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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer/dynticks updates from Ingo Molnar:
"This tree contains misc dynticks updates: a fix and three cleanups"
* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched/nohz: Fix overflow error in scheduler_tick_max_deferment()
nohz_full: fix code style issue of tick_nohz_full_stop_tick
nohz: Get timekeeping max deferment outside jiffies_lock
tick: Rename tick_check_idle() to tick_irq_enter()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"A crash fix and documentation updates"
* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched: Make sched_class::get_rr_interval() optional
sched/deadline: Add sched_dl documentation
sched: Fix docbook parameter annotation error in wait.h
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Not all classes implement (or can implement) a useful get_rr_interval()
function, default to a 0 time-slice for them.
This fixes a crash reported by Tommi Rantala.
Reported-by: Tommi Rantala <tt.rantala@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Tommi Rantala <tt.rantala@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140127105413.GC11314@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Add in Documentation/scheduler/ some hints about the design
choices, the usage and the future possible developments of the
sched_dl scheduling class and of the SCHED_DEADLINE policy.
Reviewed-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>
Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
[ Re-wrote sections 2 and 3. ]
Signed-off-by: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@unitn.it>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390821615-23247-1-git-send-email-juri.lelli@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"A couple of regression fixes mostly hitting virtualized setups, but
also some bare metal systems"
* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched/x86/tsc: Initialize multiplier to 0
sched/clock: Fixup early initialization
sched/preempt/x86: Fix voluntary preempt for x86
Revert "sched: Fix sleep time double accounting in enqueue entity"
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks into timers/urgent
Pull dynticks cleanups from Frederic Weisbecker.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Add a working sysctl to enable/disable automatic numa memory balancing
at runtime.
This allows us to track down performance problems with this feature and
is generally a good idea.
This was possible earlier through debugfs, but only with special
debugging options set. Also fix the boot message.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/sched_numa_balancing/sysctl_numa_balancing/]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The code would assume sched_clock_stable() and switch to !stable
later, this switch brings a discontinuity in time.
The discontinuity on switching from stable to unstable was always
present, but previously we would set stable/unstable before
initializing TSC and usually stick to the one we start out with.
So the static_key bits brought an extra switch where there previously
wasn't one.
Things are further complicated by the fact that we cannot use
static_key as early as we usually call set_sched_clock_stable().
Fix things by tracking the stable state in a regular variable and only
set the static_key to the right state on sched_clock_init(), which is
ran right after late_time_init->tsc_init().
Before this we would not be using the TSC anyway.
Reported-and-Tested-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Reported-by: dyoung@redhat.com
Fixes: 35af99e646c7 ("sched/clock, x86: Use a static_key for sched_clock_stable")
Cc: jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com
Cc: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de>
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: lenb@kernel.org
Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net
Cc: Eliezer Tamir <eliezer.tamir@linux.intel.com>
Cc: rui.zhang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140122115918.GG3694@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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This reverts commit 282cf499f03ec1754b6c8c945c9674b02631fb0f.
With the current implementation, the load average statistics of a sched entity
change according to other activity on the CPU even if this activity is done
between the running window of the sched entity and have no influence on the
running duration of the task.
When a task wakes up on the same CPU, we currently update last_runnable_update
with the return of __synchronize_entity_decay without updating the
runnable_avg_sum and runnable_avg_period accordingly. In fact, we have to sync
the load_contrib of the se with the rq's blocked_load_contrib before removing
it from the latter (with __synchronize_entity_decay) but we must keep
last_runnable_update unchanged for updating runnable_avg_sum/period during the
next update_entity_load_avg.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Cc: pjt@google.com
Cc: alex.shi@linaro.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390376734-6800-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge first patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
- a couple of misc things
- inotify/fsnotify work from Jan
- ocfs2 updates (partial)
- about half of MM
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (117 commits)
mm/migrate: remove unused function, fail_migrate_page()
mm/migrate: remove putback_lru_pages, fix comment on putback_movable_pages
mm/migrate: correct failure handling if !hugepage_migration_support()
mm/migrate: add comment about permanent failure path
mm, page_alloc: warn for non-blockable __GFP_NOFAIL allocation failure
mm: compaction: reset scanner positions immediately when they meet
mm: compaction: do not mark unmovable pageblocks as skipped in async compaction
mm: compaction: detect when scanners meet in isolate_freepages
mm: compaction: reset cached scanner pfn's before reading them
mm: compaction: encapsulate defer reset logic
mm: compaction: trace compaction begin and end
memcg, oom: lock mem_cgroup_print_oom_info
sched: add tracepoints related to NUMA task migration
mm: numa: do not automatically migrate KSM pages
mm: numa: trace tasks that fail migration due to rate limiting
mm: numa: limit scope of lock for NUMA migrate rate limiting
mm: numa: make NUMA-migrate related functions static
lib/show_mem.c: show num_poisoned_pages when oom
mm/hwpoison: add '#' to hwpoison_inject
mm/memblock: use WARN_ONCE when MAX_NUMNODES passed as input parameter
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup
Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
"The bulk of changes are cleanups and preparations for the upcoming
kernfs conversion.
- cgroup_event mechanism which is and will be used only by memcg is
moved to memcg.
- pidlist handling is updated so that it can be served by seq_file.
Also, the list is not sorted if sane_behavior. cgroup
documentation explicitly states that the file is not sorted but it
has been for quite some time.
- All cgroup file handling now happens on top of seq_file. This is
to prepare for kernfs conversion. In addition, all operations are
restructured so that they map 1-1 to kernfs operations.
- Other cleanups and low-pri fixes"
* 'for-3.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (40 commits)
cgroup: trivial style updates
cgroup: remove stray references to css_id
doc: cgroups: Fix typo in doc/cgroups
cgroup: fix fail path in cgroup_load_subsys()
cgroup: fix missing unlock on error in cgroup_load_subsys()
cgroup: remove for_each_root_subsys()
cgroup: implement for_each_css()
cgroup: factor out cgroup_subsys_state creation into create_css()
cgroup: combine css handling loops in cgroup_create()
cgroup: reorder operations in cgroup_create()
cgroup: make for_each_subsys() useable under cgroup_root_mutex
cgroup: css iterations and css_from_dir() are safe under cgroup_mutex
cgroup: unify pidlist and other file handling
cgroup: replace cftype->read_seq_string() with cftype->seq_show()
cgroup: attach cgroup_open_file to all cgroup files
cgroup: generalize cgroup_pidlist_open_file
cgroup: unify read path so that seq_file is always used
cgroup: unify cgroup_write_X64() and cgroup_write_string()
cgroup: remove cftype->read(), ->read_map() and ->write()
hugetlb_cgroup: convert away from cftype->read()
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This patch adds three tracepoints
o trace_sched_move_numa when a task is moved to a node
o trace_sched_swap_numa when a task is swapped with another task
o trace_sched_stick_numa when a numa-related migration fails
The tracepoints allow the NUMA scheduler activity to be monitored and the
following high-level metrics can be calculated
o NUMA migrated stuck nr trace_sched_stick_numa
o NUMA migrated idle nr trace_sched_move_numa
o NUMA migrated swapped nr trace_sched_swap_numa
o NUMA local swapped trace_sched_swap_numa src_nid == dst_nid (should never happen)
o NUMA remote swapped trace_sched_swap_numa src_nid != dst_nid (should == NUMA migrated swapped)
o NUMA group swapped trace_sched_swap_numa src_ngid == dst_ngid
Maybe a small number of these are acceptable
but a high number would be a major surprise.
It would be even worse if bounces are frequent.
o NUMA avg task migs. Average number of migrations for tasks
o NUMA stddev task mig Self-explanatory
o NUMA max task migs. Maximum number of migrations for a single task
In general the intent of the tracepoints is to help diagnose problems
where automatic NUMA balancing appears to be doing an excessive amount
of useless work.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove semicolon-after-if, repair coding-style]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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With the introduction of sched_attr::sched_nice we need to check
if we've got permission to actually change the nice value.
Daniel found that can_nice() would always fail; and upon
inspection it turns out that can_nice() only tests to see if we
can lower the nice value, but it doesn't validate if we're
lowering or not.
Therefore amend the test to only call can_nice() when we lower
the nice value.
Reported-and-Tested-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: raistlin@linux.it
Cc: juri.lelli@gmail.com
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Fixes: d50dde5a10f3 ("sched: Add new scheduler syscalls to support an extended scheduling parameters ABI")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140116165425.GA9481@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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I noticed the new sched_{set,get}attr() calls didn't properly deal
with the SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK hack.
Instead of propagating the flags in high bits nonsense use the brand
spanking new attr::sched_flags field.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140115162242.GJ31570@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Fengguang Wu reported the following build warning:
> kernel/sched/core.c:3067 __sched_setscheduler() warn: unsigned 'attr->sched_priority' is never less than zero.
Since it doesn't make sense for attr::sched_priority to be negative,
remove the check, since we already test for an upper limit any actual
negative values passed in through the old param::sched_priority field
will still be detected.
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it>
Fixes: d50dde5a10f3 ("sched: Add new scheduler syscalls to support an extended scheduling parameters ABI")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-fid9nalzii2r5voxtf4eh5kz@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Wu reported LTP failures:
> ltp.sched_setparam02.1.TFAIL
> ltp.sched_setparam02.2.TFAIL
> ltp.sched_setparam02.3.TFAIL
> ltp.sched_setparam03.1.TFAIL
There were 2 things wrong; firstly __setscheduler() failed on
sched_setparam()'s policy = -1, fix that by reading from p->policy in
that case.
Secondly, getparam() (and getattr()) would still report !0
sched_priority for !FIFO/RR tasks after having been such. So
unconditionally set p->rt_priority.
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it>
Fixes: d50dde5a10f3 ("sched: Add new scheduler syscalls to support an extended scheduling parameters ABI")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140115153320.GH31570@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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sched_setparam() calls
Previously sched_setscheduler() and sched_setparam() would not affect
the nice value of a task, restore this behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: raistlin@linux.it
Cc: juri.lelli@gmail.com
Cc: Michael wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Fixes: d50dde5a10f3 ("sched: Add new scheduler syscalls to support an extended scheduling parameters ABI")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140115113015.GB31570@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Fengguang Wu's kbuild test robot reported the following new htmldocs warnings:
>>> Warning(kernel/sched/core.c:3380): No description found for parameter 'uattr'
>>> Warning(kernel/sched/core.c:3380): Excess function parameter 'attr' description in 'sys_sched_setattr'
>>> Warning(kernel/sched/core.c:3520): No description found for parameter 'uattr'
>>> Warning(kernel/sched/core.c:3520): Excess function parameter 'attr' description in 'sys_sched_getattr'
The second argument to sys_sched_{setattr,getattr}() is named uattr (not attr).
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it>
Fixes: d50dde5a10f3 ("sched: Add new scheduler syscalls to support an extended scheduling parameters ABI")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/52D5552D.5000102@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Dan Carpenter reported new 'Smatch' warnings:
> tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git sched/core
> head: 130816ce4d5f69167324f7272e70aa3d641677c6
> commit: 1baca4ce16b8cc7d4f50be1f7914799af30a2861 [17/50] sched/deadline: Add SCHED_DEADLINE SMP-related data structures & logic
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> kernel/sched/deadline.c:937 pick_next_task_dl() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'p' (see line 934)
BUG_ON() already fires if pick_next_dl_entity() doesn't return a valid
dl_se. No need to check if p is valid afterward.
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Fixes: 1baca4ce16b8 ("sched/deadline: Add SCHED_DEADLINE SMP-related data structures & logic")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/52D54E25.6060100@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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fix these new sparse warnings:
>> kernel/sched/core.c:305:14: sparse: symbol 'sysctl_sched_dl_period' was not declared. Should it be static?
>> kernel/sched/core.c:306:5: sparse: symbol 'sysctl_sched_dl_runtime' was not declared. Should it be static?
Better still, they're completely unused so remove them.
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ke0shkG7vMnzmcdqhhiymyem@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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new sparse warnings:
>> kernel/sched/cpudeadline.c:38:6: sparse: symbol 'cpudl_exchange' was not declared. Should it be static?
>> kernel/sched/cpudeadline.c:46:6: sparse: symbol 'cpudl_heapify' was not declared. Should it be static?
>> kernel/sched/cpudeadline.c:71:6: sparse: symbol 'cpudl_change_key' was not declared. Should it be static?
>> kernel/sched/cpudeadline.c:195:15: sparse: memset with byte count of 163928
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
Fixes: 6bfd6d72f51c ("sched/deadline: speed up SCHED_DEADLINE pushes with a push-heap")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/52d47f8c.EYJsA5+mELPBk4t6\%fengguang.wu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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While calculating the scheduler tick max deferment, the delta is
converted from microseconds to nanoseconds through a multiplication
against NSEC_PER_USEC.
But this microseconds operand is an unsigned int, thus the result may
likely overflow. The result is cast to u64 but only once the operation
is completed, which is too late to avoid overflown result.
This is currently not a problem because the scheduler tick max deferment
is 1 second. But this may become an issue as we plan to make this
value tunable.
So lets fix this by casting the usecs value to u64 before multiplying by
NSECS_PER_USEC.
Also to prevent from this kind of mistake to happen again, move this
ad-hoc jiffies -> nsecs conversion to a new helper.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1387315388-31676-2-git-send-email-khilman@linaro.org
[move ad-hoc conversion to jiffies_to_nsecs helper]
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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With various drivers wanting to inject idle time; we get people
calling idle routines outside of the idle loop proper.
Therefore we need to be extra careful about not missing
TIF_NEED_RESCHED -> PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED propagations.
While looking at this, I also realized there's a small window in the
existing idle loop where we can miss TIF_NEED_RESCHED; when it hits
right after the tif_need_resched() test at the end of the loop but
right before the need_resched() test at the start of the loop.
So move preempt_fold_need_resched() out of the loop where we're
guaranteed to have TIF_NEED_RESCHED set.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-x9jgh45oeayzajz2mjt0y7d6@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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The below tells us the static_key conversion has a problem; since the
exact point of clearing that flag isn't too important, delay the flip
and use a workqueue to process it.
[ ] TSC synchronization [CPU#0 -> CPU#22]:
[ ] Measured 8 cycles TSC warp between CPUs, turning off TSC clock.
[ ]
[ ] ======================================================
[ ] [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
[ ] 3.13.0-rc3-01745-g848b0d0322cb-dirty #637 Not tainted
[ ] -------------------------------------------------------
[ ] swapper/0/1 is trying to acquire lock:
[ ] (jump_label_mutex){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffff8115a637>] jump_label_lock+0x17/0x20
[ ]
[ ] but task is already holding lock:
[ ] (cpu_hotplug.lock){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff8109408b>] cpu_hotplug_begin+0x2b/0x60
[ ]
[ ] which lock already depends on the new lock.
[ ]
[ ]
[ ] the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:
[ ]
[ ] -> #1 (cpu_hotplug.lock){+.+.+.}:
[ ] [<ffffffff810def00>] lock_acquire+0x90/0x130
[ ] [<ffffffff81661f83>] mutex_lock_nested+0x63/0x3e0
[ ] [<ffffffff81093fdc>] get_online_cpus+0x3c/0x60
[ ] [<ffffffff8104cc67>] arch_jump_label_transform+0x37/0x130
[ ] [<ffffffff8115a3cf>] __jump_label_update+0x5f/0x80
[ ] [<ffffffff8115a48d>] jump_label_update+0x9d/0xb0
[ ] [<ffffffff8115aa6d>] static_key_slow_inc+0x9d/0xb0
[ ] [<ffffffff810c0f65>] sched_feat_set+0xf5/0x100
[ ] [<ffffffff810c5bdc>] set_numabalancing_state+0x2c/0x30
[ ] [<ffffffff81d12f3d>] numa_policy_init+0x1af/0x1b7
[ ] [<ffffffff81cebdf4>] start_kernel+0x35d/0x41f
[ ] [<ffffffff81ceb5a5>] x86_64_start_reservations+0x2a/0x2c
[ ] [<ffffffff81ceb6a2>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xfb/0xfe
[ ]
[ ] -> #0 (jump_label_mutex){+.+...}:
[ ] [<ffffffff810de141>] __lock_acquire+0x1701/0x1eb0
[ ] [<ffffffff810def00>] lock_acquire+0x90/0x130
[ ] [<ffffffff81661f83>] mutex_lock_nested+0x63/0x3e0
[ ] [<ffffffff8115a637>] jump_label_lock+0x17/0x20
[ ] [<ffffffff8115aa3b>] static_key_slow_inc+0x6b/0xb0
[ ] [<ffffffff810ca775>] clear_sched_clock_stable+0x15/0x20
[ ] [<ffffffff810503b3>] mark_tsc_unstable+0x23/0x70
[ ] [<ffffffff810772cb>] check_tsc_sync_source+0x14b/0x150
[ ] [<ffffffff81076612>] native_cpu_up+0x3a2/0x890
[ ] [<ffffffff810941cb>] _cpu_up+0xdb/0x160
[ ] [<ffffffff810942c9>] cpu_up+0x79/0x90
[ ] [<ffffffff81d0af6b>] smp_init+0x60/0x8c
[ ] [<ffffffff81cebf42>] kernel_init_freeable+0x8c/0x197
[ ] [<ffffffff8164e32e>] kernel_init+0xe/0x130
[ ] [<ffffffff8166beec>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
[ ]
[ ] other info that might help us debug this:
[ ]
[ ] Possible unsafe locking scenario:
[ ]
[ ] CPU0 CPU1
[ ] ---- ----
[ ] lock(cpu_hotplug.lock);
[ ] lock(jump_label_mutex);
[ ] lock(cpu_hotplug.lock);
[ ] lock(jump_label_mutex);
[ ]
[ ] *** DEADLOCK ***
[ ]
[ ] 2 locks held by swapper/0/1:
[ ] #0: (cpu_add_remove_lock){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff81094037>] cpu_maps_update_begin+0x17/0x20
[ ] #1: (cpu_hotplug.lock){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff8109408b>] cpu_hotplug_begin+0x2b/0x60
[ ]
[ ] stack backtrace:
[ ] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.13.0-rc3-01745-g848b0d0322cb-dirty #637
[ ] Hardware name: Supermicro X8DTN/X8DTN, BIOS 4.6.3 01/08/2010
[ ] ffffffff82c9c270 ffff880236843bb8 ffffffff8165c5f5 ffffffff82c9c270
[ ] ffff880236843bf8 ffffffff81658c02 ffff880236843c80 ffff8802368586a0
[ ] ffff880236858678 0000000000000001 0000000000000002 ffff880236858000
[ ] Call Trace:
[ ] [<ffffffff8165c5f5>] dump_stack+0x4e/0x7a
[ ] [<ffffffff81658c02>] print_circular_bug+0x1f9/0x207
[ ] [<ffffffff810de141>] __lock_acquire+0x1701/0x1eb0
[ ] [<ffffffff816680ff>] ? __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x8f/0xb0
[ ] [<ffffffff810def00>] lock_acquire+0x90/0x130
[ ] [<ffffffff8115a637>] ? jump_label_lock+0x17/0x20
[ ] [<ffffffff8115a637>] ? jump_label_lock+0x17/0x20
[ ] [<ffffffff81661f83>] mutex_lock_nested+0x63/0x3e0
[ ] [<ffffffff8115a637>] ? jump_label_lock+0x17/0x20
[ ] [<ffffffff8115a637>] jump_label_lock+0x17/0x20
[ ] [<ffffffff8115aa3b>] static_key_slow_inc+0x6b/0xb0
[ ] [<ffffffff810ca775>] clear_sched_clock_stable+0x15/0x20
[ ] [<ffffffff810503b3>] mark_tsc_unstable+0x23/0x70
[ ] [<ffffffff810772cb>] check_tsc_sync_source+0x14b/0x150
[ ] [<ffffffff81076612>] native_cpu_up+0x3a2/0x890
[ ] [<ffffffff810941cb>] _cpu_up+0xdb/0x160
[ ] [<ffffffff810942c9>] cpu_up+0x79/0x90
[ ] [<ffffffff81d0af6b>] smp_init+0x60/0x8c
[ ] [<ffffffff81cebf42>] kernel_init_freeable+0x8c/0x197
[ ] [<ffffffff8164e320>] ? rest_init+0xd0/0xd0
[ ] [<ffffffff8164e32e>] kernel_init+0xe/0x130
[ ] [<ffffffff8166beec>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
[ ] [<ffffffff8164e320>] ? rest_init+0xd0/0xd0
[ ] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ ] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at /usr/src/linux-2.6/kernel/smp.c:374 smp_call_function_many+0xad/0x300()
[ ] Modules linked in:
[ ] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.13.0-rc3-01745-g848b0d0322cb-dirty #637
[ ] Hardware name: Supermicro X8DTN/X8DTN, BIOS 4.6.3 01/08/2010
[ ] 0000000000000009 ffff880236843be0 ffffffff8165c5f5 0000000000000000
[ ] ffff880236843c18 ffffffff81093d8c 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
[ ] ffffffff81ccd1a0 ffffffff810ca951 0000000000000000 ffff880236843c28
[ ] Call Trace:
[ ] [<ffffffff8165c5f5>] dump_stack+0x4e/0x7a
[ ] [<ffffffff81093d8c>] warn_slowpath_common+0x8c/0xc0
[ ] [<ffffffff810ca951>] ? sched_clock_tick+0x1/0xa0
[ ] [<ffffffff81093dda>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
[ ] [<ffffffff8110b72d>] smp_call_function_many+0xad/0x300
[ ] [<ffffffff8104f200>] ? arch_unregister_cpu+0x30/0x30
[ ] [<ffffffff8104f200>] ? arch_unregister_cpu+0x30/0x30
[ ] [<ffffffff810ca951>] ? sched_clock_tick+0x1/0xa0
[ ] [<ffffffff8110ba96>] smp_call_function+0x46/0x80
[ ] [<ffffffff8104f200>] ? arch_unregister_cpu+0x30/0x30
[ ] [<ffffffff8110bb3c>] on_each_cpu+0x3c/0xa0
[ ] [<ffffffff810ca950>] ? sched_clock_idle_sleep_event+0x20/0x20
[ ] [<ffffffff810ca951>] ? sched_clock_tick+0x1/0xa0
[ ] [<ffffffff8104f964>] text_poke_bp+0x64/0xd0
[ ] [<ffffffff810ca950>] ? sched_clock_idle_sleep_event+0x20/0x20
[ ] [<ffffffff8104ccde>] arch_jump_label_transform+0xae/0x130
[ ] [<ffffffff8115a3cf>] __jump_label_update+0x5f/0x80
[ ] [<ffffffff8115a48d>] jump_label_update+0x9d/0xb0
[ ] [<ffffffff8115aa6d>] static_key_slow_inc+0x9d/0xb0
[ ] [<ffffffff810ca775>] clear_sched_clock_stable+0x15/0x20
[ ] [<ffffffff810503b3>] mark_tsc_unstable+0x23/0x70
[ ] [<ffffffff810772cb>] check_tsc_sync_source+0x14b/0x150
[ ] [<ffffffff81076612>] native_cpu_up+0x3a2/0x890
[ ] [<ffffffff810941cb>] _cpu_up+0xdb/0x160
[ ] [<ffffffff810942c9>] cpu_up+0x79/0x90
[ ] [<ffffffff81d0af6b>] smp_init+0x60/0x8c
[ ] [<ffffffff81cebf42>] kernel_init_freeable+0x8c/0x197
[ ] [<ffffffff8164e320>] ? rest_init+0xd0/0xd0
[ ] [<ffffffff8164e32e>] kernel_init+0xe/0x130
[ ] [<ffffffff8166beec>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
[ ] [<ffffffff8164e320>] ? rest_init+0xd0/0xd0
[ ] ---[ end trace 6ff1df5620c49d26 ]---
[ ] tsc: Marking TSC unstable due to check_tsc_sync_source failed
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-v55fgqj3nnyqnngmvuu8ep6h@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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In order to avoid the runtime condition and variable load turn
sched_clock_stable into a static_key.
Also provide a shorter implementation of local_clock() and
cpu_clock(int) when sched_clock_stable==1.
MAINLINE PRE POST
sched_clock_stable: 1 1 1
(cold) sched_clock: 329841 221876 215295
(cold) local_clock: 301773 234692 220773
(warm) sched_clock: 38375 25602 25659
(warm) local_clock: 100371 33265 27242
(warm) rdtsc: 27340 24214 24208
sched_clock_stable: 0 0 0
(cold) sched_clock: 382634 235941 237019
(cold) local_clock: 396890 297017 294819
(warm) sched_clock: 38194 25233 25609
(warm) local_clock: 143452 71234 71232
(warm) rdtsc: 27345 24245 24243
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-eummbdechzz37mwmpags1gjr@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Now that x86 no longer requires IRQs disabled for sched_clock() and
ia64 never had this requirement (it doesn't seem to do cpufreq at
all), we can remove the requirement of disabling IRQs.
MAINLINE PRE POST
sched_clock_stable: 1 1 1
(cold) sched_clock: 329841 257223 221876
(cold) local_clock: 301773 309889 234692
(warm) sched_clock: 38375 25280 25602
(warm) local_clock: 100371 85268 33265
(warm) rdtsc: 27340 24247 24214
sched_clock_stable: 0 0 0
(cold) sched_clock: 382634 301224 235941
(cold) local_clock: 396890 399870 297017
(warm) sched_clock: 38194 25630 25233
(warm) local_clock: 143452 129629 71234
(warm) rdtsc: 27345 24307 24245
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-36e5kohiasnr106d077mgubp@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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The test on_null_domain is done twice in the trigger_load_balance function.
Move the test at the begin of the function, so there is only one check.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389008085-9069-9-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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The cpu information is stored in the struct rq. Pass the struct rq to
nohz_idle_balance, so all the functions called in run_rebalance_domains have
the same parameters and the 'this_cpu' variable becomes pointless.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
[ Added !SMP build fix. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389008085-9069-8-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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The cpu information is stored in the struct rq and the caller of the
rebalance_domains function pass the cpu to retrieve the struct rq but
it already has the struct rq info. Replace the cpu parameter with the
struct rq.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389008085-9069-7-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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The cpu parameter is no longer needed in nohz_balancer_kick, let's remove
the parameter.
Reviewed-by: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389008085-9069-6-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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The 'call_cpu' is never used in the function. Remove it.
Reviewed-by: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389008085-9069-5-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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The on_null_domain() function is getting the cpu to retrieve the struct rq
associated with it.
Pass 'struct rq' directly to the function as the caller already has the info.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389008085-9069-4-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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The cpu information is already stored in the struct rq, so no need to pass it
as parameter to the nohz_kick_needed function.
The caller of this function just called idle_cpu() before to fill the
rq->idle_balance field.
Use rq->cpu and rq->idle_balance.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389008085-9069-3-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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The cpu information is already stored in the struct rq, so no need to pass it
as parameter to the trigger_load_balance function.
Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org
Cc: preeti.lkml@gmail.com
Cc: mingo@redhat.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389008085-9069-2-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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The current hotplug admission control is broken because:
CPU_DYING -> migration_call() -> migrate_tasks() -> __migrate_task()
cannot fail and hard assumes it _will_ move all tasks off of the dying
cpu, failing this will break hotplug.
The much simpler solution is a DOWN_PREPARE handler that fails when
removing one CPU gets us below the total allocated bandwidth.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131220171343.GL2480@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Remove the deadline specific sysctls for now. The problem with them is
that the interaction with the exisiting rt knobs is nearly impossible
to get right.
The current (as per before this patch) situation is that the rt and dl
bandwidth is completely separate and we enforce rt+dl < 100%. This is
undesirable because this means that the rt default of 95% leaves us
hardly any room, even though dl tasks are saver than rt tasks.
Another proposed solution was (a discarted patch) to have the dl
bandwidth be a fraction of the rt bandwidth. This is highly
confusing imo.
Furthermore neither proposal is consistent with the situation we
actually want; which is rt tasks ran from a dl server. In which case
the rt bandwidth is a direct subset of dl.
So whichever way we go, the introduction of dl controls at this point
is painful. Therefore remove them and instead share the rt budget.
This means that for now the rt knobs are used for dl admission control
and the dl runtime is accounted against the rt runtime. I realise that
this isn't entirely desirable either; but whatever we do we appear to
need to change the interface later, so better have a small interface
for now.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-zpyqbqds1r0vyxtxza1e7rdc@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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For now deadline tasks are not allowed to set smp affinity; however
the current tests are wrong, cure this.
The test in __sched_setscheduler() also uses an on-stack cpumask_t
which is a no-no.
Change both tests to use cpumask_subset() such that we test the root
domain span to be a subset of the cpus_allowed mask. This way we're
sure the tasks can always run on all CPUs they can be balanced over,
and have no effective affinity constraints.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-fyqtb1lapxca3lhsxv9cumdc@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Data from tests confirmed that the original active load balancing
logic didn't scale neither in the number of CPU nor in the number of
tasks (as sched_rt does).
Here we provide a global data structure to keep track of deadlines
of the running tasks in the system. The structure is composed by
a bitmask showing the free CPUs and a max-heap, needed when the system
is heavily loaded.
The implementation and concurrent access scheme are kept simple by
design. However, our measurements show that we can compete with sched_rt
on large multi-CPUs machines [1].
Only the push path is addressed, the extension to use this structure
also for pull decisions is straightforward. However, we are currently
evaluating different (in order to decrease/avoid contention) data
structures to solve possibly both problems. We are also going to re-run
tests considering recent changes inside cpupri [2].
[1] http://retis.sssup.it/~jlelli/papers/Ospert11Lelli.pdf
[2] http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-rt-users/msg06778.html
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1383831828-15501-14-git-send-email-juri.lelli@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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In order of deadline scheduling to be effective and useful, it is
important that some method of having the allocation of the available
CPU bandwidth to tasks and task groups under control.
This is usually called "admission control" and if it is not performed
at all, no guarantee can be given on the actual scheduling of the
-deadline tasks.
Since when RT-throttling has been introduced each task group have a
bandwidth associated to itself, calculated as a certain amount of
runtime over a period. Moreover, to make it possible to manipulate
such bandwidth, readable/writable controls have been added to both
procfs (for system wide settings) and cgroupfs (for per-group
settings).
Therefore, the same interface is being used for controlling the
bandwidth distrubution to -deadline tasks and task groups, i.e.,
new controls but with similar names, equivalent meaning and with
the same usage paradigm are added.
However, more discussion is needed in order to figure out how
we want to manage SCHED_DEADLINE bandwidth at the task group level.
Therefore, this patch adds a less sophisticated, but actually
very sensible, mechanism to ensure that a certain utilization
cap is not overcome per each root_domain (the single rq for !SMP
configurations).
Another main difference between deadline bandwidth management and
RT-throttling is that -deadline tasks have bandwidth on their own
(while -rt ones doesn't!), and thus we don't need an higher level
throttling mechanism to enforce the desired bandwidth.
This patch, therefore:
- adds system wide deadline bandwidth management by means of:
* /proc/sys/kernel/sched_dl_runtime_us,
* /proc/sys/kernel/sched_dl_period_us,
that determine (i.e., runtime / period) the total bandwidth
available on each CPU of each root_domain for -deadline tasks;
- couples the RT and deadline bandwidth management, i.e., enforces
that the sum of how much bandwidth is being devoted to -rt
-deadline tasks to stay below 100%.
This means that, for a root_domain comprising M CPUs, -deadline tasks
can be created until the sum of their bandwidths stay below:
M * (sched_dl_runtime_us / sched_dl_period_us)
It is also possible to disable this bandwidth management logic, and
be thus free of oversubscribing the system up to any arbitrary level.
Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1383831828-15501-12-git-send-email-juri.lelli@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Some method to deal with rt-mutexes and make sched_dl interact with
the current PI-coded is needed, raising all but trivial issues, that
needs (according to us) to be solved with some restructuring of
the pi-code (i.e., going toward a proxy execution-ish implementation).
This is under development, in the meanwhile, as a temporary solution,
what this commits does is:
- ensure a pi-lock owner with waiters is never throttled down. Instead,
when it runs out of runtime, it immediately gets replenished and it's
deadline is postponed;
- the scheduling parameters (relative deadline and default runtime)
used for that replenishments --during the whole period it holds the
pi-lock-- are the ones of the waiting task with earliest deadline.
Acting this way, we provide some kind of boosting to the lock-owner,
still by using the existing (actually, slightly modified by the previous
commit) pi-architecture.
We would stress the fact that this is only a surely needed, all but
clean solution to the problem. In the end it's only a way to re-start
discussion within the community. So, as always, comments, ideas, rants,
etc.. are welcome! :-)
Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
[ Added !RT_MUTEXES build fix. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1383831828-15501-11-git-send-email-juri.lelli@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Turn the pi-chains from plist to rb-tree, in the rt_mutex code,
and provide a proper comparison function for -deadline and
-priority tasks.
This is done mainly because:
- classical prio field of the plist is just an int, which might
not be enough for representing a deadline;
- manipulating such a list would become O(nr_deadline_tasks),
which might be to much, as the number of -deadline task increases.
Therefore, an rb-tree is used, and tasks are queued in it according
to the following logic:
- among two -priority (i.e., SCHED_BATCH/OTHER/RR/FIFO) tasks, the
one with the higher (lower, actually!) prio wins;
- among a -priority and a -deadline task, the latter always wins;
- among two -deadline tasks, the one with the earliest deadline
wins.
Queueing and dequeueing functions are changed accordingly, for both
the list of a task's pi-waiters and the list of tasks blocked on
a pi-lock.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-again-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1383831828-15501-10-git-send-email-juri.lelli@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Make it possible to specify a period (different or equal than
deadline) for -deadline tasks. Relative deadlines (D_i) are used on
task arrivals to generate new scheduling (absolute) deadlines as "d =
t + D_i", and periods (P_i) to postpone the scheduling deadlines as "d
= d + P_i" when the budget is zero.
This is in general useful to model (and schedule) tasks that have slow
activation rates (long periods), but have to be scheduled soon once
activated (short deadlines).
Signed-off-by: Harald Gustafsson <harald.gustafsson@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1383831828-15501-7-git-send-email-juri.lelli@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Make the core scheduler and load balancer aware of the load
produced by -deadline tasks, by updating the moving average
like for sched_rt.
Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1383831828-15501-6-git-send-email-juri.lelli@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Introduces data structures relevant for implementing dynamic
migration of -deadline tasks and the logic for checking if
runqueues are overloaded with -deadline tasks and for choosing
where a task should migrate, when it is the case.
Adds also dynamic migrations to SCHED_DEADLINE, so that tasks can
be moved among CPUs when necessary. It is also possible to bind a
task to a (set of) CPU(s), thus restricting its capability of
migrating, or forbidding migrations at all.
The very same approach used in sched_rt is utilised:
- -deadline tasks are kept into CPU-specific runqueues,
- -deadline tasks are migrated among runqueues to achieve the
following:
* on an M-CPU system the M earliest deadline ready tasks
are always running;
* affinity/cpusets settings of all the -deadline tasks is
always respected.
Therefore, this very special form of "load balancing" is done with
an active method, i.e., the scheduler pushes or pulls tasks between
runqueues when they are woken up and/or (de)scheduled.
IOW, every time a preemption occurs, the descheduled task might be sent
to some other CPU (depending on its deadline) to continue executing
(push). On the other hand, every time a CPU becomes idle, it might pull
the second earliest deadline ready task from some other CPU.
To enforce this, a pull operation is always attempted before taking any
scheduling decision (pre_schedule()), as well as a push one after each
scheduling decision (post_schedule()). In addition, when a task arrives
or wakes up, the best CPU where to resume it is selected taking into
account its affinity mask, the system topology, |