linux.git/kernel/sched/fair.c, branch v5.1

sched/numa: Fix a possible divide-by-zero

2019-04-25T17:58:54+00:00

sched_clock_cpu() may not be consistent between CPUs. If a task
migrates to another CPU, then se.exec_start is set to that CPU's
rq_clock_task() by update_stats_curr_start(). Specifically, the new
value might be before the old value due to clock skew.

So then if in numa_get_avg_runtime() the expression:

  'now - p->last_task_numa_placement'

ends up as -1, then the divider '*period + 1' in task_numa_placement()
is 0 and things go bang. Similar to update_curr(), check if time goes
backwards to avoid this.

[ peterz: Wrote new changelog. ]
[ mingo: Tweaked the code comment. ]

Signed-off-by: Xie XiuQi 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: cj.chengjian@huawei.com
Cc: 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190425080016.GX11158@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/fair: Limit sched_cfs_period_timer() loop to avoid hard lockup

2019-04-16T14:50:05+00:00

With extremely short cfs_period_us setting on a parent task group with a large
number of children the for loop in sched_cfs_period_timer() can run until the
watchdog fires. There is no guarantee that the call to hrtimer_forward_now()
will ever return 0.  The large number of children can make
do_sched_cfs_period_timer() take longer than the period.

 NMI watchdog: Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu 24
 RIP: 0010:tg_nop+0x0/0x10
  
  walk_tg_tree_from+0x29/0xb0
  unthrottle_cfs_rq+0xe0/0x1a0
  distribute_cfs_runtime+0xd3/0xf0
  sched_cfs_period_timer+0xcb/0x160
  ? sched_cfs_slack_timer+0xd0/0xd0
  __hrtimer_run_queues+0xfb/0x270
  hrtimer_interrupt+0x122/0x270
  smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6a/0x140
  apic_timer_interrupt+0xf/0x20
  

To prevent this we add protection to the loop that detects when the loop has run
too many times and scales the period and quota up, proportionally, so that the timer
can complete before then next period expires.  This preserves the relative runtime
quota while preventing the hard lockup.

A warning is issued reporting this state and the new values.

Signed-off-by: Phil Auld 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: 
Cc: Anton Blanchard 
Cc: Ben Segall 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190319130005.25492-1-pauld@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/fair: Do not re-read ->h_load_next during hierarchical load calculation

2019-04-03T07:50:22+00:00

A NULL pointer dereference bug was reported on a distribution kernel but
the same issue should be present on mainline kernel. It occured on s390
but should not be arch-specific.  A partial oops looks like:

  Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference in virtual kernel address space
  ...
  Call Trace:
    ...
    try_to_wake_up+0xfc/0x450
    vhost_poll_wakeup+0x3a/0x50 [vhost]
    __wake_up_common+0xbc/0x178
    __wake_up_common_lock+0x9e/0x160
    __wake_up_sync_key+0x4e/0x60
    sock_def_readable+0x5e/0x98

The bug hits any time between 1 hour to 3 days. The dereference occurs
in update_cfs_rq_h_load when accumulating h_load. The problem is that
cfq_rq->h_load_next is not protected by any locking and can be updated
by parallel calls to task_h_load. Depending on the compiler, code may be
generated that re-reads cfq_rq->h_load_next after the check for NULL and
then oops when reading se->avg.load_avg. The dissassembly showed that it
was possible to reread h_load_next after the check for NULL.

While this does not appear to be an issue for later compilers, it's still
an accident if the correct code is generated. Full locking in this path
would have high overhead so this patch uses READ_ONCE to read h_load_next
only once and check for NULL before dereferencing. It was confirmed that
there were no further oops after 10 days of testing.

As Peter pointed out, it is also necessary to use WRITE_ONCE() to avoid any
potential problems with store tearing.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: 
Fixes: 685207963be9 ("sched: Move h_load calculation to task_h_load()")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190319123610.nsivgf3mjbjjesxb@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

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

2019-03-24T18:42:10+00:00

Pull scheduler updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Third more careful attempt for this set of fixes:

   - Prevent a 32bit math overflow in the cpufreq code

   - Fix a buffer overflow when scanning the cgroup2 cpu.max property

   - A set of fixes for the NOHZ scheduler logic to prevent waking up
     CPUs even if the capacity of the busy CPUs is sufficient along with
     other tweaks optimizing the behaviour for asymmetric systems
     (big/little)"

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/fair: Skip LLC NOHZ logic for asymmetric systems
  sched/fair: Tune down misfit NOHZ kicks
  sched/fair: Comment some nohz_balancer_kick() kick conditions
  sched/core: Fix buffer overflow in cgroup2 property cpu.max
  sched/cpufreq: Fix 32-bit math overflow

sched/fair: Skip LLC NOHZ logic for asymmetric systems

2019-03-19T11:06:15+00:00

The LLC NOHZ condition will become true as soon as >=2 CPUs in a
single LLC domain are busy. On big.LITTLE systems, this translates to
two or more CPUs of a "cluster" (big or LITTLE) being busy.

Issuing a NOHZ kick in these conditions isn't desired for asymmetric
systems, as if the busy CPUs can provide enough compute capacity to
the running tasks, then we can leave the NOHZ CPUs in peace.

Skip the LLC NOHZ condition for asymmetric systems, and rely on
nr_running & capacity checks to trigger NOHZ kicks when the system
actually needs them.

Suggested-by: Morten Rasmussen 
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Dietmar.Eggemann@arm.com
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190211175946.4961-4-valentin.schneider@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/fair: Tune down misfit NOHZ kicks

2019-03-19T11:06:15+00:00

In this commit:

  3b1baa6496e6 ("sched/fair: Add 'group_misfit_task' load-balance type")

we set rq->misfit_task_load whenever the current running task has a
utilization greater than 80% of rq->cpu_capacity. A non-zero value in
this field enables misfit load balancing.

However, if the task being looked at is already running on a CPU of
highest capacity, there's nothing more we can do for it. We can
currently spot this in update_sd_pick_busiest(), which prevents us
from selecting a sched_group of group_type == group_misfit_task as the
busiest group, but we don't do any of that in nohz_balancer_kick().

This means that we could repeatedly kick NOHZ CPUs when there's no
improvements in terms of load balance to be done.

Introduce a check_misfit_status() helper that returns true iff there
is a CPU in the system that could give more CPU capacity to a rq's
misfit task - IOW, there exists a CPU of higher capacity_orig or the
rq's CPU is severely pressured by rt/IRQ.

Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Dietmar.Eggemann@arm.com
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: morten.rasmussen@arm.com
Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190211175946.4961-3-valentin.schneider@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/fair: Comment some nohz_balancer_kick() kick conditions

2019-03-19T11:06:15+00:00

We now have a comment explaining the first sched_domain based NOHZ kick,
so might as well comment them all.

While at it, unwrap a line that fits under 80 characters.

Co-authored-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Dietmar.Eggemann@arm.com
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: morten.rasmussen@arm.com
Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190211175946.4961-2-valentin.schneider@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2019-03-06T18:31:36+00:00

Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:

 - a few misc things

 - ocfs2 updates

 - most of MM

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (159 commits)
  tools/testing/selftests/proc/proc-self-syscall.c: remove duplicate include
  proc: more robust bulk read test
  proc: test /proc/*/maps, smaps, smaps_rollup, statm
  proc: use seq_puts() everywhere
  proc: read kernel cpu stat pointer once
  proc: remove unused argument in proc_pid_lookup()
  fs/proc/thread_self.c: code cleanup for proc_setup_thread_self()
  fs/proc/self.c: code cleanup for proc_setup_self()
  proc: return exit code 4 for skipped tests
  mm,mremap: bail out earlier in mremap_to under map pressure
  mm/sparse: fix a bad comparison
  mm/memory.c: do_fault: avoid usage of stale vm_area_struct
  writeback: fix inode cgroup switching comment
  mm/huge_memory.c: fix "orig_pud" set but not used
  mm/hotplug: fix an imbalance with DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
  mm/memcontrol.c: fix bad line in comment
  mm/cma.c: cma_declare_contiguous: correct err handling
  mm/page_ext.c: fix an imbalance with kmemleak
  mm/compaction: pass pgdat to too_many_isolated() instead of zone
  mm: remove zone_lru_lock() function, access ->lru_lock directly
  ...

mm: replace all open encodings for NUMA_NO_NODE

2019-03-06T05:07:14+00:00

Patch series "Replace all open encodings for NUMA_NO_NODE", v3.

All these places for replacement were found by running the following
grep patterns on the entire kernel code.  Please let me know if this
might have missed some instances.  This might also have replaced some
false positives.  I will appreciate suggestions, inputs and review.

1. git grep "nid == -1"
2. git grep "node == -1"
3. git grep "nid = -1"
4. git grep "node = -1"

This patch (of 2):

At present there are multiple places where invalid node number is
encoded as -1.  Even though implicitly understood it is always better to
have macros in there.  Replace these open encodings for an invalid node
number with the global macro NUMA_NO_NODE.  This helps remove NUMA
related assumptions like 'invalid node' from various places redirecting
them to a common definition.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1545127933-10711-2-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual 
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand 
Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher 	[ixgbe]
Acked-by: Jens Axboe 			[mtip32xx]
Acked-by: Vinod Koul 			[dmaengine.c]
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman 		[powerpc]
Acked-by: Doug Ledford 		[drivers/infiniband]
Cc: Joseph Qi 
Cc: Hans Verkuil 
Cc: Stephen Rothwell 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sched/fair: Use non-atomic cpumask_{set,clear}_cpu()

2019-02-13T07:34:13+00:00

The cpumasks updated here are not subject to concurrency and using
atomic bitops for them is pointless and expensive. Use the non-atomic
variants instead.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Vincent Guittot 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2e2a10f84b9049a81eef94ed6d5989447c21e34a.1549963617.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar