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

Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle are:

   - Various NUMA scheduling updates: harmonize the load-balancer and
     NUMA placement logic to not work against each other. The intended
     result is better locality, better utilization and fewer migrations.

   - Introduce Thermal Pressure tracking and optimizations, to improve
     task placement on thermally overloaded systems.

   - Implement frequency invariant scheduler accounting on (some) x86
     CPUs. This is done by observing and sampling the 'recent' CPU
     frequency average at ~tick boundaries. The CPU provides this data
     via the APERF/MPERF MSRs. This hopefully makes our capacity
     estimates more precise and keeps tasks on the same CPU better even
     if it might seem overloaded at a lower momentary frequency. (As
     usual, turbo mode is a complication that we resolve by observing
     the maximum frequency and renormalizing to it.)

   - Add asymmetric CPU capacity wakeup scan to improve capacity
     utilization on asymmetric topologies. (big.LITTLE systems)

   - PSI fixes and optimizations.

   - RT scheduling capacity awareness fixes & improvements.

   - Optimize the CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED constraints code.

   - Misc fixes, cleanups and optimizations - see the changelog for
     details"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (62 commits)
  threads: Update PID limit comment according to futex UAPI change
  sched/fair: Fix condition of avg_load calculation
  sched/rt: cpupri_find: Trigger a full search as fallback
  kthread: Do not preempt current task if it is going to call schedule()
  sched/fair: Improve spreading of utilization
  sched: Avoid scale real weight down to zero
  psi: Move PF_MEMSTALL out of task->flags
  MAINTAINERS: Add maintenance information for psi
  psi: Optimize switching tasks inside shared cgroups
  psi: Fix cpu.pressure for cpu.max and competing cgroups
  sched/core: Distribute tasks within affinity masks
  sched/fair: Fix enqueue_task_fair warning
  thermal/cpu-cooling, sched/core: Move the arch_set_thermal_pressure() API to generic scheduler code
  sched/rt: Remove unnecessary push for unfit tasks
  sched/rt: Allow pulling unfitting task
  sched/rt: Optimize cpupri_find() on non-heterogenous systems
  sched/rt: Re-instate old behavior in select_task_rq_rt()
  sched/rt: cpupri_find: Implement fallback mechanism for !fit case
  sched/fair: Fix reordering of enqueue/dequeue_task_fair()
  sched/fair: Fix runnable_avg for throttled cfs
  ...

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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 74e75a7b4b24..9024fb2dc418 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -4428,6 +4428,22 @@
 			incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler
 			but is useful for debugging and performance tuning.
 
+	sched_thermal_decay_shift=
+			[KNL, SMP] Set a decay shift for scheduler thermal
+			pressure signal. Thermal pressure signal follows the
+			default decay period of other scheduler pelt
+			signals(usually 32 ms but configurable). Setting
+			sched_thermal_decay_shift will left shift the decay
+			period for the thermal pressure signal by the shift
+			value.
+			i.e. with the default pelt decay period of 32 ms
+			sched_thermal_decay_shift   thermal pressure decay pr
+				1			64 ms
+				2			128 ms
+			and so on.
+			Format: integer between 0 and 10
+			Default is 0.
+
 	skew_tick=	[KNL] Offset the periodic timer tick per cpu to mitigate
 			xtime_lock contention on larger systems, and/or RCU lock
 			contention on all systems with CONFIG_MAXSMP set.