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2014-07-09rcu: Fix a sparse warning in rcu_report_unblock_qs_rnp()Pranith Kumar1-0/+1
This commit annotates rcu_report_unblock_qs_rnp() in order to fix the following sparse warning: kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:990:13: warning: context imbalance in 'rcu_report_unblock_qs_rnp' - unexpected unlock Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2014-07-09rcu: Fix a sparse warning in rcu_initiate_boost()Pranith Kumar1-0/+2
This commit annotates rcu_initiate_boost() fixes the following sparse warning: kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:1494:13: warning: context imbalance in 'rcu_initiate_boost' - unexpected unlock Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2014-07-09rcu: Fix __rcu_reclaim() to use true/false for boolPaul E. McKenney1-2/+6
The __rcu_reclaim() function returned 0/1, which is not proper for a function of type bool. This commit therefore converts to false/true. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2014-07-09rcu: Remove CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_DELAYPaul E. McKenney2-8/+0
The CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_DELAY Kconfig parameter doesn't appear to be very effective at finding race conditions, so this commit removes it. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> [ paulmck: Remove definition and uses as noted by Paul Bolle. ]
2014-07-09rcu: Use __this_cpu_read() instead of per_cpu_ptr()Shan Wei1-1/+1
The __this_cpu_read() function produces better code than does per_cpu_ptr() on both ARM and x86. For example, gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.7.3-12ubuntu1) 4.7.3 produces the following: ARMv7 per_cpu_ptr(): force_quiescent_state: mov r3, sp @, bic r1, r3, #8128 @ tmp171,, ldr r2, .L98 @ tmp169, bic r1, r1, #63 @ tmp170, tmp171, ldr r3, [r0, #220] @ __ptr, rsp_6(D)->rda ldr r1, [r1, #20] @ D.35903_68->cpu, D.35903_68->cpu mov r6, r0 @ rsp, rsp ldr r2, [r2, r1, asl #2] @ tmp173, __per_cpu_offset add r3, r3, r2 @ tmp175, __ptr, tmp173 ldr r5, [r3, #12] @ rnp_old, D.29162_13->mynode ARMv7 __this_cpu_read(): force_quiescent_state: ldr r3, [r0, #220] @ rsp_7(D)->rda, rsp_7(D)->rda mov r6, r0 @ rsp, rsp add r3, r3, #12 @ __ptr, rsp_7(D)->rda, ldr r5, [r2, r3] @ rnp_old, *D.29176_13 Using gcc 4.8.2: x86_64 per_cpu_ptr(): movl %gs:cpu_number,%edx # cpu_number, pscr_ret__ movslq %edx, %rdx # pscr_ret__, pscr_ret__ movq __per_cpu_offset(,%rdx,8), %rdx # __per_cpu_offset, tmp93 movq %rdi, %r13 # rsp, rsp movq 1000(%rdi), %rax # rsp_9(D)->rda, __ptr movq 24(%rdx,%rax), %r12 # _15->mynode, rnp_old x86_64 __this_cpu_read(): movq %rdi, %r13 # rsp, rsp movq 1000(%rdi), %rax # rsp_9(D)->rda, rsp_9(D)->rda movq %gs:24(%rax),%r12 # _10->mynode, rnp_old Because this change produces significant benefits for these two very diverse architectures, this commit makes this change. Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <davidshan@tencent.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2014-07-09rcu: Don't use NMIs to dump other CPUs' stacksPaul E. McKenney1-7/+3
Although NMI-based stack dumps are in principle more accurate, they are also more likely to trigger deadlocks. This commit therefore replaces all uses of trigger_all_cpu_backtrace() with rcu_dump_cpu_stacks(), so that the CPU detecting an RCU CPU stall does the stack dumping. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2014-07-09rcu: Bind grace-period kthreads to non-NO_HZ_FULL CPUsPaul E. McKenney2-5/+19
Binding the grace-period kthreads to the timekeeping CPU resulted in significant performance decreases for some workloads. For more detail, see: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/3/395 for benchmark numbers https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/4/218 for CPU statistics It turns out that it is necessary to bind the grace-period kthreads to the timekeeping CPU only when all but CPU 0 is a nohz_full CPU on the one hand or if CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE=y on the other. In other cases, it suffices to bind the grace-period kthreads to the set of non-nohz_full CPUs. This commit therefore creates a tick_nohz_not_full_mask that is the complement of tick_nohz_full_mask, and then binds the grace-period kthread to the set of CPUs indicated by this new mask, which covers the CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE=n case. The CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE=y case still binds the grace-period kthreads to the timekeeping CPU. This commit also includes the tick_nohz_full_enabled() check suggested by Frederic Weisbecker. Reported-by: Jet Chen <jet.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ paulmck: Created housekeeping_affine() and housekeeping_mask per fweisbec feedback. ]
2014-07-09rcu: Simplify priority boosting by putting rt_mutex in rcu_nodePaul E. McKenney2-14/+14
RCU priority boosting currently checks for boosting via a pointer in task_struct. However, this is not needed: As Oleg noted, if the rt_mutex is placed in the rcu_node instead of on the booster's stack, the boostee can simply check it see if it owns the lock. This commit makes this change, shrinking task_struct by one pointer and the kernel by thirteen lines. Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-07-09rcu: Check both root and current rcu_node when setting up future grace periodPranith Kumar1-2/+8
The rcu_start_future_gp() function checks the current rcu_node's ->gpnum and ->completed twice, once without ACCESS_ONCE() and once with it. Which is pointless because we hold that rcu_node's ->lock at that point. The intent was to check the current rcu_node structure and the root rcu_node structure, the latter locklessly with ACCESS_ONCE(). This commit therefore makes that change. The reason that it is safe to locklessly check the root rcu_nodes's ->gpnum and ->completed fields is that we hold the current rcu_node's ->lock, which constrains the root rcu_node's ability to change its ->gpnum and ->completed fields. Of course, if there is a single rcu_node structure, then rnp_root==rnp, and holding the lock prevents all changes. If there is more than one rcu_node structure, then the code updates the fields in the following order: 1. Increment rnp_root->gpnum to start new grace period. 2. Increment rnp->gpnum to initialize the current rcu_node, continuing initialization for the new grace period. 3. Increment rnp_root->completed to end the current grace period. 4. Increment rnp->completed to continue cleaning up after the old grace period. So there are four possible combinations of relative values of these four fields: N N N N: RCU idle, new grace period must be initiated. Although rnp_root->gpnum might be incremented immediately after we check, that will just result in unnecessary work. The grace period already started, and we try to start it. N+1 N N N: RCU grace period just started. No further change is possible because we hold rnp->lock, so the checks of rnp_root->gpnum and rnp_root->completed are stable. We know that our request for a future grace period will be seen during grace-period cleanup. N+1 N N+1 N: RCU grace period is ongoing. Because rnp->gpnum is different than rnp->completed, we won't even look at rnp_root->gpnum and rnp_root->completed, so the possible concurrent change to rnp_root->completed does not matter. We know that our request for a future grace period will be seen during grace-period cleanup, which cannot pass this rcu_node because we hold its ->lock. N+1 N+1 N+1 N: RCU grace period has ended, but not yet been cleaned up. Because rnp->gpnum is different than rnp->completed, we won't look at rnp_root->gpnum and rnp_root->completed, so the possible concurrent change to rnp_root->completed does not matter. We know that our request for a future grace period will be seen during grace-period cleanup, which cannot pass this rcu_node because we hold its ->lock. Therefore, despite initial appearances, the lockless check is safe. Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com> [ paulmck: Update comment to say why the lockless check is safe. ] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-07-09rcu: Allow post-unlock reference for rt_mutexPaul E. McKenney2-1/+12
The current approach to RCU priority boosting uses an rt_mutex strictly for its priority-boosting side effects. The rt_mutex_init_proxy_locked() function is used by the booster to initialize the lock as held by the boostee. The booster then uses rt_mutex_lock() to acquire this rt_mutex, which priority-boosts the boostee. When the boostee reaches the end of its outermost RCU read-side critical section, it checks a field in its task structure to see whether it has been boosted, and, if so, uses rt_mutex_unlock() to release the rt_mutex. The booster can then go on to boost the next task that is blocking the current RCU grace period. But reasonable implementations of rt_mutex_unlock() might result in the boostee referencing the rt_mutex's data after releasing it. But the booster might have re-initialized the rt_mutex between the time that the boostee released it and the time that it later referenced it. This is clearly asking for trouble, so this commit introduces a completion that forces the booster to wait until the boostee has completely finished with the rt_mutex, thus avoiding the case where the booster is re-initializing the rt_mutex before the last boostee's last reference to that rt_mutex. This of course does introduce some overhead, but the priority-boosting code paths are miles from any possible fastpath, and the overhead of executing the completion will normally be quite small compared to the overhead of priority boosting and deboosting, so this should be OK. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-07-09rcu: Loosen __call_rcu()'s rcu_head alignment constraintPaul E. McKenney1-1/+1
The m68k architecture aligns only to 16-bit boundaries, which can cause the align-to-32-bits check in __call_rcu() to trigger. Because there is currently no known potential need for more than one low-order bit, this commit loosens the check to 16-bit boundaries. Reported-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2014-07-09rcu: Eliminate read-modify-write ACCESS_ONCE() callsPaul E. McKenney2-8/+8
RCU contains code of the following forms: ACCESS_ONCE(x)++; ACCESS_ONCE(x) += y; ACCESS_ONCE(x) -= y; Now these constructs do operate correctly, but they really result in a pair of volatile accesses, one to do the load and another to do the store. This can be confusing, as the casual reader might well assume that (for example) gcc might generate a memory-to-memory add instruction for each of these three cases. In fact, gcc will do no such thing. Also, there is a good chance that the kernel will move to separate load and store variants of ACCESS_ONCE(), and constructs like the above could easily confuse both people and scripts attempting to make that sort of change. Finally, most of RCU's read-modify-write uses of ACCESS_ONCE() really only need the store to be volatile, so that the read-modify-write form might be misleading. This commit therefore changes the above forms in RCU so that each instance of ACCESS_ONCE() either does a load or a store, but not both. In a few cases, ACCESS_ONCE() was not critical, for example, for maintaining statisitics. In these cases, ACCESS_ONCE() has been dispensed with entirely. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-07-09rcu: Remove redundant ACCESS_ONCE() from tick_do_timer_cpuPaul E. McKenney1-1/+1
In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL, tick_do_timer_cpu is constant once boot completes. Thus, there is no need to wrap it in ACCESS_ONCE() in code that is built only when CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL. This commit therefore removes the redundant ACCESS_ONCE(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2014-07-09rcu: Make rcu node arrays static const char * constFabian Frederick1-8/+10
Those two arrays are being passed to lockdep_init_map(), which expects const char *, and are stored in lockdep_map the same way. Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-07-09signal: Explain local_irq_save() callPaul E. McKenney1-0/+4
The explicit local_irq_save() in __lock_task_sighand() is needed to avoid a potential deadlock condition, as noted in a841796f11c90d53 (signal: align __lock_task_sighand() irq disabling and RCU). However, someone reading the code might be forgiven for concluding that this separate local_irq_save() was completely unnecessary. This commit therefore adds a comment referencing the shiny new block comment on rcu_read_unlock(). Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2014-07-09Merge branch 'trace/ftrace/urgent' into trace/ftrace/coreSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)3-24/+30
Needed 099ed151675c "tracing: Remove ftrace_stop/start() from reading the trace file" for the removal of ftrace_start/stop().
2014-07-09cgroup: clean up sane_behavior handlingTejun Heo1-39/+27
After the previous patch to remove sane_behavior support from non-default hierarchies, CGRP_ROOT_SANE_BEHAVIOR is used only to indicate the default hierarchy while parsing mount options. This patch makes the following cleanups around it. * Don't show it in the mount option. Eventually the default hierarchy will be assigned a different filesystem type. * As sane_behavior is no longer effective on non-default hierarchies and the default hierarchy doesn't accept any mount options, parse_cgroupfs_options() can consider sane_behavior mount option as indicating the default hierarchy and fail if any other options are specified with it. While at it, remove one of the double blank lines in the function. * cgroup_mount() can now simply test CGRP_ROOT_SANE_BEHAVIOR to tell whether to mount the default hierarchy or not. * As CGROUP_ROOT_SANE_BEHAVIOR's only role now is indicating whether to select the default hierarchy or not during mount, it doesn't need to be set in the default hierarchy itself. cgroup_init_early() updated accordingly. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
2014-07-09cgroup: remove sane_behavior support on non-default hierarchiesTejun Heo2-27/+25
sane_behavior has been used as a development vehicle for the default unified hierarchy. Now that the default hierarchy is in place, the flag became redundant and confusing as its usage is allowed on all hierarchies. There are gonna be either the default hierarchy or legacy ones. Let's make that clear by removing sane_behavior support on non-default hierarchies. This patch replaces cgroup_sane_behavior() with cgroup_on_dfl(). The comment on top of CGRP_ROOT_SANE_BEHAVIOR is moved to on top of cgroup_on_dfl() with sane_behavior specific part dropped. On the default and legacy hierarchies w/o sane_behavior, this shouldn't cause any behavior differences. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
2014-07-09cgroup: make interface file "cgroup.sane_behavior" legacy-onlyTejun Heo1-4/+2
"cgroup.sane_behavior" is added to help distinguishing whether sane_behavior is in effect or not. We now have the default hierarchy where the flag is always in effect and are planning to remove supporting sane behavior on the legacy hierarchies making this file on the default hierarchy rather pointless. Let's make it legacy only and thus always zero. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
2014-07-09cgroup: remove CGRP_ROOT_OPTION_MASKTejun Heo1-4/+3
cgroup_root->flags only contains CGRP_ROOT_* flags and there's no reason to mask the flags. Remove CGRP_ROOT_OPTION_MASK. This doesn't cause any behavior differences. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
2014-07-09cpuidle: move idle traces to cpuidle_enter_state()Sandeep Tripathy1-4/+0
idle_exit event is the first event after a core exits idle state. So this should be traced before local irq is ebabled. Likewise idle_entry is the last event before a core enters idle state. This will ease visualising the cpu idle state from kernel traces. Signed-off-by: Sandeep Tripathy <sandeep.tripathy@linaro.org> Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> [rjw: Subject, rebase] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2014-07-09cgroup: implement cgroup_subsys->depends_onTejun Heo1-1/+48
Currently, the blkio subsystem attributes all of writeback IOs to the root. One of the issues is that there's no way to tell who originated a writeback IO from block layer. Those IOs are usually issued asynchronously from a task which didn't have anything to do with actually generating the dirty pages. The memory subsystem, when enabled, already keeps track of the ownership of each dirty page and it's desirable for blkio to piggyback instead of adding its own per-page tag. blkio piggybacking on memory is an implementation detail which preferably should be handled automatically without requiring explicit userland action. To achieve that, this patch implements cgroup_subsys->depends_on which contains the mask of subsystems which should be enabled together when the subsystem is enabled. The previous patches already implemented the support for enabled but invisible subsystems and cgroup_subsys->depends_on can be easily implemented by updating cgroup_refresh_child_subsys_mask() so that it calculates cgroup->child_subsys_mask considering cgroup_subsys->depends_on of the explicitly enabled subsystems. Documentation/cgroups/unified-hierarchy.txt is updated to explain that subsystems may not become immediately available after being unused from userland and that dependency could be a factor in it. As subsystems may already keep residual references, this doesn't significantly change how subsystem rebinding can be used. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
2014-07-09cgroup: implement cgroup_subsys->css_reset()Tejun Heo1-4/+12
cgroup is implementing support for subsystem dependency which would require a way to enable a subsystem even when it's not directly configured through "cgroup.subtree_control". The previous patches added support for explicitly and implicitly enabled subsystems and showing/hiding their interface files. An explicitly enabled subsystem may become implicitly enabled if it's turned off through "cgroup.subtree_control" but there are subsystems depending on it. In such cases, the subsystem, as it's turned off when seen from userland, shouldn't enforce any resource control. Also, the subsystem may be explicitly turned on later again and its interface files should be as close to the intial state as possible. This patch adds cgroup_subsys->css_reset() which is invoked when a css is hidden. The callback should disable resource control and reset the state to the vanilla state. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
2014-07-09cgroup: make interface files visible iff enabled on cgroup->subtree_controlTejun Heo1-14/+64
cgroup is implementing support for subsystem dependency which would require a way to enable a subsystem even when it's not directly configured through "cgroup.subtree_control". The preceding patch distinguished cgroup->subtree_control and ->child_subsys_mask where the former is the subsystems explicitly configured by the userland and the latter is all enabled subsystems currently is equal to the former but will include subsystems implicitly enabled through dependency. Subsystems which are enabled due to dependency shouldn't be visible to userland. This patch updates cgroup_subtree_control_write() and create_css() such that interface files are not created for implicitly enabled subsytems. * @visible paramter is added to create_css(). Interface files are created only when true. * If an already implicitly enabled subsystem is turned on through "cgroup.subtree_control", the existing css should be used. css draining is skipped. * cgroup_subtree_control_write() computes the new target cgroup->child_subsys_mask and create/kill or show/hide csses accordingly. As the two subsystem masks are still kept identical, this patch doesn't introduce any behavior changes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
2014-07-09cgroup: introduce cgroup->subtree_controlTejun Heo1-17/+29
cgroup is implementing support for subsystem dependency which would require a way to enable a subsystem even when it's not directly configured through "cgroup.subtree_control". Previously, cgroup->child_subsys_mask directly reflected "cgroup.subtree_control" and the enabled subsystems in the child cgroups. This patch adds cgroup->subtree_control which "cgroup.subtree_control" operates on. cgroup->child_subsys_mask is now calculated from cgroup->subtree_control by cgroup_refresh_child_subsys_mask(), which sets it identical to cgroup->subtree_control for now. This will allow using cgroup->child_subsys_mask for all the enabled subsystems including the implicit ones and ->subtree_control for tracking the explicitly requested ones. This patch keeps the two masks identical and doesn't introduce any behavior changes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
2014-07-09cgroup: reorganize cgroup_subtree_control_write()Tejun Heo1-17/+17
Make the following two reorganizations to cgroup_subtree_control_write(). These are to prepare for future changes and shouldn't cause any functional difference. * Move availability above css offlining wait. * Move cgrp->child_subsys_mask update above new css creation. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
2014-07-08alarmtimer: Fix bug where relative alarm timers were treated as absoluteJohn Stultz1-2/+18
Sharvil noticed with the posix timer_settime interface, using the CLOCK_REALTIME_ALARM or CLOCK_BOOTTIME_ALARM clockid, if the users tried to specify a relative time timer, it would incorrectly be treated as absolute regardless of the state of the flags argument. This patch corrects this, properly checking the absolute/relative flag, as well as adds further error checking that no invalid flag bits are set. Reported-by: Sharvil Nanavati <sharvil@google.com> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Sharvil Nanavati <sharvil@google.com> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> #3.0+ Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1404767171-6902-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-07-08Merge 3.16-rc4 into staging-nextGreg Kroah-Hartman11-79/+164
We want the staging tree fixes in here as well. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-07-08rcu: Don't offload callbacks unless specifically requestedPaul E. McKenney1-0/+3
Enabling NO_HZ_FULL currently has the side effect of enabling callback offloading on all CPUs. This results in lots of additional rcuo kthreads, and can also increase context switching and wakeups, even in cases where callback offloading is neither needed nor particularly desirable. This commit therefore enables callback offloading on a given CPU only if specifically requested at build time or boot time, or if that CPU has been specifically designated (again, either at build time or boot time) as a nohz_full CPU. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-07-08rcu: Parallelize and economize NOCB kthread wakeupsPaul E. McKenney2-43/+237
An 80-CPU system with a context-switch-heavy workload can require so many NOCB kthread wakeups that the RCU grace-period kthreads spend several tens of percent of a CPU just awakening things. This clearly will not scale well: If you add enough CPUs, the RCU grace-period kthreads would get behind, increasing grace-period latency. To avoid this problem, this commit divides the NOCB kthreads into leaders and followers, where the grace-period kthreads awaken the leaders each of whom in turn awakens its followers. By default, the number of groups of kthreads is the square root of the number of CPUs, but this default may be overridden using the rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride boot parameter. This reduces the number of wakeups done per grace period by the RCU grace-period kthread by the square root of the number of CPUs, but of course by shifting those wakeups to the leaders. In addition, because the leaders do grace periods on behalf of their respective followers, the number of wakeups of the followers decreases by up to a factor of two. Instead of being awakened once when new callbacks arrive and again at the end of the grace period, the followers are awakened only at the end of the grace period. For a numerical example, in a 4096-CPU system, the grace-period kthread would awaken 64 leaders, each of which would awaken its 63 followers at the end of the grace period. This compares favorably with the 79 wakeups for the grace-period kthread on an 80-CPU system. Reported-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-07-07torture: Avoid format string leak to thead nameKees Cook1-1/+1
Since the torture-test thread creation interface does not include format string arguments, this commit makes sure the name can never be accidentally processed as a format string. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-07-07workqueue: zero cpumask of wq_numa_possible_cpumask on initYasuaki Ishimatsu1-1/+1
When hot-adding and onlining CPU, kernel panic occurs, showing following call trace. BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000000000001d08 IP: [<ffffffff8114acfd>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x9d/0xb10 PGD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP ... Call Trace: [<ffffffff812b8745>] ? cpumask_next_and+0x35/0x50 [<ffffffff810a3283>] ? find_busiest_group+0x113/0x8f0 [<ffffffff81193bc9>] ? deactivate_slab+0x349/0x3c0 [<ffffffff811926f1>] new_slab+0x91/0x300 [<ffffffff815de95a>] __slab_alloc+0x2bb/0x482 [<ffffffff8105bc1c>] ? copy_process.part.25+0xfc/0x14c0 [<ffffffff810a3c78>] ? load_balance+0x218/0x890 [<ffffffff8101a679>] ? sched_clock+0x9/0x10 [<ffffffff81105ba9>] ? trace_clock_local+0x9/0x10 [<ffffffff81193d1c>] kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x8c/0x200 [<ffffffff8105bc1c>] copy_process.part.25+0xfc/0x14c0 [<ffffffff81114d0d>] ? trace_buffer_unlock_commit+0x4d/0x60 [<ffffffff81085a80>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x140/0x140 [<ffffffff8105d0ec>] do_fork+0xbc/0x360 [<ffffffff8105d3b6>] kernel_thread+0x26/0x30 [<ffffffff81086652>] kthreadd+0x2c2/0x300 [<ffffffff81086390>] ? kthread_create_on_cpu+0x60/0x60 [<ffffffff815f20ec>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0 [<ffffffff81086390>] ? kthread_create_on_cpu+0x60/0x60 In my investigation, I found the root cause is wq_numa_possible_cpumask. All entries of wq_numa_possible_cpumask is allocated by alloc_cpumask_var_node(). And these entries are used without initializing. So these entries have wrong value. When hot-adding and onlining CPU, wq_update_unbound_numa() is called. wq_update_unbound_numa() calls alloc_unbound_pwq(). And alloc_unbound_pwq() calls get_unbound_pool(). In get_unbound_pool(), worker_pool->node is set as follow: 3592 /* if cpumask is contained inside a NUMA node, we belong to that node */ 3593 if (wq_numa_enabled) { 3594 for_each_node(node) { 3595 if (cpumask_subset(pool->attrs->cpumask, 3596 wq_numa_possible_cpumask[node])) { 3597 pool->node = node; 3598 break; 3599 } 3600 } 3601 } But wq_numa_possible_cpumask[node] does not have correct cpumask. So, wrong node is selected. As a result, kernel panic occurs. By this patch, all entries of wq_numa_possible_cpumask are allocated by zalloc_cpumask_var_node to initialize them. And the panic disappeared. Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: bce903809ab3 ("workqueue: add wq_numa_tbl_len and wq_numa_possible_cpumask[]")
2014-07-06Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-2/+2
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull irq fixes from Thomas Gleixner: "A few minor fixlets in ARM SoC irq drivers and a fix for a memory leak which I introduced in the last round of cleanups :(" * 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: genirq: Fix memory leak when calling irq_free_hwirqs() irqchip: spear_shirq: Fix interrupt offset irqchip: brcmstb-l2: Level-2 interrupts are edge sensitive irqchip: armada-370-xp: Mask all interrupts during initialization.
2014-07-05genirq: Fix memory leak when calling irq_free_hwirqs()Keith Busch1-2/+2
irq_free_hwirqs() always calls irq_free_descs() with a cnt == 0 which makes it a no-op since the interrupt count to free is decremented in itself. Fixes: 7b6ef1262549f6afc5c881aaef80beb8fd15f908 Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1404167084-8070-1-git-send-email-keith.busch@intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-07-05locking/mutexes: Optimize mutex trylock slowpathJason Low1-0/+4
The mutex_trylock() function calls into __mutex_trylock_fastpath() when trying to obtain the mutex. On 32 bit x86, in the !__HAVE_ARCH_CMPXCHG case, __mutex_trylock_fastpath() calls directly into __mutex_trylock_slowpath() regardless of whether or not the mutex is locked. In __mutex_trylock_slowpath(), we then acquire the wait_lock spinlock, xchg() lock->count with -1, then set lock->count back to 0 if there are no waiters, and return true if the prev lock count was 1. However, if the mutex is already locked, then there isn't much point in attempting all of the above expensive operations. In this patch, we only attempt the above trylock operations if the mutex is unlocked. Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Waiman.Long@hp.com Cc: scott.norton@hp.com Cc: aswin@hp.com Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1402511843-4721-5-git-send-email-jason.low2@hp.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-07-05locking/mutexes: Try to acquire mutex only if it is unlockedJason Low1-3/+4
Upon entering the slowpath in __mutex_lock_common(), we try once more to acquire the mutex. We only try to acquire if (lock->count >= 0). However, what we actually want here is to try to acquire if the mutex is unlocked (lock->count == 1). This patch changes it so that we only try-acquire the mutex upon entering the slowpath if it is unlocked, rather than if the lock count is non-negative. This helps further reduce unnecessary atomic xchg() operations. Furthermore, this patch uses !mutex_is_locked(lock) to do the initial checks for if the lock is free rather than directly calling atomic_read() on the lock->count, in order to improve readability. Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> Acked-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: davidlohr@hp.com Cc: scott.norton@hp.com Cc: aswin@hp.com Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1402511843-4721-4-git-send-email-jason.low2@hp.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-07-05locking/mutexes: Delete the MUTEX_SHOW_NO_WAITER macroJason Low1-10/+8
MUTEX_SHOW_NO_WAITER() is a macro which checks for if there are "no waiters" on a mutex by checking if the lock count is non-negative. Based on feedback from the discussion in the earlier version of this patchset, the macro is not very readable. Furthermore, checking lock->count isn't always the correct way to determine if there are "no waiters" on a mutex. For example, a negative count on a mutex really only means that there "potentially" are waiters. Likewise, there can be waiters on the mutex even if the count is non-negative. Thus, "MUTEX_SHOW_NO_WAITER" doesn't always do what the name of the macro suggests. So this patch deletes the MUTEX_SHOW_NO_WAITERS() macro, directly use atomic_read() instead of the macro, and adds comments which elaborate on how the extra atomic_read() checks can help reduce unnecessary xchg() operations. Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> Acked-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: davidlohr@hp.com Cc: scott.norton@hp.com Cc: aswin@hp.com Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1402511843-4721-3-git-send-email-jason.low2@hp.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-07-05locking/mutexes: Correct documentation on mutex optimistic spinningJason Low1-6/+4
The mutex optimistic spinning documentation states that we spin for acquisition when we find that there are no pending waiters. However, in actuality, whether or not there are waiters for the mutex doesn't determine if we will spin for it. This patch removes that statement and also adds a comment which mentions that we spin for the mutex while we don't need to reschedule. Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Waiman.Long@hp.com Cc: scott.norton@hp.com Cc: aswin@hp.com Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1402511843-4721-2-git-send-email-jason.low2@hp.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-07-05perf: Make perf_event_init_context() function staticJiri Olsa1-1/+1
Leftover from '8dc85d5 perf: Multiple task contexts'. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1403598026-2310-1-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-07-05sched: Rework check_for_tasks()Kirill Tkhai1-13/+20
1) Iterate thru all of threads in the system. Check for all threads, not only for group leaders. 2) Check for p->on_rq instead of p->state and cputime. Preempted task in !TASK_RUNNING state OR just created task may be queued, that we want to be reported too. 3) Use read_lock() instead of write_lock(). This function does not change any structures, and read_lock() is enough. Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@parallels.com> Reviewed-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com> Cc: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> Cc: Gautham R. Shenoy <ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Konstantin Khorenko <khorenko@parallels.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michael wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Todd E Brandt <todd.e.brandt@linux.intel.com> Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1403684395.3462.44.camel@tkhai Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-07-05sched/rt: Enqueue just unthrottled rt_rq back on the stack in ↵Kirill Tkhai1-0/+3
__disable_runtime() Make rt_rq available for pick_next_task(). Otherwise, their tasks stay prisoned long time till dead cpu becomes alive again. Reviewed-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@parallels.com> CC: Konstantin Khorenko <khorenko@parallels.com> CC: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com> CC: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> CC: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1403684388.3462.43.camel@tkhai Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-07-05sched/fair: Disable runtime_enabled on dying rqKirill Tkhai2-1/+29
We kill rq->rd on the CPU_DOWN_PREPARE stage: cpuset_cpu_inactive -> cpuset_update_active_cpus -> partition_sched_domains -> -> cpu_attach_domain -> rq_attach_root -> set_rq_offline This unthrottles all throttled cfs_rqs. But the cpu is still able to call schedule() till take_cpu_down->__cpu_disable() is called from stop_machine. This case the tasks from just unthrottled cfs_rqs are pickable in a standard scheduler way, and they are picked by dying cpu. The cfs_rqs becomes throttled again, and migrate_tasks() in migration_call skips their tasks (one more unthrottle in migrate_tasks()->CPU_DYING does not happen, because rq->rd is already NULL). Patch sets runtime_enabled to zero. This guarantees, the runtime is not accounted, and the cfs_rqs won't exceed given cfs_rq->runtime_remaining = 1, and tasks will be pickable in migrate_tasks(). runtime_enabled is recalculated again when rq becomes online again. Ben Segall also noticed, we always enable runtime in tg_set_cfs_bandwidth(). Actually, we should do that for online cpus only. To prevent races with unthrottle_offline_cfs_rqs() we take get_online_cpus() lock. Reviewed-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com> Reviewed-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@parallels.com> CC: Konstantin Khorenko <khorenko@parallels.com> CC: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> CC: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1403684382.3462.42.camel@tkhai Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-07-05sched/numa: Change scan period code to match intentRik van Riel1-4/+4
Reading through the scan period code and comment, it appears the intent was to slow down NUMA scanning when a majority of accesses are on the local node, specifically a local:remote ratio of 3:1. However, the code actually tests local / (local + remote), and the actual cut-off point was around 30% local accesses, well before a task has actually converged on a node. Changing the threshold to 7 means scanning slows down when a task has around 70% of its accesses local, which appears to match the intent of the code more closely. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: mgorman@suse.de Cc: chegu_vinod@hp.com Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1403538095-31256-8-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-07-05sched/numa: Rework best node setting in task_numa_migrate()Rik van Riel1-6/+13
Fix up the best node setting in task_numa_migrate() to deal with a task in a pseudo-interleaved NUMA group, which is already running in the best location. Set the task's preferred nid to the current nid, so task migration is not retried at a high rate. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: mgorman@suse.de Cc: chegu_vinod@hp.com Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1403538095-31256-7-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-07-05sched/numa: Examine a task move when examining a task swapRik van Riel1-2/+21
Running "perf bench numa mem -0 -m -P 1000 -p 8 -t 20" on a 4 node system results in 160 runnable threads on a system with 80 CPU threads. Once a process has nearly converged, with 39 threads on one node and 1 thread on another node, the remaining thread will be unable to migrate to its preferred node through a task swap. However, a simple task move would make the workload converge, witout causing an imbalance. Test for this unlikely occurrence, and attempt a task move to the preferred nid when it happens. # Running main, "perf bench numa mem -p 8 -t 20 -0 -m -P 1000" ### # 160 tasks will execute (on 4 nodes, 80 CPUs): # -1x 0MB global shared mem operations # -1x 1000MB process shared mem operations # -1x 0MB thread local mem operations ### ### # # 0.0% [0.2 mins] 0/0 1/1 36/2 0/0 [36/3 ] l: 0-0 ( 0) {0-2} # 0.0% [0.3 mins] 43/3 37/2 39/2 41/3 [ 6/10] l: 0-1 ( 1) {1-2} # 0.0% [0.4 mins] 42/3 38/2 40/2 40/2 [ 4/9 ] l: 1-2 ( 1) [50.0%] {1-2} # 0.0% [0.6 mins] 41/3 39/2 40/2 40/2 [ 2/9 ] l: 2-4 ( 2) [50.0%] {1-2} # 0.0% [0.7 mins] 40/2 40/2 40/2 40/2 [ 0/8 ] l: 3-5 ( 2) [40.0%] ( 41.8s converged) Without this patch, this same perf bench numa mem run had to rely on the scheduler load balancer to first balance out the load (moving a random task), before a task swap could complete the NUMA convergence. The load balancer does not normally take action unless the load difference exceeds 25%. Convergence times of over half an hour have been observed without this patch. With this patch, the NUMA balancing code will simply migrate the task, if that does not cause an imbalance. Also skip examining a CPU in detail if the improvement on that CPU is no more than the best we already have. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: chegu_vinod@hp.com Cc: mgorman@suse.de Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ggthh0rnh0yua6o5o3p6cr1o@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-07-05sched/numa: Simplify task_numa_compare()Rik van Riel1-6/+1
When a task is part of a numa_group, the comparison should always use the group weight, in order to make workloads converge. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: chegu_vinod@hp.com Cc: mgorman@suse.de Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1403538378-31571-4-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-07-05sched/numa: Use effective_load() to balance NUMA loadsRik van Riel1-6/+14
When CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED is enabled, the load that a task places on a CPU is determined by the group the task is in. The active groups on the source and destination CPU can be different, resulting in a different load contribution by the same task at its source and at its destination. As a result, the load needs to be calculated separately for each CPU, instead of estimated once with task_h_load(). Getting this calculation right allows some workloads to converge, where previously the last thread could get stuck on another node, without being able to migrate to its final destination. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: mgorman@suse.de Cc: chegu_vinod@hp.com Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1403538378-31571-3-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-07-05sched/numa: Move power adjustment into load_too_imbalanced()Rik van Riel1-15/+24
Currently the NUMA code scales the load on each node with the amount of CPU power available on that node, but it does not apply any adjustment to the load of the task that is being moved over. On systems with SMT/HT, this results in a task being weighed much more heavily than a CPU core, and a task move that would even out the load between nodes being disallowed. The correct thing is to apply the power correction to the numbers after we have first applied the move of the tasks' loads to them. This also allows us to do the power correction with a multiplication, rather than a division. Also drop two function arguments for load_too_unbalanced, since it takes various factors from env already. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: chegu_vinod@hp.com Cc: mgorman@suse.de Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1403538378-31571-2-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-07-05sched/numa: Use group's max nid as task's preferred nidRik van Riel1-16/+1
From task_numa_placement, always try to consolidate the tasks in a group on the group's top nid. In case this task is part of a group that is interleaved over multiple nodes, task_numa_migrate will set the task's preferred nid to the best node it could find for the task, so this patch will cause at most one run through task_numa_migrate. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: mgorman@suse.de Cc: chegu_vinod@hp.com Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1403538095-31256-2-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-07-05sched/fair: Implement fast idling of CPUs when the system is partially loadedTim Chen2-5/+28
When a system is lightly loaded (i.e. no more than 1 job per cpu), attempt to pull job to a cpu before putting it to idle is unnecessary and can be skipped. This patch adds an indicator so the scheduler can know when there's no more than 1 active job is on any CPU in the system to skip needless job pulls. On a 4 socket machine with a request/response kind of workload from clients, we saw about 0.13 msec delay when we go through a full load balance to try pull job from all the other cpus. While 0.1 msec was spent on processing the request and generating a response, the 0.13 msec load balance overhead was actually more than the actual work being done. This overhead can be skipped much of the time for lightly loaded systems. With this patch, we tested with a netperf request/response workload that has the server busy with half the cpus in a 4 socket system. We found the patch eliminated 75% of the load balance attempts before idling a cpu. The overhead of setting/clearing the indicator is low as we already gather the necessary info while we call add_nr_running() and update_sd_lb_stats.() We switch to full load balance load immediately if any cpu got more than one job on its run queue in add_nr_running. We'll clear the indicator to avoid load balance when we detect no cpu's have more than one job when we scan the work queues in update_sg_lb_stats(). We are aggressive in turning on the load balance and opportunistic in skipping the load balance. Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> Cc: "Paul E.McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1403551009.2970.613.camel@schen9-DESK Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>