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<title>Merge tag 'pm-5.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm</title>
<updated>2020-08-04T03:28:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-04T03:28:08+00:00</published>
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Pull power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "The most significant change here is the extension of the Energy Model
  to cover non-CPU devices (as well as CPUs) from Lukasz Luba.

  There is also some new hardware support (Ice Lake server idle states
  table for intel_idle, Sapphire Rapids and Power Limit 4 support in the
  RAPL driver), some new functionality in the existing drivers (eg. a
  new switch to disable/enable CPU energy-efficiency optimizations in
  intel_pstate, delayed timers in devfreq), some assorted fixes (cpufreq
  core, intel_pstate, intel_idle) and cleanups (eg. cpuidle-psci,
  devfreq), including the elimination of W=1 build warnings from cpufreq
  done by Lee Jones.

  Specifics:

   - Make the Energy Model cover non-CPU devices (Lukasz Luba).

   - Add Ice Lake server idle states table to the intel_idle driver and
     eliminate a redundant static variable from it (Chen Yu, Rafael
     Wysocki).

   - Eliminate all W=1 build warnings from cpufreq (Lee Jones).

   - Add support for Sapphire Rapids and for Power Limit 4 to the Intel
     RAPL power capping driver (Sumeet Pawnikar, Zhang Rui).

   - Fix function name in kerneldoc comments in the idle_inject power
     capping driver (Yangtao Li).

   - Fix locking issues with cpufreq governors and drop a redundant
     "weak" function definition from cpufreq (Viresh Kumar).

   - Rearrange cpufreq to register non-modular governors at the
     core_initcall level and allow the default cpufreq governor to be
     specified in the kernel command line (Quentin Perret).

   - Extend, fix and clean up the intel_pstate driver (Srinivas
     Pandruvada, Rafael Wysocki):

       * Add a new sysfs attribute for disabling/enabling CPU
         energy-efficiency optimizations in the processor.

       * Make the driver avoid enabling HWP if EPP is not supported.

       * Allow the driver to handle numeric EPP values in the sysfs
         interface and fix the setting of EPP via sysfs in the active
         mode.

       * Eliminate a static checker warning and clean up a kerneldoc
         comment.

   - Clean up some variable declarations in the powernv cpufreq driver
     (Wei Yongjun).

   - Fix up the -&gt;enter_s2idle callback definition to cover the case
     when it points to the same function as -&gt;idle correctly (Neal Liu).

   - Rearrange and clean up the PSCI cpuidle driver (Ulf Hansson).

   - Make the PM core emit "changed" uevent when adding/removing the
     "wakeup" sysfs attribute of devices (Abhishek Pandit-Subedi).

   - Add a helper macro for declaring PM callbacks and use it in the MMC
     jz4740 driver (Paul Cercueil).

   - Fix white space in some places in the hibernate code and make the
     system-wide PM code use "const char *" where appropriate (Xiang
     Chen, Alexey Dobriyan).

   - Add one more "unsafe" helper macro to the freezer to cover the NFS
     use case (He Zhe).

   - Change the language in the generic PM domains framework to use
     parent/child terminology and clean up a typo and some comment
     fromatting in that code (Kees Cook, Geert Uytterhoeven).

   - Update the operating performance points OPP framework (Lukasz Luba,
     Andrew-sh.Cheng, Valdis Kletnieks):

       * Refactor dev_pm_opp_of_register_em() and update related drivers.

       * Add a missing function export.

       * Allow disabled OPPs in dev_pm_opp_get_freq().

   - Update devfreq core and drivers (Chanwoo Choi, Lukasz Luba, Enric
     Balletbo i Serra, Dmitry Osipenko, Kieran Bingham, Marc Zyngier):

       * Add support for delayed timers to the devfreq core and make the
         Samsung exynos5422-dmc driver use it.

       * Unify sysfs interface to use "df-" as a prefix in instance
         names consistently.

       * Fix devfreq_summary debugfs node indentation.

       * Add the rockchip,pmu phandle to the rk3399_dmc driver DT
         bindings.

       * List Dmitry Osipenko as the Tegra devfreq driver maintainer.

       * Fix typos in the core devfreq code.

   - Update the pm-graph utility to version 5.7 including a number of
     fixes related to suspend-to-idle (Todd Brandt).

   - Fix coccicheck errors and warnings in the cpupower utility (Shuah
     Khan).

   - Replace HTTP links with HTTPs ones in multiple places (Alexander A.
     Klimov)"

* tag 'pm-5.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (71 commits)
  cpuidle: ACPI: fix 'return' with no value build warning
  cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix EPP setting via sysfs in active mode
  cpufreq: intel_pstate: Rearrange the storing of new EPP values
  intel_idle: Customize IceLake server support
  PM / devfreq: Fix the wrong end with semicolon
  PM / devfreq: Fix indentaion of devfreq_summary debugfs node
  PM / devfreq: Clean up the devfreq instance name in sysfs attr
  memory: samsung: exynos5422-dmc: Add module param to control IRQ mode
  memory: samsung: exynos5422-dmc: Adjust polling interval and uptreshold
  memory: samsung: exynos5422-dmc: Use delayed timer as default
  PM / devfreq: Add support delayed timer for polling mode
  dt-bindings: devfreq: rk3399_dmc: Add rockchip,pmu phandle
  PM / devfreq: tegra: Add Dmitry as a maintainer
  PM / devfreq: event: Fix trivial spelling
  PM / devfreq: rk3399_dmc: Fix kernel oops when rockchip,pmu is absent
  cpuidle: change enter_s2idle() prototype
  cpuidle: psci: Prevent domain idlestates until consumers are ready
  cpuidle: psci: Convert PM domain to platform driver
  cpuidle: psci: Fix error path via converting to a platform driver
  cpuidle: psci: Fail cpuidle registration if set OSI mode failed
  ...
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Pull power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "The most significant change here is the extension of the Energy Model
  to cover non-CPU devices (as well as CPUs) from Lukasz Luba.

  There is also some new hardware support (Ice Lake server idle states
  table for intel_idle, Sapphire Rapids and Power Limit 4 support in the
  RAPL driver), some new functionality in the existing drivers (eg. a
  new switch to disable/enable CPU energy-efficiency optimizations in
  intel_pstate, delayed timers in devfreq), some assorted fixes (cpufreq
  core, intel_pstate, intel_idle) and cleanups (eg. cpuidle-psci,
  devfreq), including the elimination of W=1 build warnings from cpufreq
  done by Lee Jones.

  Specifics:

   - Make the Energy Model cover non-CPU devices (Lukasz Luba).

   - Add Ice Lake server idle states table to the intel_idle driver and
     eliminate a redundant static variable from it (Chen Yu, Rafael
     Wysocki).

   - Eliminate all W=1 build warnings from cpufreq (Lee Jones).

   - Add support for Sapphire Rapids and for Power Limit 4 to the Intel
     RAPL power capping driver (Sumeet Pawnikar, Zhang Rui).

   - Fix function name in kerneldoc comments in the idle_inject power
     capping driver (Yangtao Li).

   - Fix locking issues with cpufreq governors and drop a redundant
     "weak" function definition from cpufreq (Viresh Kumar).

   - Rearrange cpufreq to register non-modular governors at the
     core_initcall level and allow the default cpufreq governor to be
     specified in the kernel command line (Quentin Perret).

   - Extend, fix and clean up the intel_pstate driver (Srinivas
     Pandruvada, Rafael Wysocki):

       * Add a new sysfs attribute for disabling/enabling CPU
         energy-efficiency optimizations in the processor.

       * Make the driver avoid enabling HWP if EPP is not supported.

       * Allow the driver to handle numeric EPP values in the sysfs
         interface and fix the setting of EPP via sysfs in the active
         mode.

       * Eliminate a static checker warning and clean up a kerneldoc
         comment.

   - Clean up some variable declarations in the powernv cpufreq driver
     (Wei Yongjun).

   - Fix up the -&gt;enter_s2idle callback definition to cover the case
     when it points to the same function as -&gt;idle correctly (Neal Liu).

   - Rearrange and clean up the PSCI cpuidle driver (Ulf Hansson).

   - Make the PM core emit "changed" uevent when adding/removing the
     "wakeup" sysfs attribute of devices (Abhishek Pandit-Subedi).

   - Add a helper macro for declaring PM callbacks and use it in the MMC
     jz4740 driver (Paul Cercueil).

   - Fix white space in some places in the hibernate code and make the
     system-wide PM code use "const char *" where appropriate (Xiang
     Chen, Alexey Dobriyan).

   - Add one more "unsafe" helper macro to the freezer to cover the NFS
     use case (He Zhe).

   - Change the language in the generic PM domains framework to use
     parent/child terminology and clean up a typo and some comment
     fromatting in that code (Kees Cook, Geert Uytterhoeven).

   - Update the operating performance points OPP framework (Lukasz Luba,
     Andrew-sh.Cheng, Valdis Kletnieks):

       * Refactor dev_pm_opp_of_register_em() and update related drivers.

       * Add a missing function export.

       * Allow disabled OPPs in dev_pm_opp_get_freq().

   - Update devfreq core and drivers (Chanwoo Choi, Lukasz Luba, Enric
     Balletbo i Serra, Dmitry Osipenko, Kieran Bingham, Marc Zyngier):

       * Add support for delayed timers to the devfreq core and make the
         Samsung exynos5422-dmc driver use it.

       * Unify sysfs interface to use "df-" as a prefix in instance
         names consistently.

       * Fix devfreq_summary debugfs node indentation.

       * Add the rockchip,pmu phandle to the rk3399_dmc driver DT
         bindings.

       * List Dmitry Osipenko as the Tegra devfreq driver maintainer.

       * Fix typos in the core devfreq code.

   - Update the pm-graph utility to version 5.7 including a number of
     fixes related to suspend-to-idle (Todd Brandt).

   - Fix coccicheck errors and warnings in the cpupower utility (Shuah
     Khan).

   - Replace HTTP links with HTTPs ones in multiple places (Alexander A.
     Klimov)"

* tag 'pm-5.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (71 commits)
  cpuidle: ACPI: fix 'return' with no value build warning
  cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix EPP setting via sysfs in active mode
  cpufreq: intel_pstate: Rearrange the storing of new EPP values
  intel_idle: Customize IceLake server support
  PM / devfreq: Fix the wrong end with semicolon
  PM / devfreq: Fix indentaion of devfreq_summary debugfs node
  PM / devfreq: Clean up the devfreq instance name in sysfs attr
  memory: samsung: exynos5422-dmc: Add module param to control IRQ mode
  memory: samsung: exynos5422-dmc: Adjust polling interval and uptreshold
  memory: samsung: exynos5422-dmc: Use delayed timer as default
  PM / devfreq: Add support delayed timer for polling mode
  dt-bindings: devfreq: rk3399_dmc: Add rockchip,pmu phandle
  PM / devfreq: tegra: Add Dmitry as a maintainer
  PM / devfreq: event: Fix trivial spelling
  PM / devfreq: rk3399_dmc: Fix kernel oops when rockchip,pmu is absent
  cpuidle: change enter_s2idle() prototype
  cpuidle: psci: Prevent domain idlestates until consumers are ready
  cpuidle: psci: Convert PM domain to platform driver
  cpuidle: psci: Fix error path via converting to a platform driver
  cpuidle: psci: Fail cpuidle registration if set OSI mode failed
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'pm-em' and 'pm-core'</title>
<updated>2020-08-03T11:11:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-03T11:11:39+00:00</published>
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* pm-em:
  OPP: refactor dev_pm_opp_of_register_em() and update related drivers
  Documentation: power: update Energy Model description
  PM / EM: change name of em_pd_energy to em_cpu_energy
  PM / EM: remove em_register_perf_domain
  PM / EM: add support for other devices than CPUs in Energy Model
  PM / EM: update callback structure and add device pointer
  PM / EM: introduce em_dev_register_perf_domain function
  PM / EM: change naming convention from 'capacity' to 'performance'

* pm-core:
  mmc: jz4740: Use pm_ptr() macro
  PM: Make *_DEV_PM_OPS macros use __maybe_unused
  PM: core: introduce pm_ptr() macro
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* pm-em:
  OPP: refactor dev_pm_opp_of_register_em() and update related drivers
  Documentation: power: update Energy Model description
  PM / EM: change name of em_pd_energy to em_cpu_energy
  PM / EM: remove em_register_perf_domain
  PM / EM: add support for other devices than CPUs in Energy Model
  PM / EM: update callback structure and add device pointer
  PM / EM: introduce em_dev_register_perf_domain function
  PM / EM: change naming convention from 'capacity' to 'performance'

* pm-core:
  mmc: jz4740: Use pm_ptr() macro
  PM: Make *_DEV_PM_OPS macros use __maybe_unused
  PM: core: introduce pm_ptr() macro
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<entry>
<title>sched/fair: update_pick_idlest() Select group with lowest group_util when idle_cpus are equal</title>
<updated>2020-07-22T08:22:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Puhov</name>
<email>peter.puhov@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-14T12:59:41+00:00</published>
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In slow path, when selecting idlest group, if both groups have type
group_has_spare, only idle_cpus count gets compared.
As a result, if multiple tasks are created in a tight loop,
and go back to sleep immediately
(while waiting for all tasks to be created),
they may be scheduled on the same core, because CPU is back to idle
when the new fork happen.

For example:
sudo perf record -e sched:sched_wakeup_new -- \
                                  sysbench threads --threads=4 run
...
    total number of events:              61582
...
sudo perf script
sysbench 129378 [006] 74586.633466: sched:sched_wakeup_new:
                            sysbench:129380 [120] success=1 CPU:007
sysbench 129378 [006] 74586.634718: sched:sched_wakeup_new:
                            sysbench:129381 [120] success=1 CPU:007
sysbench 129378 [006] 74586.635957: sched:sched_wakeup_new:
                            sysbench:129382 [120] success=1 CPU:007
sysbench 129378 [006] 74586.637183: sched:sched_wakeup_new:
                            sysbench:129383 [120] success=1 CPU:007

This may have negative impact on performance for workloads with frequent
creation of multiple threads.

In this patch we are using group_util to select idlest group if both groups
have equal number of idle_cpus. Comparing the number of idle cpu is
not enough in this case, because the newly forked thread sleeps
immediately and before we select the cpu for the next one.
This is shown in the trace where the same CPU7 is selected for
all wakeup_new events.
That's why, looking at utilization when there is the same number of
CPU is a good way to see where the previous task was placed. Using
nr_running doesn't solve the problem because the newly forked task is not
running and the cpu would not have been idle in this case and an idle
CPU would have been selected instead.

With this patch newly created tasks would be better distributed.

With this patch:
sudo perf record -e sched:sched_wakeup_new -- \
                                    sysbench threads --threads=4 run
...
    total number of events:              74401
...
sudo perf script
sysbench 129455 [006] 75232.853257: sched:sched_wakeup_new:
                            sysbench:129457 [120] success=1 CPU:008
sysbench 129455 [006] 75232.854489: sched:sched_wakeup_new:
                            sysbench:129458 [120] success=1 CPU:009
sysbench 129455 [006] 75232.855732: sched:sched_wakeup_new:
                            sysbench:129459 [120] success=1 CPU:010
sysbench 129455 [006] 75232.856980: sched:sched_wakeup_new:
                            sysbench:129460 [120] success=1 CPU:011

We tested this patch with following benchmarks:
master: 'commit b3a9e3b9622a ("Linux 5.8-rc1")'

100 iterations of: perf bench -f simple futex wake -s -t 128 -w 1
Lower result is better
|         |   BASELINE |   +PATCH |   DELTA (%) |
|---------|------------|----------|-------------|
| mean    |      0.33  |    0.313 |      +5.152 |
| std (%) |     10.433 |    7.563 |             |

100 iterations of: sysbench threads --threads=8 run
Higher result is better
|         |   BASELINE |   +PATCH |   DELTA (%) |
|---------|------------|----------|-------------|
| mean    |   5235.02  | 5863.73  |      +12.01 |
| std (%) |      8.166 |   10.265 |             |

100 iterations of: sysbench mutex --mutex-num=1 --threads=8 run
Lower result is better
|         |   BASELINE |   +PATCH |   DELTA (%) |
|---------|------------|----------|-------------|
| mean    |      0.413 |    0.404 |      +2.179 |
| std (%) |      3.791 |    1.816 |             |

Signed-off-by: Peter Puhov &lt;peter.puhov@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200714125941.4174-1-peter.puhov@linaro.org
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In slow path, when selecting idlest group, if both groups have type
group_has_spare, only idle_cpus count gets compared.
As a result, if multiple tasks are created in a tight loop,
and go back to sleep immediately
(while waiting for all tasks to be created),
they may be scheduled on the same core, because CPU is back to idle
when the new fork happen.

For example:
sudo perf record -e sched:sched_wakeup_new -- \
                                  sysbench threads --threads=4 run
...
    total number of events:              61582
...
sudo perf script
sysbench 129378 [006] 74586.633466: sched:sched_wakeup_new:
                            sysbench:129380 [120] success=1 CPU:007
sysbench 129378 [006] 74586.634718: sched:sched_wakeup_new:
                            sysbench:129381 [120] success=1 CPU:007
sysbench 129378 [006] 74586.635957: sched:sched_wakeup_new:
                            sysbench:129382 [120] success=1 CPU:007
sysbench 129378 [006] 74586.637183: sched:sched_wakeup_new:
                            sysbench:129383 [120] success=1 CPU:007

This may have negative impact on performance for workloads with frequent
creation of multiple threads.

In this patch we are using group_util to select idlest group if both groups
have equal number of idle_cpus. Comparing the number of idle cpu is
not enough in this case, because the newly forked thread sleeps
immediately and before we select the cpu for the next one.
This is shown in the trace where the same CPU7 is selected for
all wakeup_new events.
That's why, looking at utilization when there is the same number of
CPU is a good way to see where the previous task was placed. Using
nr_running doesn't solve the problem because the newly forked task is not
running and the cpu would not have been idle in this case and an idle
CPU would have been selected instead.

With this patch newly created tasks would be better distributed.

With this patch:
sudo perf record -e sched:sched_wakeup_new -- \
                                    sysbench threads --threads=4 run
...
    total number of events:              74401
...
sudo perf script
sysbench 129455 [006] 75232.853257: sched:sched_wakeup_new:
                            sysbench:129457 [120] success=1 CPU:008
sysbench 129455 [006] 75232.854489: sched:sched_wakeup_new:
                            sysbench:129458 [120] success=1 CPU:009
sysbench 129455 [006] 75232.855732: sched:sched_wakeup_new:
                            sysbench:129459 [120] success=1 CPU:010
sysbench 129455 [006] 75232.856980: sched:sched_wakeup_new:
                            sysbench:129460 [120] success=1 CPU:011

We tested this patch with following benchmarks:
master: 'commit b3a9e3b9622a ("Linux 5.8-rc1")'

100 iterations of: perf bench -f simple futex wake -s -t 128 -w 1
Lower result is better
|         |   BASELINE |   +PATCH |   DELTA (%) |
|---------|------------|----------|-------------|
| mean    |      0.33  |    0.313 |      +5.152 |
| std (%) |     10.433 |    7.563 |             |

100 iterations of: sysbench threads --threads=8 run
Higher result is better
|         |   BASELINE |   +PATCH |   DELTA (%) |
|---------|------------|----------|-------------|
| mean    |   5235.02  | 5863.73  |      +12.01 |
| std (%) |      8.166 |   10.265 |             |

100 iterations of: sysbench mutex --mutex-num=1 --threads=8 run
Lower result is better
|         |   BASELINE |   +PATCH |   DELTA (%) |
|---------|------------|----------|-------------|
| mean    |      0.413 |    0.404 |      +2.179 |
| std (%) |      3.791 |    1.816 |             |

Signed-off-by: Peter Puhov &lt;peter.puhov@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200714125941.4174-1-peter.puhov@linaro.org
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'sched/urgent'</title>
<updated>2020-07-22T08:22:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-22T08:22:02+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>sched/fair: handle case of task_h_load() returning 0</title>
<updated>2020-07-16T21:19:48+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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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
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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
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<entry>
<title>sched: Add a tracepoint to track rq-&gt;nr_running</title>
<updated>2020-07-08T09:39:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Phil Auld</name>
<email>pauld@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-29T19:23:03+00:00</published>
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Add a bare tracepoint trace_sched_update_nr_running_tp which tracks
-&gt;nr_running CPU's rq. This is used to accurately trace this data and
provide a visualization of scheduler imbalances in, for example, the
form of a heat map.  The tracepoint is accessed by loading an external
kernel module. An example module (forked from Qais' module and including
the pelt related tracepoints) can be found at:

  https://github.com/auldp/tracepoints-helpers.git

A script to turn the trace-cmd report output into a heatmap plot can be
found at:

  https://github.com/jirvoz/plot-nr-running

The tracepoints are added to add_nr_running() and sub_nr_running() which
are in kernel/sched/sched.h. In order to avoid CREATE_TRACE_POINTS in
the header a wrapper call is used and the trace/events/sched.h include
is moved before sched.h in kernel/sched/core.

Signed-off-by: Phil Auld &lt;pauld@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200629192303.GC120228@lorien.usersys.redhat.com
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Add a bare tracepoint trace_sched_update_nr_running_tp which tracks
-&gt;nr_running CPU's rq. This is used to accurately trace this data and
provide a visualization of scheduler imbalances in, for example, the
form of a heat map.  The tracepoint is accessed by loading an external
kernel module. An example module (forked from Qais' module and including
the pelt related tracepoints) can be found at:

  https://github.com/auldp/tracepoints-helpers.git

A script to turn the trace-cmd report output into a heatmap plot can be
found at:

  https://github.com/jirvoz/plot-nr-running

The tracepoints are added to add_nr_running() and sub_nr_running() which
are in kernel/sched/sched.h. In order to avoid CREATE_TRACE_POINTS in
the header a wrapper call is used and the trace/events/sched.h include
is moved before sched.h in kernel/sched/core.

Signed-off-by: Phil Auld &lt;pauld@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200629192303.GC120228@lorien.usersys.redhat.com
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'sched/urgent'</title>
<updated>2020-07-08T09:38:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-08T09:38:59+00:00</published>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/cfs: change initial value of runnable_avg</title>
<updated>2020-06-28T15:01:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vincent Guittot</name>
<email>vincent.guittot@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-24T15:44:22+00:00</published>
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Some performance regression on reaim benchmark have been raised with
  commit 070f5e860ee2 ("sched/fair: Take into account runnable_avg to classify group")

The problem comes from the init value of runnable_avg which is initialized
with max value. This can be a problem if the newly forked task is finally
a short task because the group of CPUs is wrongly set to overloaded and
tasks are pulled less agressively.

Set initial value of runnable_avg equals to util_avg to reflect that there
is no waiting time so far.

Fixes: 070f5e860ee2 ("sched/fair: Take into account runnable_avg to classify group")
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;rong.a.chen@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200624154422.29166-1-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
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Some performance regression on reaim benchmark have been raised with
  commit 070f5e860ee2 ("sched/fair: Take into account runnable_avg to classify group")

The problem comes from the init value of runnable_avg which is initialized
with max value. This can be a problem if the newly forked task is finally
a short task because the group of CPUs is wrongly set to overloaded and
tasks are pulled less agressively.

Set initial value of runnable_avg equals to util_avg to reflect that there
is no waiting time so far.

Fixes: 070f5e860ee2 ("sched/fair: Take into account runnable_avg to classify group")
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;rong.a.chen@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200624154422.29166-1-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/fair: Optimize dequeue_task_fair()</title>
<updated>2020-06-25T11:45:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peng Wang</name>
<email>rocking@linux.alibaba.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-16T06:04:07+00:00</published>
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While looking at enqueue_task_fair and dequeue_task_fair, it occurred
to me that dequeue_task_fair can also be optimized as Vincent described
in commit 7d148be69e3a ("sched/fair: Optimize enqueue_task_fair()").

When encountering throttled cfs_rq, dequeue_throttle label can ensure
se not to be NULL, and rq-&gt;nr_running remains unchanged, so we can also
skip the early balance check.

Signed-off-by: Peng Wang &lt;rocking@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/701eef9a40de93dcf5fe7063fd607bca5db38e05.1592287263.git.rocking@linux.alibaba.com
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While looking at enqueue_task_fair and dequeue_task_fair, it occurred
to me that dequeue_task_fair can also be optimized as Vincent described
in commit 7d148be69e3a ("sched/fair: Optimize enqueue_task_fair()").

When encountering throttled cfs_rq, dequeue_throttle label can ensure
se not to be NULL, and rq-&gt;nr_running remains unchanged, so we can also
skip the early balance check.

Signed-off-by: Peng Wang &lt;rocking@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/701eef9a40de93dcf5fe7063fd607bca5db38e05.1592287263.git.rocking@linux.alibaba.com
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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched: Remove struct sched_class::next field</title>
<updated>2020-06-25T11:45:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-19T21:44:54+00:00</published>
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Now that the sched_class descriptors are defined in order via the linker
script vmlinux.lds.h, there's no reason to have a "next" pointer to the
previous priroity structure. The order of the sturctures can be aligned as
an array, and used to index and find the next sched_class descriptor.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191219214558.845353593@goodmis.org
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Now that the sched_class descriptors are defined in order via the linker
script vmlinux.lds.h, there's no reason to have a "next" pointer to the
previous priroity structure. The order of the sturctures can be aligned as
an array, and used to index and find the next sched_class descriptor.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191219214558.845353593@goodmis.org
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