Instrument the scheduler activity (sched_switch, migration, wakeups,
wait for a task, signal delivery) and process/thread
creation/destruction (fork, exit, kthread stop). Actually, kthread
creation is not instrumented in this patch because it is architecture
dependent. It allows to connect tracers such as ftrace which detects
scheduling latencies, good/bad scheduler decisions. Tools like LTTng can
export this scheduler information along with instrumentation of the rest
of the kernel activity to perform post-mortem analysis on the scheduler
activity.
About the performance impact of tracepoints (which is comparable to
markers), even without immediate values optimizations, tests done by
Hideo Aoki on ia64 show no regression. His test case was using hackbench
on a kernel where scheduler instrumentation (about 5 events in code
scheduler code) was added. See the "Tracepoints" patch header for
performance result detail.
Changelog :
- Change instrumentation location and parameter to match ftrace
instrumentation, previously done with kernel markers.
[ mingo@elte.hu: conflict resolutions ]
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Acked-by: 'Peter Zijlstra' <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
add /proc/sys/kernel/sched_domain/cpu0/domain0/name, to make
it easier to see which specific scheduler domain remained at
that entry.
Since we process the scheduler domain tree and
simplify it, it's not always immediately clear during debugging
which domain came from where.
depends on CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: per CPU hrtimers can be migrated from a dead CPU
The hrtimer code has no knowledge about per CPU timers, but we need to
prevent the migration of such timers and warn when such a timer is
active at migration time.
Explicitely mark the timers as per CPU and use a more understandable
mode descriptor for the interrupts safe unlocked callback mode, which
is used by hrtimer_sleeper and the scheduler code.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
While playing around with it, I noticed we missed some sanity checks.
Also add some comments while we're there.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
- Add some comments to try to make the ifdef puzzle a bit clearer
- Explicitly inline one of the three init_hrtick() implementations.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LD kernel/built-in.o
WARNING: kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x326): Section mismatch in reference
from the function init_hrtick() to the variable
.cpuinit.data:hotplug_hrtick_nb.8
The function init_hrtick() references
the variable __cpuinitdata hotplug_hrtick_nb.8.
This is often because init_hrtick lacks a __cpuinitdata
annotation or the annotation of hotplug_hrtick_nb.8 is wrong.
Signed-off-by: Md.Rakib H. Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Lin Ming reported a 10% OLTP regression against 2.6.27-rc4.
The difference seems to come from different preemption agressiveness,
which affects the cache footprint of the workload and its effective
cache trashing.
Aggresively preempt a task if its avg overlap is very small, this should
avoid the task going to sleep and find it still running when we schedule
back to it - saving a wakeup.
Reported-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
What I realized recently is that calling rebuild_sched_domains() in
arch_reinit_sched_domains() by itself is not enough when cpusets are enabled.
partition_sched_domains() code is trying to avoid unnecessary domain rebuilds
and will not actually rebuild anything if new domain masks match the old ones.
What this means is that doing
echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/sched_mc_power_savings
on a system with cpusets enabled will not take affect untill something changes
in the cpuset setup (ie new sets created or deleted).
This patch fixes restore correct behaviour where domains must be rebuilt in
order to enable MC powersaving flags.
Test on quad-core Core2 box with both CONFIG_CPUSETS and !CONFIG_CPUSETS.
Also tested on dual-core Core2 laptop. Lockdep is happy and things are working
as expected.
Signed-off-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Tested-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
I found that 2.6.27-rc5-mm1 does not compile with gcc 3.4.6.
The error is:
CC kernel/sched.o
kernel/sched.c: In function `start_rt_bandwidth':
kernel/sched.c:208: sorry, unimplemented: inlining failed in call to 'rt_bandwidth_enabled': function body not available
kernel/sched.c:214: sorry, unimplemented: called from here
make[1]: *** [kernel/sched.o] Error 1
make: *** [kernel] Error 2
It seems that the gcc 3.4.6 requires full inline definition before first usage.
The patch below fixes the compilation problem.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl> (if needed>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Spencer reported a problem where utime and stime were going negative despite
the fixes in commit b27f03d4bd. The suspected
reason for the problem is that signal_struct maintains it's own utime and
stime (of exited tasks), these are not updated using the new task_utime()
routine, hence sig->utime can go backwards and cause the same problem
to occur (sig->utime, adds tsk->utime and not task_utime()). This patch
fixes the problem
TODO: using max(task->prev_utime, derived utime) works for now, but a more
generic solution is to implement cputime_max() and use the cputime_gt()
function for comparison.
Reported-by: spencer@bluehost.com
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
fix:
kernel/sched.c: In function '__rt_schedulable':
kernel/sched.c:8771: error: implicit declaration of function 'walk_tg_tree'
kernel/sched.c:8771: error: 'tg_nop' undeclared (first use in this function)
kernel/sched.c:8771: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
kernel/sched.c:8771: error: for each function it appears in.)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch adds kernel doc for the completion feature.
An error in the split-man.pl PERL snippet in kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt is
also fixed.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Diggs <kevdig@hypersurf.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
wait_task_inactive() returns 1 when p->nvcsw == 0 || p->nvcsw == 1. This
means that two subsequent calls can return the same number while the task
was scheduled in between.
Change the code to return "nvcsw | LONG_MIN" instead of "nvcsw ?: 1", now
the overlap always needs LONG_MAX schedules.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
If wait_task_inactive() returns success the task was deactivated. In that
case schedule() always increments ->nvcsw which alone can be used as a
"generation counter".
If the next call returns the same number, we can be sure that the task was
unscheduled. Otherwise, because we know that .on_rq == 0 again, ->nvcsw
should have been changed in between.
Q: perhaps it is better to do "ncsw = (p->nvcsw << 1) | 1" ? This
decreases the possibility of "was it unscheduled" false positive when
->nvcsw == 0.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Change do_wait_for_common() to use signal_pending_state() instead of open
coding.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Mathieu Desnoyers
Ingo Molnar
Li Zefan
Thomas Gleixner
Peter Zijlstra
Andrew Morton
Rakib Mullick
Hiroshi Shimamoto
Max Krasnyansky
Krzysztof Helt
Balbir Singh
Joe Korty
Kevin Diggs
Oleg Nesterov