Pull low-level x86 updates from Ingo Molnar:
"In this cycle this topic tree has become one of those 'super topics'
that accumulated a lot of changes:
- Add CONFIG_VMAP_STACK=y support to the core kernel and enable it on
x86 - preceded by an array of changes. v4.8 saw preparatory changes
in this area already - this is the rest of the work. Includes the
thread stack caching performance optimization. (Andy Lutomirski)
- switch_to() cleanups and all around enhancements. (Brian Gerst)
- A large number of dumpstack infrastructure enhancements and an
unwinder abstraction. The secret long term plan is safe(r) live
patching plus maybe another attempt at debuginfo based unwinding -
but all these current bits are standalone enhancements in a frame
pointer based debug environment as well. (Josh Poimboeuf)
- More __ro_after_init and const annotations. (Kees Cook)
- Enable KASLR for the vmemmap memory region. (Thomas Garnier)"
[ The virtually mapped stack changes are pretty fundamental, and not
x86-specific per se, even if they are only used on x86 right now. ]
* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (70 commits)
x86/asm: Get rid of __read_cr4_safe()
thread_info: Use unsigned long for flags
x86/alternatives: Add stack frame dependency to alternative_call_2()
x86/dumpstack: Fix show_stack() task pointer regression
x86/dumpstack: Remove dump_trace() and related callbacks
x86/dumpstack: Convert show_trace_log_lvl() to use the new unwinder
oprofile/x86: Convert x86_backtrace() to use the new unwinder
x86/stacktrace: Convert save_stack_trace_*() to use the new unwinder
perf/x86: Convert perf_callchain_kernel() to use the new unwinder
x86/unwind: Add new unwind interface and implementations
x86/dumpstack: Remove NULL task pointer convention
fork: Optimize task creation by caching two thread stacks per CPU if CONFIG_VMAP_STACK=y
sched/core: Free the stack early if CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
lib/syscall: Pin the task stack in collect_syscall()
x86/process: Pin the target stack in get_wchan()
x86/dumpstack: Pin the target stack when dumping it
kthread: Pin the stack via try_get_task_stack()/put_task_stack() in to_live_kthread() function
sched/core: Add try_get_task_stack() and put_task_stack()
x86/entry/64: Fix a minor comment rebase error
iommu/amd: Don't put completion-wait semaphore on stack
...
Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle were:
- Expedited grace-period changes, most notably avoiding having user
threads drive expedited grace periods, using a workqueue instead.
- Miscellaneous fixes, including a performance fix for lists that was
sent with the lists modifications.
- CPU hotplug updates, most notably providing exact CPU-online
tracking for RCU. This will in turn allow removal of the checks
supporting RCU's prior heuristic that was based on the assumption
that CPUs would take no longer than one jiffy to come online.
- Torture-test updates.
- Documentation updates"
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (22 commits)
list: Expand list_first_entry_or_null()
torture: TOROUT_STRING(): Insert a space between flag and message
rcuperf: Consistently insert space between flag and message
rcutorture: Print out barrier error as document says
torture: Add task state to writer-task stall printk()s
torture: Convert torture_shutdown() to hrtimer
rcutorture: Convert to hotplug state machine
cpu/hotplug: Get rid of CPU_STARTING reference
rcu: Provide exact CPU-online tracking for RCU
rcu: Avoid redundant quiescent-state chasing
rcu: Don't use modular infrastructure in non-modular code
sched: Make wake_up_nohz_cpu() handle CPUs going offline
rcu: Use rcu_gp_kthread_wake() to wake up grace period kthreads
rcu: Use RCU's online-CPU state for expedited IPI retry
rcu: Exclude RCU-offline CPUs from expedited grace periods
rcu: Make expedited RCU CPU stall warnings respond to controls
rcu: Stop disabling expedited RCU CPU stall warnings
rcu: Drive expedited grace periods from workqueue
rcu: Consolidate expedited grace period machinery
documentation: Record reason for rcu_head two-byte alignment
...
* pm-cpufreq: (24 commits)
cpufreq: st: add missing \n to end of dev_err message
cpufreq: kirkwood: add missing \n to end of dev_err messages
cpufreq: CPPC: Avoid overflow when calculating desired_perf
cpufreq: ti: Use generic platdev driver
cpufreq: intel_pstate: Add io_boost trace
cpufreq: intel_pstate: Use IOWAIT flag in Atom algorithm
cpufreq: schedutil: Add iowait boosting
cpufreq / sched: SCHED_CPUFREQ_IOWAIT flag to indicate iowait condition
cpufreq: CPPC: Force reporting values in KHz to fix user space interface
cpufreq: create link to policy only for registered CPUs
intel_pstate: constify local structures
cpufreq: dt: Support governor tunables per policy
cpufreq: dt: Update kconfig description
cpufreq: dt: Remove unused code
MAINTAINERS: Add Documentation/cpu-freq/
cpufreq: dt: Add support for r8a7792
cpufreq / sched: ignore SMT when determining max cpu capacity
cpufreq: Drop unnecessary check from cpufreq_policy_alloc()
ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: Don't attempt to enable schedutil governor as module
ARM: exynos_defconfig: Don't attempt to enable schedutil governor as module
...
While going through enqueue/dequeue to review the movement of
set_curr_task() I noticed that the (2nd) update_min_vruntime() call in
dequeue_entity() is suspect.
It turns out, its actually wrong because it will consider
cfs_rq->curr, which could be the entry we just normalized. This mixes
different vruntime forms and leads to fail.
The purpose of the second update_min_vruntime() is to move
min_vruntime forward if the entity we just removed is the one that was
holding it back; _except_ for the DEQUEUE_SAVE case, because then we
know its a temporary removal and it will come back.
However, since we do put_prev_task() _after_ dequeue(), cfs_rq->curr
will still be set (and per the above, can be tranformed into a
different unit), so update_min_vruntime() should also consider
curr->on_rq. This also fixes another corner case where the enqueue
(which also does update_curr()->update_min_vruntime()) happens on the
rq->lock break in schedule(), between dequeue and put_prev_task.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 1e87623178 ("sched: Fix ->min_vruntime calculation in dequeue_entity()")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Almost all scheduler functions update state with the following
pattern:
if (queued)
dequeue_task(rq, p, DEQUEUE_SAVE);
if (running)
put_prev_task(rq, p);
/* update state */
if (queued)
enqueue_task(rq, p, ENQUEUE_RESTORE);
if (running)
set_curr_task(rq, p);
set_user_nice() however misses the running part, cure this.
This was found by asserting we never enqueue 'current'.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
select_idle_siblings() is a known pain point for a number of
workloads; it either does too much or not enough and sometimes just
does plain wrong.
This rewrite attempts to address a number of issues (but sadly not
all).
The current code does an unconditional sched_domain iteration; with
the intent of finding an idle core (on SMT hardware). The problems
which this patch tries to address are:
- its pointless to look for idle cores if the machine is real busy;
at which point you're just wasting cycles.
- it's behaviour is inconsistent between SMT and !SMT hardware in
that !SMT hardware ends up doing a scan for any idle CPU in the LLC
domain, while SMT hardware does a scan for idle cores and if that
fails, falls back to a scan for idle threads on the 'target' core.
The new code replaces the sched_domain scan with 3 explicit scans:
1) search for an idle core in the LLC
2) search for an idle CPU in the LLC
3) search for an idle thread in the 'target' core
where 1 and 3 are conditional on SMT support and 1 and 2 have runtime
heuristics to skip the step.
Step 1) is conditional on sd_llc_shared->has_idle_cores; when a cpu
goes idle and sd_llc_shared->has_idle_cores is false, we scan all SMT
siblings of the CPU going idle. Similarly, we clear
sd_llc_shared->has_idle_cores when we fail to find an idle core.
Step 2) tracks the average cost of the scan and compares this to the
average idle time guestimate for the CPU doing the wakeup. There is a
significant fudge factor involved to deal with the variability of the
averages. Esp. hackbench was sensitive to this.
Step 3) is unconditional; we assume (also per step 1) that scanning
all SMT siblings in a core is 'cheap'.
With this; SMT systems gain step 2, which cures a few benchmarks --
notably one from Facebook.
One 'feature' of the sched_domain iteration, which we preserve in the
new code, is that it would start scanning from the 'target' CPU,
instead of scanning the cpumask in cpu id order. This avoids multiple
CPUs in the LLC scanning for idle to gang up and find the same CPU
quite as much. The down side is that tasks can end up hopping across
the LLC for no apparent reason.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Since struct sched_domain is strictly per cpu; introduce a structure
that is shared between all 'identical' sched_domains.
Limit to SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES domains for now, as we'll only use it
for shared cache state; if another use comes up later we can easily
relax this.
While the sched_group's are normally shared between CPUs, these are
not natural to use when we need some shared state on a domain level --
since that would require the domain to have a parent, which is not a
given.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
There is no point in doing a call_rcu() for each domain, only do a
callback for the root sched domain and clean up the entire set in one
go.
Also make the entire call chain be called destroy_sched_domain*() to
remove confusion with the free_sched_domains() call, which does an
entirely different thing.
Both cpu_attach_domain() callers of destroy_sched_domain() can live
without the call_rcu() because at those points the sched_domain hasn't
been published yet.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Chris Metcalf
Linus Torvalds
Rafael J. Wysocki
Frederic Weisbecker
Peter Zijlstra
Vincent Guittot
Oleg Nesterov