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2017-06-18Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull scheduler fixes from Thomas Gleixner: "Two small fixes for the schedulre core: - Use the proper switch_mm() variant in idle_task_exit() because that code is not called with interrupts disabled. - Fix a confusing typo in a printk" * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched/core: Idle_task_exit() shouldn't use switch_mm_irqs_off() sched/fair: Fix typo in printk message
2017-06-15Merge branches 'pm-cpufreq', 'pm-cpuidle' and 'pm-devfreq'Rafael J. Wysocki
* pm-cpufreq: cpufreq: conservative: Allow down_threshold to take values from 1 to 10 Revert "cpufreq: schedutil: Reduce frequencies slower" * pm-cpuidle: cpuidle: dt: Add missing 'of_node_put()' * pm-devfreq: PM / devfreq: exynos-ppmu: Staticize event list PM / devfreq: exynos-ppmu: Handle return value of clk_prepare_enable PM / devfreq: exynos-nocp: Handle return value of clk_prepare_enable
2017-06-12Revert "cpufreq: schedutil: Reduce frequencies slower"Rafael J. Wysocki
Revert commit 39b64aa1c007 (cpufreq: schedutil: Reduce frequencies slower) that introduced unintentional changes in behavior leading to adverse effects on some systems. Reported-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2017-06-11sched/core: Idle_task_exit() shouldn't use switch_mm_irqs_off()Andy Lutomirski
idle_task_exit() can be called with IRQs on x86 on and therefore should use switch_mm(), not switch_mm_irqs_off(). This doesn't seem to cause any problems right now, but it will confuse my upcoming TLB flush changes. Nonetheless, I think it should be backported because it's trivial. There won't be any meaningful performance impact because idle_task_exit() is only used when offlining a CPU. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: f98db6013c55 ("sched/core: Add switch_mm_irqs_off() and use it in the scheduler") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ca3d1a9fa93a0b49f5a8ff729eda3640fb6abdf9.1497034141.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-06-11sched/fair: Fix typo in printk messageMarcin Nowakowski
'schedstats' kernel parameter should be set to enable/disable, so correct the printk hint saying that it should be set to 'enable' rather than 'enabled' to enable scheduler tracepoints. Signed-off-by: Marcin Nowakowski <marcin.nowakowski@imgtec.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1496995229-31245-1-git-send-email-marcin.nowakowski@imgtec.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-05-22Merge branches 'intel_pstate', 'pm-cpufreq' and 'pm-cpufreq-sched'Rafael J. Wysocki
* intel_pstate: cpufreq: intel_pstate: Document the current behavior and user interface * pm-cpufreq: cpufreq: dbx500: add a Kconfig symbol * pm-cpufreq-sched: cpufreq: schedutil: use now as reference when aggregating shared policy requests
2017-05-15sched/core: Call __schedule() from do_idle() without enabling preemptionSteven Rostedt (VMware)
I finally got around to creating trampolines for dynamically allocated ftrace_ops with using synchronize_rcu_tasks(). For users of the ftrace function hook callbacks, like perf, that allocate the ftrace_ops descriptor via kmalloc() and friends, ftrace was not able to optimize the functions being traced to use a trampoline because they would also need to be allocated dynamically. The problem is that they cannot be freed when CONFIG_PREEMPT is set, as there's no way to tell if a task was preempted on the trampoline. That was before Paul McKenney implemented synchronize_rcu_tasks() that would make sure all tasks (except idle) have scheduled out or have entered user space. While testing this, I triggered this bug: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffa0230077 ... RIP: 0010:0xffffffffa0230077 ... Call Trace: schedule+0x5/0xe0 schedule_preempt_disabled+0x18/0x30 do_idle+0x172/0x220 What happened was that the idle task was preempted on the trampoline. As synchronize_rcu_tasks() ignores the idle thread, there's nothing that lets ftrace know that the idle task was preempted on a trampoline. The idle task shouldn't need to ever enable preemption. The idle task is simply a loop that calls schedule or places the cpu into idle mode. In fact, having preemption enabled is inefficient, because it can happen when idle is just about to call schedule anyway, which would cause schedule to be called twice. Once for when the interrupt came in and was returning back to normal context, and then again in the normal path that the idle loop is running in, which would be pointless, as it had already scheduled. The only reason schedule_preempt_disable() enables preemption is to be able to call sched_submit_work(), which requires preemption enabled. As this is a nop when the task is in the RUNNING state, and idle is always in the running state, there's no reason that idle needs to enable preemption. But that means it cannot use schedule_preempt_disable() as other callers of that function require calling sched_submit_work(). Adding a new function local to kernel/sched/ that allows idle to call the scheduler without enabling preemption, fixes the synchronize_rcu_tasks() issue, as well as removes the pointless spurious schedule calls caused by interrupts happening in the brief window where preemption is enabled just before it calls schedule. Reviewed: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170414084809.3dacde2a@gandalf.local.home Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-05-10Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes are: - Debloat RCU headers - Parallelize SRCU callback handling (plus overlapping patches) - Improve the performance of Tree SRCU on a CPU-hotplug stress test - Documentation updates - Miscellaneous fixes" * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (74 commits) rcu: Open-code the rcu_cblist_n_lazy_cbs() function rcu: Open-code the rcu_cblist_n_cbs() function rcu: Open-code the rcu_cblist_empty() function rcu: Separately compile large rcu_segcblist functions srcu: Debloat the <linux/rcu_segcblist.h> header srcu: Adjust default auto-expediting holdoff srcu: Specify auto-expedite holdoff time srcu: Expedite first synchronize_srcu() when idle srcu: Expedited grace periods with reduced memory contention srcu: Make rcutorture writer stalls print SRCU GP state srcu: Exact tracking of srcu_data structures containing callbacks srcu: Make SRCU be built by default srcu: Fix Kconfig botch when SRCU not selected rcu: Make non-preemptive schedule be Tasks RCU quiescent state srcu: Expedite srcu_schedule_cbs_snp() callback invocation srcu: Parallelize callback handling kvm: Move srcu_struct fields to end of struct kvm rcu: Fix typo in PER_RCU_NODE_PERIOD header comment rcu: Use true/false in assignment to bool rcu: Use bool value directly ...
2017-05-05cpufreq: schedutil: use now as reference when aggregating shared policy requestsJuri Lelli
Currently, sugov_next_freq_shared() uses last_freq_update_time as a reference to decide when to start considering CPU contributions as stale. However, since last_freq_update_time is set by the last CPU that issued a frequency transition, this might cause problems in certain cases. In practice, the detection of stale utilization values fails whenever the CPU with such values was the last to update the policy. For example (and please note again that the SCHED_CPUFREQ_RT flag is not the problem here, but only the detection of after how much time that flag has to be considered stale), suppose a policy with 2 CPUs: CPU0 | CPU1 | | RT task scheduled | SCHED_CPUFREQ_RT is set | CPU1->last_update = now | freq transition to max | last_freq_update_time = now | more than TICK_NSEC nsecs | a small CFS wakes up | CPU0->last_update = now1 | delta_ns(CPU0) < TICK_NSEC* | CPU0's util is considered | delta_ns(CPU1) = | last_freq_update_time - | CPU1->last_update = 0 | < TICK_NSEC | CPU1 is still considered | CPU1->SCHED_CPUFREQ_RT is set | we stay at max (until CPU1 | exits from idle) | * delta_ns is actually negative as now1 > last_freq_update_time While last_freq_update_time is a sensible reference for rate limiting, it doesn't seem to be useful for working around stale CPU states. Fix the problem by always considering now (time) as the reference for deciding when CPUs have stale contributions. Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com> Acked-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2017-05-02Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina. * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: tty: fix comment for __tty_alloc_driver() init/main: properly align the multi-line comment init/main: Fix double "the" in comment Fix dead URLs to ftp.kernel.org drivers: Clean up duplicated email address treewide: Fix typo in xml/driver-api/basics.xml tools/testing/selftests/powerpc: remove redundant CFLAGS in Makefile: "-Wall -O2 -Wall" -> "-O2 -Wall" selftests/timers: Spelling s/privledges/privileges/ HID: picoLCD: Spelling s/REPORT_WRTIE_MEMORY/REPORT_WRITE_MEMORY/ net: phy: dp83848: Fix Typo UBI: Fix typos Documentation: ftrace.txt: Correct nice value of 120 priority net: fec: Fix typo in error msg and comment treewide: Fix typos in printk
2017-05-02Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching Pull livepatch updates from Jiri Kosina: - a per-task consistency model is being added for architectures that support reliable stack dumping (extending this, currently rather trivial set, is currently in the works). This extends the nature of the types of patches that can be applied by live patching infrastructure. The code stems from the design proposal made [1] back in November 2014. It's a hybrid of SUSE's kGraft and RH's kpatch, combining advantages of both: it uses kGraft's per-task consistency and syscall barrier switching combined with kpatch's stack trace switching. There are also a number of fallback options which make it quite flexible. Most of the heavy lifting done by Josh Poimboeuf with help from Miroslav Benes and Petr Mladek [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141107140458.GA21774@suse.cz - module load time patch optimization from Zhou Chengming - a few assorted small fixes * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching: livepatch: add missing printk newlines livepatch: Cancel transition a safe way for immediate patches livepatch: Reduce the time of finding module symbols livepatch: make klp_mutex proper part of API livepatch: allow removal of a disabled patch livepatch: add /proc/<pid>/patch_state livepatch: change to a per-task consistency model livepatch: store function sizes livepatch: use kstrtobool() in enabled_store() livepatch: move patching functions into patch.c livepatch: remove unnecessary object loaded check livepatch: separate enabled and patched states livepatch/s390: add TIF_PATCH_PENDING thread flag livepatch/s390: reorganize TIF thread flag bits livepatch/powerpc: add TIF_PATCH_PENDING thread flag livepatch/x86: add TIF_PATCH_PENDING thread flag livepatch: create temporary klp_update_patch_state() stub x86/entry: define _TIF_ALLWORK_MASK flags explicitly stacktrace/x86: add function for detecting reliable stack traces
2017-05-01Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes in this cycle were: - a big round of FUTEX_UNLOCK_PI improvements, fixes, cleanups and general restructuring - lockdep updates such as new checks for lock_downgrade() - introduce the new atomic_try_cmpxchg() locking API and use it to optimize refcount code generation - ... plus misc fixes, updates and cleanups" * 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (38 commits) MAINTAINERS: Add FUTEX SUBSYSTEM futex: Clarify mark_wake_futex memory barrier usage futex: Fix small (and harmless looking) inconsistencies futex: Avoid freeing an active timer rtmutex: Plug preempt count leak in rt_mutex_futex_unlock() rtmutex: Fix more prio comparisons rtmutex: Fix PI chain order integrity sched,tracing: Update trace_sched_pi_setprio() sched/rtmutex: Refactor rt_mutex_setprio() rtmutex: Clean up sched/deadline/rtmutex: Dont miss the dl_runtime/dl_period update sched/rtmutex/deadline: Fix a PI crash for deadline tasks rtmutex: Deboost before waking up the top waiter locking/ww-mutex: Limit stress test to 2 seconds locking/atomic: Fix atomic_try_cmpxchg() semantics lockdep: Fix per-cpu static objects futex: Drop hb->lock before enqueueing on the rtmutex futex: Futex_unlock_pi() determinism futex: Rework futex_lock_pi() to use rt_mutex_*_proxy_lock() futex,rt_mutex: Restructure rt_mutex_finish_proxy_lock() ...
2017-05-01Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes in this cycle were: - another round of rq-clock handling debugging, robustization and fixes - PELT accounting improvements - CPU hotplug related ->cpus_allowed affinity handling fixes all around the tree - ... plus misc fixes, cleanups and updates" * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (35 commits) sched/x86: Update reschedule warning text crypto: N2 - Replace racy task affinity logic cpufreq/sparc-us2e: Replace racy task affinity logic cpufreq/sparc-us3: Replace racy task affinity logic cpufreq/sh: Replace racy task affinity logic cpufreq/ia64: Replace racy task affinity logic ACPI/processor: Replace racy task affinity logic ACPI/processor: Fix error handling in __acpi_processor_start() sparc/sysfs: Replace racy task affinity logic powerpc/smp: Replace open coded task affinity logic ia64/sn/hwperf: Replace racy task affinity logic ia64/salinfo: Replace racy task affinity logic workqueue: Provide work_on_cpu_safe() ia64/topology: Remove cpus_allowed manipulation sched/fair: Move the PELT constants into a generated header sched/fair: Increase PELT accuracy for small tasks sched/fair: Fix comments sched/Documentation: Add 'sched-pelt' tool sched/fair: Fix corner case in __accumulate_sum() sched/core: Remove 'task' parameter and rename tsk_restore_flags() to current_restore_flags() ...
2017-05-01Merge tag 'pm-4.12-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm Pull power management updates from Rafael Wysocki: "This time the majority of changes go to the cpufreq subsystem (and to the intel_pstate driver in particular) and there are some updates in the generic power domains framework, cpuidle, tools and a couple of other places. One thing worth mentioning is that the intel_pstate's sysfs interface has been reworked to be more consistent with the general expectations of the cpufreq core and less confusing, hopefully for the better. Also, we have a new cpufreq driver for Tegra186 and new hardware support in intel_pstata and the Mediatek cpufreq driver. Apart from that, the AnalyzeSuspend utility for system suspend profiling gets a companion called AnalyzeBoot for the analogous profiling of system boot and they both go into one place under tools/power/pm-graph/. The rest is mostly fixes, cleanups and code reorganization. Specifics: - Rework the intel_pstate driver's sysfs interface to make it more straightforward and more intuitive (Rafael Wysocki). - Make intel_pstate support all processors which advertise HWP (hardware-managed P-states) to the kernel in all operation modes and make it use the load-based P-state selection algorithm on a wider range of systems in the active mode (Rafael Wysocki). - Add cpufreq driver for Tegra186 (Mikko Perttunen). - Add support for Gemini Lake SoCs to intel_pstate (David Box). - Add support for MT8176 and MT817x to the Mediatek cpufreq driver and clean up that driver a bit (Daniel Kurtz). - Clean up intel_pstate and optimize it slightly (Rafael Wysocki). - Update the schedutil cpufreq governor, mostly to fix a couple of issues with it related to specific workloads, and rework its sysfs tunable and initialization a bit (Rafael Wysocki, Viresh Kumar). - Fix minor issues in the imx6q, dbx500 and qoriq cpufreq drivers (Christophe Jaillet, Irina Tirdea, Leonard Crestez, Viresh Kumar, YuanTian Tang). - Add file patterns for cpufreq DT bindings to MAINTAINERS (Geert Uytterhoeven). - Add support for "always on" power domains to the genpd (generic power domains) framework and clean up that code somewhat (Ulf Hansson, Lina Iyer, Viresh Kumar). - Fix minor issues in the powernv cpuidle driver and clean it up (Anton Blanchard, Gautham Shenoy). - Move the AnalyzeSuspend utility under tools/power/pm-graph/ and add an analogous boot-profiling utility called AnalyzeBoot to it (Todd Brandt). - Add rk3328 support to the rockchip-io AVS (Adaptive Voltage Scaling) driver (David Wu). - Fix minor issues in the cpuidle core, the intel_pstate_tracer utility, the devfreq framework and the PM core documentation (Chanwoo Choi, Doug Smythies, Johan Hovold, Marcin Nowakowski)" * tag 'pm-4.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (56 commits) PM / runtime: Document autosuspend-helper side effects PM / runtime: Fix autosuspend documentation tools: power: pm-graph: Package makefile and man pages tools: power: pm-graph: AnalyzeBoot v2.0 tools: power: pm-graph: AnalyzeSuspend v4.6 cpufreq: Add Tegra186 cpufreq driver cpufreq: imx6q: Fix error handling code cpufreq: imx6q: Set max suspend_freq to avoid changes during suspend cpufreq: imx6q: Fix handling EPROBE_DEFER from regulator cpuidle: powernv: Avoid a branch in the core snooze_loop() loop cpuidle: powernv: Don't continually set thread priority in snooze_loop() cpuidle: powernv: Don't bounce between low and very low thread priority cpuidle: cpuidle-cps: remove unused variable tools/power/x86/intel_pstate_tracer: Adjust directory ownership cpufreq: schedutil: Use policy-dependent transition delays cpufreq: schedutil: Reduce frequencies slower PM / devfreq: Move struct devfreq_governor to devfreq directory PM / Domains: Ignore domain-idle-states that are not compatible cpufreq: intel_pstate: Add support for Gemini Lake powernv-cpuidle: Validate DT property array size ...
2017-05-01Merge branch 'for-4.12' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo: "Nothing major. Two notable fixes are Li's second stab at fixing the long-standing race condition in the mount path and suppression of spurious warning from cgroup_get(). All other changes are trivial" * 'for-4.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: cgroup: mark cgroup_get() with __maybe_unused cgroup: avoid attaching a cgroup root to two different superblocks, take 2 cgroup: fix spurious warnings on cgroup_is_dead() from cgroup_sk_alloc() cgroup: move cgroup_subsys_state parent field for cache locality cpuset: Remove cpuset_update_active_cpus()'s parameter. cgroup: switch to BUG_ON() cgroup: drop duplicate header nsproxy.h kernel: convert css_set.refcount from atomic_t to refcount_t kernel: convert cgroup_namespace.count from atomic_t to refcount_t
2017-04-28Merge schedutil governor updates for v4.12.Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-04-27sched/cputime: Fix ksoftirqd cputime accounting regressionFrederic Weisbecker
irq_time_read() returns the irqtime minus the ksoftirqd time. This is necessary because irq_time_read() is used to substract the IRQ time from the sum_exec_runtime of a task. If we were to include the softirq time of ksoftirqd, this task would substract its own CPU time everytime it updates ksoftirqd->sum_exec_runtime which would therefore never progress. But this behaviour got broken by: a499a5a14db ("sched/cputime: Increment kcpustat directly on irqtime account") ... which now includes ksoftirqd softirq time in the time returned by irq_time_read(). This has resulted in wrong ksoftirqd cputime reported to userspace through /proc/stat and thus "top" not showing ksoftirqd when it should after intense networking load. ksoftirqd->stime happens to be correct but it gets scaled down by sum_exec_runtime through task_cputime_adjusted(). To fix this, just account the strict IRQ time in a separate counter and use it to report the IRQ time. Reported-and-tested-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1493129448-5356-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-04-23Merge branch 'for-mingo' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu Pull RCU updates from Paul E. McKenney: - Documentation updates. - Miscellaneous fixes. - Parallelize SRCU callback handling (plus overlapping patches). Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-04-21rcu: Make non-preemptive schedule be Tasks RCU quiescent statePaul E. McKenney
Currently, a call to schedule() acts as a Tasks RCU quiescent state only if a context switch actually takes place. However, just the call to schedule() guarantees that the calling task has moved off of whatever tracing trampoline that it might have been one previously. This commit therefore plumbs schedule()'s "preempt" parameter into rcu_note_context_switch(), which then records the Tasks RCU quiescent state, but only if this call to schedule() was -not- due to a preemption. To avoid adding overhead to the common-case context-switch path, this commit hides the rcu_note_context_switch() check under an existing non-common-case check. Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-04-17cpufreq: schedutil: Use policy-dependent transition delaysRafael J. Wysocki
Make the schedutil governor take the initial (default) value of the rate_limit_us sysfs attribute from the (new) transition_delay_us policy parameter (to be set by the scaling driver). That will allow scaling drivers to make schedutil use smaller default values of rate_limit_us and reduce the default average time interval between consecutive frequency changes. Make intel_pstate set transition_delay_us to 500. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
2017-04-14Merge branch 'linus' into locking/core, to pick up fixesIngo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-04-14sched/fair: Move the PELT constants into a generated headerPeter Zijlstra
Now that we have a tool to generate the PELT constants in C form, use its output as a separate header. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-04-14sched/fair: Increase PELT accuracy for small tasksPeter Zijlstra
We truncate (and loose) the lower 10 bits of runtime in ___update_load_avg(), this means there's a consistent bias to under-account tasks. This is esp. significant for small tasks. Cure this by only forwarding last_update_time to the point we've actually accounted for, leaving the remainder for the next time. Reported-by: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-04-14sched/fair: Fix commentsPeter Zijlstra
Historically our periods (or p) argument in PELT denoted the number of full periods (what is now d2). However recent patches have changed this to the total decay (previously p+1), leading to a confusing discrepancy between comments and code. Try and clarify things by making periods (in code) and p (in comments) be the same thing (again). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-04-14sched/fair: Fix corner case in __accumulate_sum()Peter Zijlstra
Paul noticed that in the (periods >= LOAD_AVG_MAX_N) case in __accumulate_sum(), the returned contribution value (LOAD_AVG_MAX) is incorrect. This is because at this point, the decay_load() on the old state -- the first step in accumulate_sum() -- will not have resulted in 0, and will therefore result in a sum larger than the maximum value of our series. Obviously broken. Note that: decay_load(LOAD_AVG_MAX, LOAD_AVG_MAX_N) = 1 (345 / 32) 47742 * - ^ = ~27 2 Not to mention that any further contribution from the d3 segment (our new period) would also push it over the maximum. Solve this by noting that we can write our c2 term: p c2 = 1024 \Sum y^n n=1 In terms of our maximum value: inf inf p max = 1024 \Sum y^n = 1024 ( \Sum y^n + \Sum y^n + y^0 ) n=0 n=p+1 n=1 Further note that: inf inf inf ( \Sum y^n ) y^p = \Sum y^(n+p) = \Sum y^n n=0 n=0 n=p Combined that gives us: p c2 = 1024 \Sum y^n n=1 inf inf = 1024 ( \Sum y^n - \Sum y^n - y^0 ) n=0 n=p+1 = max - (max y^(p+1)) - 1024 Further simplify things by dealing with p=0 early on. Reported-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Yuyang Du <yuyang.du@intel.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Fixes: a481db34b9be ("sched/fair: Optimize ___update_sched_avg()") Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-04-13cpufreq: schedutil: Reduce frequencies slowerRafael J. Wysocki
The schedutil governor reduces frequencies too fast in some situations which cases undesirable performance drops to appear. To address that issue, make schedutil reduce the frequency slower by setting it to the average of the value chosen during the previous iteration of governor computations and the new one coming from its frequency selection formula. Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194963 Reported-by: John <john.ettedgui@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
2017-04-11Merge tag 'v4.11-rc6' into sched/core, to pick up fixesIngo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-04-11cpuset: Remove cpuset_update_active_cpus()'s parameter.Rakib Mullick
In cpuset_update_active_cpus(), cpu_online isn't used anymore. Remove it. Signed-off-by: Rakib Mullick<rakib.mullick@gmail.com> Acked-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2017-04-04sched,tracing: Update trace_sched_pi_setprio()Peter Zijlstra
Pass the PI donor task, instead of a numerical priority. Numerical priorities are not sufficient to describe state ever since SCHED_DEADLINE. Annotate all sched tracepoints that are currently broken; fixing them will bork userspace. *hate*. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: juri.lelli@arm.com Cc: bigeasy@linutronix.de Cc: xlpang@redhat.com Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com Cc: jdesfossez@efficios.com Cc: bristot@redhat.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170323150216.353599881@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2017-04-04sched/rtmutex: Refactor rt_mutex_setprio()Peter Zijlstra
With the introduction of SCHED_DEADLINE the whole notion that priority is a single number is gone, therefore the @prio argument to rt_mutex_setprio() doesn't make sense anymore. So rework the code to pass a pi_task instead. Note this also fixes a problem with pi_top_task caching; previously we would not set the pointer (call rt_mutex_update_top_task) if the priority didn't change, this could lead to a stale pointer. As for the XXX, I think its fine to use pi_task->prio, because if it differs from waiter->prio, a PI chain update is immenent. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: juri.lelli@arm.com Cc: bigeasy@linutronix.de Cc: xlpang@redhat.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com Cc: jdesfossez@efficios.com Cc: bristot@redhat.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170323150216.303827095@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2017-04-04sched/rtmutex/deadline: Fix a PI crash for deadline tasksXunlei Pang
A crash happened while I was playing with deadline PI rtmutex. BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000018 IP: [<ffffffff810eeb8f>] rt_mutex_get_top_task+0x1f/0x30 PGD 232a75067 PUD 230947067 PMD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP CPU: 1 PID: 10994 Comm: a.out Not tainted Call Trace: [<ffffffff810b658c>] enqueue_task+0x2c/0x80 [<ffffffff810ba763>] activate_task+0x23/0x30 [<ffffffff810d0ab5>] pull_dl_task+0x1d5/0x260 [<ffffffff810d0be6>] pre_schedule_dl+0x16/0x20 [<ffffffff8164e783>] __schedule+0xd3/0x900 [<ffffffff8164efd9>] schedule+0x29/0x70 [<ffffffff8165035b>] __rt_mutex_slowlock+0x4b/0xc0 [<ffffffff81650501>] rt_mutex_slowlock+0xd1/0x190 [<ffffffff810eeb33>] rt_mutex_timed_lock+0x53/0x60 [<ffffffff810ecbfc>] futex_lock_pi.isra.18+0x28c/0x390 [<ffffffff810ed8b0>] do_futex+0x190/0x5b0 [<ffffffff810edd50>] SyS_futex+0x80/0x180 This is because rt_mutex_enqueue_pi() and rt_mutex_dequeue_pi() are only protected by pi_lock when operating pi waiters, while rt_mutex_get_top_task(), will access them with rq lock held but not holding pi_lock. In order to tackle it, we introduce new "pi_top_task" pointer cached in task_struct, and add new rt_mutex_update_top_task() to update its value, it can be called by rt_mutex_setprio() which held both owner's pi_lock and rq lock. Thus "pi_top_task" can be safely accessed by enqueue_task_dl() under rq lock. Originally-From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Xunlei Pang <xlpang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: juri.lelli@arm.com Cc: bigeasy@linutronix.de Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com Cc: jdesfossez@efficios.com Cc: bristot@redhat.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170323150216.157682758@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2017-04-02Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull scheduler fixes from Thomas Gleixner: "This update provides: - make the scheduler clock switch to unstable mode smooth so the timestamps stay at microseconds granularity instead of switching to tick granularity. - unbreak perf test tsc by taking the new offset into account which was added in order to proveide better sched clock continuity - switching sched clock to unstable mode runs all clock related computations which affect the sched clock output itself from a work queue. In case of preemption sched clock uses half updated data and provides wrong timestamps. Keep the math in the protected context and delegate only the static key switch to workqueue context. - remove a duplicate header include" * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched/headers: Remove duplicate #include <linux/sched/debug.h> line sched/clock: Fix broken stable to unstable transfer sched/clock, x86/perf: Fix "perf test tsc" sched/clock: Fix clear_sched_clock_stable() preempt wobbly
2017-03-30sched/fair: Optimize ___update_sched_avg()Yuyang Du
The main PELT function ___update_load_avg(), which implements the accumulation and progression of the geometric average series, is implemented along the following lines for the scenario where the time delta spans all 3 possible sections (see figure below): 1. add the remainder of the last incomplete period 2. decay old sum 3. accumulate new sum in full periods since last_update_time 4. accumulate the current incomplete period 5. update averages Or: d1 d2 d3 ^ ^ ^ | | | |<->|<----------------->|<--->| ... |---x---|------| ... |------|-----x (now) load_sum' = (load_sum + weight * scale * d1) * y^(p+1) + (1,2) p weight * scale * 1024 * \Sum y^n + (3) n=1 weight * scale * d3 * y^0 (4) load_avg' = load_sum' / LOAD_AVG_MAX (5) Where: d1 - is the delta part completing the remainder of the last incomplete period, d2 - is the delta part spannind complete periods, and d3 - is the delta part starting the current incomplete period. We can simplify the code in two steps; the first step is to separate the first term into new and old parts like: (load_sum + weight * scale * d1) * y^(p+1) = load_sum * y^(p+1) + weight * scale * d1 * y^(p+1) Once we've done that, its easy to see that all new terms carry the common factors: weight * scale If we factor those out, we arrive at the form: load_sum' = load_sum * y^(p+1) + weight * scale * (d1 * y^(p+1) + p 1024 * \Sum y^n + n=1 d3 * y^0) Which results in a simpler, smaller and faster implementation. Signed-off-by: Yuyang Du <yuyang.du@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: bsegall@google.com Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com Cc: matt@codeblueprint.co.uk Cc: morten.rasmussen@arm.com Cc: pjt@google.com Cc: umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1486935863-25251-3-git-send-email-yuyang.du@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-03-30sched/fair: Explicitly generate __update_load_avg() instancesPeter Zijlstra
The __update_load_avg() function is an __always_inline because its used with constant propagation to generate different variants of the code without having to duplicate it (which would be prone to bugs). Explicitly instantiate the 3 variants. Note that most of this is called from rather hot paths, so reducing branches is good. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-03-27sched/clock: Fix broken stable to unstable transferPavel Tatashin
When it is determined that the clock is actually unstable, and we switch from stable to unstable, the __clear_sched_clock_stable() function is eventually called. In this function we set gtod_offset so the following holds true: sched_clock() + raw_offset == ktime_get_ns() + gtod_offset But instead of getting the latest timestamps, we use the last values from scd, so instead of sched_clock() we use scd->tick_raw, and instead of ktime_get_ns() we use scd->tick_gtod. However, later, when we use gtod_offset sched_clock_local() we do not add it to scd->tick_gtod to calculate the correct clock value when we determine the boundaries for min/max clocks. This can result in tick granularity sched_clock() values, so fix it. Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: hpa@zytor.com Fixes: 5680d8094ffa ("sched/clock: Provide better clock continuity") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1490214265-899964-2-git-send-email-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-03-27sched/fair: Prefer sibiling only if local group is under-utilizedSrikar Dronamraju
If the child domain prefers tasks to go siblings, the local group could end up pulling tasks to itself even if the local group is almost equally loaded as the source group. Lets assume a 4 core,smt==2 machine running 5 thread ebizzy workload. Everytime, local group has capacity and source group has atleast 2 threads, local group tries to pull the task. This causes the threads to constantly move between different cores. This is even more profound if the cores have more threads, like in Power 8, smt 8 mode. Fix this by only allowing local group to pull a task, if the source group has more number of tasks than the local group. Here are the relevant perf stat numbers of a 22 core,smt 8 Power 8 machine. Without patch: Performance counter stats for 'ebizzy -t 22 -S 100' (5 runs): 1,440 context-switches # 0.001 K/sec ( +- 1.26% ) 366 cpu-migrations # 0.000 K/sec ( +- 5.58% ) 3,933 page-faults # 0.002 K/sec ( +- 11.08% ) Performance counter stats for 'ebizzy -t 48 -S 100' (5 runs): 6,287 context-switches # 0.001 K/sec ( +- 3.65% ) 3,776 cpu-migrations # 0.001 K/sec ( +- 4.84% ) 5,702 page-faults # 0.001 K/sec ( +- 9.36% ) Performance counter stats for 'ebizzy -t 96 -S 100' (5 runs): 8,776 context-switches # 0.001 K/sec ( +- 0.73% ) 2,790 cpu-migrations # 0.000 K/sec ( +- 0.98% ) 10,540 page-faults # 0.001 K/sec ( +- 3.12% ) With patch: Performance counter stats for 'ebizzy -t 22 -S 100' (5 runs): 1,133 context-switches # 0.001 K/sec ( +- 4.72% ) 123 cpu-migrations # 0.000 K/sec ( +- 3.42% ) 3,858 page-faults # 0.002 K/sec ( +- 8.52% ) Performance counter stats for 'ebizzy -t 48 -S 100' (5 runs): 2,169 context-switches # 0.000 K/sec ( +- 6.19% ) 189 cpu-migrations # 0.000 K/sec ( +- 12.75% ) 5,917 page-faults # 0.001 K/sec ( +- 8.09% ) Performance counter stats for 'ebizzy -t 96 -S 100' (5 runs): 5,333 context-switches # 0.001 K/sec ( +- 5.91% ) 506 cpu-migrations # 0.000 K/sec ( +- 3.35% ) 10,792 page-faults # 0.001 K/sec ( +- 7.75% ) Which show that in these workloads CPU migrations get reduced significantly. Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1490205470-10249-1-git-send-email-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-03-25Merge back schedutil governor updates for 4.12.Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-03-24treewide: Fix typo in xml/driver-api/basics.xmlMasanari Iida
This patch fix spelling typos found in Documentation/output/xml/driver-api/basics.xml. It is because the xml file was generated from comments in source, so I had to fix the comments. Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2017-03-24cpufreq: schedutil: Trace frequency only if it has changedRafael J. Wysocki
sugov_update_commit() calls trace_cpu_frequency() to record the current CPU frequency if it has not changed in the fast switch case to prevent utilities from getting confused (they may report that the CPU is idle if the frequency has not been recorded for too long, for example). However, that may cause the tracepoint to be triggered quite often for no real reason (if the frequency doesn't change, we will not modify the last update time stamp and governor computations may run again shortly when that happens), so don't do that (arguably, it is done to work around a utilities bug anyway). That allows code duplication in sugov_update_commit() to be reduced somewhat too. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
2017-03-23sched/fair: Fix FTQ noise bench regressionVincent Guittot
A regression of the FTQ noise has been reported by Ying Huang, on the following hardware: 8 threads Intel(R) Core(TM)i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz with 8G memory ... which was caused by this commit: commit 4e5160766fcc ("sched/fair: Propagate asynchrous detach") The only part of the patch that can increase the noise is the update of blocked load of group entity in update_blocked_averages(). We can optimize this call and skip the update of group entity if its load and utilization are already null and there is no pending propagation of load in the task group. This optimization partly restores the noise score. A more agressive optimization has been tried but has shown worse score. Reported-by: ying.huang@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com Cc: ying.huang@intel.com Fixes: 4e5160766fcc ("sched/fair: Propagate asynchrous detach") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1489758442-2877-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org [ Fixed typos, improved layout. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-03-23sched/core: Fix rq lock pinning warning after call balance callbacksWanpeng Li
This can be reproduced by running rt-migrate-test: WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 2195 at kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3670 lock_unpin_lock() unpinning an unpinned lock ... Call Trace: dump_stack() __warn() warn_slowpath_fmt() lock_unpin_lock() __balance_callback() __schedule() schedule() futex_wait_queue_me() futex_wait() do_futex() SyS_futex() do_syscall_64() entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path() Revert the rq_lock_irqsave() usage here, the whole point of the balance_callback() was to allow dropping rq->lock. Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Fixes: 8a8c69c32778 ("sched/core: Add rq->lock wrappers") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1489718719-3951-1-git-send-email-wanpeng.li@hotmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-03-23sched/clock, x86/perf: Fix "perf test tsc"Peter Zijlstra
People reported that commit: 5680d8094ffa ("sched/clock: Provide better clock continuity") broke "perf test tsc". That commit added another offset to the reported clock value; so take that into account when computing the provided offset values. Reported-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Tested-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Fixes: 5680d8094ffa ("sched/clock: Provide better clock continuity") Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-03-23sched/clock: Fix clear_sched_clock_stable() preempt wobblyPeter Zijlstra
Paul reported a problems with clear_sched_clock_stable(). Since we run all of __clear_sched_clock_stable() from workqueue context, there's a preempt problem. Solve it by only running the static_key_disable() from workqueue. Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170313124621.GA3328@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-03-23cpufreq: schedutil: Avoid reducing frequency of busy CPUs prematurelyRafael J. Wysocki
The way the schedutil governor uses the PELT metric causes it to underestimate the CPU utilization in some cases. That can be easily demonstrated by running kernel compilation on a Sandy Bridge Intel processor, running turbostat in parallel with it and looking at the values written to the MSR_IA32_PERF_CTL register. Namely, the expected result would be that when all CPUs were 100% busy, all of them would be requested to run in the maximum P-state, but observation shows that this clearly isn't the case. The CPUs run in the maximum P-state for a while and then are requested to run slower and go back to the maximum P-state after a while again. That causes the actual frequency of the processor to visibly oscillate below the sustainable maximum in a jittery fashion which clearly is not desirable. That has been attributed to CPU utilization metric updates on task migration that cause the total utilization value for the CPU to be reduced by the utilization of the migrated task. If that happens, the schedutil governor may see a CPU utilization reduction and will attempt to reduce the CPU frequency accordingly right away. That may be premature, though, for example if the system is generally busy and there are other runnable tasks waiting to be run on that CPU already. This is unlikely to be an issue on systems where cpufreq policies are shared between multiple CPUs, because in those cases the policy utilization is computed as the maximum of the CPU utilization values over the whole policy and if that turns out to be low, reducing the frequency for the policy most likely is a good idea anyway. On systems with one CPU per policy, however, it may affect performance adversely and even lead to increased energy consumption in some cases. On those systems it may be addressed by taking another utilization metric into consideration, like whether or not the CPU whose frequency is about to be reduced has been idle recently, because if that's not the case, the CPU is likely to be busy in the near future and its frequency should not be reduced. To that end, use the counter of idle calls in the timekeeping code. Namely, make the schedutil governor look at that counter for the current CPU every time before its frequency is about to be reduced. If the counter has not changed since the previous iteration of the governor computations for that CPU, the CPU has been busy for all that time and its frequency should not be decreased, so if the new frequency would be lower than the one set previously, the governor will skip the frequency update. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
2017-03-21cpufreq: schedutil: Fix per-CPU structure initialization in sugov_start()Rafael J. Wysocki
sugov_start() only initializes struct sugov_cpu per-CPU structures for shared policies, but it should do that for single-CPU policies too. That in particular makes the IO-wait boost mechanism work in the cases when cpufreq policies correspond to individual CPUs. Fixes: 21ca6d2c52f8 (cpufreq: schedutil: Add iowait boosting) Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Cc: 4.9+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.9+
2017-03-16sched/core: Avoid double update_rq_clock() in move_queued_task()Peter Zijlstra
Address this case: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 2070 at ../kernel/sched/core.c:109 update_rq_clock+0x74/0x80 rq->clock_update_flags & RQCF_UPDATED Call Trace: update_rq_clock() move_queued_task() __set_cpus_allowed_ptr() ... Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-03-16sched/core: Fix double update_rq_clock) calls in attach_task()/detach_task()Peter Zijlstra
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-03-16sched/core: Avoid obvious double update_rq_clock()Peter Zijlstra
Add DEQUEUE_NOCLOCK to all places where we just did an update_rq_clock() already. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-03-16sched/core: Simplify update_rq_clock() in __schedule()Peter Zijlstra
Instead of relying on deactivate_task() to call update_rq_clock() and handling the case where it didn't happen (task_on_rq_queued), unconditionally do update_rq_clock() and skip any further updates. This also avoids a double update on deactivate_task() + ttwu_local(). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-03-16sched/core: Make sched_ttwu_pending() atomic in timePeter Zijlstra
Since all tasks on the wake_list are woken under a single rq->lock avoid calling update_rq_clock() for each task. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>