user/sven/linux.git/kernel/sched, branch v4.20.12

cpu/hotplug: Fix "SMT disabled by BIOS" detection for KVM

2019-02-12T19:02:37Z

commit b284909abad48b07d3071a9fc9b5692b3e64914b upstream. With the following commit: 73d5e2b47264 ("cpu/hotplug: detect SMT disabled by BIOS") ... the hotplug code attempted to detect when SMT was disabled by BIOS, in which case it reported SMT as permanently disabled. However, that code broke a virt hotplug scenario, where the guest is booted with only primary CPU threads, and a sibling is brought online later. The problem is that there doesn't seem to be a way to reliably distinguish between the HW "SMT disabled by BIOS" case and the virt "sibling not yet brought online" case. So the above-mentioned commit was a bit misguided, as it permanently disabled SMT for both cases, preventing future virt sibling hotplugs. Going back and reviewing the original problems which were attempted to be solved by that commit, when SMT was disabled in BIOS: 1) /sys/devices/system/cpu/smt/control showed "on" instead of "notsupported"; and 2) vmx_vm_init() was incorrectly showing the L1TF_MSG_SMT warning. I'd propose that we instead consider #1 above to not actually be a problem. Because, at least in the virt case, it's possible that SMT wasn't disabled by BIOS and a sibling thread could be brought online later. So it makes sense to just always default the smt control to "on" to allow for that possibility (assuming cpuid indicates that the CPU supports SMT). The real problem is #2, which has a simple fix: change vmx_vm_init() to query the actual current SMT state -- i.e., whether any siblings are currently online -- instead of looking at the SMT "control" sysfs value. So fix it by: a) reverting the original "fix" and its followup fix: 73d5e2b47264 ("cpu/hotplug: detect SMT disabled by BIOS") bc2d8d262cba ("cpu/hotplug: Fix SMT supported evaluation") and b) changing vmx_vm_init() to query the actual current SMT state -- instead of the sysfs control value -- to determine whether the L1TF warning is needed. This also requires the 'sched_smt_present' variable to exported, instead of 'cpu_smt_control'. Fixes: 73d5e2b47264 ("cpu/hotplug: detect SMT disabled by BIOS") Reported-by: Igor Mammedov Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Joe Mario Cc: Jiri Kosina Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e3a85d585da28cc333ecbc1e78ee9216e6da9396.1548794349.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sched/fair: Fix infinite loop in update_blocked_averages() by reverting a9e7f6544b9c

2019-01-13T08:24:08Z

commit c40f7d74c741a907cfaeb73a7697081881c497d0 upstream. Zhipeng Xie, Xie XiuQi and Sargun Dhillon reported lockups in the scheduler under high loads, starting at around the v4.18 time frame, and Zhipeng Xie tracked it down to bugs in the rq->leaf_cfs_rq_list manipulation. Do a (manual) revert of: a9e7f6544b9c ("sched/fair: Fix O(nr_cgroups) in load balance path") It turns out that the list_del_leaf_cfs_rq() introduced by this commit is a surprising property that was not considered in followup commits such as: 9c2791f936ef ("sched/fair: Fix hierarchical order in rq->leaf_cfs_rq_list") As Vincent Guittot explains: "I think that there is a bigger problem with commit a9e7f6544b9c and cfs_rq throttling: Let take the example of the following topology TG2 --> TG1 --> root: 1) The 1st time a task is enqueued, we will add TG2 cfs_rq then TG1 cfs_rq to leaf_cfs_rq_list and we are sure to do the whole branch in one path because it has never been used and can't be throttled so tmp_alone_branch will point to leaf_cfs_rq_list at the end. 2) Then TG1 is throttled 3) and we add TG3 as a new child of TG1. 4) The 1st enqueue of a task on TG3 will add TG3 cfs_rq just before TG1 cfs_rq and tmp_alone_branch will stay on rq->leaf_cfs_rq_list. With commit a9e7f6544b9c, we can del a cfs_rq from rq->leaf_cfs_rq_list. So if the load of TG1 cfs_rq becomes NULL before step 2) above, TG1 cfs_rq is removed from the list. Then at step 4), TG3 cfs_rq is added at the beginning of rq->leaf_cfs_rq_list but tmp_alone_branch still points to TG3 cfs_rq because its throttled parent can't be enqueued when the lock is released. tmp_alone_branch doesn't point to rq->leaf_cfs_rq_list whereas it should. So if TG3 cfs_rq is removed or destroyed before tmp_alone_branch points on another TG cfs_rq, the next TG cfs_rq that will be added, will be linked outside rq->leaf_cfs_rq_list - which is bad. In addition, we can break the ordering of the cfs_rq in rq->leaf_cfs_rq_list but this ordering is used to update and propagate the update from leaf down to root." Instead of trying to work through all these cases and trying to reproduce the very high loads that produced the lockup to begin with, simplify the code temporarily by reverting a9e7f6544b9c - which change was clearly not thought through completely. This (hopefully) gives us a kernel that doesn't lock up so people can continue to enjoy their holidays without worrying about regressions. ;-) [ mingo: Wrote changelog, fixed weird spelling in code comment while at it. ] Analyzed-by: Xie XiuQi Analyzed-by: Vincent Guittot Reported-by: Zhipeng Xie Reported-by: Sargun Dhillon Reported-by: Xie XiuQi Tested-by: Zhipeng Xie Tested-by: Sargun Dhillon Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Acked-by: Vincent Guittot Cc: # v4.13+ Cc: Bin Li Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Thomas Gleixner Fixes: a9e7f6544b9c ("sched/fair: Fix O(nr_cgroups) in load balance path") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1545879866-27809-1-git-send-email-xiexiuqi@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2018-12-01T20:35:48Z

Pull STIBP fallout fixes from Thomas Gleixner: "The performance destruction department finally got it's act together and came up with a cure for the STIPB regression: - Provide a command line option to control the spectre v2 user space mitigations. Default is either seccomp or prctl (if seccomp is disabled in Kconfig). prctl allows mitigation opt-in, seccomp enables the migitation for sandboxed processes. - Rework the code to handle the conditional STIBP/IBPB control and remove the now unused ptrace_may_access_sched() optimization attempt - Disable STIBP automatically when SMT is disabled - Optimize the switch_to() logic to avoid MSR writes and invocations of __switch_to_xtra(). - Make the asynchronous speculation TIF updates synchronous to prevent stale mitigation state. As a general cleanup this also makes retpoline directly depend on compiler support and removes the 'minimal retpoline' option which just pretended to provide some form of security while providing none" * 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (31 commits) x86/speculation: Provide IBPB always command line options x86/speculation: Add seccomp Spectre v2 user space protection mode x86/speculation: Enable prctl mode for spectre_v2_user x86/speculation: Add prctl() control for indirect branch speculation x86/speculation: Prepare arch_smt_update() for PRCTL mode x86/speculation: Prevent stale SPEC_CTRL msr content x86/speculation: Split out TIF update ptrace: Remove unused ptrace_may_access_sched() and MODE_IBRS x86/speculation: Prepare for conditional IBPB in switch_mm() x86/speculation: Avoid __switch_to_xtra() calls x86/process: Consolidate and simplify switch_to_xtra() code x86/speculation: Prepare for per task indirect branch speculation control x86/speculation: Add command line control for indirect branch speculation x86/speculation: Unify conditional spectre v2 print functions x86/speculataion: Mark command line parser data __initdata x86/speculation: Mark string arrays const correctly x86/speculation: Reorder the spec_v2 code x86/l1tf: Show actual SMT state x86/speculation: Rework SMT state change sched/smt: Expose sched_smt_present static key ...

psi: make disabling/enabling easier for vendor kernels

2018-11-30T22:56:14Z

Mel Gorman reports a hackbench regression with psi that would prohibit shipping the suse kernel with it default-enabled, but he'd still like users to be able to opt in at little to no cost to others. With the current combination of CONFIG_PSI and the psi_disabled bool set from the commandline, this is a challenge. Do the following things to make it easier: 1. Add a config option CONFIG_PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED that allows distros to enable CONFIG_PSI in their kernel but leave the feature disabled unless a user requests it at boot-time. To avoid double negatives, rename psi_disabled= to psi=. 2. Make psi_disabled a static branch to eliminate any branch costs when the feature is disabled. In terms of numbers before and after this patch, Mel says: : The following is a comparision using CONFIG_PSI=n as a baseline against : your patch and a vanilla kernel : : 4.20.0-rc4 4.20.0-rc4 4.20.0-rc4 : kconfigdisable-v1r1 vanilla psidisable-v1r1 : Amean 1 1.3100 ( 0.00%) 1.3923 ( -6.28%) 1.3427 ( -2.49%) : Amean 3 3.8860 ( 0.00%) 4.1230 * -6.10%* 3.8860 ( -0.00%) : Amean 5 6.8847 ( 0.00%) 8.0390 * -16.77%* 6.7727 ( 1.63%) : Amean 7 9.9310 ( 0.00%) 10.8367 * -9.12%* 9.9910 ( -0.60%) : Amean 12 16.6577 ( 0.00%) 18.2363 * -9.48%* 17.1083 ( -2.71%) : Amean 18 26.5133 ( 0.00%) 27.8833 * -5.17%* 25.7663 ( 2.82%) : Amean 24 34.3003 ( 0.00%) 34.6830 ( -1.12%) 32.0450 ( 6.58%) : Amean 30 40.0063 ( 0.00%) 40.5800 ( -1.43%) 41.5087 ( -3.76%) : Amean 32 40.1407 ( 0.00%) 41.2273 ( -2.71%) 39.9417 ( 0.50%) : : It's showing that the vanilla kernel takes a hit (as the bisection : indicated it would) and that disabling PSI by default is reasonably : close in terms of performance for this particular workload on this : particular machine so; Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181127165329.GA29728@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Tested-by: Mel Gorman Reported-by: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sched/smt: Expose sched_smt_present static key

2018-11-28T10:57:07Z

Make the scheduler's 'sched_smt_present' static key globaly available, so it can be used in the x86 speculation control code. Provide a query function and a stub for the CONFIG_SMP=n case. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Jiri Kosina Cc: Tom Lendacky Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: David Woodhouse Cc: Tim Chen Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Casey Schaufler Cc: Asit Mallick Cc: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Jon Masters Cc: Waiman Long Cc: Greg KH Cc: Dave Stewart Cc: Kees Cook Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181125185004.430168326@linutronix.de

sched/smt: Make sched_smt_present track topology

2018-11-28T10:57:06Z

Currently the 'sched_smt_present' static key is enabled when at CPU bringup SMT topology is observed, but it is never disabled. However there is demand to also disable the key when the topology changes such that there is no SMT present anymore. Implement this by making the key count the number of cores that have SMT enabled. In particular, the SMT topology bits are set before interrrupts are enabled and similarly, are cleared after interrupts are disabled for the last time and the CPU dies. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Jiri Kosina Cc: Tom Lendacky Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: David Woodhouse Cc: Tim Chen Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Casey Schaufler Cc: Asit Mallick Cc: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Jon Masters Cc: Waiman Long Cc: Greg KH Cc: Dave Stewart Cc: Kees Cook Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181125185004.246110444@linutronix.de

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2018-11-18T19:31:26Z

Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton: "16 fixes" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton : mm/memblock.c: fix a typo in __next_mem_pfn_range() comments mm, page_alloc: check for max order in hot path scripts/spdxcheck.py: make python3 compliant tmpfs: make lseek(SEEK_DATA/SEK_HOLE) return ENXIO with a negative offset lib/ubsan.c: don't mark __ubsan_handle_builtin_unreachable as noreturn mm/vmstat.c: fix NUMA statistics updates mm/gup.c: fix follow_page_mask() kerneldoc comment ocfs2: free up write context when direct IO failed scripts/faddr2line: fix location of start_kernel in comment mm: don't reclaim inodes with many attached pages mm, memory_hotplug: check zone_movable in has_unmovable_pages mm/swapfile.c: use kvzalloc for swap_info_struct allocation MAINTAINERS: update OMAP MMC entry hugetlbfs: fix kernel BUG at fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c:444! kernel/sched/psi.c: simplify cgroup_move_task() z3fold: fix possible reclaim races

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

2018-11-18T18:58:20Z

Pull scheduler fix from Ingo Molnar: "Fix an exec() related scalability/performance regression, which was caused by incorrectly calculating load and migrating tasks on exec() when they shouldn't be" * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched/fair: Fix cpu_util_wake() for 'execl' type workloads

kernel/sched/psi.c: simplify cgroup_move_task()

2018-11-18T18:15:09Z

The existing code triggered an invalid warning about 'rq' possibly being used uninitialized. Instead of doing the silly warning suppression by initializa it to NULL, refactor the code to bail out early instead. Warning was: kernel/sched/psi.c: In function `cgroup_move_task': kernel/sched/psi.c:639:13: warning: `rq' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181103183339.8669-1-olof@lixom.net Fixes: 2ce7135adc9ad ("psi: cgroup support") Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sched/fair: Fix cpu_util_wake() for 'execl' type workloads

2018-11-12T04:00:46Z

A ~10% regression has been reported for UnixBench's execl throughput test by Aaron Lu and Ye Xiaolong: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/10/30/765 That test is pretty simple, it does a "recursive" execve() syscall on the same binary. Starting from the syscall, this sequence is possible: do_execve() do_execveat_common() __do_execve_file() sched_exec() select_task_rq_fair() <==| Task already enqueued find_idlest_cpu() find_idlest_group() capacity_spare_wake() <==| Functions not called from cpu_util_wake() | the wakeup path which means we can end up calling cpu_util_wake() not only from the "wakeup path", as its name would suggest. Indeed, the task doing an execve() syscall is already enqueued on the CPU we want to get the cpu_util_wake() for. The estimated utilization for a CPU computed in cpu_util_wake() was written under the assumption that function can be called only from the wakeup path. If instead the task is already enqueued, we end up with a utilization which does not remove the current task's contribution from the estimated utilization of the CPU. This will wrongly assume a reduced spare capacity on the current CPU and increase the chances to migrate the task on execve. The regression is tracked down to: commit d519329f72a6 ("sched/fair: Update util_est only on util_avg updates") because in that patch we turn on by default the UTIL_EST sched feature. However, the real issue is introduced by: commit f9be3e5961c5 ("sched/fair: Use util_est in LB and WU paths") Let's fix this by ensuring to always discount the task estimated utilization from the CPU's estimated utilization when the task is also the current one. The same benchmark of the bug report, executed on a dual socket 40 CPUs Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v2 @ 3.00GHz machine, reports these "Execl Throughput" figures (higher the better): mainline : 48136.5 lps mainline+fix : 55376.5 lps which correspond to a 15% speedup. Moreover, since {cpu_util,capacity_spare}_wake() are not really only used from the wakeup path, let's remove this ambiguity by using a better matching name: {cpu_util,capacity_spare}_without(). Since we are at that, let's also improve the existing documentation. Reported-by: Aaron Lu Reported-by: Ye Xiaolong Tested-by: Aaron Lu Signed-off-by: Patrick Bellasi Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Dietmar Eggemann Cc: Juri Lelli Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Morten Rasmussen Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Quentin Perret Cc: Steve Muckle Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Todd Kjos Cc: Vincent Guittot Fixes: f9be3e5961c5 (sched/fair: Use util_est in LB and WU paths) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181025093100.GB13236@e110439-lin/ Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar