/dequeue_task()
fast path. It stays on from that point forward until the next reboot.

This should help minimize the effect of util clamp on workloads that
don't need it but still allow distros to ship their kernels with uclamp
compiled in by default.

SCHED_WARN_ON() in uclamp_rq_dec_id() was removed since now we can end
up with unbalanced call to uclamp_rq_dec_id() if we flip the key while
a task is running in the rq. Since we know it is harmless we just
quietly return if we attempt a uclamp_rq_dec_id() when
rq-&gt;uclamp[].bucket[].tasks is 0.

In schedutil, we introduce a new uclamp_is_enabled() helper which takes
the static key into account to ensure RT boosting behavior is retained.

The following results demonstrates how this helps on 2 Sockets Xeon E5
2x10-Cores system.

                                   nouclamp                 uclamp      uclamp-static-key
Hmean     send-64         162.43 (   0.00%)      157.84 *  -2.82%*      163.39 *   0.59%*
Hmean     send-128        324.71 (   0.00%)      314.78 *  -3.06%*      326.18 *   0.45%*
Hmean     send-256        641.55 (   0.00%)      628.67 *  -2.01%*      648.12 *   1.02%*
Hmean     send-1024      2525.28 (   0.00%)     2448.26 *  -3.05%*     2543.73 *   0.73%*
Hmean     send-2048      4836.14 (   0.00%)     4712.08 *  -2.57%*     4867.69 *   0.65%*
Hmean     send-3312      7540.83 (   0.00%)     7425.45 *  -1.53%*     7621.06 *   1.06%*
Hmean     send-4096      9124.53 (   0.00%)     8948.82 *  -1.93%*     9276.25 *   1.66%*
Hmean     send-8192     15589.67 (   0.00%)    15486.35 *  -0.66%*    15819.98 *   1.48%*
Hmean     send-16384    26386.47 (   0.00%)    25752.25 *  -2.40%*    26773.74 *   1.47%*

The perf diff between nouclamp and uclamp-static-key when uclamp is
disabled in the fast path:

     8.73%     -1.55%  [kernel.kallsyms]        [k] try_to_wake_up
     0.07%     +0.04%  [kernel.kallsyms]        [k] deactivate_task
     0.13%     -0.02%  [kernel.kallsyms]        [k] activate_task

The diff between nouclamp and uclamp-static-key when uclamp is enabled
in the fast path:

     8.73%     -0.72%  [kernel.kallsyms]        [k] try_to_wake_up
     0.13%     +0.39%  [kernel.kallsyms]        [k] activate_task
     0.07%     +0.38%  [kernel.kallsyms]        [k] deactivate_task

Fixes: 69842cba9ace ("sched/uclamp: Add CPU's clamp buckets refcounting")
Reported-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef &lt;qais.yousef@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Lukasz Luba &lt;lukasz.luba@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200630112123.12076-3-qais.yousef@arm.com
[ Fix minor conflict with kernel/sched.h because of function renamed
later ]
Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef &lt;qais.yousef@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>sched/uclamp: Fix initialization of struct uclamp_rq</title>
<updated>2020-08-19T06:15:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Qais Yousef</name>
<email>qais.yousef@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-30T11:21:22+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit d81ae8aac85ca2e307d273f6dc7863a721bf054e ]

struct uclamp_rq was zeroed out entirely in assumption that in the first
call to uclamp_rq_inc() they'd be initialized correctly in accordance to
default settings.

But when next patch introduces a static key to skip
uclamp_rq_{inc,dec}() until userspace opts in to use uclamp, schedutil
will fail to perform any frequency changes because the
rq-&gt;uclamp[UCLAMP_MAX].value is zeroed at init and stays as such. Which
means all rqs are capped to 0 by default.

Fix it by making sure we do proper initialization at init without
relying on uclamp_rq_inc() doing it later.

Fixes: 69842cba9ace ("sched/uclamp: Add CPU's clamp buckets refcounting")
Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef &lt;qais.yousef@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;valentin.schneider@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Lukasz Luba &lt;lukasz.luba@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200630112123.12076-2-qais.yousef@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit d81ae8aac85ca2e307d273f6dc7863a721bf054e ]

struct uclamp_rq was zeroed out entirely in assumption that in the first
call to uclamp_rq_inc() they'd be initialized correctly in accordance to
default settings.

But when next patch introduces a static key to skip
uclamp_rq_{inc,dec}() until userspace opts in to use uclamp, schedutil
will fail to perform any frequency changes because the
rq-&gt;uclamp[UCLAMP_MAX].value is zeroed at init and stays as such. Which
means all rqs are capped to 0 by default.

Fix it by making sure we do proper initialization at init without
relying on uclamp_rq_inc() doing it later.

Fixes: 69842cba9ace ("sched/uclamp: Add CPU's clamp buckets refcounting")
Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef &lt;qais.yousef@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;valentin.schneider@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Lukasz Luba &lt;lukasz.luba@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200630112123.12076-2-qais.yousef@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sched: correct SD_flags returned by tl-&gt;sd_flags()</title>
<updated>2020-08-19T06:15:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peng Liu</name>
<email>iwtbavbm@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-09T15:09:36+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 9b1b234bb86bcdcdb142e900d39b599185465dbb ]

During sched domain init, we check whether non-topological SD_flags are
returned by tl-&gt;sd_flags(), if found, fire a waning and correct the
violation, but the code failed to correct the violation. Correct this.

Fixes: 143e1e28cb40 ("sched: Rework sched_domain topology definition")
Signed-off-by: Peng Liu &lt;iwtbavbm@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;valentin.schneider@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200609150936.GA13060@iZj6chx1xj0e0buvshuecpZ
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 9b1b234bb86bcdcdb142e900d39b599185465dbb ]

During sched domain init, we check whether non-topological SD_flags are
returned by tl-&gt;sd_flags(), if found, fire a waning and correct the
violation, but the code failed to correct the violation. Correct this.

Fixes: 143e1e28cb40 ("sched: Rework sched_domain topology definition")
Signed-off-by: Peng Liu &lt;iwtbavbm@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;valentin.schneider@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200609150936.GA13060@iZj6chx1xj0e0buvshuecpZ
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/fair: Fix NOHZ next idle balance</title>
<updated>2020-08-19T06:15:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vincent Guittot</name>
<email>vincent.guittot@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-09T12:37:48+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 3ea2f097b17e13a8280f1f9386c331b326a3dbef ]

With commit:
  'b7031a02ec75 ("sched/fair: Add NOHZ_STATS_KICK")'
rebalance_domains of the local cfs_rq happens before others idle cpus have
updated nohz.next_balance and its value is overwritten.

Move the update of nohz.next_balance for other idles cpus before balancing
and updating the next_balance of local cfs_rq.

Also, the nohz.next_balance is now updated only if all idle cpus got a
chance to rebalance their domains and the idle balance has not been aborted
because of new activities on the CPU. In case of need_resched, the idle
load balance will be kick the next jiffie in order to address remaining
ilb.

Fixes: b7031a02ec75 ("sched/fair: Add NOHZ_STATS_KICK")
Reported-by: Peng Liu &lt;iwtbavbm@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;valentin.schneider@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200609123748.18636-1-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 3ea2f097b17e13a8280f1f9386c331b326a3dbef ]

With commit:
  'b7031a02ec75 ("sched/fair: Add NOHZ_STATS_KICK")'
rebalance_domains of the local cfs_rq happens before others idle cpus have
updated nohz.next_balance and its value is overwritten.

Move the update of nohz.next_balance for other idles cpus before balancing
and updating the next_balance of local cfs_rq.

Also, the nohz.next_balance is now updated only if all idle cpus got a
chance to rebalance their domains and the idle balance has not been aborted
because of new activities on the CPU. In case of need_resched, the idle
load balance will be kick the next jiffie in order to address remaining
ilb.

Fixes: b7031a02ec75 ("sched/fair: Add NOHZ_STATS_KICK")
Reported-by: Peng Liu &lt;iwtbavbm@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;valentin.schneider@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200609123748.18636-1-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/fair: handle case of task_h_load() returning 0</title>
<updated>2020-07-22T07:33:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vincent Guittot</name>
<email>vincent.guittot@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-10T15:24:26+00:00</published>
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commit 01cfcde9c26d8555f0e6e9aea9d6049f87683998 upstream.

task_h_load() can return 0 in some situations like running stress-ng
mmapfork, which forks thousands of threads, in a sched group on a 224 cores
system. The load balance doesn't handle this correctly because
env-&gt;imbalance never decreases and it will stop pulling tasks only after
reaching loop_max, which can be equal to the number of running tasks of
the cfs. Make sure that imbalance will be decreased by at least 1.

misfit task is the other feature that doesn't handle correctly such
situation although it's probably more difficult to face the problem
because of the smaller number of CPUs and running tasks on heterogenous
system.

We can't simply ensure that task_h_load() returns at least one because it
would imply to handle underflow in other places.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;valentin.schneider@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann &lt;dietmar.eggemann@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Dietmar Eggemann &lt;dietmar.eggemann@arm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v4.4+
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200710152426.16981-1-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 01cfcde9c26d8555f0e6e9aea9d6049f87683998 upstream.

task_h_load() can return 0 in some situations like running stress-ng
mmapfork, which forks thousands of threads, in a sched group on a 224 cores
system. The load balance doesn't handle this correctly because
env-&gt;imbalance never decreases and it will stop pulling tasks only after
reaching loop_max, which can be equal to the number of running tasks of
the cfs. Make sure that imbalance will be decreased by at least 1.

misfit task is the other feature that doesn't handle correctly such
situation although it's probably more difficult to face the problem
because of the smaller number of CPUs and running tasks on heterogenous
system.

We can't simply ensure that task_h_load() returns at least one because it
would imply to handle underflow in other places.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;valentin.schneider@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann &lt;dietmar.eggemann@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Dietmar Eggemann &lt;dietmar.eggemann@arm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v4.4+
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200710152426.16981-1-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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