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<title>jump_label: move 'asm goto' support test to Kconfig</title>
<updated>2019-01-06T00:46:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-30T15:14:15+00:00</published>
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Currently, CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL just means "I _want_ to use jump label".

The jump label is controlled by HAVE_JUMP_LABEL, which is defined
like this:

  #if defined(CC_HAVE_ASM_GOTO) &amp;&amp; defined(CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL)
  # define HAVE_JUMP_LABEL
  #endif

We can improve this by testing 'asm goto' support in Kconfig, then
make JUMP_LABEL depend on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO.

Ugly #ifdef HAVE_JUMP_LABEL will go away, and CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL will
match to the real kernel capability.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt; (powerpc)
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt;
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Currently, CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL just means "I _want_ to use jump label".

The jump label is controlled by HAVE_JUMP_LABEL, which is defined
like this:

  #if defined(CC_HAVE_ASM_GOTO) &amp;&amp; defined(CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL)
  # define HAVE_JUMP_LABEL
  #endif

We can improve this by testing 'asm goto' support in Kconfig, then
make JUMP_LABEL depend on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO.

Ugly #ifdef HAVE_JUMP_LABEL will go away, and CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL will
match to the real kernel capability.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt; (powerpc)
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2019-01-05T17:16:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-05T17:16:18+00:00</published>
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Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:

 - procfs updates

 - various misc bits

 - lib/ updates

 - epoll updates

 - autofs

 - fatfs

 - a few more MM bits

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (58 commits)
  mm/page_io.c: fix polled swap page in
  checkpatch: add Co-developed-by to signature tags
  docs: fix Co-Developed-by docs
  drivers/base/platform.c: kmemleak ignore a known leak
  fs: don't open code lru_to_page()
  fs/: remove caller signal_pending branch predictions
  mm/: remove caller signal_pending branch predictions
  arch/arc/mm/fault.c: remove caller signal_pending_branch predictions
  kernel/sched/: remove caller signal_pending branch predictions
  kernel/locking/mutex.c: remove caller signal_pending branch predictions
  mm: select HAVE_MOVE_PMD on x86 for faster mremap
  mm: speed up mremap by 20x on large regions
  mm: treewide: remove unused address argument from pte_alloc functions
  initramfs: cleanup incomplete rootfs
  scripts/gdb: fix lx-version string output
  kernel/kcov.c: mark write_comp_data() as notrace
  kernel/sysctl: add panic_print into sysctl
  panic: add options to print system info when panic happens
  bfs: extra sanity checking and static inode bitmap
  exec: separate MM_ANONPAGES and RLIMIT_STACK accounting
  ...
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Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:

 - procfs updates

 - various misc bits

 - lib/ updates

 - epoll updates

 - autofs

 - fatfs

 - a few more MM bits

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (58 commits)
  mm/page_io.c: fix polled swap page in
  checkpatch: add Co-developed-by to signature tags
  docs: fix Co-Developed-by docs
  drivers/base/platform.c: kmemleak ignore a known leak
  fs: don't open code lru_to_page()
  fs/: remove caller signal_pending branch predictions
  mm/: remove caller signal_pending branch predictions
  arch/arc/mm/fault.c: remove caller signal_pending_branch predictions
  kernel/sched/: remove caller signal_pending branch predictions
  kernel/locking/mutex.c: remove caller signal_pending branch predictions
  mm: select HAVE_MOVE_PMD on x86 for faster mremap
  mm: speed up mremap by 20x on large regions
  mm: treewide: remove unused address argument from pte_alloc functions
  initramfs: cleanup incomplete rootfs
  scripts/gdb: fix lx-version string output
  kernel/kcov.c: mark write_comp_data() as notrace
  kernel/sysctl: add panic_print into sysctl
  panic: add options to print system info when panic happens
  bfs: extra sanity checking and static inode bitmap
  exec: separate MM_ANONPAGES and RLIMIT_STACK accounting
  ...
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<entry>
<title>kernel/sched/: remove caller signal_pending branch predictions</title>
<updated>2019-01-04T21:13:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Davidlohr Bueso</name>
<email>dave@stgolabs.net</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-03T23:28:48+00:00</published>
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This is already done for us internally by the signal machinery.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181116002713.8474-3-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This is already done for us internally by the signal machinery.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181116002713.8474-3-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Remove 'type' argument from access_ok() function</title>
<updated>2019-01-04T02:57:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-04T02:57:57+00:00</published>
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Nobody has actually used the type (VERIFY_READ vs VERIFY_WRITE) argument
of the user address range verification function since we got rid of the
old racy i386-only code to walk page tables by hand.

It existed because the original 80386 would not honor the write protect
bit when in kernel mode, so you had to do COW by hand before doing any
user access.  But we haven't supported that in a long time, and these
days the 'type' argument is a purely historical artifact.

A discussion about extending 'user_access_begin()' to do the range
checking resulted this patch, because there is no way we're going to
move the old VERIFY_xyz interface to that model.  And it's best done at
the end of the merge window when I've done most of my merges, so let's
just get this done once and for all.

This patch was mostly done with a sed-script, with manual fix-ups for
the cases that weren't of the trivial 'access_ok(VERIFY_xyz' form.

There were a couple of notable cases:

 - csky still had the old "verify_area()" name as an alias.

 - the iter_iov code had magical hardcoded knowledge of the actual
   values of VERIFY_{READ,WRITE} (not that they mattered, since nothing
   really used it)

 - microblaze used the type argument for a debug printout

but other than those oddities this should be a total no-op patch.

I tried to fix up all architectures, did fairly extensive grepping for
access_ok() uses, and the changes are trivial, but I may have missed
something.  Any missed conversion should be trivially fixable, though.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Nobody has actually used the type (VERIFY_READ vs VERIFY_WRITE) argument
of the user address range verification function since we got rid of the
old racy i386-only code to walk page tables by hand.

It existed because the original 80386 would not honor the write protect
bit when in kernel mode, so you had to do COW by hand before doing any
user access.  But we haven't supported that in a long time, and these
days the 'type' argument is a purely historical artifact.

A discussion about extending 'user_access_begin()' to do the range
checking resulted this patch, because there is no way we're going to
move the old VERIFY_xyz interface to that model.  And it's best done at
the end of the merge window when I've done most of my merges, so let's
just get this done once and for all.

This patch was mostly done with a sed-script, with manual fix-ups for
the cases that weren't of the trivial 'access_ok(VERIFY_xyz' form.

There were a couple of notable cases:

 - csky still had the old "verify_area()" name as an alias.

 - the iter_iov code had magical hardcoded knowledge of the actual
   values of VERIFY_{READ,WRITE} (not that they mattered, since nothing
   really used it)

 - microblaze used the type argument for a debug printout

but other than those oddities this should be a total no-op patch.

I tried to fix up all architectures, did fairly extensive grepping for
access_ok() uses, and the changes are trivial, but I may have missed
something.  Any missed conversion should be trivially fixable, though.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sched/fair: Fix infinite loop in update_blocked_averages() by reverting a9e7f6544b9c</title>
<updated>2018-12-30T12:54:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-27T21:46:17+00:00</published>
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Zhipeng Xie, Xie XiuQi and Sargun Dhillon reported lockups in the
scheduler under high loads, starting at around the v4.18 time frame,
and Zhipeng Xie tracked it down to bugs in the rq-&gt;leaf_cfs_rq_list
manipulation.

Do a (manual) revert of:

  a9e7f6544b9c ("sched/fair: Fix O(nr_cgroups) in load balance path")

It turns out that the list_del_leaf_cfs_rq() introduced by this commit
is a surprising property that was not considered in followup commits
such as:

  9c2791f936ef ("sched/fair: Fix hierarchical order in rq-&gt;leaf_cfs_rq_list")

As Vincent Guittot explains:

 "I think that there is a bigger problem with commit a9e7f6544b9c and
  cfs_rq throttling:

  Let take the example of the following topology TG2 --&gt; TG1 --&gt; root:

   1) The 1st time a task is enqueued, we will add TG2 cfs_rq then TG1
      cfs_rq to leaf_cfs_rq_list and we are sure to do the whole branch in
      one path because it has never been used and can't be throttled so
      tmp_alone_branch will point to leaf_cfs_rq_list at the end.

   2) Then TG1 is throttled

   3) and we add TG3 as a new child of TG1.

   4) The 1st enqueue of a task on TG3 will add TG3 cfs_rq just before TG1
      cfs_rq and tmp_alone_branch will stay  on rq-&gt;leaf_cfs_rq_list.

  With commit a9e7f6544b9c, we can del a cfs_rq from rq-&gt;leaf_cfs_rq_list.
  So if the load of TG1 cfs_rq becomes NULL before step 2) above, TG1
  cfs_rq is removed from the list.
  Then at step 4), TG3 cfs_rq is added at the beginning of rq-&gt;leaf_cfs_rq_list
  but tmp_alone_branch still points to TG3 cfs_rq because its throttled
  parent can't be enqueued when the lock is released.
  tmp_alone_branch doesn't point to rq-&gt;leaf_cfs_rq_list whereas it should.

  So if TG3 cfs_rq is removed or destroyed before tmp_alone_branch
  points on another TG cfs_rq, the next TG cfs_rq that will be added,
  will be linked outside rq-&gt;leaf_cfs_rq_list - which is bad.

  In addition, we can break the ordering of the cfs_rq in
  rq-&gt;leaf_cfs_rq_list but this ordering is used to update and
  propagate the update from leaf down to root."

Instead of trying to work through all these cases and trying to reproduce
the very high loads that produced the lockup to begin with, simplify
the code temporarily by reverting a9e7f6544b9c - which change was clearly
not thought through completely.

This (hopefully) gives us a kernel that doesn't lock up so people
can continue to enjoy their holidays without worrying about regressions. ;-)

[ mingo: Wrote changelog, fixed weird spelling in code comment while at it. ]

Analyzed-by: Xie XiuQi &lt;xiexiuqi@huawei.com&gt;
Analyzed-by: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Reported-by: Zhipeng Xie &lt;xiezhipeng1@huawei.com&gt;
Reported-by: Sargun Dhillon &lt;sargun@sargun.me&gt;
Reported-by: Xie XiuQi &lt;xiexiuqi@huawei.com&gt;
Tested-by: Zhipeng Xie &lt;xiezhipeng1@huawei.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sargun Dhillon &lt;sargun@sargun.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v4.13+
Cc: Bin Li &lt;huawei.libin@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Fixes: a9e7f6544b9c ("sched/fair: Fix O(nr_cgroups) in load balance path")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1545879866-27809-1-git-send-email-xiexiuqi@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Zhipeng Xie, Xie XiuQi and Sargun Dhillon reported lockups in the
scheduler under high loads, starting at around the v4.18 time frame,
and Zhipeng Xie tracked it down to bugs in the rq-&gt;leaf_cfs_rq_list
manipulation.

Do a (manual) revert of:

  a9e7f6544b9c ("sched/fair: Fix O(nr_cgroups) in load balance path")

It turns out that the list_del_leaf_cfs_rq() introduced by this commit
is a surprising property that was not considered in followup commits
such as:

  9c2791f936ef ("sched/fair: Fix hierarchical order in rq-&gt;leaf_cfs_rq_list")

As Vincent Guittot explains:

 "I think that there is a bigger problem with commit a9e7f6544b9c and
  cfs_rq throttling:

  Let take the example of the following topology TG2 --&gt; TG1 --&gt; root:

   1) The 1st time a task is enqueued, we will add TG2 cfs_rq then TG1
      cfs_rq to leaf_cfs_rq_list and we are sure to do the whole branch in
      one path because it has never been used and can't be throttled so
      tmp_alone_branch will point to leaf_cfs_rq_list at the end.

   2) Then TG1 is throttled

   3) and we add TG3 as a new child of TG1.

   4) The 1st enqueue of a task on TG3 will add TG3 cfs_rq just before TG1
      cfs_rq and tmp_alone_branch will stay  on rq-&gt;leaf_cfs_rq_list.

  With commit a9e7f6544b9c, we can del a cfs_rq from rq-&gt;leaf_cfs_rq_list.
  So if the load of TG1 cfs_rq becomes NULL before step 2) above, TG1
  cfs_rq is removed from the list.
  Then at step 4), TG3 cfs_rq is added at the beginning of rq-&gt;leaf_cfs_rq_list
  but tmp_alone_branch still points to TG3 cfs_rq because its throttled
  parent can't be enqueued when the lock is released.
  tmp_alone_branch doesn't point to rq-&gt;leaf_cfs_rq_list whereas it should.

  So if TG3 cfs_rq is removed or destroyed before tmp_alone_branch
  points on another TG cfs_rq, the next TG cfs_rq that will be added,
  will be linked outside rq-&gt;leaf_cfs_rq_list - which is bad.

  In addition, we can break the ordering of the cfs_rq in
  rq-&gt;leaf_cfs_rq_list but this ordering is used to update and
  propagate the update from leaf down to root."

Instead of trying to work through all these cases and trying to reproduce
the very high loads that produced the lockup to begin with, simplify
the code temporarily by reverting a9e7f6544b9c - which change was clearly
not thought through completely.

This (hopefully) gives us a kernel that doesn't lock up so people
can continue to enjoy their holidays without worrying about regressions. ;-)

[ mingo: Wrote changelog, fixed weird spelling in code comment while at it. ]

Analyzed-by: Xie XiuQi &lt;xiexiuqi@huawei.com&gt;
Analyzed-by: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Reported-by: Zhipeng Xie &lt;xiezhipeng1@huawei.com&gt;
Reported-by: Sargun Dhillon &lt;sargun@sargun.me&gt;
Reported-by: Xie XiuQi &lt;xiexiuqi@huawei.com&gt;
Tested-by: Zhipeng Xie &lt;xiezhipeng1@huawei.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sargun Dhillon &lt;sargun@sargun.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v4.13+
Cc: Bin Li &lt;huawei.libin@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Fixes: a9e7f6544b9c ("sched/fair: Fix O(nr_cgroups) in load balance path")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1545879866-27809-1-git-send-email-xiexiuqi@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sched/fair: Fix warning on non-SMP build</title>
<updated>2018-12-27T18:40:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Olof Johansson</name>
<email>olof@lixom.net</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-25T22:41:05+00:00</published>
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Caused by making the variable static:

  kernel/sched/fair.c:119:21: warning: 'capacity_margin' defined but not used [-Wunused-variable]

Seems easiest to just move it up under the existing ifdef CONFIG_SMP
that's a few lines above.

Fixes: ed8885a14433a ('sched/fair: Make some variables static')
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson &lt;olof@lixom.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Caused by making the variable static:

  kernel/sched/fair.c:119:21: warning: 'capacity_margin' defined but not used [-Wunused-variable]

Seems easiest to just move it up under the existing ifdef CONFIG_SMP
that's a few lines above.

Fixes: ed8885a14433a ('sched/fair: Make some variables static')
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson &lt;olof@lixom.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2018-12-26T22:56:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-26T22:56:10+00:00</published>
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Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - Introduce "Energy Aware Scheduling" - by Quentin Perret.

     This is a coherent topology description of CPUs in cooperation with
     the PM subsystem, with the goal to schedule more energy-efficiently
     on asymetric SMP platform - such as waking up tasks to the more
     energy-efficient CPUs first, as long as the system isn't
     oversubscribed.

     For details of the design, see:

        https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180724122521.22109-1-quentin.perret@arm.com/

   - Misc cleanups and smaller enhancements"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits)
  sched/fair: Select an energy-efficient CPU on task wake-up
  sched/fair: Introduce an energy estimation helper function
  sched/fair: Add over-utilization/tipping point indicator
  sched/fair: Clean-up update_sg_lb_stats parameters
  sched/toplogy: Introduce the 'sched_energy_present' static key
  sched/topology: Make Energy Aware Scheduling depend on schedutil
  sched/topology: Disable EAS on inappropriate platforms
  sched/topology: Add lowest CPU asymmetry sched_domain level pointer
  sched/topology: Reference the Energy Model of CPUs when available
  PM: Introduce an Energy Model management framework
  sched/cpufreq: Prepare schedutil for Energy Aware Scheduling
  sched/topology: Relocate arch_scale_cpu_capacity() to the internal header
  sched/core: Remove unnecessary unlikely() in push_*_task()
  sched/topology: Remove the ::smt_gain field from 'struct sched_domain'
  sched: Fix various typos in comments
  sched/core: Clean up the #ifdef block in add_nr_running()
  sched/fair: Make some variables static
  sched/core: Create task_has_idle_policy() helper
  sched/fair: Add lsub_positive() and use it consistently
  sched/fair: Mask UTIL_AVG_UNCHANGED usages
  ...
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Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - Introduce "Energy Aware Scheduling" - by Quentin Perret.

     This is a coherent topology description of CPUs in cooperation with
     the PM subsystem, with the goal to schedule more energy-efficiently
     on asymetric SMP platform - such as waking up tasks to the more
     energy-efficient CPUs first, as long as the system isn't
     oversubscribed.

     For details of the design, see:

        https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180724122521.22109-1-quentin.perret@arm.com/

   - Misc cleanups and smaller enhancements"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits)
  sched/fair: Select an energy-efficient CPU on task wake-up
  sched/fair: Introduce an energy estimation helper function
  sched/fair: Add over-utilization/tipping point indicator
  sched/fair: Clean-up update_sg_lb_stats parameters
  sched/toplogy: Introduce the 'sched_energy_present' static key
  sched/topology: Make Energy Aware Scheduling depend on schedutil
  sched/topology: Disable EAS on inappropriate platforms
  sched/topology: Add lowest CPU asymmetry sched_domain level pointer
  sched/topology: Reference the Energy Model of CPUs when available
  PM: Introduce an Energy Model management framework
  sched/cpufreq: Prepare schedutil for Energy Aware Scheduling
  sched/topology: Relocate arch_scale_cpu_capacity() to the internal header
  sched/core: Remove unnecessary unlikely() in push_*_task()
  sched/topology: Remove the ::smt_gain field from 'struct sched_domain'
  sched: Fix various typos in comments
  sched/core: Clean up the #ifdef block in add_nr_running()
  sched/fair: Make some variables static
  sched/core: Create task_has_idle_policy() helper
  sched/fair: Add lsub_positive() and use it consistently
  sched/fair: Mask UTIL_AVG_UNCHANGED usages
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2018-12-26T22:25:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-26T22:25:52+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=1eefdec18eded41833401cfd64749643ff72e7da'/>
<id>1eefdec18eded41833401cfd64749643ff72e7da</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main change in this cycle are initial preparatory bits of dynamic
  lockdep keys support from Bart Van Assche.

  There are also misc changes, a comment cleanup and a data structure
  cleanup"

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/fair: Clean up comment in nohz_idle_balance()
  locking/lockdep: Stop using RCU primitives to access 'all_lock_classes'
  locking/lockdep: Make concurrent lockdep_reset_lock() calls safe
  locking/lockdep: Remove a superfluous INIT_LIST_HEAD() statement
  locking/lockdep: Introduce lock_class_cache_is_registered()
  locking/lockdep: Inline __lockdep_init_map()
  locking/lockdep: Declare local symbols static
  tools/lib/lockdep/tests: Test the lockdep_reset_lock() implementation
  tools/lib/lockdep: Add dummy print_irqtrace_events() implementation
  tools/lib/lockdep: Rename "trywlock" into "trywrlock"
  tools/lib/lockdep/tests: Run lockdep tests a second time under Valgrind
  tools/lib/lockdep/tests: Improve testing accuracy
  tools/lib/lockdep/tests: Fix shellcheck warnings
  tools/lib/lockdep/tests: Display compiler warning and error messages
  locking/lockdep: Remove ::version from lock_class structure
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<pre>
Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main change in this cycle are initial preparatory bits of dynamic
  lockdep keys support from Bart Van Assche.

  There are also misc changes, a comment cleanup and a data structure
  cleanup"

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/fair: Clean up comment in nohz_idle_balance()
  locking/lockdep: Stop using RCU primitives to access 'all_lock_classes'
  locking/lockdep: Make concurrent lockdep_reset_lock() calls safe
  locking/lockdep: Remove a superfluous INIT_LIST_HEAD() statement
  locking/lockdep: Introduce lock_class_cache_is_registered()
  locking/lockdep: Inline __lockdep_init_map()
  locking/lockdep: Declare local symbols static
  tools/lib/lockdep/tests: Test the lockdep_reset_lock() implementation
  tools/lib/lockdep: Add dummy print_irqtrace_events() implementation
  tools/lib/lockdep: Rename "trywlock" into "trywrlock"
  tools/lib/lockdep/tests: Run lockdep tests a second time under Valgrind
  tools/lib/lockdep/tests: Improve testing accuracy
  tools/lib/lockdep/tests: Fix shellcheck warnings
  tools/lib/lockdep/tests: Display compiler warning and error messages
  locking/lockdep: Remove ::version from lock_class structure
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2018-12-26T21:07:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-26T21:07:19+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=792bf4d871dea8b69be2aaabdd320d7c6ed15985'/>
<id>792bf4d871dea8b69be2aaabdd320d7c6ed15985</id>
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Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The biggest RCU changes in this cycle were:

   - Convert RCU's BUG_ON() and similar calls to WARN_ON() and similar.

   - Replace calls of RCU-bh and RCU-sched update-side functions to
     their vanilla RCU counterparts. This series is a step towards
     complete removal of the RCU-bh and RCU-sched update-side functions.

     ( Note that some of these conversions are going upstream via their
       respective maintainers. )

   - Documentation updates, including a number of flavor-consolidation
     updates from Joel Fernandes.

   - Miscellaneous fixes.

   - Automate generation of the initrd filesystem used for rcutorture
     testing.

   - Convert spin_is_locked() assertions to instead use lockdep.

     ( Note that some of these conversions are going upstream via their
       respective maintainers. )

   - SRCU updates, especially including a fix from Dennis Krein for a
     bag-on-head-class bug.

   - RCU torture-test updates"

* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (112 commits)
  rcutorture: Don't do busted forward-progress testing
  rcutorture: Use 100ms buckets for forward-progress callback histograms
  rcutorture: Recover from OOM during forward-progress tests
  rcutorture: Print forward-progress test age upon failure
  rcutorture: Print time since GP end upon forward-progress failure
  rcutorture: Print histogram of CB invocation at OOM time
  rcutorture: Print GP age upon forward-progress failure
  rcu: Print per-CPU callback counts for forward-progress failures
  rcu: Account for nocb-CPU callback counts in RCU CPU stall warnings
  rcutorture: Dump grace-period diagnostics upon forward-progress OOM
  rcutorture: Prepare for asynchronous access to rcu_fwd_startat
  torture: Remove unnecessary "ret" variables
  rcutorture: Affinity forward-progress test to avoid housekeeping CPUs
  rcutorture: Break up too-long rcu_torture_fwd_prog() function
  rcutorture: Remove cbflood facility
  torture: Bring any extra CPUs online during kernel startup
  rcutorture: Add call_rcu() flooding forward-progress tests
  rcutorture/formal: Replace synchronize_sched() with synchronize_rcu()
  tools/kernel.h: Replace synchronize_sched() with synchronize_rcu()
  net/decnet: Replace rcu_barrier_bh() with rcu_barrier()
  ...
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The biggest RCU changes in this cycle were:

   - Convert RCU's BUG_ON() and similar calls to WARN_ON() and similar.

   - Replace calls of RCU-bh and RCU-sched update-side functions to
     their vanilla RCU counterparts. This series is a step towards
     complete removal of the RCU-bh and RCU-sched update-side functions.

     ( Note that some of these conversions are going upstream via their
       respective maintainers. )

   - Documentation updates, including a number of flavor-consolidation
     updates from Joel Fernandes.

   - Miscellaneous fixes.

   - Automate generation of the initrd filesystem used for rcutorture
     testing.

   - Convert spin_is_locked() assertions to instead use lockdep.

     ( Note that some of these conversions are going upstream via their
       respective maintainers. )

   - SRCU updates, especially including a fix from Dennis Krein for a
     bag-on-head-class bug.

   - RCU torture-test updates"

* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (112 commits)
  rcutorture: Don't do busted forward-progress testing
  rcutorture: Use 100ms buckets for forward-progress callback histograms
  rcutorture: Recover from OOM during forward-progress tests
  rcutorture: Print forward-progress test age upon failure
  rcutorture: Print time since GP end upon forward-progress failure
  rcutorture: Print histogram of CB invocation at OOM time
  rcutorture: Print GP age upon forward-progress failure
  rcu: Print per-CPU callback counts for forward-progress failures
  rcu: Account for nocb-CPU callback counts in RCU CPU stall warnings
  rcutorture: Dump grace-period diagnostics upon forward-progress OOM
  rcutorture: Prepare for asynchronous access to rcu_fwd_startat
  torture: Remove unnecessary "ret" variables
  rcutorture: Affinity forward-progress test to avoid housekeeping CPUs
  rcutorture: Break up too-long rcu_torture_fwd_prog() function
  rcutorture: Remove cbflood facility
  torture: Bring any extra CPUs online during kernel startup
  rcutorture: Add call_rcu() flooding forward-progress tests
  rcutorture/formal: Replace synchronize_sched() with synchronize_rcu()
  tools/kernel.h: Replace synchronize_sched() with synchronize_rcu()
  net/decnet: Replace rcu_barrier_bh() with rcu_barrier()
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/fair: Select an energy-efficient CPU on task wake-up</title>
<updated>2018-12-11T14:17:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Quentin Perret</name>
<email>quentin.perret@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-03T09:56:27+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=732cd75b8c920d3727e69957b14faa7c2d7c3b75'/>
<id>732cd75b8c920d3727e69957b14faa7c2d7c3b75</id>
<content type='text'>
If an Energy Model (EM) is available and if the system isn't
overutilized, re-route waking tasks into an energy-aware placement
algorithm. The selection of an energy-efficient CPU for a task
is achieved by estimating the impact on system-level active energy
resulting from the placement of the task on the CPU with the highest
spare capacity in each performance domain. This strategy spreads tasks
in a performance domain and avoids overly aggressive task packing. The
best CPU energy-wise is then selected if it saves a large enough amount
of energy with respect to prev_cpu.

Although it has already shown significant benefits on some existing
targets, this approach cannot scale to platforms with numerous CPUs.
This is an attempt to do something useful as writing a fast heuristic
that performs reasonably well on a broad spectrum of architectures isn't
an easy task. As such, the scope of usability of the energy-aware
wake-up path is restricted to systems with the SD_ASYM_CPUCAPACITY flag
set, and where the EM isn't too complex.

Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret &lt;quentin.perret@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&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: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: adharmap@codeaurora.org
Cc: chris.redpath@arm.com
Cc: currojerez@riseup.net
Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com
Cc: edubezval@gmail.com
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: javi.merino@kernel.org
Cc: joel@joelfernandes.org
Cc: juri.lelli@redhat.com
Cc: morten.rasmussen@arm.com
Cc: patrick.bellasi@arm.com
Cc: pkondeti@codeaurora.org
Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net
Cc: skannan@codeaurora.org
Cc: smuckle@google.com
Cc: srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com
Cc: thara.gopinath@linaro.org
Cc: tkjos@google.com
Cc: valentin.schneider@arm.com
Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Cc: viresh.kumar@linaro.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181203095628.11858-15-quentin.perret@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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If an Energy Model (EM) is available and if the system isn't
overutilized, re-route waking tasks into an energy-aware placement
algorithm. The selection of an energy-efficient CPU for a task
is achieved by estimating the impact on system-level active energy
resulting from the placement of the task on the CPU with the highest
spare capacity in each performance domain. This strategy spreads tasks
in a performance domain and avoids overly aggressive task packing. The
best CPU energy-wise is then selected if it saves a large enough amount
of energy with respect to prev_cpu.

Although it has already shown significant benefits on some existing
targets, this approach cannot scale to platforms with numerous CPUs.
This is an attempt to do something useful as writing a fast heuristic
that performs reasonably well on a broad spectrum of architectures isn't
an easy task. As such, the scope of usability of the energy-aware
wake-up path is restricted to systems with the SD_ASYM_CPUCAPACITY flag
set, and where the EM isn't too complex.

Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret &lt;quentin.perret@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&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: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: adharmap@codeaurora.org
Cc: chris.redpath@arm.com
Cc: currojerez@riseup.net
Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com
Cc: edubezval@gmail.com
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: javi.merino@kernel.org
Cc: joel@joelfernandes.org
Cc: juri.lelli@redhat.com
Cc: morten.rasmussen@arm.com
Cc: patrick.bellasi@arm.com
Cc: pkondeti@codeaurora.org
Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net
Cc: skannan@codeaurora.org
Cc: smuckle@google.com
Cc: srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com
Cc: thara.gopinath@linaro.org
Cc: tkjos@google.com
Cc: valentin.schneider@arm.com
Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Cc: viresh.kumar@linaro.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181203095628.11858-15-quentin.perret@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
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