user/sven/linux.git/kernel/sched, branch v4.10.9

sched/rt: Add a missing rescheduling point

2017-03-31T08:33:43Z

commit 619bd4a71874a8fd78eb6ccf9f272c5e98bcc7b7 upstream. Since the change in commit: fd7a4bed1835 ("sched, rt: Convert switched_{from, to}_rt() / prio_changed_rt() to balance callbacks") ... we don't reschedule a task under certain circumstances: Lets say task-A, SCHED_OTHER, is running on CPU0 (and it may run only on CPU0) and holds a PI lock. This task is removed from the CPU because it used up its time slice and another SCHED_OTHER task is running. Task-B on CPU1 runs at RT priority and asks for the lock owned by task-A. This results in a priority boost for task-A. Task-B goes to sleep until the lock has been made available. Task-A is already runnable (but not active), so it receives no wake up. The reality now is that task-A gets on the CPU once the scheduler decides to remove the current task despite the fact that a high priority task is enqueued and waiting. This may take a long time. The desired behaviour is that CPU0 immediately reschedules after the priority boost which made task-A the task with the lowest priority. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Thomas Gleixner Fixes: fd7a4bed1835 ("sched, rt: Convert switched_{from, to}_rt() prio_changed_rt() to balance callbacks") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170124144006.29821-1-bigeasy@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ktime: Cleanup ktime_set() usage

2016-12-25T16:21:22Z

ktime_set(S,N) was required for the timespec storage type and is still useful for situations where a Seconds and Nanoseconds part of a time value needs to be converted. For anything where the Seconds argument is 0, this is pointless and can be replaced with a simple assignment. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Peter Zijlstra

Merge tag 'pm-4.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm

2016-12-13T18:41:53Z

Pull power management updates from Rafael Wysocki: "Again, cpufreq gets more changes than the other parts this time (one new driver, one old driver less, a bunch of enhancements of the existing code, new CPU IDs, fixes, cleanups) There also are some changes in cpuidle (idle injection rework, a couple of new CPU IDs, online/offline rework in intel_idle, fixes and cleanups), in the generic power domains framework (mostly related to supporting power domains containing CPUs), and in the Operating Performance Points (OPP) library (mostly related to supporting devices with multiple voltage regulators) In addition to that, the system sleep state selection interface is modified to make it easier for distributions with unchanged user space to support suspend-to-idle as the default system suspend method, some issues are fixed in the PM core, the latency tolerance PM QoS framework is improved a bit, the Intel RAPL power capping driver is cleaned up and there are some fixes and cleanups in the devfreq subsystem Specifics: - New cpufreq driver for Broadcom STB SoCs and a Device Tree binding for it (Markus Mayer) - Support for ARM Integrator/AP and Integrator/CP in the generic DT cpufreq driver and elimination of the old Integrator cpufreq driver (Linus Walleij) - Support for the zx296718, r8a7743 and r8a7745, Socionext UniPhier, and PXA SoCs in the the generic DT cpufreq driver (Baoyou Xie, Geert Uytterhoeven, Masahiro Yamada, Robert Jarzmik) - cpufreq core fix to eliminate races that may lead to using inactive policy objects and related cleanups (Rafael Wysocki) - cpufreq schedutil governor update to make it use SCHED_FIFO kernel threads (instead of regular workqueues) for doing delayed work (to reduce the response latency in some cases) and related cleanups (Viresh Kumar) - New cpufreq sysfs attribute for resetting statistics (Markus Mayer) - cpufreq governors fixes and cleanups (Chen Yu, Stratos Karafotis, Viresh Kumar) - Support for using generic cpufreq governors in the intel_pstate driver (Rafael Wysocki) - Support for per-logical-CPU P-state limits and the EPP/EPB (Energy Performance Preference/Energy Performance Bias) knobs in the intel_pstate driver (Srinivas Pandruvada) - New CPU ID for Knights Mill in intel_pstate (Piotr Luc) - intel_pstate driver modification to use the P-state selection algorithm based on CPU load on platforms with the system profile in the ACPI tables set to "mobile" (Srinivas Pandruvada) - intel_pstate driver cleanups (Arnd Bergmann, Rafael Wysocki, Srinivas Pandruvada) - cpufreq powernv driver updates including fast switching support (for the schedutil governor), fixes and cleanus (Akshay Adiga, Andrew Donnellan, Denis Kirjanov) - acpi-cpufreq driver rework to switch it over to the new CPU offline/online state machine (Sebastian Andrzej Siewior) - Assorted cleanups in cpufreq drivers (Wei Yongjun, Prashanth Prakash) - Idle injection rework (to make it use the regular idle path instead of a home-grown custom one) and related powerclamp thermal driver updates (Peter Zijlstra, Jacob Pan, Petr Mladek, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior) - New CPU IDs for Atom Z34xx and Knights Mill in intel_idle (Andy Shevchenko, Piotr Luc) - intel_idle driver cleanups and switch over to using the new CPU offline/online state machine (Anna-Maria Gleixner, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior) - cpuidle DT driver update to support suspend-to-idle properly (Sudeep Holla) - cpuidle core cleanups and misc updates (Daniel Lezcano, Pan Bian, Rafael Wysocki) - Preliminary support for power domains including CPUs in the generic power domains (genpd) framework and related DT bindings (Lina Iyer) - Assorted fixes and cleanups in the generic power domains (genpd) framework (Colin Ian King, Dan Carpenter, Geert Uytterhoeven) - Preliminary support for devices with multiple voltage regulators and related fixes and cleanups in the Operating Performance Points (OPP) library (Viresh Kumar, Masahiro Yamada, Stephen Boyd) - System sleep state selection interface rework to make it easier to support suspend-to-idle as the default system suspend method (Rafael Wysocki) - PM core fixes and cleanups, mostly related to the interactions between the system suspend and runtime PM frameworks (Ulf Hansson, Sahitya Tummala, Tony Lindgren) - Latency tolerance PM QoS framework imorovements (Andrew Lutomirski) - New Knights Mill CPU ID for the Intel RAPL power capping driver (Piotr Luc) - Intel RAPL power capping driver fixes, cleanups and switch over to using the new CPU offline/online state machine (Jacob Pan, Thomas Gleixner, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior) - Fixes and cleanups in the exynos-ppmu, exynos-nocp, rk3399_dmc, rockchip-dfi devfreq drivers and the devfreq core (Axel Lin, Chanwoo Choi, Javier Martinez Canillas, MyungJoo Ham, Viresh Kumar) - Fix for false-positive KASAN warnings during resume from ACPI S3 (suspend-to-RAM) on x86 (Josh Poimboeuf) - Memory map verification during resume from hibernation on x86 to ensure a consistent address space layout (Chen Yu) - Wakeup sources debugging enhancement (Xing Wei) - rockchip-io AVS driver cleanup (Shawn Lin)" * tag 'pm-4.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (127 commits) devfreq: rk3399_dmc: Don't use OPP structures outside of RCU locks devfreq: rk3399_dmc: Remove dangling rcu_read_unlock() devfreq: exynos: Don't use OPP structures outside of RCU locks Documentation: intel_pstate: Document HWP energy/performance hints cpufreq: intel_pstate: Support for energy performance hints with HWP cpufreq: intel_pstate: Add locking around HWP requests PM / sleep: Print active wakeup sources when blocking on wakeup_count reads PM / core: Fix bug in the error handling of async suspend PM / wakeirq: Fix dedicated wakeirq for drivers not using autosuspend PM / Domains: Fix compatible for domain idle state PM / OPP: Don't WARN on multiple calls to dev_pm_opp_set_regulators() PM / OPP: Allow platform specific custom set_opp() callbacks PM / OPP: Separate out _generic_set_opp() PM / OPP: Add infrastructure to manage multiple regulators PM / OPP: Pass struct dev_pm_opp_supply to _set_opp_voltage() PM / OPP: Manage supply's voltage/current in a separate structure PM / OPP: Don't use OPP structure outside of rcu protected section PM / OPP: Reword binding supporting multiple regulators per device PM / OPP: Fix incorrect cpu-supply property in binding cpuidle: Add a kerneldoc comment to cpuidle_use_deepest_state() ..

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

2016-12-12T20:15:10Z

Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main scheduler changes in this cycle were: - support Intel Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 (TBM3) by introducig a notion of 'better cores', which the scheduler will prefer to schedule single threaded workloads on. (Tim Chen, Srinivas Pandruvada) - enhance the handling of asymmetric capacity CPUs further (Morten Rasmussen) - improve/fix load handling when moving tasks between task groups (Vincent Guittot) - simplify and clean up the cputime code (Stanislaw Gruszka) - improve mass fork()ed task spread a.k.a. hackbench speedup (Vincent Guittot) - make struct kthread kmalloc()ed and related fixes (Oleg Nesterov) - add uaccess atomicity debugging (when using access_ok() in the wrong context), under CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP=y (Peter Zijlstra) - implement various fixes, cleanups and other enhancements (Daniel Bristot de Oliveira, Martin Schwidefsky, Rafael J. Wysocki)" * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (41 commits) sched/core: Use load_avg for selecting idlest group sched/core: Fix find_idlest_group() for fork kthread: Don't abuse kthread_create_on_cpu() in __kthread_create_worker() kthread: Don't use to_live_kthread() in kthread_[un]park() kthread: Don't use to_live_kthread() in kthread_stop() Revert "kthread: Pin the stack via try_get_task_stack()/put_task_stack() in to_live_kthread() function" kthread: Make struct kthread kmalloc'ed x86/uaccess, sched/preempt: Verify access_ok() context sched/x86: Make CONFIG_SCHED_MC_PRIO=y easier to enable sched/x86: Change CONFIG_SCHED_ITMT to CONFIG_SCHED_MC_PRIO x86/sched: Use #include instead of #include cpufreq/intel_pstate: Use CPPC to get max performance acpi/bus: Set _OSC for diverse core support acpi/bus: Enable HWP CPPC objects x86/sched: Add SD_ASYM_PACKING flags to x86 ITMT CPU x86/sysctl: Add sysctl for ITMT scheduling feature x86: Enable Intel Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 x86/topology: Define x86's arch_update_cpu_topology sched: Extend scheduler's asym packing sched/fair: Clean up the tunable parameter definitions ...

Merge branch 'pm-cpuidle'

2016-12-12T19:46:15Z

* pm-cpuidle: cpuidle: Add a kerneldoc comment to cpuidle_use_deepest_state() cpuidle: fix improper return value on error intel_idle: Convert to hotplug state machine intel_idle: Remove superfluous SMP fuction call MAINTAINERS: Add Jacob Pan as a new intel_idle maintainer MAINTAINERS: Add bug tracking system location entries for cpuidle x86/intel_idle: Add Knights Mill CPUID x86/intel_idle: Add CPU model 0x4a (Atom Z34xx series) thermal/intel_powerclamp: stop sched tick in forced idle thermal/intel_powerclamp: Convert to CPU hotplug state thermal/intel_powerclamp: Convert the kthread to kthread worker API thermal/intel_powerclamp: Remove duplicated code that starts the kthread sched/idle: Add support for tasks that inject idle cpuidle: Allow enforcing deepest idle state selection cpuidle/powernv: staticise powernv_idle_driver cpuidle: dt: assign ->enter_freeze to same as ->enter callback function cpuidle: governors: Remove remaining old module code

Merge branch 'pm-cpufreq'

2016-12-12T19:45:01Z

* pm-cpufreq: (51 commits) Documentation: intel_pstate: Document HWP energy/performance hints cpufreq: intel_pstate: Support for energy performance hints with HWP cpufreq: intel_pstate: Add locking around HWP requests cpufreq: ondemand: Set MIN_FREQUENCY_UP_THRESHOLD to 1 cpufreq: intel_pstate: Add Knights Mill CPUID MAINTAINERS: Add bug tracking system location entry for cpufreq cpufreq: dt: Add support for zx296718 cpufreq: acpi-cpufreq: drop rdmsr_on_cpus() usage cpufreq: acpi-cpufreq: Convert to hotplug state machine cpufreq: intel_pstate: fix intel_pstate_exit_perf_limits() prototype cpufreq: intel_pstate: Set EPP/EPB to 0 in performance mode cpufreq: schedutil: Rectify comment in sugov_irq_work() function cpufreq: intel_pstate: increase precision of performance limits cpufreq: intel_pstate: round up min_perf limits cpufreq: Make cpufreq_update_policy() void ACPI / processor: Make acpi_processor_ppc_has_changed() void cpufreq: Avoid using inactive policies cpufreq: intel_pstate: Generic governors support cpufreq: intel_pstate: Request P-states control from SMM if needed cpufreq: dt: Add support for r8a7743 and r8a7745 ...

sched/core: Use load_avg for selecting idlest group

2016-12-11T12:10:57Z

find_idlest_group() only compares the runnable_load_avg when looking for the least loaded group. But on fork intensive use case like hackbench where tasks blocked quickly after the fork, this can lead to selecting the same CPU instead of other CPUs, which have similar runnable load but a lower load_avg. When the runnable_load_avg of 2 CPUs are close, we now take into account the amount of blocked load as a 2nd selection factor. There is now 3 zones for the runnable_load of the rq: - [0 .. (runnable_load - imbalance)]: Select the new rq which has significantly less runnable_load - [(runnable_load - imbalance) .. (runnable_load + imbalance)]: The runnable loads are close so we use load_avg to chose between the 2 rq - [(runnable_load + imbalance) .. ULONG_MAX]: Keep the current rq which has significantly less runnable_load The scale factor that is currently used for comparing runnable_load, doesn't work well with small value. As an example, the use of a scaling factor fails as soon as this_runnable_load == 0 because we always select local rq even if min_runnable_load is only 1, which doesn't really make sense because they are just the same. So instead of scaling factor, we use an absolute margin for runnable_load to detect CPUs with similar runnable_load and we keep using scaling factor for blocked load. For use case like hackbench, this enable the scheduler to select different CPUs during the fork sequence and to spread tasks across the system. Tests have been done on a Hikey board (ARM based octo cores) for several kernel. The result below gives min, max, avg and stdev values of 18 runs with each configuration. The patches depend on the "no missing update_rq_clock()" work. hackbench -P -g 1 ea86cb4b7621 7dc603c9028e v4.8 v4.8+patches min 0.049 0.050 0.051 0,048 avg 0.057 0.057(0%) 0.057(0%) 0,055(+5%) max 0.066 0.068 0.070 0,063 stdev +/-9% +/-9% +/-8% +/-9% More performance numbers here: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161203214707.GI20785@codeblueprint.co.uk Tested-by: Matt Fleming Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Reviewed-by: Matt Fleming Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Morten.Rasmussen@arm.com Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com Cc: kernellwp@gmail.com Cc: umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com Cc: yuyang.du@intel.comc Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1481216215-24651-3-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/core: Fix find_idlest_group() for fork

2016-12-11T12:10:56Z

During fork, the utilization of a task is init once the rq has been selected because the current utilization level of the rq is used to set the utilization of the fork task. As the task's utilization is still 0 at this step of the fork sequence, it doesn't make sense to look for some spare capacity that can fit the task's utilization. Furthermore, I can see perf regressions for the test: hackbench -P -g 1 because the least loaded policy is always bypassed and tasks are not spread during fork. With this patch and the fix below, we are back to same performances as for v4.8. The fix below is only a temporary one used for the test until a smarter solution is found because we can't simply remove the test which is useful for others benchmarks | @@ -5708,13 +5708,6 @@ static int select_idle_cpu(struct task_struct *p, struct sched_domain *sd, int t | | avg_cost = this_sd->avg_scan_cost; | | - /* | - * Due to large variance we need a large fuzz factor; hackbench in | - * particularly is sensitive here. | - */ | - if ((avg_idle / 512) < avg_cost) | - return -1; | - | time = local_clock(); | | for_each_cpu_wrap(cpu, sched_domain_span(sd), target, wrap) { Tested-by: Matt Fleming Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Reviewed-by: Matt Fleming Acked-by: Morten Rasmussen Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com Cc: kernellwp@gmail.com Cc: umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com Cc: yuyang.du@intel.comc Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1481216215-24651-2-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core, to pick up fixes

2016-12-11T12:10:40Z

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'linus' into locking/core, to pick up fixes

2016-12-11T12:07:13Z

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar