linux.git/kernel/sched/core.c, branch v4.16-rc2

sched/core: Fix DEBUG_SPINLOCK annotation for rq->lock

2018-02-13T10:44:41+00:00

Mark noticed that he had sporadic "spinlock recursion" warnings from
the DEBUG_SPINLOCK code. Now rq->lock is special in that the owner
changes in the middle of a context switch.

It so happens that we fix up the lock.owner too late, @prev can run
(remotely) the moment prev->on_cpu is cleared, this then allows @prev
to again try and acquire this rq->lock and trigger this warning.

So we have to switch lock.owner before clearing prev->on_cpu.

Do this by moving the DEBUG_SPINLOCK annotation from after switch_to()
to before switch_to() and collect all lockdep annotations there into
prepare_lock_switch() to mirror the existing finish_lock_switch().

Debugged-by: Mark Rutland 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Acked-by: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2018-02-07T06:15:42+00:00

Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:

 - kasan updates

 - procfs

 - lib/bitmap updates

 - other lib/ updates

 - checkpatch tweaks

 - rapidio

 - ubsan

 - pipe fixes and cleanups

 - lots of other misc bits

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (114 commits)
  Documentation/sysctl/user.txt: fix typo
  MAINTAINERS: update ARM/QUALCOMM SUPPORT patterns
  MAINTAINERS: update various PALM patterns
  MAINTAINERS: update "ARM/OXNAS platform support" patterns
  MAINTAINERS: update Cortina/Gemini patterns
  MAINTAINERS: remove ARM/CLKDEV SUPPORT file pattern
  MAINTAINERS: remove ANDROID ION pattern
  mm: docs: add blank lines to silence sphinx "Unexpected indentation" errors
  mm: docs: fix parameter names mismatch
  mm: docs: fixup punctuation
  pipe: read buffer limits atomically
  pipe: simplify round_pipe_size()
  pipe: reject F_SETPIPE_SZ with size over UINT_MAX
  pipe: fix off-by-one error when checking buffer limits
  pipe: actually allow root to exceed the pipe buffer limits
  pipe, sysctl: remove pipe_proc_fn()
  pipe, sysctl: drop 'min' parameter from pipe-max-size converter
  kasan: rework Kconfig settings
  crash_dump: is_kdump_kernel can be boolean
  kernel/mutex: mutex_is_locked can be boolean
  ...

cpumask: make cpumask_size() return "unsigned int"

2018-02-07T02:32:45+00:00

CPUmasks are never big enough to warrant 64-bit code.

Space savings:

	add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 1/4 up/down: 3/-17 (-14)
	Function                                     old     new   delta
	sched_init_numa                             1530    1533      +3
	compat_sys_sched_setaffinity                 160     159      -1
	sys_sched_getaffinity                        197     195      -2
	sys_sched_setaffinity                        183     176      -7
	compat_sys_sched_getaffinity                 179     172      -7

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171204165531.GA8221@avx2
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sched/fair: Use a recently used CPU as an idle candidate and the basis for SIS

2018-02-06T09:20:37+00:00

The select_idle_sibling() (SIS) rewrite in commit:

  10e2f1acd010 ("sched/core: Rewrite and improve select_idle_siblings()")

... replaced a domain iteration with a search that broadly speaking
does a wrapped walk of the scheduler domain sharing a last-level-cache.

While this had a number of improvements, one consequence is that two tasks
that share a waker/wakee relationship push each other around a socket. Even
though two tasks may be active, all cores are evenly used. This is great from
a search perspective and spreads a load across individual cores, but it has
adverse consequences for cpufreq. As each CPU has relatively low utilisation,
cpufreq may decide the utilisation is too low to used a higher P-state and
overall computation throughput suffers.

While individual cpufreq and cpuidle drivers may compensate by artifically
boosting P-state (at c0) or avoiding lower C-states (during idle), it does
not help if hardware-based cpufreq (e.g. HWP) is used.

This patch tracks a recently used CPU based on what CPU a task was running
on when it last was a waker a CPU it was recently using when a task is a
wakee. During SIS, the recently used CPU is used as a target if it's still
allowed by the task and is idle.

The benefit may be non-obvious so consider an example of two tasks
communicating back and forth. Task A may be an application doing IO where
task B is a kworker or kthread like journald. Task A may issue IO, wake
B and B wakes up A on completion.  With the existing scheme this may look
like the following (potentially different IDs if SMT is in use but similar
principal applies).

 A (cpu 0)	wake	B (wakes on cpu 1)
 B (cpu 1)	wake	A (wakes on cpu 2)
 A (cpu 2)	wake	B (wakes on cpu 3)
 etc.

A careful reader may wonder why CPU 0 was not idle when B wakes A the
first time and it's simply due to the fact that A can be rescheduled to
another CPU and the pattern is that prev == target when B tries to wakeup A
and the information about CPU 0 has been lost.

With this patch, the pattern is more likely to be:

 A (cpu 0)	wake	B (wakes on cpu 1)
 B (cpu 1)	wake	A (wakes on cpu 0)
 A (cpu 0)	wake	B (wakes on cpu 1)
 etc

i.e. two communicating casts are more likely to use just two cores instead
of all available cores sharing a LLC.

The most dramatic speedup was noticed on dbench using the XFS filesystem on
UMA as clients interact heavily with workqueues in that configuration. Note
that a similar speedup is not observed on ext4 as the wakeup pattern
is different:

                          4.15.0-rc9             4.15.0-rc9
                           waprev-v1        biasancestor-v1
 Hmean      1      287.54 (   0.00%)      817.01 ( 184.14%)
 Hmean      2     1268.12 (   0.00%)     1781.24 (  40.46%)
 Hmean      4     1739.68 (   0.00%)     1594.47 (  -8.35%)
 Hmean      8     2464.12 (   0.00%)     2479.56 (   0.63%)
 Hmean     64     1455.57 (   0.00%)     1434.68 (  -1.44%)

The results can be less dramatic on NUMA where automatic balancing interferes
with the test. It's also known that network benchmarks running on localhost
also benefit quite a bit from this patch (roughly 10% on netperf RR for UDP
and TCP depending on the machine). Hackbench also seens small improvements
(6-11% depending on machine and thread count). The facebook schbench was also
tested but in most cases showed little or no different to wakeup latencies.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Matt Fleming 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180130104555.4125-5-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/core: Optimize ttwu_stat()

2018-02-06T09:20:31+00:00

The whole of ttwu_stat() is guarded by a single schedstat_enabled(),
there is absolutely no point in then issuing another static_branch for
every single schedstat_inc() in there.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

membarrier: Provide core serializing command, *_SYNC_CORE

2018-02-05T20:35:03+00:00

Provide core serializing membarrier command to support memory reclaim
by JIT.

Each architecture needs to explicitly opt into that support by
documenting in their architecture code how they provide the core
serializing instructions required when returning from the membarrier
IPI, and after the scheduler has updated the curr->mm pointer (before
going back to user-space). They should then select
ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE to enable support for that command on
their architecture.

Architectures selecting this feature need to either document that
they issue core serializing instructions when returning to user-space,
or implement their architecture-specific sync_core_before_usermode().

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Andrea Parri 
Cc: Andrew Hunter 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Avi Kivity 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Boqun Feng 
Cc: Dave Watson 
Cc: David Sehr 
Cc: Greg Hackmann 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Maged Michael 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180129202020.8515-9-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

membarrier: Document scheduler barrier requirements

2018-02-05T20:34:21+00:00

Document the membarrier requirement on having a full memory barrier in
__schedule() after coming from user-space, before storing to rq->curr.
It is provided by smp_mb__after_spinlock() in __schedule().

Document that membarrier requires a full barrier on transition from
kernel thread to userspace thread. We currently have an implicit barrier
from atomic_dec_and_test() in mmdrop() that ensures this.

The x86 switch_mm_irqs_off() full barrier is currently provided by many
cpumask update operations as well as write_cr3(). Document that
write_cr3() provides this barrier.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Andrea Parri 
Cc: Andrew Hunter 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Avi Kivity 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Boqun Feng 
Cc: Dave Watson 
Cc: David Sehr 
Cc: Greg Hackmann 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Maged Michael 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180129202020.8515-4-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

powerpc, membarrier: Skip memory barrier in switch_mm()

2018-02-05T20:34:02+00:00

Allow PowerPC to skip the full memory barrier in switch_mm(), and
only issue the barrier when scheduling into a task belonging to a
process that has registered to use expedited private.

Threads targeting the same VM but which belong to different thread
groups is a tricky case. It has a few consequences:

It turns out that we cannot rely on get_nr_threads(p) to count the
number of threads using a VM. We can use
(atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) == 1 && get_nr_threads(p) == 1)
instead to skip the synchronize_sched() for cases where the VM only has
a single user, and that user only has a single thread.

It also turns out that we cannot use for_each_thread() to set
thread flags in all threads using a VM, as it only iterates on the
thread group.

Therefore, test the membarrier state variable directly rather than
relying on thread flags. This means
membarrier_register_private_expedited() needs to set the
MEMBARRIER_STATE_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED flag, issue synchronize_sched(), and
only then set MEMBARRIER_STATE_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_READY which allows
private expedited membarrier commands to succeed.
membarrier_arch_switch_mm() now tests for the
MEMBARRIER_STATE_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED flag.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Alan Stern 
Cc: Alexander Viro 
Cc: Andrea Parri 
Cc: Andrew Hunter 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Avi Kivity 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Boqun Feng 
Cc: Dave Watson 
Cc: David Sehr 
Cc: Greg Hackmann 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Maged Michael 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Nicholas Piggin 
Cc: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180129202020.8515-3-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

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

2018-01-30T19:55:56+00:00

Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - Implement frequency/CPU invariance and OPP selection for
     SCHED_DEADLINE (Juri Lelli)

   - Tweak the task migration logic for better multi-tasking
     workload scalability (Mel Gorman)

   - Misc cleanups, fixes and improvements"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/deadline: Make bandwidth enforcement scale-invariant
  sched/cpufreq: Move arch_scale_{freq,cpu}_capacity() outside of #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
  sched/cpufreq: Remove arch_scale_freq_capacity()'s 'sd' parameter
  sched/cpufreq: Always consider all CPUs when deciding next freq
  sched/cpufreq: Split utilization signals
  sched/cpufreq: Change the worker kthread to SCHED_DEADLINE
  sched/deadline: Move CPU frequency selection triggering points
  sched/cpufreq: Use the DEADLINE utilization signal
  sched/deadline: Implement "runtime overrun signal" support
  sched/fair: Only immediately migrate tasks due to interrupts if prev and target CPUs share cache
  sched/fair: Correct obsolete comment about cpufreq_update_util()
  sched/fair: Remove impossible condition from find_idlest_group_cpu()
  sched/cpufreq: Don't pass flags to sugov_set_iowait_boost()
  sched/cpufreq: Initialize sg_cpu->flags to 0
  sched/fair: Consider RT/IRQ pressure in capacity_spare_wake()
  sched/fair: Use 'unsigned long' for utilization, consistently
  sched/core: Rework and clarify prepare_lock_switch()
  sched/fair: Remove unused 'curr' parameter from wakeup_gran
  sched/headers: Constify object_is_on_stack()

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

2018-01-30T18:15:30+00:00

Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main RCU changes in this cycle were:

   - Updates to use cond_resched() instead of cond_resched_rcu_qs()
     where feasible (currently everywhere except in kernel/rcu and in
     kernel/torture.c). Also a couple of fixes to avoid sending IPIs to
     offline CPUs.

   - Updates to simplify RCU's dyntick-idle handling.

   - Updates to remove almost all uses of smp_read_barrier_depends() and
     read_barrier_depends().

   - Torture-test updates.

   - Miscellaneous fixes"

* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (72 commits)
  torture: Save a line in stutter_wait(): while -> for
  torture: Eliminate torture_runnable and perf_runnable
  torture: Make stutter less vulnerable to compilers and races
  locking/locktorture: Fix num reader/writer corner cases
  locking/locktorture: Fix rwsem reader_delay
  torture: Place all torture-test modules in one MAINTAINERS group
  rcutorture/kvm-build.sh: Skip build directory check
  rcutorture: Simplify functions.sh include path
  rcutorture: Simplify logging
  rcutorture/kvm-recheck-*: Improve result directory readability check
  rcutorture/kvm.sh: Support execution from any directory
  rcutorture/kvm.sh: Use consistent help text for --qemu-args
  rcutorture/kvm.sh: Remove unused variable, `alldone`
  rcutorture: Remove unused script, config2frag.sh
  rcutorture/configinit: Fix build directory error message
  rcutorture: Preempt RCU-preempt readers more vigorously
  torture: Reduce #ifdefs for preempt_schedule()
  rcu: Remove have_rcu_nocb_mask from tree_plugin.h
  rcu: Add comment giving debug strategy for double call_rcu()
  tracing, rcu: Hide trace event rcu_nocb_wake when not used
  ...