The original purpose of rq::skip_clock_update was to avoid 'costly' clock
updates for back to back wakeup-preempt pairs. The big problem with it
has always been that the rq variable is unaware of the context and
causes indiscrimiate clock skips.
Rework the entire thing and create a sense of context by only allowing
schedule() to skip clock updates. (XXX can we measure the cost of the
added store?)
By ensuring only schedule can ever skip an update, we guarantee we're
never more than 1 tick behind on the update.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150105103554.432381549@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Commit d670ec1317 "posix-cpu-timers: Cure SMP wobbles" fixes one glibc
test case in cost of breaking another one. After that commit, calling
clock_nanosleep(TIMER_ABSTIME, X) and then clock_gettime(&Y) can result
of Y time being smaller than X time.
Reproducer/tester can be found further below, it can be compiled and ran by:
gcc -o tst-cpuclock2 tst-cpuclock2.c -pthread
while ./tst-cpuclock2 ; do : ; done
This reproducer, when running on a buggy kernel, will complain
about "clock_gettime difference too small".
Issue happens because on start in thread_group_cputimer() we initialize
sum_exec_runtime of cputimer with threads runtime not yet accounted and
then add the threads runtime to running cputimer again on scheduler
tick, making it's sum_exec_runtime bigger than actual threads runtime.
KOSAKI Motohiro posted a fix for this problem, but that patch was never
applied: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/26/191 .
This patch takes different approach to cure the problem. It calls
update_curr() when cputimer starts, that assure we will have updated
stats of running threads and on the next schedule tick we will account
only the runtime that elapsed from cputimer start. That also assure we
have consistent state between cpu times of individual threads and cpu
time of the process consisted by those threads.
Full reproducer (tst-cpuclock2.c):
#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/syscall.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <pthread.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <inttypes.h>
/* Parameters for the Linux kernel ABI for CPU clocks. */
#define CPUCLOCK_SCHED 2
#define MAKE_PROCESS_CPUCLOCK(pid, clock) \
((~(clockid_t) (pid) << 3) | (clockid_t) (clock))
static pthread_barrier_t barrier;
/* Help advance the clock. */
static void *chew_cpu(void *arg)
{
pthread_barrier_wait(&barrier);
while (1) ;
return NULL;
}
/* Don't use the glibc wrapper. */
static int do_nanosleep(int flags, const struct timespec *req)
{
clockid_t clock_id = MAKE_PROCESS_CPUCLOCK(0, CPUCLOCK_SCHED);
return syscall(SYS_clock_nanosleep, clock_id, flags, req, NULL);
}
static int64_t tsdiff(const struct timespec *before, const struct timespec *after)
{
int64_t before_i = before->tv_sec * 1000000000ULL + before->tv_nsec;
int64_t after_i = after->tv_sec * 1000000000ULL + after->tv_nsec;
return after_i - before_i;
}
int main(void)
{
int result = 0;
pthread_t th;
pthread_barrier_init(&barrier, NULL, 2);
if (pthread_create(&th, NULL, chew_cpu, NULL) != 0) {
perror("pthread_create");
return 1;
}
pthread_barrier_wait(&barrier);
/* The test. */
struct timespec before, after, sleeptimeabs;
int64_t sleepdiff, diffabs;
const struct timespec sleeptime = {.tv_sec = 0,.tv_nsec = 100000000 };
/* The relative nanosleep. Not sure why this is needed, but its presence
seems to make it easier to reproduce the problem. */
if (do_nanosleep(0, &sleeptime) != 0) {
perror("clock_nanosleep");
return 1;
}
/* Get the current time. */
if (clock_gettime(CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID, &before) < 0) {
perror("clock_gettime[2]");
return 1;
}
/* Compute the absolute sleep time based on the current time. */
uint64_t nsec = before.tv_nsec + sleeptime.tv_nsec;
sleeptimeabs.tv_sec = before.tv_sec + nsec / 1000000000;
sleeptimeabs.tv_nsec = nsec % 1000000000;
/* Sleep for the computed time. */
if (do_nanosleep(TIMER_ABSTIME, &sleeptimeabs) != 0) {
perror("absolute clock_nanosleep");
return 1;
}
/* Get the time after the sleep. */
if (clock_gettime(CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID, &after) < 0) {
perror("clock_gettime[3]");
return 1;
}
/* The time after sleep should always be equal to or after the absolute sleep
time passed to clock_nanosleep. */
sleepdiff = tsdiff(&sleeptimeabs, &after);
if (sleepdiff < 0) {
printf("absolute clock_nanosleep woke too early: %" PRId64 "\n", sleepdiff);
result = 1;
printf("Before %llu.%09llu\n", before.tv_sec, before.tv_nsec);
printf("After %llu.%09llu\n", after.tv_sec, after.tv_nsec);
printf("Sleep %llu.%09llu\n", sleeptimeabs.tv_sec, sleeptimeabs.tv_nsec);
}
/* The difference between the timestamps taken before and after the
clock_nanosleep call should be equal to or more than the duration of the
sleep. */
diffabs = tsdiff(&before, &after);
if (diffabs < sleeptime.tv_nsec) {
printf("clock_gettime difference too small: %" PRId64 "\n", diffabs);
result = 1;
}
pthread_cancel(th);
return result;
}
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141112155843.GA24803@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull percpu consistent-ops changes from Tejun Heo:
"Way back, before the current percpu allocator was implemented, static
and dynamic percpu memory areas were allocated and handled separately
and had their own accessors. The distinction has been gone for many
years now; however, the now duplicate two sets of accessors remained
with the pointer based ones - this_cpu_*() - evolving various other
operations over time. During the process, we also accumulated other
inconsistent operations.
This pull request contains Christoph's patches to clean up the
duplicate accessor situation. __get_cpu_var() uses are replaced with
with this_cpu_ptr() and __this_cpu_ptr() with raw_cpu_ptr().
Unfortunately, the former sometimes is tricky thanks to C being a bit
messy with the distinction between lvalues and pointers, which led to
a rather ugly solution for cpumask_var_t involving the introduction of
this_cpu_cpumask_var_ptr().
This converts most of the uses but not all. Christoph will follow up
with the remaining conversions in this merge window and hopefully
remove the obsolete accessors"
* 'for-3.18-consistent-ops' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (38 commits)
irqchip: Properly fetch the per cpu offset
percpu: Resolve ambiguities in __get_cpu_var/cpumask_var_t -fix
ia64: sn_nodepda cannot be assigned to after this_cpu conversion. Use __this_cpu_write.
percpu: Resolve ambiguities in __get_cpu_var/cpumask_var_t
Revert "powerpc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses"
percpu: Remove __this_cpu_ptr
clocksource: Replace __this_cpu_ptr with raw_cpu_ptr
sparc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
avr32: Replace __get_cpu_var with __this_cpu_write
blackfin: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
tile: Use this_cpu_ptr() for hardware counters
tile: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
powerpc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
alpha: Replace __get_cpu_var
ia64: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
s390: cio driver &__get_cpu_var replacements
s390: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
mips: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
MIPS: Replace __get_cpu_var uses in FPU emulator.
arm: Replace __this_cpu_ptr with raw_cpu_ptr
...
__get_cpu_var can paper over differences in the definitions of
cpumask_var_t and either use the address of the cpumask variable
directly or perform a fetch of the address of the struct cpumask
allocated elsewhere. This is important particularly when using per cpu
cpumask_var_t declarations because in one case we have an offset into
a per cpu area to handle and in the other case we need to fetch a
pointer from the offset.
This patch introduces a new macro
this_cpu_cpumask_var_ptr()
that is defined where cpumask_var_t is defined and performs the proper
actions. All use cases where __get_cpu_var is used with cpumask_var_t
are converted to the use of this_cpu_cpumask_var_ptr().
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
We always use resched_task() with rq->curr argument.
It's not possible to reschedule any task but rq's current.
The patch introduces resched_curr(struct rq *) to
replace all of the repeating patterns. The main aim
is cleanup, but there is a little size profit too:
(before)
$ size kernel/sched/built-in.o
text data bss dec hex filename
155274 16445 7042 178761 2ba49 kernel/sched/built-in.o
$ size vmlinux
text data bss dec hex filename
7411490 1178376 991232 9581098 92322a vmlinux
(after)
$ size kernel/sched/built-in.o
text data bss dec hex filename
155130 16445 7042 178617 2b9b9 kernel/sched/built-in.o
$ size vmlinux
text data bss dec hex filename
7411362 1178376 991232 9580970 9231aa vmlinux
I was choosing between resched_curr() and resched_rq(),
and the first name looks better for me.
A little lie in Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt. I have not
actually collected the tracing again. With a hope the patch
won't make execution times much worse :)
Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@yandex.ru>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140628200219.1778.18735.stgit@localhost
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull more scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Second round of scheduler changes:
- try-to-wakeup and IPI reduction speedups, from Andy Lutomirski
- continued power scheduling cleanups and refactorings, from Nicolas
Pitre
- misc fixes and enhancements"
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched/deadline: Delete extraneous extern for to_ratio()
sched/idle: Optimize try-to-wake-up IPI
sched/idle: Simplify wake_up_idle_cpu()
sched/idle: Clear polling before descheduling the idle thread
sched, trace: Add a tracepoint for IPI-less remote wakeups
cpuidle: Set polling in poll_idle
sched: Remove redundant assignment to "rt_rq" in update_curr_rt(...)
sched: Rename capacity related flags
sched: Final power vs. capacity cleanups
sched: Remove remaining dubious usage of "power"
sched: Let 'struct sched_group_power' care about CPU capacity
sched/fair: Disambiguate existing/remaining "capacity" usage
sched/fair: Change "has_capacity" to "has_free_capacity"
sched/fair: Remove "power" from 'struct numa_stats'
sched: Fix signedness bug in yield_to()
sched/fair: Use time_after() in record_wakee()
sched/balancing: Reduce the rate of needless idle load balancing
sched/fair: Fix unlocked reads of some cfs_b->quota/period
Sometimes ->nr_running may cross 2 but interrupt is not being
sent to rq's cpu. In this case we don't reenable the timer.
Looks like this may be the reason for rare unexpected effects,
if nohz is enabled.
Patch replaces all places of direct changing of nr_running
and makes add_nr_running() caring about crossing border.
Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@yandex.ru>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140508225830.2469.97461.stgit@localhost
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
{inc,dec}_rt_tasks() used to count entities which are directly queued
on the rt_rq. If an entity was not a task (i.e., it is some queue), its
children were not counted.
There is no problem here, but now we want to count number of all tasks
which are actually queued under the rt_rq in all the hierarchy (except
throttled rt queues).
Empty queues are not able to be queued and all of the places, which
use ->rt_nr_running, just compare it with zero, so we do not break
anything here.
Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@yandex.ru>
Reviewed-by: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1394835289.18748.31.camel@HP-250-G1-Notebook-PC
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
[ Twiddled the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
1) Single cpu machine case.
When rq has only RT tasks, but no one of them can be picked
because of throttling, we enter in endless loop.
pick_next_task_{dl,rt} return NULL.
In pick_next_task_fair() we permanently go to retry
if (rq->nr_running != rq->cfs.h_nr_running)
return RETRY_TASK;
(rq->nr_running is not being decremented when rt_rq becomes
throttled).
No chances to unthrottle any rt_rq or to wake fair here,
because of rq is locked permanently and interrupts are
disabled.
2) In case of SMP this can cause a hang too. Although we unlock
rq in idle_balance(), interrupts are still disabled.
The solution is to check for available tasks in DL and RT
classes instead of checking for sum.
Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1394098321.19290.11.camel@tkhai
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tim Chen
Peter Zijlstra
Wanpeng Li
Ingo Molnar
Stanislaw Gruszka
Linus Torvalds
Kirill Tkhai
Christoph Lameter
Kirill Tkhai
Giedrius Rekasius
John Stultz