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<title>sched/core: Idle_task_exit() shouldn't use switch_mm_irqs_off()</title>
<updated>2017-12-25T13:22:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-09T18:49:15+00:00</published>
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commit 252d2a4117bc181b287eeddf848863788da733ae upstream.

idle_task_exit() can be called with IRQs on x86 on and therefore
should use switch_mm(), not switch_mm_irqs_off().

This doesn't seem to cause any problems right now, but it will
confuse my upcoming TLB flush changes.  Nonetheless, I think it
should be backported because it's trivial.  There won't be any
meaningful performance impact because idle_task_exit() is only
used when offlining a CPU.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&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;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: f98db6013c55 ("sched/core: Add switch_mm_irqs_off() and use it in the scheduler")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ca3d1a9fa93a0b49f5a8ff729eda3640fb6abdf9.1497034141.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 252d2a4117bc181b287eeddf848863788da733ae upstream.

idle_task_exit() can be called with IRQs on x86 on and therefore
should use switch_mm(), not switch_mm_irqs_off().

This doesn't seem to cause any problems right now, but it will
confuse my upcoming TLB flush changes.  Nonetheless, I think it
should be backported because it's trivial.  There won't be any
meaningful performance impact because idle_task_exit() is only
used when offlining a CPU.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&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;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: f98db6013c55 ("sched/core: Add switch_mm_irqs_off() and use it in the scheduler")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ca3d1a9fa93a0b49f5a8ff729eda3640fb6abdf9.1497034141.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>sched/core: Add switch_mm_irqs_off() and use it in the scheduler</title>
<updated>2017-12-25T13:22:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-26T16:39:06+00:00</published>
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commit f98db6013c557c216da5038d9c52045be55cd039 upstream.

By default, this is the same thing as switch_mm().

x86 will override it as an optimization.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&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/df401df47bdd6be3e389c6f1e3f5310d70e81b2c.1461688545.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit f98db6013c557c216da5038d9c52045be55cd039 upstream.

By default, this is the same thing as switch_mm().

x86 will override it as an optimization.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&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/df401df47bdd6be3e389c6f1e3f5310d70e81b2c.1461688545.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>sched/deadline: Use deadline instead of period when calculating overflow</title>
<updated>2017-12-20T09:04:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-02T14:10:59+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 2317d5f1c34913bac5971d93d69fb6c31bb74670 ]

I was testing Daniel's changes with his test case, and tweaked it a
little. Instead of having the runtime equal to the deadline, I
increased the deadline ten fold.

Daniel's test case had:

	attr.sched_runtime  = 2 * 1000 * 1000;		/* 2 ms */
	attr.sched_deadline = 2 * 1000 * 1000;		/* 2 ms */
	attr.sched_period   = 2 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000;	/* 2 s */

To make it more interesting, I changed it to:

	attr.sched_runtime  =  2 * 1000 * 1000;		/* 2 ms */
	attr.sched_deadline = 20 * 1000 * 1000;		/* 20 ms */
	attr.sched_period   =  2 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000;	/* 2 s */

The results were rather surprising. The behavior that Daniel's patch
was fixing came back. The task started using much more than .1% of the
CPU. More like 20%.

Looking into this I found that it was due to the dl_entity_overflow()
constantly returning true. That's because it uses the relative period
against relative runtime vs the absolute deadline against absolute
runtime.

  runtime / (deadline - t) &gt; dl_runtime / dl_period

There's even a comment mentioning this, and saying that when relative
deadline equals relative period, that the equation is the same as using
deadline instead of period. That comment is backwards! What we really
want is:

  runtime / (deadline - t) &gt; dl_runtime / dl_deadline

We care about if the runtime can make its deadline, not its period. And
then we can say "when the deadline equals the period, the equation is
the same as using dl_period instead of dl_deadline".

After correcting this, now when the task gets enqueued, it can throttle
correctly, and Daniel's fix to the throttling of sleeping deadline
tasks works even when the runtime and deadline are not the same.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Luca Abeni &lt;luca.abeni@santannapisa.it&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Romulo Silva de Oliveira &lt;romulo.deoliveira@ufsc.br&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tommaso Cucinotta &lt;tommaso.cucinotta@sssup.it&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/02135a27f1ae3fe5fd032568a5a2f370e190e8d7.1488392936.git.bristot@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 2317d5f1c34913bac5971d93d69fb6c31bb74670 ]

I was testing Daniel's changes with his test case, and tweaked it a
little. Instead of having the runtime equal to the deadline, I
increased the deadline ten fold.

Daniel's test case had:

	attr.sched_runtime  = 2 * 1000 * 1000;		/* 2 ms */
	attr.sched_deadline = 2 * 1000 * 1000;		/* 2 ms */
	attr.sched_period   = 2 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000;	/* 2 s */

To make it more interesting, I changed it to:

	attr.sched_runtime  =  2 * 1000 * 1000;		/* 2 ms */
	attr.sched_deadline = 20 * 1000 * 1000;		/* 20 ms */
	attr.sched_period   =  2 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000;	/* 2 s */

The results were rather surprising. The behavior that Daniel's patch
was fixing came back. The task started using much more than .1% of the
CPU. More like 20%.

Looking into this I found that it was due to the dl_entity_overflow()
constantly returning true. That's because it uses the relative period
against relative runtime vs the absolute deadline against absolute
runtime.

  runtime / (deadline - t) &gt; dl_runtime / dl_period

There's even a comment mentioning this, and saying that when relative
deadline equals relative period, that the equation is the same as using
deadline instead of period. That comment is backwards! What we really
want is:

  runtime / (deadline - t) &gt; dl_runtime / dl_deadline

We care about if the runtime can make its deadline, not its period. And
then we can say "when the deadline equals the period, the equation is
the same as using dl_period instead of dl_deadline".

After correcting this, now when the task gets enqueued, it can throttle
correctly, and Daniel's fix to the throttling of sleeping deadline
tasks works even when the runtime and deadline are not the same.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Luca Abeni &lt;luca.abeni@santannapisa.it&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Romulo Silva de Oliveira &lt;romulo.deoliveira@ufsc.br&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tommaso Cucinotta &lt;tommaso.cucinotta@sssup.it&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/02135a27f1ae3fe5fd032568a5a2f370e190e8d7.1488392936.git.bristot@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sched/deadline: Throttle a constrained deadline task activated after the deadline</title>
<updated>2017-12-20T09:04:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Bristot de Oliveira</name>
<email>bristot@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-02T14:10:58+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit df8eac8cafce7d086be3bd5cf5a838fa37594dfb ]

During the activation, CBS checks if it can reuse the current task's
runtime and period. If the deadline of the task is in the past, CBS
cannot use the runtime, and so it replenishes the task. This rule
works fine for implicit deadline tasks (deadline == period), and the
CBS was designed for implicit deadline tasks. However, a task with
constrained deadline (deadine &lt; period) might be awakened after the
deadline, but before the next period. In this case, replenishing the
task would allow it to run for runtime / deadline. As in this case
deadline &lt; period, CBS enables a task to run for more than the
runtime / period. In a very loaded system, this can cause a domino
effect, making other tasks miss their deadlines.

To avoid this problem, in the activation of a constrained deadline
task after the deadline but before the next period, throttle the
task and set the replenishing timer to the begin of the next period,
unless it is boosted.

Reproducer:

 --------------- %&lt; ---------------
  int main (int argc, char **argv)
  {
	int ret;
	int flags = 0;
	unsigned long l = 0;
	struct timespec ts;
	struct sched_attr attr;

	memset(&amp;attr, 0, sizeof(attr));
	attr.size = sizeof(attr);

	attr.sched_policy   = SCHED_DEADLINE;
	attr.sched_runtime  = 2 * 1000 * 1000;		/* 2 ms */
	attr.sched_deadline = 2 * 1000 * 1000;		/* 2 ms */
	attr.sched_period   = 2 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000;	/* 2 s */

	ts.tv_sec = 0;
	ts.tv_nsec = 2000 * 1000;			/* 2 ms */

	ret = sched_setattr(0, &amp;attr, flags);

	if (ret &lt; 0) {
		perror("sched_setattr");
		exit(-1);
	}

	for(;;) {
		/* XXX: you may need to adjust the loop */
		for (l = 0; l &lt; 150000; l++);
		/*
		 * The ideia is to go to sleep right before the deadline
		 * and then wake up before the next period to receive
		 * a new replenishment.
		 */
		nanosleep(&amp;ts, NULL);
	}

	exit(0);
  }
  --------------- &gt;% ---------------

On my box, this reproducer uses almost 50% of the CPU time, which is
obviously wrong for a task with 2/2000 reservation.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Luca Abeni &lt;luca.abeni@santannapisa.it&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Romulo Silva de Oliveira &lt;romulo.deoliveira@ufsc.br&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tommaso Cucinotta &lt;tommaso.cucinotta@sssup.it&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/edf58354e01db46bf42df8d2dd32418833f68c89.1488392936.git.bristot@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit df8eac8cafce7d086be3bd5cf5a838fa37594dfb ]

During the activation, CBS checks if it can reuse the current task's
runtime and period. If the deadline of the task is in the past, CBS
cannot use the runtime, and so it replenishes the task. This rule
works fine for implicit deadline tasks (deadline == period), and the
CBS was designed for implicit deadline tasks. However, a task with
constrained deadline (deadine &lt; period) might be awakened after the
deadline, but before the next period. In this case, replenishing the
task would allow it to run for runtime / deadline. As in this case
deadline &lt; period, CBS enables a task to run for more than the
runtime / period. In a very loaded system, this can cause a domino
effect, making other tasks miss their deadlines.

To avoid this problem, in the activation of a constrained deadline
task after the deadline but before the next period, throttle the
task and set the replenishing timer to the begin of the next period,
unless it is boosted.

Reproducer:

 --------------- %&lt; ---------------
  int main (int argc, char **argv)
  {
	int ret;
	int flags = 0;
	unsigned long l = 0;
	struct timespec ts;
	struct sched_attr attr;

	memset(&amp;attr, 0, sizeof(attr));
	attr.size = sizeof(attr);

	attr.sched_policy   = SCHED_DEADLINE;
	attr.sched_runtime  = 2 * 1000 * 1000;		/* 2 ms */
	attr.sched_deadline = 2 * 1000 * 1000;		/* 2 ms */
	attr.sched_period   = 2 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000;	/* 2 s */

	ts.tv_sec = 0;
	ts.tv_nsec = 2000 * 1000;			/* 2 ms */

	ret = sched_setattr(0, &amp;attr, flags);

	if (ret &lt; 0) {
		perror("sched_setattr");
		exit(-1);
	}

	for(;;) {
		/* XXX: you may need to adjust the loop */
		for (l = 0; l &lt; 150000; l++);
		/*
		 * The ideia is to go to sleep right before the deadline
		 * and then wake up before the next period to receive
		 * a new replenishment.
		 */
		nanosleep(&amp;ts, NULL);
	}

	exit(0);
  }
  --------------- &gt;% ---------------

On my box, this reproducer uses almost 50% of the CPU time, which is
obviously wrong for a task with 2/2000 reservation.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Luca Abeni &lt;luca.abeni@santannapisa.it&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Romulo Silva de Oliveira &lt;romulo.deoliveira@ufsc.br&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tommaso Cucinotta &lt;tommaso.cucinotta@sssup.it&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/edf58354e01db46bf42df8d2dd32418833f68c89.1488392936.git.bristot@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/deadline: Make sure the replenishment timer fires in the next period</title>
<updated>2017-12-20T09:04:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Bristot de Oliveira</name>
<email>bristot@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-02T14:10:57+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 5ac69d37784b237707a7b15d199cdb6c6fdb6780 ]

Currently, the replenishment timer is set to fire at the deadline
of a task. Although that works for implicit deadline tasks because the
deadline is equals to the begin of the next period, that is not correct
for constrained deadline tasks (deadline &lt; period).

For instance:

f.c:
 --------------- %&lt; ---------------
int main (void)
{
	for(;;);
}
 --------------- &gt;% ---------------

  # gcc -o f f.c

  # trace-cmd record -e sched:sched_switch                              \
				   -e syscalls:sys_exit_sched_setattr   \
   chrt -d --sched-runtime  490000000					\
           --sched-deadline 500000000					\
	   --sched-period  1000000000 0 ./f

  # trace-cmd report | grep "{pid of ./f}"

After setting parameters, the task is replenished and continue running
until being throttled:

         f-11295 [003] 13322.113776: sys_exit_sched_setattr: 0x0

The task is throttled after running 492318 ms, as expected:

         f-11295 [003] 13322.606094: sched_switch:   f:11295 [-1] R ==&gt; watchdog/3:32 [0]

But then, the task is replenished 500719 ms after the first
replenishment:

    &lt;idle&gt;-0     [003] 13322.614495: sched_switch:   swapper/3:0 [120] R ==&gt; f:11295 [-1]

Running for 490277 ms:

         f-11295 [003] 13323.104772: sched_switch:   f:11295 [-1] R ==&gt;  swapper/3:0 [120]

Hence, in the first period, the task runs 2 * runtime, and that is a bug.

During the first replenishment, the next deadline is set one period away.
So the runtime / period starts to be respected. However, as the second
replenishment took place in the wrong instant, the next replenishment
will also be held in a wrong instant of time. Rather than occurring in
the nth period away from the first activation, it is taking place
in the (nth period - relative deadline).

Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Luca Abeni &lt;luca.abeni@santannapisa.it&gt;
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Romulo Silva de Oliveira &lt;romulo.deoliveira@ufsc.br&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tommaso Cucinotta &lt;tommaso.cucinotta@sssup.it&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ac50d89887c25285b47465638354b63362f8adff.1488392936.git.bristot@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Currently, the replenishment timer is set to fire at the deadline
of a task. Although that works for implicit deadline tasks because the
deadline is equals to the begin of the next period, that is not correct
for constrained deadline tasks (deadline &lt; period).

For instance:

f.c:
 --------------- %&lt; ---------------
int main (void)
{
	for(;;);
}
 --------------- &gt;% ---------------

  # gcc -o f f.c

  # trace-cmd record -e sched:sched_switch                              \
				   -e syscalls:sys_exit_sched_setattr   \
   chrt -d --sched-runtime  490000000					\
           --sched-deadline 500000000					\
	   --sched-period  1000000000 0 ./f

  # trace-cmd report | grep "{pid of ./f}"

After setting parameters, the task is replenished and continue running
until being throttled:

         f-11295 [003] 13322.113776: sys_exit_sched_setattr: 0x0

The task is throttled after running 492318 ms, as expected:

         f-11295 [003] 13322.606094: sched_switch:   f:11295 [-1] R ==&gt; watchdog/3:32 [0]

But then, the task is replenished 500719 ms after the first
replenishment:

    &lt;idle&gt;-0     [003] 13322.614495: sched_switch:   swapper/3:0 [120] R ==&gt; f:11295 [-1]

Running for 490277 ms:

         f-11295 [003] 13323.104772: sched_switch:   f:11295 [-1] R ==&gt;  swapper/3:0 [120]

Hence, in the first period, the task runs 2 * runtime, and that is a bug.

During the first replenishment, the next deadline is set one period away.
So the runtime / period starts to be respected. However, as the second
replenishment took place in the wrong instant, the next replenishment
will also be held in a wrong instant of time. Rather than occurring in
the nth period away from the first activation, it is taking place
in the (nth period - relative deadline).

Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Luca Abeni &lt;luca.abeni@santannapisa.it&gt;
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Romulo Silva de Oliveira &lt;romulo.deoliveira@ufsc.br&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tommaso Cucinotta &lt;tommaso.cucinotta@sssup.it&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ac50d89887c25285b47465638354b63362f8adff.1488392936.git.bristot@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sched/rt: Do not pull from current CPU if only one CPU to pull</title>
<updated>2017-12-20T09:04:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-02T18:04:54+00:00</published>
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commit f73c52a5bcd1710994e53fbccc378c42b97a06b6 upstream.

Daniel Wagner reported a crash on the BeagleBone Black SoC.

This is a single CPU architecture, and does not have a functional
arch_send_call_function_single_ipi() implementation which can crash
the kernel if that is called.

As it only has one CPU, it shouldn't be called, but if the kernel is
compiled for SMP, the push/pull RT scheduling logic now calls it for
irq_work if the one CPU is overloaded, it can use that function to call
itself and crash the kernel.

Ideally, we should disable the SCHED_FEAT(RT_PUSH_IPI) if the system
only has a single CPU. But SCHED_FEAT is a constant if sched debugging
is turned off. Another fix can also be used, and this should also help
with normal SMP machines. That is, do not initiate the pull code if
there's only one RT overloaded CPU, and that CPU happens to be the
current CPU that is scheduling in a lower priority task.

Even on a system with many CPUs, if there's many RT tasks waiting to
run on a single CPU, and that CPU schedules in another RT task of lower
priority, it will initiate the PULL logic in case there's a higher
priority RT task on another CPU that is waiting to run. But if there is
no other CPU with waiting RT tasks, it will initiate the RT pull logic
on itself (as it still has RT tasks waiting to run). This is a wasted
effort.

Not only does this help with SMP code where the current CPU is the only
one with RT overloaded tasks, it should also solve the issue that
Daniel encountered, because it will prevent the PULL logic from
executing, as there's only one CPU on the system, and the check added
here will cause it to exit the RT pull code.

Reported-by: Daniel Wagner &lt;wagi@monom.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-rt-users &lt;linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 4bdced5c9 ("sched/rt: Simplify the IPI based RT balancing logic")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171202130454.4cbbfe8d@vmware.local.home
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit f73c52a5bcd1710994e53fbccc378c42b97a06b6 upstream.

Daniel Wagner reported a crash on the BeagleBone Black SoC.

This is a single CPU architecture, and does not have a functional
arch_send_call_function_single_ipi() implementation which can crash
the kernel if that is called.

As it only has one CPU, it shouldn't be called, but if the kernel is
compiled for SMP, the push/pull RT scheduling logic now calls it for
irq_work if the one CPU is overloaded, it can use that function to call
itself and crash the kernel.

Ideally, we should disable the SCHED_FEAT(RT_PUSH_IPI) if the system
only has a single CPU. But SCHED_FEAT is a constant if sched debugging
is turned off. Another fix can also be used, and this should also help
with normal SMP machines. That is, do not initiate the pull code if
there's only one RT overloaded CPU, and that CPU happens to be the
current CPU that is scheduling in a lower priority task.

Even on a system with many CPUs, if there's many RT tasks waiting to
run on a single CPU, and that CPU schedules in another RT task of lower
priority, it will initiate the PULL logic in case there's a higher
priority RT task on another CPU that is waiting to run. But if there is
no other CPU with waiting RT tasks, it will initiate the RT pull logic
on itself (as it still has RT tasks waiting to run). This is a wasted
effort.

Not only does this help with SMP code where the current CPU is the only
one with RT overloaded tasks, it should also solve the issue that
Daniel encountered, because it will prevent the PULL logic from
executing, as there's only one CPU on the system, and the check added
here will cause it to exit the RT pull code.

Reported-by: Daniel Wagner &lt;wagi@monom.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-rt-users &lt;linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 4bdced5c9 ("sched/rt: Simplify the IPI based RT balancing logic")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171202130454.4cbbfe8d@vmware.local.home
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>tracing: Allocate mask_str buffer dynamically</title>
<updated>2017-12-20T09:04:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Changbin Du</name>
<email>changbin.du@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-30T03:39:43+00:00</published>
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commit 90e406f96f630c07d631a021fd4af10aac913e77 upstream.

The default NR_CPUS can be very large, but actual possible nr_cpu_ids
usually is very small. For my x86 distribution, the NR_CPUS is 8192 and
nr_cpu_ids is 4. About 2 pages are wasted.

Most machines don't have so many CPUs, so define a array with NR_CPUS
just wastes memory. So let's allocate the buffer dynamically when need.

With this change, the mutext tracing_cpumask_update_lock also can be
removed now, which was used to protect mask_str.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1512013183-19107-1-git-send-email-changbin.du@intel.com

Fixes: 36dfe9252bd4c ("ftrace: make use of tracing_cpumask")
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du &lt;changbin.du@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 90e406f96f630c07d631a021fd4af10aac913e77 upstream.

The default NR_CPUS can be very large, but actual possible nr_cpu_ids
usually is very small. For my x86 distribution, the NR_CPUS is 8192 and
nr_cpu_ids is 4. About 2 pages are wasted.

Most machines don't have so many CPUs, so define a array with NR_CPUS
just wastes memory. So let's allocate the buffer dynamically when need.

With this change, the mutext tracing_cpumask_update_lock also can be
removed now, which was used to protect mask_str.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1512013183-19107-1-git-send-email-changbin.du@intel.com

Fixes: 36dfe9252bd4c ("ftrace: make use of tracing_cpumask")
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du &lt;changbin.du@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>audit: ensure that 'audit=1' actually enables audit for PID 1</title>
<updated>2017-12-16T09:33:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Moore</name>
<email>paul@paul-moore.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-01T13:44:34+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 173743dd99a49c956b124a74c8aacb0384739a4c ]

Prior to this patch we enabled audit in audit_init(), which is too
late for PID 1 as the standard initcalls are run after the PID 1 task
is forked.  This means that we never allocate an audit_context (see
audit_alloc()) for PID 1 and therefore miss a lot of audit events
generated by PID 1.

This patch enables audit as early as possible to help ensure that when
PID 1 is forked it can allocate an audit_context if required.

Reviewed-by: Richard Guy Briggs &lt;rgb@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 173743dd99a49c956b124a74c8aacb0384739a4c ]

Prior to this patch we enabled audit in audit_init(), which is too
late for PID 1 as the standard initcalls are run after the PID 1 task
is forked.  This means that we never allocate an audit_context (see
audit_alloc()) for PID 1 and therefore miss a lot of audit events
generated by PID 1.

This patch enables audit as early as possible to help ensure that when
PID 1 is forked it can allocate an audit_context if required.

Reviewed-by: Richard Guy Briggs &lt;rgb@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>jump_label: Invoke jump_label_test() via early_initcall()</title>
<updated>2017-12-16T09:33:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Baron</name>
<email>jbaron@akamai.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-13T21:48:47+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 92ee46efeb505ead3ab06d3c5ce695637ed5f152 ]

Fengguang Wu reported that running the rcuperf test during boot can cause
the jump_label_test() to hit a WARN_ON(). The issue is that the core jump
label code relies on kernel_text_address() to detect when it can no longer
update branches that may be contained in __init sections. The
kernel_text_address() in turn assumes that if the system_state variable is
greter than or equal to SYSTEM_RUNNING then __init sections are no longer
valid (since the assumption is that they have been freed). However, when
rcuperf is setup to run in early boot it can call kernel_power_off() which
sets the system_state to SYSTEM_POWER_OFF.

Since rcuperf initialization is invoked via a module_init(), we can make
the dependency of jump_label_test() needing to complete before rcuperf
explicit by calling it via early_initcall().

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron &lt;jbaron@akamai.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1510609727-2238-1-git-send-email-jbaron@akamai.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 92ee46efeb505ead3ab06d3c5ce695637ed5f152 ]

Fengguang Wu reported that running the rcuperf test during boot can cause
the jump_label_test() to hit a WARN_ON(). The issue is that the core jump
label code relies on kernel_text_address() to detect when it can no longer
update branches that may be contained in __init sections. The
kernel_text_address() in turn assumes that if the system_state variable is
greter than or equal to SYSTEM_RUNNING then __init sections are no longer
valid (since the assumption is that they have been freed). However, when
rcuperf is setup to run in early boot it can call kernel_power_off() which
sets the system_state to SYSTEM_POWER_OFF.

Since rcuperf initialization is invoked via a module_init(), we can make
the dependency of jump_label_test() needing to complete before rcuperf
explicit by calling it via early_initcall().

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron &lt;jbaron@akamai.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1510609727-2238-1-git-send-email-jbaron@akamai.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>workqueue: trigger WARN if queue_delayed_work() is called with NULL @wq</title>
<updated>2017-12-16T09:33:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-06T20:33:42+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 637fdbae60d6cb9f6e963c1079d7e0445c86ff7d ]

If queue_delayed_work() gets called with NULL @wq, the kernel will
oops asynchronuosly on timer expiration which isn't too helpful in
tracking down the offender.  This actually happened with smc.

__queue_delayed_work() already does several input sanity checks
synchronously.  Add NULL @wq check.

Reported-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@codemonkey.org.uk&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170227171439.jshx3qplflyrgcv7@codemonkey.org.uk
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 637fdbae60d6cb9f6e963c1079d7e0445c86ff7d ]

If queue_delayed_work() gets called with NULL @wq, the kernel will
oops asynchronuosly on timer expiration which isn't too helpful in
tracking down the offender.  This actually happened with smc.

__queue_delayed_work() already does several input sanity checks
synchronously.  Add NULL @wq check.

Reported-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@codemonkey.org.uk&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170227171439.jshx3qplflyrgcv7@codemonkey.org.uk
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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