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2010-04-23sched: Cure load average vs NO_HZ woesPeter Zijlstra1-13/+67
Chase reported that due to us decrementing calc_load_task prematurely (before the next LOAD_FREQ sample), the load average could be scewed by as much as the number of CPUs in the machine. This patch, based on Chase's patch, cures the problem by keeping the delta of the CPU going into NO_HZ idle separately and folding that in on the next LOAD_FREQ update. This restores the balance and we get strict LOAD_FREQ period samples. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com> LKML-Reference: <1271934490.1776.343.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-23mutex: Don't spin when the owner CPU is offline or other weird casesBenjamin Herrenschmidt1-4/+4
Due to recent load-balancer changes that delay the task migration to the next wakeup, the adaptive mutex spinning ends up in a live lock when the owner's CPU gets offlined because the cpu_online() check lives before the owner running check. This patch changes mutex_spin_on_owner() to return 0 (don't spin) in any case where we aren't sure about the owner struct validity or CPU number, and if the said CPU is offline. There is no point going back & re-evaluate spinning in corner cases like that, let's just go to sleep. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1271212509.13059.135.camel@pasglop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-15sched: Fix UP update_avg() build warningMike Galbraith1-6/+6
update_avg() is only used for SMP builds, move it to the nearest SMP block. Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <1271309399.14779.17.camel@marge.simson.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-15Merge branch 'linus' into sched/coreIngo Molnar1-2/+3
Merge reason: merge the latest fixes, update to -rc4. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-08Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: Fix sched_getaffinity()
2010-04-08Merge branch 'linus' into perf/coreIngo Molnar1-1/+2
Semantic conflict: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c Merge reason: pick up latest fixes, fix the conflict Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-06sched: Fix sched_getaffinity()Anton Blanchard1-1/+1
taskset on 2.6.34-rc3 fails on one of my ppc64 test boxes with the following error: sched_getaffinity(0, 16, 0x10029650030) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) This box has 128 threads and 16 bytes is enough to cover it. Commit cd3d8031eb4311e516329aee03c79a08333141f1 (sched: sched_getaffinity(): Allow less than NR_CPUS length) is comparing this 16 bytes agains nr_cpu_ids. Fix it by comparing nr_cpu_ids to the number of bits in the cpumask we pass in. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Sharyathi Nagesh <sharyath@in.ibm.com> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com> Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> LKML-Reference: <20100406070218.GM5594@kryten> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-05Merge branch 'master' into export-slabhTejun Heo1-1/+1
2010-04-02sched: Add enqueue/dequeue flagsPeter Zijlstra1-15/+17
In order to reduce the dependency on TASK_WAKING rework the enqueue interface to support a proper flags field. Replace the int wakeup, bool head arguments with an int flags argument and create the following flags: ENQUEUE_WAKEUP - the enqueue is a wakeup of a sleeping task, ENQUEUE_WAKING - the enqueue has relative vruntime due to having sched_class::task_waking() called, ENQUEUE_HEAD - the waking task should be places on the head of the priority queue (where appropriate). For symmetry also convert sched_class::dequeue() to a flags scheme. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-02sched: Fix nr_uninterruptible countPeter Zijlstra1-2/+6
The cpuload calculation in calc_load_account_active() assumes rq->nr_uninterruptible will not change on an offline cpu after migrate_nr_uninterruptible(). However the recent migrate on wakeup changes broke that and would result in decrementing the offline cpu's rq->nr_uninterruptible. Fix this by accounting the nr_uninterruptible on the waking cpu. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-02sched: Optimize task_rq_lock()Peter Zijlstra1-8/+15
Now that we hold the rq->lock over set_task_cpu() again, we can do away with most of the TASK_WAKING checks and reduce them again to set_cpus_allowed_ptr(). Removes some conditionals from scheduling hot-paths. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-02sched: Fix TASK_WAKING vs fork deadlockPeter Zijlstra1-41/+24
Oleg noticed a few races with the TASK_WAKING usage on fork. - since TASK_WAKING is basically a spinlock, it should be IRQ safe - since we set TASK_WAKING (*) without holding rq->lock it could be there still is a rq->lock holder, thereby not actually providing full serialization. (*) in fact we clear PF_STARTING, which in effect enables TASK_WAKING. Cure the second issue by not setting TASK_WAKING in sched_fork(), but only temporarily in wake_up_new_task() while calling select_task_rq(). Cure the first by holding rq->lock around the select_task_rq() call, this will disable IRQs, this however requires that we push down the rq->lock release into select_task_rq_fair()'s cgroup stuff. Because select_task_rq_fair() still needs to drop the rq->lock we cannot fully get rid of TASK_WAKING. Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-02sched: Make select_fallback_rq() cpuset friendlyOleg Nesterov1-3/+1
Introduce cpuset_cpus_allowed_fallback() helper to fix the cpuset problems with select_fallback_rq(). It can be called from any context and can't use any cpuset locks including task_lock(). It is called when the task doesn't have online cpus in ->cpus_allowed but ttwu/etc must be able to find a suitable cpu. I am not proud of this patch. Everything which needs such a fat comment can't be good even if correct. But I'd prefer to not change the locking rules in the code I hardly understand, and in any case I believe this simple change make the code much more correct compared to deadlocks we currently have. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20100315091027.GA9155@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-02sched: _cpu_down(): Don't play with current->cpus_allowedOleg Nesterov1-1/+1
_cpu_down() changes the current task's affinity and then recovers it at the end. The problems are well known: we can't restore old_allowed if it was bound to the now-dead-cpu, and we can race with the userspace which can change cpu-affinity during unplug. _cpu_down() should not play with current->cpus_allowed at all. Instead, take_cpu_down() can migrate the caller of _cpu_down() after __cpu_disable() removes the dying cpu from cpu_online_mask. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20100315091023.GA9148@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-02sched: sched_exec(): Remove the select_fallback_rq() logicOleg Nesterov1-17/+8
sched_exec()->select_task_rq() reads/updates ->cpus_allowed lockless. This can race with other CPUs updating our ->cpus_allowed, and this looks meaningless to me. The task is current and running, it must have online cpus in ->cpus_allowed, the fallback mode is bogus. And, if ->sched_class returns the "wrong" cpu, this likely means we raced with set_cpus_allowed() which was called for reason, why should sched_exec() retry and call ->select_task_rq() again? Change the code to call sched_class->select_task_rq() directly and do nothing if the returned cpu is wrong after re-checking under rq->lock. From now task_struct->cpus_allowed is always stable under TASK_WAKING, select_fallback_rq() is always called under rq-lock or the caller or the caller owns TASK_WAKING (select_task_rq). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20100315091019.GA9141@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-02sched: move_task_off_dead_cpu(): Remove retry logicOleg Nesterov1-7/+6
The previous patch preserved the retry logic, but it looks unneeded. __migrate_task() can only fail if we raced with migration after we dropped the lock, but in this case the caller of set_cpus_allowed/etc must initiate migration itself if ->on_rq == T. We already fixed p->cpus_allowed, the changes in active/online masks must be visible to racer, it should migrate the task to online cpu correctly. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20100315091014.GA9138@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-02sched: move_task_off_dead_cpu(): Take rq->lock around select_fallback_rq()Oleg Nesterov1-15/+15
move_task_off_dead_cpu()->select_fallback_rq() reads/updates ->cpus_allowed lockless. We can race with set_cpus_allowed() running in parallel. Change it to take rq->lock around select_fallback_rq(). Note that it is not trivial to move this spin_lock() into select_fallback_rq(), we must recheck the task was not migrated after we take the lock and other callers do not need this lock. To avoid the races with other callers of select_fallback_rq() which rely on TASK_WAKING, we also check p->state != TASK_WAKING and do nothing otherwise. The owner of TASK_WAKING must update ->cpus_allowed and choose the correct CPU anyway, and the subsequent __migrate_task() is just meaningless because p->se.on_rq must be false. Alternatively, we could change select_task_rq() to take rq->lock right after it calls sched_class->select_task_rq(), but this looks a bit ugly. Also, change it to not assume irqs are disabled and absorb __migrate_task_irq(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20100315091010.GA9131@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-02sched: Kill the broken and deadlockable ↵Oleg Nesterov1-7/+3
cpuset_lock/cpuset_cpus_allowed_locked code This patch just states the fact the cpusets/cpuhotplug interaction is broken and removes the deadlockable code which only pretends to work. - cpuset_lock() doesn't really work. It is needed for cpuset_cpus_allowed_locked() but we can't take this lock in try_to_wake_up()->select_fallback_rq() path. - cpuset_lock() is deadlockable. Suppose that a task T bound to CPU takes callback_mutex. If cpu_down(CPU) happens before T drops callback_mutex stop_machine() preempts T, then migration_call(CPU_DEAD) tries to take cpuset_lock() and hangs forever because CPU is already dead and thus T can't be scheduled. - cpuset_cpus_allowed_locked() is deadlockable too. It takes task_lock() which is not irq-safe, but try_to_wake_up() can be called from irq. Kill them, and change select_fallback_rq() to use cpu_possible_mask, like we currently do without CONFIG_CPUSETS. Also, with or without this patch, with or without CONFIG_CPUSETS, the callers of select_fallback_rq() can race with each other or with set_cpus_allowed() pathes. The subsequent patches try to to fix these problems. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20100315091003.GA9123@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-02sched: set_cpus_allowed_ptr(): Don't use rq->migration_thread after unlockOleg Nesterov1-1/+1
Trivial typo fix. rq->migration_thread can be NULL after task_rq_unlock(), this is why we have "mt" which should be used instead. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20100330165829.GA18284@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-02Merge branch 'linus' into sched/coreIngo Molnar1-8/+16
Merge reason: update to latest upstream Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-02Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/coreIngo Molnar1-4/+8
Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c Merge reason: Resolve the conflict, pick up fixes Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-30include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking ↵Tejun Heo1-0/+1
implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-26x86, perf, bts, mm: Delete the never used BTS-ptrace codePeter Zijlstra1-43/+0
Support for the PMU's BTS features has been upstreamed in v2.6.32, but we still have the old and disabled ptrace-BTS, as Linus noticed it not so long ago. It's buggy: TIF_DEBUGCTLMSR is trampling all over that MSR without regard for other uses (perf) and doesn't provide the flexibility needed for perf either. Its users are ptrace-block-step and ptrace-bts, since ptrace-bts was never used and ptrace-block-step can be implemented using a much simpler approach. So axe all 3000 lines of it. That includes the *locked_memory*() APIs in mm/mlock.c as well. Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <20100325135413.938004390@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-17sched: Use proper type in sched_getaffinity()KOSAKI Motohiro1-1/+1
Using the proper type fixes the following compiler warning: kernel/sched.c:4850: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: travis@sgi.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: drepper@redhat.com Cc: rja@sgi.com Cc: sharyath@in.ibm.com Cc: steiner@sgi.com LKML-Reference: <20100317090046.4C79.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-16kernel/sched.c: Suppress unused var warningAndrew Morton1-1/+1
On UP: kernel/sched.c: In function 'wake_up_new_task': kernel/sched.c:2631: warning: unused variable 'cpu' Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-15sched: sched_getaffinity(): Allow less than NR_CPUS lengthKOSAKI Motohiro1-3/+7
[ Note, this commit changes the syscall ABI for > 1024 CPUs systems. ] Recently, some distro decided to use NR_CPUS=4096 for mysterious reasons. Unfortunately, glibc sched interface has the following definition: # define __CPU_SETSIZE 1024 # define __NCPUBITS (8 * sizeof (__cpu_mask)) typedef unsigned long int __cpu_mask; typedef struct { __cpu_mask __bits[__CPU_SETSIZE / __NCPUBITS]; } cpu_set_t; It mean, if NR_CPUS is bigger than 1024, cpu_set_t makes an ABI issue ... More recently, Sharyathi Nagesh reported following test program makes misterious syscall failure: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- #define _GNU_SOURCE #include<stdio.h> #include<errno.h> #include<sched.h> int main() { cpu_set_t set; if (sched_getaffinity(0, sizeof(cpu_set_t), &set) < 0) printf("\n Call is failing with:%d", errno); } ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Because the kernel assumes len argument of sched_getaffinity() is bigger than NR_CPUS. But now it is not correct. Now we are faced with the following annoying dilemma, due to the limitations of the glibc interface built in years ago: (1) if we change glibc's __CPU_SETSIZE definition, we lost binary compatibility of _all_ application. (2) if we don't change it, we also lost binary compatibility of Sharyathi's use case. Then, I would propse to change the rule of the len argument of sched_getaffinity(). Old: len should be bigger than NR_CPUS New: len should be bigger than maximum possible cpu id This creates the following behavior: (A) In the real 4096 cpus machine, the above test program still return -EINVAL. (B) NR_CPUS=4096 but the machine have less than 1024 cpus (almost all machines in the world), the above can run successfully. Fortunatelly, BIG SGI machine is mainly used for HPC use case. It means they can rebuild their programs. IOW we hope they are not annoyed by this issue ... Reported-by: Sharyathi Nagesh <sharyath@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com> Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> LKML-Reference: <20100312161316.9520.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-13Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-2/+2
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: Fix pick_next_highest_task_rt() for cgroups sched: Cleanup: remove unused variable in try_to_wake_up() x86: Fix sched_clock_cpu for systems with unsynchronized TSC
2010-03-11sched: Remove SYNC_WAKEUPS featureMike Galbraith1-3/+0
Sync wakeups are critical functionality with a long history. Remove it, we don't need the branch or icache footprint. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1268301817.6785.47.camel@marge.simson.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-11sched: Cleanup/optimize clock updatesMike Galbraith1-16/+16
Now that we no longer depend on the clock being updated prior to enqueueing on migratory wakeup, we can clean up a bit, placing calls to update_rq_clock() exactly where they are needed, ie on enqueue, dequeue and schedule events. In the case of a freshly enqueued task immediately preempting, we can skip the update during preemption, as the clock was just updated by the enqueue event. We also save an unneeded call during a migratory wakeup by not updating the previous runqueue, where update_curr() won't be invoked. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1268301199.6785.32.camel@marge.simson.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-11sched: Remove avg_overlapMike Galbraith1-33/+0
Both avg_overlap and avg_wakeup had an inherent problem in that their accuracy was detrimentally affected by cross-cpu wakeups, this because we are missing the necessary call to update_curr(). This can't be fixed without increasing overhead in our already too fat fastpath. Additionally, with recent load balancing changes making us prefer to place tasks in an idle cache domain (which is good for compute bound loads), communicating tasks suffer when a sync wakeup, which would enable affine placement, is turned into a non-sync wakeup by SYNC_LESS. With one task on the runqueue, wake_affine() rejects the affine wakeup request, leaving the unfortunate where placed, taking frequent cache misses. Remove it, and recover some fastpath cycles. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1268301121.6785.30.camel@marge.simson.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-11sched: Remove avg_wakeupMike Galbraith1-22/+4
Testing the load which led to this heuristic (nfs4 kbuild) shows that it has outlived it's usefullness. With intervening load balancing changes, I cannot see any difference with/without, so recover there fastpath cycles. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1268301062.6785.29.camel@marge.simson.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-11sched: Rate-limit nohzMike Galbraith1-0/+12
Entering nohz code on every micro-idle is costing ~10% throughput for netperf TCP_RR when scheduling cross-cpu. Rate limiting entry fixes this, but raises ticks a bit. On my Q6600, an idle box goes from ~85 interrupts/sec to 128. The higher the context switch rate, the more nohz entry costs. With this patch and some cycle recovery patches in my tree, max cross cpu context switch rate is improved by ~16%, a large portion of which of which is this ratelimiting. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1268301003.6785.28.camel@marge.simson.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-11sched: Implement group scheduler statistics in one structLucas De Marchi1-38/+9
Put all statistic fields of sched_entity in one struct, sched_statistics, and embed it into sched_entity. This change allows to memset the sched_statistics to 0 when needed (for instance when forking), avoiding bugs of non initialized fields. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1268275065-18542-1-git-send-email-lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-11sched: Cleanup: remove unused variable in try_to_wake_up()Dan Carpenter1-2/+2
We haven't used the "orig_rq" variable since 055a00865d "Fix/add missing update_rq_clock() calls" Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Cc: efault@gmx.de LKML-Reference: <20100306111752.GL4958@bicker> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-07sysdev: Pass attribute in sysdev_class attributes show/storeAndi Kleen1-0/+4
Passing the attribute to the low level IO functions allows all kinds of cleanups, by sharing low level IO code without requiring an own function for every piece of data. Also drivers can extend the attributes with own data fields and use that in the low level function. Similar to sysdev_attributes and normal attributes. This is a tree-wide sweep, converting everything in one go. No functional changes in this patch other than passing the new argument everywhere. Tested on x86, the non x86 parts are uncompiled. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-06kernel core: use helpers for rlimitsJiri Slaby1-2/+2
Make sure compiler won't do weird things with limits. E.g. fetching them twice may return 2 different values after writable limits are implemented. I.e. either use rlimit helpers added in commit 3e10e716abf3 ("resource: add helpers for fetching rlimits") or ACCESS_ONCE if not applicable. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-03Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-2/+2
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to what's left percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to fs percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to core kernel subsystems local_t: Remove leftover local.h this_cpu: Remove pageset_notifier this_cpu: Page allocator conversion percpu, x86: Generic inc / dec percpu instructions local_t: Move local.h include to ringbuffer.c and ring_buffer_benchmark.c module: Use this_cpu_xx to dynamically allocate counters local_t: Remove cpu_local_xx macros percpu: refactor the code in pcpu_[de]populate_chunk() percpu: remove compile warnings caused by __verify_pcpu_ptr() percpu: make accessors check for percpu pointer in sparse percpu: add __percpu for sparse. percpu: make access macros universal percpu: remove per_cpu__ prefix.
2010-02-28Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-2009/+116
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (25 commits) sched: Fix SCHED_MC regression caused by change in sched cpu_power sched: Don't use possibly stale sched_class kthread, sched: Remove reference to kthread_create_on_cpu sched: cpuacct: Use bigger percpu counter batch values for stats counters percpu_counter: Make __percpu_counter_add an inline function on UP sched: Remove member rt_se from struct rt_rq sched: Change usage of rt_rq->rt_se to rt_rq->tg->rt_se[cpu] sched: Remove unused update_shares_locked() sched: Use for_each_bit sched: Queue a deboosted task to the head of the RT prio queue sched: Implement head queueing for sched_rt sched: Extend enqueue_task to allow head queueing sched: Remove USER_SCHED sched: Fix the place where group powers are updated sched: Assume *balance is valid sched: Remove load_balance_newidle() sched: Unify load_balance{,_newidle}() sched: Add a lock break for PREEMPT=y sched: Remove from fwd decls sched: Remove rq_iterator from move_one_task ... Fix up trivial conflicts in kernel/sched.c
2010-02-28Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-28/+58
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: Fix race between ttwu() and task_rq_lock() sched: Fix SMT scheduler regression in find_busiest_queue() sched: Fix sched_mv_power_savings for !SMT kernel/sched.c: Suppress unused var warning
2010-02-28Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-3/+9
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (172 commits) perf_event, amd: Fix spinlock initialization perf_event: Fix preempt warning in perf_clock() perf tools: Flush maps on COMM events perf_events, x86: Split PMU definitions into separate files perf annotate: Handle samples not at objdump output addr boundaries perf_events, x86: Remove superflous MSR writes perf_events: Simplify code by removing cpu argument to hw_perf_group_sched_in() perf_events, x86: AMD event scheduling perf_events: Add new start/stop PMU callbacks perf_events: Report the MMAP pgoff value in bytes perf annotate: Defer allocating sym_priv->hist array perf symbols: Improve debugging information about symtab origins perf top: Use a macro instead of a constant variable perf symbols: Check the right return variable perf/scripts: Tag syscall_name helper as not yet available perf/scripts: Add perf-trace-python Documentation perf/scripts: Remove unnecessary PyTuple resizes perf/scripts: Add syscall tracing scripts perf/scripts: Add Python scripting engine perf/scripts: Remove check-perf-trace from listed scripts ... Fix trivial conflict in tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
2010-02-25sched: Better name for for_each_domain_rdPaul E. McKenney1-2/+2
As suggested by Peter Ziljstra, make better choice of name for for_each_domain_rd(), containing "rcu_dereference", given that it is but a wrapper for rcu_dereference_check(). The name rcu_dereference_check_sched_domain() does that and provides a separate per-subsystem name space. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: dhowells@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <1266887105-1528-7-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-25sched: Use lockdep-based checking on rcu_dereference()Paul E. McKenney1-3/+8
Update the rcu_dereference() usages to take advantage of the new lockdep-based checking. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: dhowells@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <1266887105-1528-6-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ -v2: fix allmodconfig missing symbol export build failure on x86 ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-17sched: Don't use possibly stale sched_classThomas Gleixner1-2/+4
setscheduler() saves task->sched_class outside of the rq->lock held region for a check after the setscheduler changes have become effective. That might result in checking a stale value. rtmutex_setprio() has the same problem, though it is protected by p->pi_lock against setscheduler(), but for correctness sake (and to avoid bad examples) it needs to be fixed as well. Retrieve task->sched_class inside of the rq->lock held region. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org
2010-02-17percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to core kernel subsystemsTejun Heo1-2/+2
Add __percpu sparse annotations to core subsystems. These annotations are to make sparse consider percpu variables to be in a different address space and warn if accessed without going through percpu accessors. This patch doesn't affect normal builds. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2010-02-16Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/coreThomas Gleixner1-27/+46
Conflicts: kernel/sched.c Necessary due to the urgent fixes which conflict with the code move from sched.c to sched_fair.c Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-02-16sched: Fix race between ttwu() and task_rq_lock()Peter Zijlstra1-27/+46
Thomas found that due to ttwu() changing a task's cpu without holding the rq->lock, task_rq_lock() might end up locking the wrong rq. Avoid this by serializing against TASK_WAKING. Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1266241712.15770.420.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-02-16sched: Fix SMT scheduler regression in find_busiest_queue()Suresh Siddha1-2/+13
Fix a SMT scheduler performance regression that is leading to a scenario where SMT threads in one core are completely idle while both the SMT threads in another core (on the same socket) are busy. This is caused by this commit (with the problematic code highlighted) commit bdb94aa5dbd8b55e75f5a50b61312fe589e2c2d1 Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Date: Tue Sep 1 10:34:38 2009 +0200 sched: Try to deal with low capacity @@ -4203,15 +4223,18 @@ find_busiest_queue() ... for_each_cpu(i, sched_group_cpus(group)) { + unsigned long power = power_of(i); ... - wl = weighted_cpuload(i); + wl = weighted_cpuload(i) * SCHED_LOAD_SCALE; + wl /= power; - if (rq->nr_running == 1 && wl > imbalance) + if (capacity && rq->nr_running == 1 && wl > imbalance) continue; On a SMT system, power of the HT logical cpu will be 589 and the scheduler load imbalance (for scenarios like the one mentioned above) can be approximately 1024 (SCHED_LOAD_SCALE). The above change of scaling the weighted load with the power will result in "wl > imbalance" and ultimately resulting in find_busiest_queue() return NULL, causing load_balance() to think that the load is well balanced. But infact one of the tasks can be moved to the idle core for optimal performance. We don't need to use the weighted load (wl) scaled by the cpu power to compare with imabalance. In that condition, we already know there is only a single task "rq->nr_running == 1" and the comparison between imbalance, wl is to make sure that we select the correct priority thread which matches imbalance. So we really need to compare the imabalnce with the original weighted load of the cpu and not the scaled load. But in other conditions where we want the most hammered(busiest) cpu, we can use scaled load to ensure that we consider the cpu power in addition to the actual load on that cpu, so that we can move the load away from the guy that is getting most hammered with respect to the actual capacity, as compared with the rest of the cpu's in that busiest group. Fix it. Reported-by: Ma Ling <ling.ma@intel.com> Initial-Analysis-by: Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1266023662.2808.118.camel@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.32.x] Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-02-08sched: cpuacct: Use bigger percpu counter batch values for stats countersAnton Blanchard1-1/+19
When CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING and CONFIG_CGROUP_CPUACCT are enabled we can call cpuacct_update_stats with values much larger than percpu_counter_batch. This means the call to percpu_counter_add will always add to the global count which is protected by a spinlock and we end up with a global spinlock in the scheduler. Based on an idea by KOSAKI Motohiro, this patch scales the batch value by cputime_one_jiffy such that we have the same batch limit as we would if CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING was disabled. His patch did this once at boot but that initialisation happened too early on PowerPC (before time_init) and it was never updated at runtime as a result of a hotplug cpu add/remove. This patch instead scales percpu_counter_batch by cputime_one_jiffy at runtime, which keeps the batch correct even after cpu hotplug operations. We cap it at INT_MAX in case of overflow. For architectures that do not support CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING, cputime_one_jiffy is the constant 1 and gcc is smart enough to optimise min(s32 percpu_counter_batch, INT_MAX) to just percpu_counter_batch at least on x86 and PowerPC. So there is no need to add an #ifdef. On a 64 thread PowerPC box with CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING and CONFIG_CGROUP_CPUACCT enabled, a context switch microbenchmark is 234x faster and almost matches a CONFIG_CGROUP_CPUACCT disabled kernel: CONFIG_CGROUP_CPUACCT disabled: 16906698 ctx switches/sec CONFIG_CGROUP_CPUACCT enabled: 61720 ctx switches/sec CONFIG_CGROUP_CPUACCT + patch: 16663217 ctx switches/sec Tested with: wget http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/context_switch.c make context_switch for i in `seq 0 63`; do taskset -c $i ./context_switch & done vmstat 1 Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-08Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/coreIngo Molnar1-13/+31
Merge reason: Merge dependent fix, update to latest -rc. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-08kernel/sched.c: Suppress unused var warningAndrew Morton1-1/+1
On UP: kernel/sched.c: In function 'wake_up_new_task': kernel/sched.c:2631: warning: unused variable 'cpu' Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>