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<title>sched/fair: Use RCU accessors consistently for -&gt;numa_group</title>
<updated>2019-07-25T13:37:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jann Horn</name>
<email>jannh@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-16T15:20:47+00:00</published>
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The old code used RCU annotations and accessors inconsistently for
-&gt;numa_group, which can lead to use-after-frees and NULL dereferences.

Let all accesses to -&gt;numa_group use proper RCU helpers to prevent such
issues.

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 8c8a743c5087 ("sched/numa: Use {cpu, pid} to create task groups for shared faults")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190716152047.14424-3-jannh@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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The old code used RCU annotations and accessors inconsistently for
-&gt;numa_group, which can lead to use-after-frees and NULL dereferences.

Let all accesses to -&gt;numa_group use proper RCU helpers to prevent such
issues.

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 8c8a743c5087 ("sched/numa: Use {cpu, pid} to create task groups for shared faults")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190716152047.14424-3-jannh@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/fair: Don't free p-&gt;numa_faults with concurrent readers</title>
<updated>2019-07-25T13:37:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jann Horn</name>
<email>jannh@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-16T15:20:45+00:00</published>
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When going through execve(), zero out the NUMA fault statistics instead of
freeing them.

During execve, the task is reachable through procfs and the scheduler. A
concurrent /proc/*/sched reader can read data from a freed -&gt;numa_faults
allocation (confirmed by KASAN) and write it back to userspace.
I believe that it would also be possible for a use-after-free read to occur
through a race between a NUMA fault and execve(): task_numa_fault() can
lead to task_numa_compare(), which invokes task_weight() on the currently
running task of a different CPU.

Another way to fix this would be to make -&gt;numa_faults RCU-managed or add
extra locking, but it seems easier to wipe the NUMA fault statistics on
execve.

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 82727018b0d3 ("sched/numa: Call task_numa_free() from do_execve()")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190716152047.14424-1-jannh@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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When going through execve(), zero out the NUMA fault statistics instead of
freeing them.

During execve, the task is reachable through procfs and the scheduler. A
concurrent /proc/*/sched reader can read data from a freed -&gt;numa_faults
allocation (confirmed by KASAN) and write it back to userspace.
I believe that it would also be possible for a use-after-free read to occur
through a race between a NUMA fault and execve(): task_numa_fault() can
lead to task_numa_compare(), which invokes task_weight() on the currently
running task of a different CPU.

Another way to fix this would be to make -&gt;numa_faults RCU-managed or add
extra locking, but it seems easier to wipe the NUMA fault statistics on
execve.

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 82727018b0d3 ("sched/numa: Call task_numa_free() from do_execve()")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190716152047.14424-1-jannh@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2019-07-20T17:20:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-20T17:20:27+00:00</published>
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Pull more KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Mostly bugfixes, but also:

   - s390 support for KVM selftests

   - LAPIC timer offloading to housekeeping CPUs

   - Extend an s390 optimization for overcommitted hosts to all
     architectures

   - Debugging cleanups and improvements"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (25 commits)
  KVM: x86: Add fixed counters to PMU filter
  KVM: nVMX: do not use dangling shadow VMCS after guest reset
  KVM: VMX: dump VMCS on failed entry
  KVM: x86/vPMU: refine kvm_pmu err msg when event creation failed
  KVM: s390: Use kvm_vcpu_wake_up in kvm_s390_vcpu_wakeup
  KVM: Boost vCPUs that are delivering interrupts
  KVM: selftests: Remove superfluous define from vmx.c
  KVM: SVM: Fix detection of AMD Errata 1096
  KVM: LAPIC: Inject timer interrupt via posted interrupt
  KVM: LAPIC: Make lapic timer unpinned
  KVM: x86/vPMU: reset pmc-&gt;counter to 0 for pmu fixed_counters
  KVM: nVMX: Ignore segment base for VMX memory operand when segment not FS or GS
  kvm: x86: ioapic and apic debug macros cleanup
  kvm: x86: some tsc debug cleanup
  kvm: vmx: fix coccinelle warnings
  x86: kvm: avoid constant-conversion warning
  x86: kvm: avoid -Wsometimes-uninitized warning
  KVM: x86: expose AVX512_BF16 feature to guest
  KVM: selftests: enable pgste option for the linker on s390
  KVM: selftests: Move kvm_create_max_vcpus test to generic code
  ...
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Pull more KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Mostly bugfixes, but also:

   - s390 support for KVM selftests

   - LAPIC timer offloading to housekeeping CPUs

   - Extend an s390 optimization for overcommitted hosts to all
     architectures

   - Debugging cleanups and improvements"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (25 commits)
  KVM: x86: Add fixed counters to PMU filter
  KVM: nVMX: do not use dangling shadow VMCS after guest reset
  KVM: VMX: dump VMCS on failed entry
  KVM: x86/vPMU: refine kvm_pmu err msg when event creation failed
  KVM: s390: Use kvm_vcpu_wake_up in kvm_s390_vcpu_wakeup
  KVM: Boost vCPUs that are delivering interrupts
  KVM: selftests: Remove superfluous define from vmx.c
  KVM: SVM: Fix detection of AMD Errata 1096
  KVM: LAPIC: Inject timer interrupt via posted interrupt
  KVM: LAPIC: Make lapic timer unpinned
  KVM: x86/vPMU: reset pmc-&gt;counter to 0 for pmu fixed_counters
  KVM: nVMX: Ignore segment base for VMX memory operand when segment not FS or GS
  kvm: x86: ioapic and apic debug macros cleanup
  kvm: x86: some tsc debug cleanup
  kvm: vmx: fix coccinelle warnings
  x86: kvm: avoid constant-conversion warning
  x86: kvm: avoid -Wsometimes-uninitized warning
  KVM: x86: expose AVX512_BF16 feature to guest
  KVM: selftests: enable pgste option for the linker on s390
  KVM: selftests: Move kvm_create_max_vcpus test to generic code
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: LAPIC: Inject timer interrupt via posted interrupt</title>
<updated>2019-07-20T07:00:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wanpeng Li</name>
<email>wanpengli@tencent.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-06T01:26:51+00:00</published>
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Dedicated instances are currently disturbed by unnecessary jitter due
to the emulated lapic timers firing on the same pCPUs where the
vCPUs reside.  There is no hardware virtual timer on Intel for guest
like ARM, so both programming timer in guest and the emulated timer fires
incur vmexits.  This patch tries to avoid vmexit when the emulated timer
fires, at least in dedicated instance scenario when nohz_full is enabled.

In that case, the emulated timers can be offload to the nearest busy
housekeeping cpus since APICv has been found for several years in server
processors. The guest timer interrupt can then be injected via posted interrupts,
which are delivered by the housekeeping cpu once the emulated timer fires.

The host should tuned so that vCPUs are placed on isolated physical
processors, and with several pCPUs surplus for busy housekeeping.
If disabled mwait/hlt/pause vmexits keep the vCPUs in non-root mode,
~3% redis performance benefit can be observed on Skylake server, and the
number of external interrupt vmexits drops substantially.  Without patch

            VM-EXIT  Samples  Samples%  Time%   Min Time  Max Time   Avg time
EXTERNAL_INTERRUPT    42916    49.43%   39.30%   0.47us   106.09us   0.71us ( +-   1.09% )

While with patch:

            VM-EXIT  Samples  Samples%  Time%   Min Time  Max Time         Avg time
EXTERNAL_INTERRUPT    6871     9.29%     2.96%   0.44us    57.88us   0.72us ( +-   4.02% )

Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Radim Krčmář &lt;rkrcmar@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti &lt;mtosatti@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li &lt;wanpengli@tencent.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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Dedicated instances are currently disturbed by unnecessary jitter due
to the emulated lapic timers firing on the same pCPUs where the
vCPUs reside.  There is no hardware virtual timer on Intel for guest
like ARM, so both programming timer in guest and the emulated timer fires
incur vmexits.  This patch tries to avoid vmexit when the emulated timer
fires, at least in dedicated instance scenario when nohz_full is enabled.

In that case, the emulated timers can be offload to the nearest busy
housekeeping cpus since APICv has been found for several years in server
processors. The guest timer interrupt can then be injected via posted interrupts,
which are delivered by the housekeeping cpu once the emulated timer fires.

The host should tuned so that vCPUs are placed on isolated physical
processors, and with several pCPUs surplus for busy housekeeping.
If disabled mwait/hlt/pause vmexits keep the vCPUs in non-root mode,
~3% redis performance benefit can be observed on Skylake server, and the
number of external interrupt vmexits drops substantially.  Without patch

            VM-EXIT  Samples  Samples%  Time%   Min Time  Max Time   Avg time
EXTERNAL_INTERRUPT    42916    49.43%   39.30%   0.47us   106.09us   0.71us ( +-   1.09% )

While with patch:

            VM-EXIT  Samples  Samples%  Time%   Min Time  Max Time         Avg time
EXTERNAL_INTERRUPT    6871     9.29%     2.96%   0.44us    57.88us   0.72us ( +-   4.02% )

Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Radim Krčmář &lt;rkrcmar@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti &lt;mtosatti@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li &lt;wanpengli@tencent.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/core: Fix preempt warning in ttwu</title>
<updated>2019-07-13T09:23:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-10T10:57:36+00:00</published>
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John reported a DEBUG_PREEMPT warning caused by commit:

  aacedf26fb76 ("sched/core: Optimize try_to_wake_up() for local wakeups")

I overlooked that ttwu_stat() requires preemption disabled.

Reported-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Fixes: aacedf26fb76 ("sched/core: Optimize try_to_wake_up() for local wakeups")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190710105736.GK3402@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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John reported a DEBUG_PREEMPT warning caused by commit:

  aacedf26fb76 ("sched/core: Optimize try_to_wake_up() for local wakeups")

I overlooked that ttwu_stat() requires preemption disabled.

Reported-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Fixes: aacedf26fb76 ("sched/core: Optimize try_to_wake_up() for local wakeups")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190710105736.GK3402@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'docs-5.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linux</title>
<updated>2019-07-09T19:34:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-09T19:34:26+00:00</published>
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Pull Documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "It's been a relatively busy cycle for docs:

   - A fair pile of RST conversions, many from Mauro. These create more
     than the usual number of simple but annoying merge conflicts with
     other trees, unfortunately. He has a lot more of these waiting on
     the wings that, I think, will go to you directly later on.

   - A new document on how to use merges and rebases in kernel repos,
     and one on Spectre vulnerabilities.

   - Various improvements to the build system, including automatic
     markup of function() references because some people, for reasons I
     will never understand, were of the opinion that
     :c:func:``function()`` is unattractive and not fun to type.

   - We now recommend using sphinx 1.7, but still support back to 1.4.

   - Lots of smaller improvements, warning fixes, typo fixes, etc"

* tag 'docs-5.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (129 commits)
  docs: automarkup.py: ignore exceptions when seeking for xrefs
  docs: Move binderfs to admin-guide
  Disable Sphinx SmartyPants in HTML output
  doc: RCU callback locks need only _bh, not necessarily _irq
  docs: format kernel-parameters -- as code
  Doc : doc-guide : Fix a typo
  platform: x86: get rid of a non-existent document
  Add the RCU docs to the core-api manual
  Documentation: RCU: Add TOC tree hooks
  Documentation: RCU: Rename txt files to rst
  Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU UP systems to reST
  Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU linked list to reST
  Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU basic concepts to reST
  docs: filesystems: Remove uneeded .rst extension on toctables
  scripts/sphinx-pre-install: fix out-of-tree build
  docs: zh_CN: submitting-drivers.rst: Remove a duplicated Documentation/
  Documentation: PGP: update for newer HW devices
  Documentation: Add section about CPU vulnerabilities for Spectre
  Documentation: platform: Delete x86-laptop-drivers.txt
  docs: Note that :c:func: should no longer be used
  ...
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<pre>
Pull Documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "It's been a relatively busy cycle for docs:

   - A fair pile of RST conversions, many from Mauro. These create more
     than the usual number of simple but annoying merge conflicts with
     other trees, unfortunately. He has a lot more of these waiting on
     the wings that, I think, will go to you directly later on.

   - A new document on how to use merges and rebases in kernel repos,
     and one on Spectre vulnerabilities.

   - Various improvements to the build system, including automatic
     markup of function() references because some people, for reasons I
     will never understand, were of the opinion that
     :c:func:``function()`` is unattractive and not fun to type.

   - We now recommend using sphinx 1.7, but still support back to 1.4.

   - Lots of smaller improvements, warning fixes, typo fixes, etc"

* tag 'docs-5.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (129 commits)
  docs: automarkup.py: ignore exceptions when seeking for xrefs
  docs: Move binderfs to admin-guide
  Disable Sphinx SmartyPants in HTML output
  doc: RCU callback locks need only _bh, not necessarily _irq
  docs: format kernel-parameters -- as code
  Doc : doc-guide : Fix a typo
  platform: x86: get rid of a non-existent document
  Add the RCU docs to the core-api manual
  Documentation: RCU: Add TOC tree hooks
  Documentation: RCU: Rename txt files to rst
  Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU UP systems to reST
  Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU linked list to reST
  Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU basic concepts to reST
  docs: filesystems: Remove uneeded .rst extension on toctables
  scripts/sphinx-pre-install: fix out-of-tree build
  docs: zh_CN: submitting-drivers.rst: Remove a duplicated Documentation/
  Documentation: PGP: update for newer HW devices
  Documentation: Add section about CPU vulnerabilities for Spectre
  Documentation: platform: Delete x86-laptop-drivers.txt
  docs: Note that :c:func: should no longer be used
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2019-07-08T23:39:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-08T23:39:53+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=dad1c12ed831a7a89cc01e5582cd0b81a4be7f19'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Remove the unused per rq load array and all its infrastructure, by
   Dietmar Eggemann.

 - Add utilization clamping support by Patrick Bellasi. This is a
   refinement of the energy aware scheduling framework with support for
   boosting of interactive and capping of background workloads: to make
   sure critical GUI threads get maximum frequency ASAP, and to make
   sure background processing doesn't unnecessarily move to cpufreq
   governor to higher frequencies and less energy efficient CPU modes.

 - Add the bare minimum of tracepoints required for LISA EAS regression
   testing, by Qais Yousef - which allows automated testing of various
   power management features, including energy aware scheduling.

 - Restructure the former tsk_nr_cpus_allowed() facility that the -rt
   kernel used to modify the scheduler's CPU affinity logic such as
   migrate_disable() - introduce the task-&gt;cpus_ptr value instead of
   taking the address of &amp;task-&gt;cpus_allowed directly - by Sebastian
   Andrzej Siewior.

 - Misc optimizations, fixes, cleanups and small enhancements - see the
   Git log for details.

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (33 commits)
  sched/uclamp: Add uclamp support to energy_compute()
  sched/uclamp: Add uclamp_util_with()
  sched/cpufreq, sched/uclamp: Add clamps for FAIR and RT tasks
  sched/uclamp: Set default clamps for RT tasks
  sched/uclamp: Reset uclamp values on RESET_ON_FORK
  sched/uclamp: Extend sched_setattr() to support utilization clamping
  sched/core: Allow sched_setattr() to use the current policy
  sched/uclamp: Add system default clamps
  sched/uclamp: Enforce last task's UCLAMP_MAX
  sched/uclamp: Add bucket local max tracking
  sched/uclamp: Add CPU's clamp buckets refcounting
  sched/fair: Rename weighted_cpuload() to cpu_runnable_load()
  sched/debug: Export the newly added tracepoints
  sched/debug: Add sched_overutilized tracepoint
  sched/debug: Add new tracepoint to track PELT at se level
  sched/debug: Add new tracepoints to track PELT at rq level
  sched/debug: Add a new sched_trace_*() helper functions
  sched/autogroup: Make autogroup_path() always available
  sched/wait: Deduplicate code with do-while
  sched/topology: Remove unused 'sd' parameter from arch_scale_cpu_capacity()
  ...
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Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Remove the unused per rq load array and all its infrastructure, by
   Dietmar Eggemann.

 - Add utilization clamping support by Patrick Bellasi. This is a
   refinement of the energy aware scheduling framework with support for
   boosting of interactive and capping of background workloads: to make
   sure critical GUI threads get maximum frequency ASAP, and to make
   sure background processing doesn't unnecessarily move to cpufreq
   governor to higher frequencies and less energy efficient CPU modes.

 - Add the bare minimum of tracepoints required for LISA EAS regression
   testing, by Qais Yousef - which allows automated testing of various
   power management features, including energy aware scheduling.

 - Restructure the former tsk_nr_cpus_allowed() facility that the -rt
   kernel used to modify the scheduler's CPU affinity logic such as
   migrate_disable() - introduce the task-&gt;cpus_ptr value instead of
   taking the address of &amp;task-&gt;cpus_allowed directly - by Sebastian
   Andrzej Siewior.

 - Misc optimizations, fixes, cleanups and small enhancements - see the
   Git log for details.

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (33 commits)
  sched/uclamp: Add uclamp support to energy_compute()
  sched/uclamp: Add uclamp_util_with()
  sched/cpufreq, sched/uclamp: Add clamps for FAIR and RT tasks
  sched/uclamp: Set default clamps for RT tasks
  sched/uclamp: Reset uclamp values on RESET_ON_FORK
  sched/uclamp: Extend sched_setattr() to support utilization clamping
  sched/core: Allow sched_setattr() to use the current policy
  sched/uclamp: Add system default clamps
  sched/uclamp: Enforce last task's UCLAMP_MAX
  sched/uclamp: Add bucket local max tracking
  sched/uclamp: Add CPU's clamp buckets refcounting
  sched/fair: Rename weighted_cpuload() to cpu_runnable_load()
  sched/debug: Export the newly added tracepoints
  sched/debug: Add sched_overutilized tracepoint
  sched/debug: Add new tracepoint to track PELT at se level
  sched/debug: Add new tracepoints to track PELT at rq level
  sched/debug: Add a new sched_trace_*() helper functions
  sched/autogroup: Make autogroup_path() always available
  sched/wait: Deduplicate code with do-while
  sched/topology: Remove unused 'sd' parameter from arch_scale_cpu_capacity()
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2019-07-08T23:12:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-08T23:12:03+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=e1928328699a582a540b105e5f4c160832a7fdcb'/>
<id>e1928328699a582a540b105e5f4c160832a7fdcb</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle are:

   - rwsem scalability improvements, phase #2, by Waiman Long, which are
     rather impressive:

       "On a 2-socket 40-core 80-thread Skylake system with 40 reader
        and writer locking threads, the min/mean/max locking operations
        done in a 5-second testing window before the patchset were:

         40 readers, Iterations Min/Mean/Max = 1,807/1,808/1,810
         40 writers, Iterations Min/Mean/Max = 1,807/50,344/151,255

        After the patchset, they became:

         40 readers, Iterations Min/Mean/Max = 30,057/31,359/32,741
         40 writers, Iterations Min/Mean/Max = 94,466/95,845/97,098"

     There's a lot of changes to the locking implementation that makes
     it similar to qrwlock, including owner handoff for more fair
     locking.

     Another microbenchmark shows how across the spectrum the
     improvements are:

       "With a locking microbenchmark running on 5.1 based kernel, the
        total locking rates (in kops/s) on a 2-socket Skylake system
        with equal numbers of readers and writers (mixed) before and
        after this patchset were:

        # of Threads   Before Patch      After Patch
        ------------   ------------      -----------
             2            2,618             4,193
             4            1,202             3,726
             8              802             3,622
            16              729             3,359
            32              319             2,826
            64              102             2,744"

     The changes are extensive and the patch-set has been through
     several iterations addressing various locking workloads. There
     might be more regressions, but unless they are pathological I
     believe we want to use this new implementation as the baseline
     going forward.

   - jump-label optimizations by Daniel Bristot de Oliveira: the primary
     motivation was to remove IPI disturbance of isolated RT-workload
     CPUs, which resulted in the implementation of batched jump-label
     updates. Beyond the improvement of the real-time characteristics
     kernel, in one test this patchset improved static key update
     overhead from 57 msecs to just 1.4 msecs - which is a nice speedup
     as well.

   - atomic64_t cross-arch type cleanups by Mark Rutland: over the last
     ~10 years of atomic64_t existence the various types used by the
     APIs only had to be self-consistent within each architecture -
     which means they became wildly inconsistent across architectures.
     Mark puts and end to this by reworking all the atomic64
     implementations to use 's64' as the base type for atomic64_t, and
     to ensure that this type is consistently used for parameters and
     return values in the API, avoiding further problems in this area.

   - A large set of small improvements to lockdep by Yuyang Du: type
     cleanups, output cleanups, function return type and othr cleanups
     all around the place.

   - A set of percpu ops cleanups and fixes by Peter Zijlstra.

   - Misc other changes - please see the Git log for more details"

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (82 commits)
  locking/lockdep: increase size of counters for lockdep statistics
  locking/atomics: Use sed(1) instead of non-standard head(1) option
  locking/lockdep: Move mark_lock() inside CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS &amp;&amp; CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING
  x86/jump_label: Make tp_vec_nr static
  x86/percpu: Optimize raw_cpu_xchg()
  x86/percpu, sched/fair: Avoid local_clock()
  x86/percpu, x86/irq: Relax {set,get}_irq_regs()
  x86/percpu: Relax smp_processor_id()
  x86/percpu: Differentiate this_cpu_{}() and __this_cpu_{}()
  locking/rwsem: Guard against making count negative
  locking/rwsem: Adaptive disabling of reader optimistic spinning
  locking/rwsem: Enable time-based spinning on reader-owned rwsem
  locking/rwsem: Make rwsem-&gt;owner an atomic_long_t
  locking/rwsem: Enable readers spinning on writer
  locking/rwsem: Clarify usage of owner's nonspinaable bit
  locking/rwsem: Wake up almost all readers in wait queue
  locking/rwsem: More optimal RT task handling of null owner
  locking/rwsem: Always release wait_lock before waking up tasks
  locking/rwsem: Implement lock handoff to prevent lock starvation
  locking/rwsem: Make rwsem_spin_on_owner() return owner state
  ...
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<pre>
Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle are:

   - rwsem scalability improvements, phase #2, by Waiman Long, which are
     rather impressive:

       "On a 2-socket 40-core 80-thread Skylake system with 40 reader
        and writer locking threads, the min/mean/max locking operations
        done in a 5-second testing window before the patchset were:

         40 readers, Iterations Min/Mean/Max = 1,807/1,808/1,810
         40 writers, Iterations Min/Mean/Max = 1,807/50,344/151,255

        After the patchset, they became:

         40 readers, Iterations Min/Mean/Max = 30,057/31,359/32,741
         40 writers, Iterations Min/Mean/Max = 94,466/95,845/97,098"

     There's a lot of changes to the locking implementation that makes
     it similar to qrwlock, including owner handoff for more fair
     locking.

     Another microbenchmark shows how across the spectrum the
     improvements are:

       "With a locking microbenchmark running on 5.1 based kernel, the
        total locking rates (in kops/s) on a 2-socket Skylake system
        with equal numbers of readers and writers (mixed) before and
        after this patchset were:

        # of Threads   Before Patch      After Patch
        ------------   ------------      -----------
             2            2,618             4,193
             4            1,202             3,726
             8              802             3,622
            16              729             3,359
            32              319             2,826
            64              102             2,744"

     The changes are extensive and the patch-set has been through
     several iterations addressing various locking workloads. There
     might be more regressions, but unless they are pathological I
     believe we want to use this new implementation as the baseline
     going forward.

   - jump-label optimizations by Daniel Bristot de Oliveira: the primary
     motivation was to remove IPI disturbance of isolated RT-workload
     CPUs, which resulted in the implementation of batched jump-label
     updates. Beyond the improvement of the real-time characteristics
     kernel, in one test this patchset improved static key update
     overhead from 57 msecs to just 1.4 msecs - which is a nice speedup
     as well.

   - atomic64_t cross-arch type cleanups by Mark Rutland: over the last
     ~10 years of atomic64_t existence the various types used by the
     APIs only had to be self-consistent within each architecture -
     which means they became wildly inconsistent across architectures.
     Mark puts and end to this by reworking all the atomic64
     implementations to use 's64' as the base type for atomic64_t, and
     to ensure that this type is consistently used for parameters and
     return values in the API, avoiding further problems in this area.

   - A large set of small improvements to lockdep by Yuyang Du: type
     cleanups, output cleanups, function return type and othr cleanups
     all around the place.

   - A set of percpu ops cleanups and fixes by Peter Zijlstra.

   - Misc other changes - please see the Git log for more details"

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (82 commits)
  locking/lockdep: increase size of counters for lockdep statistics
  locking/atomics: Use sed(1) instead of non-standard head(1) option
  locking/lockdep: Move mark_lock() inside CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS &amp;&amp; CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING
  x86/jump_label: Make tp_vec_nr static
  x86/percpu: Optimize raw_cpu_xchg()
  x86/percpu, sched/fair: Avoid local_clock()
  x86/percpu, x86/irq: Relax {set,get}_irq_regs()
  x86/percpu: Relax smp_processor_id()
  x86/percpu: Differentiate this_cpu_{}() and __this_cpu_{}()
  locking/rwsem: Guard against making count negative
  locking/rwsem: Adaptive disabling of reader optimistic spinning
  locking/rwsem: Enable time-based spinning on reader-owned rwsem
  locking/rwsem: Make rwsem-&gt;owner an atomic_long_t
  locking/rwsem: Enable readers spinning on writer
  locking/rwsem: Clarify usage of owner's nonspinaable bit
  locking/rwsem: Wake up almost all readers in wait queue
  locking/rwsem: More optimal RT task handling of null owner
  locking/rwsem: Always release wait_lock before waking up tasks
  locking/rwsem: Implement lock handoff to prevent lock starvation
  locking/rwsem: Make rwsem_spin_on_owner() return owner state
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/uclamp: Add uclamp support to energy_compute()</title>
<updated>2019-06-24T17:23:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Patrick Bellasi</name>
<email>patrick.bellasi@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-21T08:42:12+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=af24bde8df2029f067dc46aff0393c8f18ff6e2f'/>
<id>af24bde8df2029f067dc46aff0393c8f18ff6e2f</id>
<content type='text'>
The Energy Aware Scheduler (EAS) estimates the energy impact of waking
up a task on a given CPU. This estimation is based on:

 a) an (active) power consumption defined for each CPU frequency
 b) an estimation of which frequency will be used on each CPU
 c) an estimation of the busy time (utilization) of each CPU

Utilization clamping can affect both b) and c).

A CPU is expected to run:

 - on an higher than required frequency, but for a shorter time, in case
   its estimated utilization will be smaller than the minimum utilization
   enforced by uclamp
 - on a smaller than required frequency, but for a longer time, in case
   its estimated utilization is bigger than the maximum utilization
   enforced by uclamp

While compute_energy() already accounts clamping effects on busy time,
the clamping effects on frequency selection are currently ignored.

Fix it by considering how CPU clamp values will be affected by a
task waking up and being RUNNABLE on that CPU.

Do that by refactoring schedutil_freq_util() to take an additional
task_struct* which allows EAS to evaluate the impact on clamp values of
a task being eventually queued in a CPU. Clamp values are applied to the
RT+CFS utilization only when a FREQUENCY_UTIL is required by
compute_energy().

Do note that switching from ENERGY_UTIL to FREQUENCY_UTIL in the
computation of the cpu_util signal implies that we are more likely to
estimate the highest OPP when a RT task is running in another CPU of
the same performance domain. This can have an impact on energy
estimation but:

 - it's not easy to say which approach is better, since it depends on
   the use case
 - the original approach could still be obtained by setting a smaller
   task-specific util_min whenever required

Since we are at that:

 - rename schedutil_freq_util() into schedutil_cpu_util(),
   since it's not only used for frequency selection.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Bellasi &lt;patrick.bellasi@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Alessio Balsini &lt;balsini@android.com&gt;
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann &lt;dietmar.eggemann@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Joel Fernandes &lt;joelaf@google.com&gt;
Cc: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Morten Rasmussen &lt;morten.rasmussen@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Turner &lt;pjt@google.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Quentin Perret &lt;quentin.perret@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Steve Muckle &lt;smuckle@google.com&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Todd Kjos &lt;tkjos@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190621084217.8167-12-patrick.bellasi@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
The Energy Aware Scheduler (EAS) estimates the energy impact of waking
up a task on a given CPU. This estimation is based on:

 a) an (active) power consumption defined for each CPU frequency
 b) an estimation of which frequency will be used on each CPU
 c) an estimation of the busy time (utilization) of each CPU

Utilization clamping can affect both b) and c).

A CPU is expected to run:

 - on an higher than required frequency, but for a shorter time, in case
   its estimated utilization will be smaller than the minimum utilization
   enforced by uclamp
 - on a smaller than required frequency, but for a longer time, in case
   its estimated utilization is bigger than the maximum utilization
   enforced by uclamp

While compute_energy() already accounts clamping effects on busy time,
the clamping effects on frequency selection are currently ignored.

Fix it by considering how CPU clamp values will be affected by a
task waking up and being RUNNABLE on that CPU.

Do that by refactoring schedutil_freq_util() to take an additional
task_struct* which allows EAS to evaluate the impact on clamp values of
a task being eventually queued in a CPU. Clamp values are applied to the
RT+CFS utilization only when a FREQUENCY_UTIL is required by
compute_energy().

Do note that switching from ENERGY_UTIL to FREQUENCY_UTIL in the
computation of the cpu_util signal implies that we are more likely to
estimate the highest OPP when a RT task is running in another CPU of
the same performance domain. This can have an impact on energy
estimation but:

 - it's not easy to say which approach is better, since it depends on
   the use case
 - the original approach could still be obtained by setting a smaller
   task-specific util_min whenever required

Since we are at that:

 - rename schedutil_freq_util() into schedutil_cpu_util(),
   since it's not only used for frequency selection.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Bellasi &lt;patrick.bellasi@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Alessio Balsini &lt;balsini@android.com&gt;
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann &lt;dietmar.eggemann@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Joel Fernandes &lt;joelaf@google.com&gt;
Cc: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Morten Rasmussen &lt;morten.rasmussen@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Turner &lt;pjt@google.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Quentin Perret &lt;quentin.perret@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Steve Muckle &lt;smuckle@google.com&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Todd Kjos &lt;tkjos@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190621084217.8167-12-patrick.bellasi@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/uclamp: Add uclamp_util_with()</title>
<updated>2019-06-24T17:23:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Patrick Bellasi</name>
<email>patrick.bellasi@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-21T08:42:11+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=9d20ad7dfc9a5cc64e33d725902d3863d350a66a'/>
<id>9d20ad7dfc9a5cc64e33d725902d3863d350a66a</id>
<content type='text'>
So far uclamp_util() allows to clamp a specified utilization considering
the clamp values requested by RUNNABLE tasks in a CPU. For the Energy
Aware Scheduler (EAS) it is interesting to test how clamp values will
change when a task is becoming RUNNABLE on a given CPU.
For example, EAS is interested in comparing the energy impact of
different scheduling decisions and the clamp values can play a role on
that.

Add uclamp_util_with() which allows to clamp a given utilization by
considering the possible impact on CPU clamp values of a specified task.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Bellasi &lt;patrick.bellasi@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Alessio Balsini &lt;balsini@android.com&gt;
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann &lt;dietmar.eggemann@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Joel Fernandes &lt;joelaf@google.com&gt;
Cc: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Morten Rasmussen &lt;morten.rasmussen@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Turner &lt;pjt@google.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Quentin Perret &lt;quentin.perret@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Steve Muckle &lt;smuckle@google.com&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Todd Kjos &lt;tkjos@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190621084217.8167-11-patrick.bellasi@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
So far uclamp_util() allows to clamp a specified utilization considering
the clamp values requested by RUNNABLE tasks in a CPU. For the Energy
Aware Scheduler (EAS) it is interesting to test how clamp values will
change when a task is becoming RUNNABLE on a given CPU.
For example, EAS is interested in comparing the energy impact of
different scheduling decisions and the clamp values can play a role on
that.

Add uclamp_util_with() which allows to clamp a given utilization by
considering the possible impact on CPU clamp values of a specified task.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Bellasi &lt;patrick.bellasi@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Alessio Balsini &lt;balsini@android.com&gt;
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann &lt;dietmar.eggemann@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Joel Fernandes &lt;joelaf@google.com&gt;
Cc: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Morten Rasmussen &lt;morten.rasmussen@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Turner &lt;pjt@google.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Quentin Perret &lt;quentin.perret@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Steve Muckle &lt;smuckle@google.com&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Todd Kjos &lt;tkjos@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190621084217.8167-11-patrick.bellasi@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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