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Ingo Molnar 27066fd484 Merge commit 'v2.6.37' into sched/core
Merge reason: Merge the final .37 tree.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-05 14:14:46 +01:00
Yong Zhang 6706125e29 sched: Remove redundant CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED ifdef
CONFIG_[FAIR|RT]_GROUP_SCHED always means CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED

Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1293803938-8157-1-git-send-email-yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-04 09:42:03 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 050c6c9b89 sched: Remove debugging check
Linus reported that the new warning introduced by commit f26f9aff6a
"Sched: fix skip_clock_update optimization" triggers. The need_resched
flag can be set by other CPUs asynchronously so this debug check is
bogus - remove it.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <AANLkTinJ8hAG1TpyC+CSYPR47p48+1=E7fiC45hMXT_1@mail.gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-12-19 23:24:27 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 8e92c20183 sched: Fix the irqtime code for 32bit
Since the irqtime accounting is using non-atomic u64 and can be read
from remote cpus (writes are strictly cpu local, reads are not) we
have to deal with observing partial updates.

When we do observe partial updates the clock movement (in particular,
->clock_task movement) will go funny (in either direction), a
subsequent clock update (observing the full update) will make it go
funny in the oposite direction.

Since we rely on these clocks to be strictly monotonic we cannot
suffer backwards motion. One possible solution would be to simply
ignore all backwards deltas, but that will lead to accounting
artefacts, most notable: clock_task + irq_time != clock, this
inaccuracy would end up in user visible stats.

Therefore serialize the reads using a seqcount.

Reviewed-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Reported-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Tested-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1292242434.6803.200.camel@twins>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-12-16 11:17:47 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra fe44d62122 sched: Fix the irqtime code to deal with u64 wraps
Some ARM systems have a short sched_clock() [ which needs to be fixed
too ], but this exposed a bug in the irq_time code as well, it doesn't
deal with wraps at all.

Fix the irq_time code to deal with u64 wraps by re-writing the code to
only use delta increments, which avoids the whole issue.

Reviewed-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Reported-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Tested-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1292242433.6803.199.camel@twins>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-12-16 11:17:46 +01:00
Dario Faggioli 806c09a7db sched: Make pushable_tasks CONFIG_SMP dependant
As noted by Peter Zijlstra at https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/10/391
(while reviewing other stuff, though), tracking pushable tasks
only makes sense on SMP systems.

Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1291143093.2697.298.camel@Palantir>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-12-08 20:16:00 +01:00
Mike Galbraith f26f9aff6a Sched: fix skip_clock_update optimization
idle_balance() drops/retakes rq->lock, leaving the previous task
vulnerable to set_tsk_need_resched().  Clear it after we return
from balancing instead, and in setup_thread_stack() as well, so
no successfully descheduled or never scheduled task has it set.

Need resched confused the skip_clock_update logic, which assumes
that the next call to update_rq_clock() will come nearly immediately
after being set.  Make the optimization robust against the waking
a sleeper before it sucessfully deschedules case by checking that
the current task has not been dequeued before setting the flag,
since it is that useless clock update we're trying to save, and
clear unconditionally in schedule() proper instead of conditionally
in put_prev_task().

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Reported-by: Bjoern B. Brandenburg <bbb.lst@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
LKML-Reference: <1291802742.1417.9.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-12-08 20:15:06 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 0f004f5a69 sched: Cure more NO_HZ load average woes
There's a long-running regression that proved difficult to fix and
which is hitting certain people and is rather annoying in its effects.

Damien reported that after 74f5187ac8 (sched: Cure load average vs
NO_HZ woes) his load average is unnaturally high, he also noted that
even with that patch reverted the load avgerage numbers are not
correct.

The problem is that the previous patch only solved half the NO_HZ
problem, it addressed the part of going into NO_HZ mode, not of
comming out of NO_HZ mode. This patch implements that missing half.

When comming out of NO_HZ mode there are two important things to take
care of:

 - Folding the pending idle delta into the global active count.
 - Correctly aging the averages for the idle-duration.

So with this patch the NO_HZ interaction should be complete and
behaviour between CONFIG_NO_HZ=[yn] should be equivalent.

Furthermore, this patch slightly changes the load average computation
by adding a rounding term to the fixed point multiplication.

Reported-by: Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr>
Reported-by: Tim McGrath <tmhikaru@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr>
Tested-by: Orion Poplawski <orion@cora.nwra.com>
Tested-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com>
LKML-Reference: <1291129145.32004.874.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-12-08 20:15:04 +01:00
Mike Galbraith 5091faa449 sched: Add 'autogroup' scheduling feature: automated per session task groups
A recurring complaint from CFS users is that parallel kbuild has
a negative impact on desktop interactivity.  This patch
implements an idea from Linus, to automatically create task
groups.  Currently, only per session autogroups are implemented,
but the patch leaves the way open for enhancement.

Implementation: each task's signal struct contains an inherited
pointer to a refcounted autogroup struct containing a task group
pointer, the default for all tasks pointing to the
init_task_group.  When a task calls setsid(), a new task group
is created, the process is moved into the new task group, and a
reference to the preveious task group is dropped.  Child
processes inherit this task group thereafter, and increase it's
refcount.  When the last thread of a process exits, the
process's reference is dropped, such that when the last process
referencing an autogroup exits, the autogroup is destroyed.

At runqueue selection time, IFF a task has no cgroup assignment,
its current autogroup is used.

Autogroup bandwidth is controllable via setting it's nice level
through the proc filesystem:

  cat /proc/<pid>/autogroup

Displays the task's group and the group's nice level.

  echo <nice level> > /proc/<pid>/autogroup

Sets the task group's shares to the weight of nice <level> task.
Setting nice level is rate limited for !admin users due to the
abuse risk of task group locking.

The feature is enabled from boot by default if
CONFIG_SCHED_AUTOGROUP=y is selected, but can be disabled via
the boot option noautogroup, and can also be turned on/off on
the fly via:

  echo [01] > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_autogroup_enabled

... which will automatically move tasks to/from the root task group.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
[ Removed the task_group_path() debug code, and fixed !EVENTFD build failure. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <1290281700.28711.9.camel@maggy.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-30 16:03:35 +01:00
Paul Turner 822bc180a7 sched: Fix unregister_fair_sched_group()
In the flipping and flopping between calling
unregister_fair_sched_group() on a per-cpu versus per-group basis
we ended up in a bad state.

Remove from the list for the passed cpu as opposed to some
arbitrary index.

( This fixes explosions w/ autogroup as well as a group
  creation/destruction stress test. )

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <20101130005740.080828123@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-30 10:07:10 +01:00
Nikanth Karthikesan b7a2b39d9b sched: Remove unused argument dest_cpu to migrate_task()
Remove unused argument, 'dest_cpu' of migrate_task(), and pass runqueue,
as it is always known at the call site.

Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <201011261237.09187.knikanth@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-26 15:05:36 +01:00
Gerald Schaefer 335d7afbfb mutexes, sched: Introduce arch_mutex_cpu_relax()
The spinning mutex implementation uses cpu_relax() in busy loops as a
compiler barrier. Depending on the architecture, cpu_relax() may do more
than needed in this specific mutex spin loops. On System z we also give
up the time slice of the virtual cpu in cpu_relax(), which prevents
effective spinning on the mutex.

This patch replaces cpu_relax() in the spinning mutex code with
arch_mutex_cpu_relax(), which can be defined by each architecture that
selects HAVE_ARCH_MUTEX_CPU_RELAX. The default is still cpu_relax(), so
this patch should not affect other architectures than System z for now.

Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1290437256.7455.4.camel@thinkpad>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-26 15:05:34 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 22a867d817 Merge commit 'v2.6.37-rc3' into sched/core
Merge reason: Pick up latest fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-26 15:05:21 +01:00
Erik Gilling 28d0686cf7 sched: Make task dump print all 15 chars of proc comm
Signed-off-by: Erik Gilling <konkers@android.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1290218934-8544-3-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-23 10:29:07 +01:00
Paul Turner 9437178f62 sched: Update tg->shares after cpu.shares write
Formerly sched_group_set_shares would force a rebalance by overflowing domain
share sums.  Now that per-cpu averages are maintained we can set the true value
by issuing an update_cfs_shares() following a tg->shares update.

Also initialize tg se->load to 0 for consistency since we'll now set correct
weights on enqueue.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com?>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20101115234938.465521344@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-18 13:27:50 +01:00
Paul Turner 3b3d190ec3 sched: Implement demand based update_cfs_load()
When the system is busy, dilation of rq->next_balance makes lb->update_shares()
insufficiently frequent for threads which don't sleep (no dequeue/enqueue
updates).  Adjust for this by making demand based updates based on the
accumulation of execution time sufficient to wrap our averaging window.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20101115234938.291159744@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-18 13:27:49 +01:00
Paul Turner e33078baa4 sched: Fix update_cfs_load() synchronization
Using cfs_rq->nr_running is not sufficient to synchronize update_cfs_load with
the put path since nr_running accounting occurs at deactivation.

It's also not safe to make the removal decision based on load_avg as this fails
with both high periods and low shares.  Resolve this by clipping history after
4 periods without activity.

Note: the above will always occur from update_shares() since in the
last-task-sleep-case that task will still be cfs_rq->curr when update_cfs_load
is called.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20101115234937.933428187@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-18 13:27:48 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 9e3081ca61 sched: Make tg_shares_up() walk on-demand
Make tg_shares_up() use the active cgroup list, this means we cannot
do a strict bottom-up walk of the hierarchy, but assuming its a very
wide tree with a small number of active groups it should be a win.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20101115234937.754159484@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-18 13:27:47 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 3d4b47b4b0 sched: Implement on-demand (active) cfs_rq list
Make certain load-balance actions scale per number of active cgroups
instead of the number of existing cgroups.

This makes wakeup/sleep paths more expensive, but is a win for systems
where the vast majority of existing cgroups are idle.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20101115234937.666535048@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-18 13:27:47 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 2069dd75c7 sched: Rewrite tg_shares_up)
By tracking a per-cpu load-avg for each cfs_rq and folding it into a
global task_group load on each tick we can rework tg_shares_up to be
strictly per-cpu.

This should improve cpu-cgroup performance for smp systems
significantly.

[ Paul: changed to use queueing cfs_rq + bug fixes ]

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20101115234937.580480400@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-18 13:27:46 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 48c5ccae88 sched: Simplify cpu-hot-unplug task migration
While discussing the need for sched_idle_next(), Oleg remarked that
since try_to_wake_up() ensures sleeping tasks will end up running on a
sane cpu, we can do away with migrate_live_tasks().

If we then extend the existing hack of migrating current from
CPU_DYING to migrating the full rq worth of tasks from CPU_DYING, the
need for the sched_idle_next() abomination disappears as well, since
idle will be the only possible thread left after the migration thread
stops.

This greatly simplifies the hot-unplug task migration path, as can be
seen from the resulting code reduction (and about half the new lines
are comments).

Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1289851597.2109.547.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-18 13:27:46 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 92fd4d4d67 Merge commit 'v2.6.37-rc2' into sched/core
Merge reason: Move to a .37-rc base.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-18 13:22:26 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 1e5a74059f sched: Fix cross-sched-class wakeup preemption
Instead of dealing with sched classes inside each check_preempt_curr()
implementation, pull out this logic into the generic wakeup preemption
path.

This fixes a hang in KVM (and others) where we are waiting for the
stop machine thread to run ...

Reported-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Tested-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1288891946.2039.31.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-11 14:37:23 +01:00
Suresh Siddha aae6d3ddd8 sched: Use group weight, idle cpu metrics to fix imbalances during idle
Currently we consider a sched domain to be well balanced when the imbalance
is less than the domain's imablance_pct. As the number of cores and threads
are increasing, current values of imbalance_pct (for example 25% for a
NUMA domain) are not enough to detect imbalances like:

a) On a WSM-EP system (two sockets, each having 6 cores and 12 logical threads),
24 cpu-hogging tasks get scheduled as 13 on one socket and 11 on another
socket. Leading to an idle HT cpu.

b) On a hypothetial 2 socket NHM-EX system (each socket having 8 cores and
16 logical threads), 16 cpu-hogging tasks can get scheduled as 9 on one
socket and 7 on another socket. Leaving one core in a socket idle
whereas in another socket we have a core having both its HT siblings busy.

While this issue can be fixed by decreasing the domain's imbalance_pct
(by making it a function of number of logical cpus in the domain), it
can potentially cause more task migrations across sched groups in an
overloaded case.

Fix this by using imbalance_pct only during newly_idle and busy
load balancing. And during idle load balancing, check if there
is an imbalance in number of idle cpu's across the busiest and this
sched_group or if the busiest group has more tasks than its weight that
the idle cpu in this_group can pull.

Reported-by: Nikhil Rao <ncrao@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1284760952.2676.11.camel@sbsiddha-MOBL3.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-10 23:13:56 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 37542b6a7e Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched_stat: Update sched_info_queue/dequeue() code comments
  sched, cgroup: Fixup broken cgroup movement
2010-10-29 08:05:33 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro fe7de49f9d sched: Make sched_param argument static in sched_setscheduler() callers
Andrew Morton pointed out almost all sched_setscheduler() callers are
using fixed parameters and can be converted to static.  It reduces runtime
memory use a little.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-10-23 17:56:48 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra b2b5ce022a sched, cgroup: Fixup broken cgroup movement
Dima noticed that we fail to correct the ->vruntime of sleeping tasks
when we move them between cgroups.

Reported-by: Dima Zavin <dima@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1287150604.29097.1513.camel@twins>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-10-22 14:16:45 +02:00
Linus Torvalds bc4016f481 Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (29 commits)
  sched: Export account_system_vtime()
  sched: Call tick_check_idle before __irq_enter
  sched: Remove irq time from available CPU power
  sched: Do not account irq time to current task
  x86: Add IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
  sched: Add IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING, finer accounting of irq time
  sched: Add a PF flag for ksoftirqd identification
  sched: Consolidate account_system_vtime extern declaration
  sched: Fix softirq time accounting
  sched: Drop group_capacity to 1 only if local group has extra capacity
  sched: Force balancing on newidle balance if local group has capacity
  sched: Set group_imb only a task can be pulled from the busiest cpu
  sched: Do not consider SCHED_IDLE tasks to be cache hot
  sched: Drop all load weight manipulation for RT tasks
  sched: Create special class for stop/migrate work
  sched: Unindent labels
  sched: Comment updates: fix default latency and granularity numbers
  tracing/sched: Add sched_pi_setprio tracepoint
  sched: Give CPU bound RT tasks preference
  sched: Try not to migrate higher priority RT tasks
  ...
2010-10-21 12:55:43 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 5d70f79b5e Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (163 commits)
  tracing: Fix compile issue for trace_sched_wakeup.c
  [S390] hardirq: remove pointless header file includes
  [IA64] Move local_softirq_pending() definition
  perf, powerpc: Fix power_pmu_event_init to not use event->ctx
  ftrace: Remove recursion between recordmcount and scripts/mod/empty
  jump_label: Add COND_STMT(), reducer wrappery
  perf: Optimize sw events
  perf: Use jump_labels to optimize the scheduler hooks
  jump_label: Add atomic_t interface
  jump_label: Use more consistent naming
  perf, hw_breakpoint: Fix crash in hw_breakpoint creation
  perf: Find task before event alloc
  perf: Fix task refcount bugs
  perf: Fix group moving
  irq_work: Add generic hardirq context callbacks
  perf_events: Fix transaction recovery in group_sched_in()
  perf_events: Fix bogus AMD64 generic TLB events
  perf_events: Fix bogus context time tracking
  tracing: Remove parent recording in latency tracer graph options
  tracing: Use one prologue for the preempt irqs off tracer function tracers
  ...
2010-10-21 12:54:49 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 888a6f77e0 Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (52 commits)
  sched: fix RCU lockdep splat from task_group()
  rcu: using ACCESS_ONCE() to observe the jiffies_stall/rnp->qsmask value
  sched: suppress RCU lockdep splat in task_fork_fair
  net: suppress RCU lockdep false positive in sock_update_classid
  rcu: move check from rcu_dereference_bh to rcu_read_lock_bh_held
  rcu: Add advice to PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY kernel config parameter
  rcu: Add tracing data to support queueing models
  rcu: fix sparse errors in rcutorture.c
  rcu: only one evaluation of arg in rcu_dereference_check() unless sparse
  kernel: Remove undead ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
  rcu: fix _oddness handling of verbose stall warnings
  rcu: performance fixes to TINY_PREEMPT_RCU callback checking
  rcu: upgrade stallwarn.txt documentation for CPU-bound RT processes
  vhost: add __rcu annotations
  rcu: add comment stating that list_empty() applies to RCU-protected lists
  rcu: apply TINY_PREEMPT_RCU read-side speedup to TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
  rcu: combine duplicate code, courtesy of CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU
  rcu: Upgrade srcu_read_lock() docbook about SRCU grace periods
  rcu: document ways of stalling updates in low-memory situations
  rcu: repair code-duplication FIXMEs
  ...
2010-10-21 12:54:12 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro b0ae198113 security: remove unused parameter from security_task_setscheduler()
All security modules shouldn't change sched_param parameter of
security_task_setscheduler().  This is not only meaningless, but also
make a harmful result if caller pass a static variable.

This patch remove policy and sched_param parameter from
security_task_setscheduler() becuase none of security module is
using it.

Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2010-10-21 10:12:44 +11:00
Ingo Molnar b7dadc3879 sched: Export account_system_vtime()
KVM uses it for example:

 ERROR: "account_system_vtime" [arch/x86/kvm/kvm.ko] undefined!

Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1286237003-12406-3-git-send-email-venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-10-18 20:52:30 +02:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi d267f87fb8 sched: Call tick_check_idle before __irq_enter
When CPU is idle and on first interrupt, irq_enter calls tick_check_idle()
to notify interruption from idle. But, there is a problem if this call
is done after __irq_enter, as all routines in __irq_enter may find
stale time due to yet to be done tick_check_idle.

Specifically, trace calls in __irq_enter when they use global clock and also
account_system_vtime change in this patch as it wants to use sched_clock_cpu()
to do proper irq timing.

But, tick_check_idle was moved after __irq_enter intentionally to
prevent problem of unneeded ksoftirqd wakeups by the commit ee5f80a:

    irq: call __irq_enter() before calling the tick_idle_check
    Impact: avoid spurious ksoftirqd wakeups

Moving tick_check_idle() before __irq_enter and wrapping it with
local_bh_enable/disable would solve both the problems.

Fixed-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1286237003-12406-9-git-send-email-venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-10-18 20:52:29 +02:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi aa48380851 sched: Remove irq time from available CPU power
The idea was suggested by Peter Zijlstra here:

  http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127476934517534&w=2

irq time is technically not available to the tasks running on the CPU.
This patch removes irq time from CPU power piggybacking on
sched_rt_avg_update().

Tested this by keeping CPU X busy with a network intensive task having 75%
oa a single CPU irq processing (hard+soft) on a 4-way system. And start seven
cycle soakers on the system. Without this change, there will be two tasks on
each CPU. With this change, there is a single task on irq busy CPU X and
remaining 7 tasks are spread around among other 3 CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1286237003-12406-8-git-send-email-venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-10-18 20:52:27 +02:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi 305e6835e0 sched: Do not account irq time to current task
Scheduler accounts both softirq and interrupt processing times to the
currently running task. This means, if the interrupt processing was
for some other task in the system, then the current task ends up being
penalized as it gets shorter runtime than otherwise.

Change sched task accounting to acoount only actual task time from
currently running task. Now update_curr(), modifies the delta_exec to
depend on rq->clock_task.

Note that this change only handles CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING case. We can
extend this to CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING with minimal effort. But, thats
for later.

This change will impact scheduling behavior in interrupt heavy conditions.

Tested on a 4-way system with eth0 handled by CPU 2 and a network heavy
task (nc) running on CPU 3 (and no RSS/RFS). With that I have CPU 2
spending 75%+ of its time in irq processing. CPU 3 spending around 35%
time running nc task.

Now, if I run another CPU intensive task on CPU 2, without this change
/proc/<pid>/schedstat shows 100% of time accounted to this task. With this
change, it rightly shows less than 25% accounted to this task as remaining
time is actually spent on irq processing.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1286237003-12406-7-git-send-email-venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-10-18 20:52:26 +02:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi b52bfee445 sched: Add IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING, finer accounting of irq time
s390/powerpc/ia64 have support for CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING which does
the fine granularity accounting of user, system, hardirq, softirq times.
Adding that option on archs like x86 will be challenging however, given the
state of TSC reliability on various platforms and also the overhead it will
add in syscall entry exit.

Instead, add a lighter variant that only does finer accounting of
hardirq and softirq times, providing precise irq times (instead of timer tick
based samples). This accounting is added with a new config option
CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING so that there won't be any overhead for users not
interested in paying the perf penalty.

This accounting is based on sched_clock, with the code being generic.
So, other archs may find it useful as well.

This patch just adds the core logic and does not enable this logic yet.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1286237003-12406-5-git-send-email-venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-10-18 20:52:24 +02:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi 75e1056f5c sched: Fix softirq time accounting
Peter Zijlstra found a bug in the way softirq time is accounted in
VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING on this thread:

   http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail//linux/kernel/1009.2/01366.html

The problem is, softirq processing uses local_bh_disable internally. There
is no way, later in the flow, to differentiate between whether softirq is
being processed or is it just that bh has been disabled. So, a hardirq when bh
is disabled results in time being wrongly accounted as softirq.

Looking at the code a bit more, the problem exists in !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
as well. As account_system_time() in normal tick based accouting also uses
softirq_count, which will be set even when not in softirq with bh disabled.

Peter also suggested solution of using 2*SOFTIRQ_OFFSET as irq count
for local_bh_{disable,enable} and using just SOFTIRQ_OFFSET while softirq
processing. The patch below does that and adds API in_serving_softirq() which
returns whether we are currently processing softirq or not.

Also changes one of the usages of softirq_count in net/sched/cls_cgroup.c
to in_serving_softirq.

Looks like many usages of in_softirq really want in_serving_softirq. Those
changes can be made individually on a case by case basis.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1286237003-12406-2-git-send-email-venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-10-18 20:52:20 +02:00
Nikhil Rao ef8002f684 sched: Do not consider SCHED_IDLE tasks to be cache hot
This patch adds a check in task_hot to return if the task has SCHED_IDLE
policy. SCHED_IDLE tasks have very low weight, and when run with regular
workloads, are typically scheduled many milliseconds apart. There is no
need to consider these tasks hot for load balancing.

Signed-off-by: Nikhil Rao <ncrao@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1287173550-30365-2-git-send-email-ncrao@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-10-18 20:52:15 +02:00
Linus Walleij 17bdcf949d sched: Drop all load weight manipulation for RT tasks
Load weights are for the CFS, they do not belong in the RT task. This makes all
RT scheduling classes leave the CFS weights alone.

This fixes a real bug as well: I noticed the following phonomena: a process
elevated to SCHED_RR forks with SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK set, and the child is
indeed SCHED_OTHER, and the niceval is indeed reset to 0. However the weight
inserted by set_load_weight() remains at 0, giving the task insignificat
priority.

With this fix, the weight is reset to what the task had before being elevated
to SCHED_RR/SCHED_FIFO.

Cc: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1286807811-10568-1-git-send-email-linus.walleij@stericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-10-18 18:41:59 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 34f971f6f7 sched: Create special class for stop/migrate work
In order to separate the stop/migrate work thread from the SCHED_FIFO
implementation, create a special class for it that is of higher priority than
SCHED_FIFO itself.

This currently solves a problem where cpu-hotplug consumes so much cpu-time
that the SCHED_FIFO class gets throttled, but has the bandwidth replenishment
timer pending on the now dead cpu.

It is also required for when we add the planned deadline scheduling class above
SCHED_FIFO, as the stop/migrate thread still needs to transcent those tasks.

Tested-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1285165776.2275.1022.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-10-18 18:41:58 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 4924627423 sched: Unindent labels
Labels should be on column 0.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-10-18 18:41:56 +02:00
Ingo Molnar ed859ed3b0 Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core
Merge reason: update from -rc5 to -almost-final

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-10-14 09:11:46 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 6506cf6ce6 sched: fix RCU lockdep splat from task_group()
This addresses the following RCU lockdep splat:

[0.051203] CPU0: AMD QEMU Virtual CPU version 0.12.4 stepping 03
[0.052999] lockdep: fixing up alternatives.
[0.054105]
[0.054106] ===================================================
[0.054999] [ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ]
[0.054999] ---------------------------------------------------
[0.054999] kernel/sched.c:616 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection!
[0.054999]
[0.054999] other info that might help us debug this:
[0.054999]
[0.054999]
[0.054999] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 1
[0.054999] 3 locks held by swapper/1:
[0.054999]  #0:  (cpu_add_remove_lock){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff814be933>] cpu_up+0x42/0x6a
[0.054999]  #1:  (cpu_hotplug.lock){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff810400d8>] cpu_hotplug_begin+0x2a/0x51
[0.054999]  #2:  (&rq->lock){-.-...}, at: [<ffffffff814be2f7>] init_idle+0x2f/0x113
[0.054999]
[0.054999] stack backtrace:
[0.054999] Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.35 #1
[0.054999] Call Trace:
[0.054999]  [<ffffffff81068054>] lockdep_rcu_dereference+0x9b/0xa3
[0.054999]  [<ffffffff810325c3>] task_group+0x7b/0x8a
[0.054999]  [<ffffffff810325e5>] set_task_rq+0x13/0x40
[0.054999]  [<ffffffff814be39a>] init_idle+0xd2/0x113
[0.054999]  [<ffffffff814be78a>] fork_idle+0xb8/0xc7
[0.054999]  [<ffffffff81068717>] ? mark_held_locks+0x4d/0x6b
[0.054999]  [<ffffffff814bcebd>] do_fork_idle+0x17/0x2b
[0.054999]  [<ffffffff814bc89b>] native_cpu_up+0x1c1/0x724
[0.054999]  [<ffffffff814bcea6>] ? do_fork_idle+0x0/0x2b
[0.054999]  [<ffffffff814be876>] _cpu_up+0xac/0x127
[0.054999]  [<ffffffff814be946>] cpu_up+0x55/0x6a
[0.054999]  [<ffffffff81ab562a>] kernel_init+0xe1/0x1ff
[0.054999]  [<ffffffff81003854>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
[0.054999]  [<ffffffff814c353c>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30
[0.054999]  [<ffffffff81ab5549>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x1ff
[0.054999]  [<ffffffff81003850>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x0/0x10
[0.056074] Booting Node   0, Processors  #1lockdep: fixing up alternatives.
[0.130045]  #2lockdep: fixing up alternatives.
[0.203089]  #3 Ok.
[0.275286] Brought up 4 CPUs
[0.276005] Total of 4 processors activated (16017.17 BogoMIPS).

The cgroup_subsys_state structures referenced by idle tasks are never
freed, because the idle tasks should be part of the root cgroup,
which is not removable.

The problem is that while we do in-fact hold rq->lock, the newly spawned
idle thread's cpu is not yet set to the correct cpu so the lockdep check
in task_group():

  lockdep_is_held(&task_rq(p)->lock)

will fail.

But this is a chicken and egg problem.  Setting the CPU's runqueue requires
that the CPU's runqueue already be set.  ;-)

So insert an RCU read-side critical section to avoid the complaint.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-10-07 10:41:07 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 90edf27fb8 Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core
Conflicts:
	kernel/hw_breakpoint.c

Merge reason: resolve the conflict.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-22 18:45:01 +02:00
Steven Rostedt a8027073eb tracing/sched: Add sched_pi_setprio tracepoint
Add a tracepoint that shows the priority of a task being boosted
via priority inheritance.

Cc: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-09-21 10:56:41 -04:00
Ingo Molnar cf84fd9632 Merge commit 'v2.6.36-rc5' into sched/core
Merge reason: Pick up the latest fixes in -rc5.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-21 13:56:49 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra e9d2b06414 perf: Undo the per cpu-context timer stuff
Revert the timer per cpu-context timers because of unfortunate
nohz interaction. Fixing that would have been somewhat ugly, so
go back to driving things from the regular tick. Provide a
jiffies interval feature for people who want slower rotations.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100917093009.519845633@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-17 12:48:48 +02:00
Heiko Carstens 31915ab4cb sched: Remove branch hints within context_switch()
With 710390d9 "sched: Optimize branch hint in context_switch()"
the branch hint logic within context_switch() got inversed.

In fact the hints "if (likely(!mm))" and "if (likely(!prev->mm))"
mean that it is likely that the previous and next task are kernel
threads.

That assumption is certainly counter intuitive, but Tim has shown
that at least with his workload this is true. Nevertheless the
truth is: it depends on the current workload. So just remove the
annotations which also improves readability.

Reported-by: Tim Blechmann <tim@klingt.org>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <20100916124225.GA2209@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-16 16:38:34 +02:00
Stanislaw Gruszka e75e863dd5 sched: Fix user time incorrectly accounted as system time on 32-bit
We have 32-bit variable overflow possibility when multiply in
task_times() and thread_group_times() functions. When the
overflow happens then the scaled utime value becomes erroneously
small and the scaled stime becomes i erroneously big.

Reported here:

 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=633037
 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16559

Reported-by: Michael Chapman <redhat-bugzilla@very.puzzling.org>
Reported-by: Ciriaco Garcia de Celis <sysman@etherpilot.com>
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>  # 2.6.32.19+ (partially) and 2.6.33+
LKML-Reference: <20100914143513.GB8415@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-15 10:41:36 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 3aabae7d9d Merge branch 'tip/perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core 2010-09-15 10:27:31 +02:00