Pull timers/nohz updates from Ingo Molnar:
- Micro-optimize tick_nohz_full_cpu()
- Optimize idle exit tick restarts to be less eager
- Optimize tick_nohz_dep_set_task() to only wake up a single CPU.
This reduces IPIs and interruptions on nohz_full CPUs.
- Optimize tick_nohz_dep_set_signal() in a similar fashion.
- Skip IPIs in tick_nohz_kick_task() when trying to kick a
non-running task.
- Micro-optimize tick_nohz_task_switch() IRQ flags handling to
reduce context switching costs.
- Misc cleanups and fixes
* tag 'timers-nohz-2021-06-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
MAINTAINERS: Add myself as context tracking maintainer
tick/nohz: Call tick_nohz_task_switch() with interrupts disabled
tick/nohz: Kick only _queued_ task whose tick dependency is updated
tick/nohz: Change signal tick dependency to wake up CPUs of member tasks
tick/nohz: Only wake up a single target cpu when kicking a task
tick/nohz: Update nohz_full Kconfig help
tick/nohz: Update idle_exittime on actual idle exit
tick/nohz: Remove superflous check for CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE
tick/nohz: Conditionally restart tick on idle exit
tick/nohz: Evaluate the CPU expression after the static key
Checking for and processing RCU-nocb deferred wakeup upon user/guest
entry is only relevant when nohz_full runs on the local CPU, otherwise
the periodic tick should take care of it.
Make sure we don't needlessly pollute these fast-paths as a -3%
performance regression on a will-it-scale.per_process_ops has been
reported so far.
Fixes: 47b8ff194c (entry: Explicitly flush pending rcuog wakeup before last rescheduling point)
Fixes: 4ae7dc97f7 (entry/kvm: Explicitly flush pending rcuog wakeup before last rescheduling point)
Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210527113441.465489-1-frederic@kernel.org
When tick_nohz_full_cpu() is called with smp_processor_id(), the latter
is unconditionally evaluated whether the static key is on or off. It is
not necessary in the off-case though, so make sure the cpu expression
is executed at the last moment.
Illustrate with the following test function:
int tick_nohz_test(void)
{
return tick_nohz_full_cpu(smp_processor_id());
}
The resulting code before was:
mov %gs:0x7eea92d1(%rip),%eax # smp_processor_id() fetch
nopl 0x0(%rax,%rax,1)
xor %eax,%eax
retq
cmpb $0x0,0x29d393a(%rip) # <tick_nohz_full_running>
je tick_nohz_test+0x29 # jump to below eax clear
mov %eax,%eax
bt %rax,0x29d3936(%rip) # <tick_nohz_full_mask>
setb %al
movzbl %al,%eax
retq
xor %eax,%eax
retq
Now it becomes:
nopl 0x0(%rax,%rax,1)
xor %eax,%eax
retq
cmpb $0x0,0x29d3871(%rip) # <tick_nohz_full_running>
je tick_nohz_test+0x29 # jump to below eax clear
mov %gs:0x7eea91f0(%rip),%eax # smp_processor_id() fetch, after static key
mov %eax,%eax
bt %rax,0x29d3866(%rip) # <tick_nohz_full_mask>
setb %al
movzbl %al,%eax
retq
xor %eax,%eax
retq
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210512232924.150322-2-frederic@kernel.org
An expedited grace period can be stalled by a nohz_full CPU looping
in kernel context. This possibility is currently handled by some
carefully crafted checks in rcu_read_unlock_special() that enlist help
from ksoftirqd when permitted by the scheduler. However, it is exactly
these checks that require the scheduler avoid holding any of its rq or
pi locks across rcu_read_unlock() without also having held them across
the entire RCU read-side critical section.
It would therefore be very nice if expedited grace periods could
handle nohz_full CPUs looping in kernel context without such checks.
This commit therefore adds code to the expedited grace period's wait
and cleanup code that forces the scheduler-clock interrupt on for CPUs
that fail to quickly supply a quiescent state. "Quickly" is currently
a hard-coded single-jiffy delay.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle were:
- Dynamic tick (nohz) updates, perhaps most notably changes to force
the tick on when needed due to lengthy in-kernel execution on CPUs
on which RCU is waiting.
- Linux-kernel memory consistency model updates.
- Replace rcu_swap_protected() with rcu_prepace_pointer().
- Torture-test updates.
- Documentation updates.
- Miscellaneous fixes"
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (51 commits)
security/safesetid: Replace rcu_swap_protected() with rcu_replace_pointer()
net/sched: Replace rcu_swap_protected() with rcu_replace_pointer()
net/netfilter: Replace rcu_swap_protected() with rcu_replace_pointer()
net/core: Replace rcu_swap_protected() with rcu_replace_pointer()
bpf/cgroup: Replace rcu_swap_protected() with rcu_replace_pointer()
fs/afs: Replace rcu_swap_protected() with rcu_replace_pointer()
drivers/scsi: Replace rcu_swap_protected() with rcu_replace_pointer()
drm/i915: Replace rcu_swap_protected() with rcu_replace_pointer()
x86/kvm/pmu: Replace rcu_swap_protected() with rcu_replace_pointer()
rcu: Upgrade rcu_swap_protected() to rcu_replace_pointer()
rcu: Suppress levelspread uninitialized messages
rcu: Fix uninitialized variable in nocb_gp_wait()
rcu: Update descriptions for rcu_future_grace_period tracepoint
rcu: Update descriptions for rcu_nocb_wake tracepoint
rcu: Remove obsolete descriptions for rcu_barrier tracepoint
rcu: Ensure that ->rcu_urgent_qs is set before resched IPI
workqueue: Convert for_each_wq to use built-in list check
rcu: Several rcu_segcblist functions can be static
rcu: Remove unused function hlist_bl_del_init_rcu()
Documentation: Rename rcu_node_context_switch() to rcu_note_context_switch()
...
If a nohz_full CPU is looping in the kernel, the scheduling-clock tick
might nevertheless remain disabled. In !PREEMPT kernels, this can
prevent RCU's attempts to enlist the aid of that CPU's executions of
cond_resched(), which can in turn result in an arbitrarily delayed grace
period and thus an OOM. RCU therefore needs a way to enable a holdout
nohz_full CPU's scheduler-clock interrupt.
This commit therefore provides a new TICK_DEP_BIT_RCU value which RCU can
pass to tick_dep_set_cpu() and friends to force on the scheduler-clock
interrupt for a specified CPU or task. In some cases, rcutorture needs
to turn on the scheduler-clock tick, so this commit also exports the
relevant symbols to GPL-licensed modules.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Pull power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
"These fix the (Intel-specific) Performance and Energy Bias Hint (EPB)
handling and expose it to user space via sysfs, fix and clean up
several cpufreq drivers, add support for two new chips to the qoriq
cpufreq driver, fix, simplify and clean up the cpufreq core and the
schedutil governor, add support for "CPU" domains to the generic power
domains (genpd) framework and provide low-level PSCI firmware support
for that feature, fix the exynos cpuidle driver and fix a couple of
issues in the devfreq subsystem and clean it up.
Specifics:
- Fix the handling of Performance and Energy Bias Hint (EPB) on Intel
processors and expose it to user space via sysfs to avoid having to
access it through the generic MSR I/F (Rafael Wysocki).
- Improve the handling of global turbo changes made by the platform
firmware in the intel_pstate driver (Rafael Wysocki).
- Convert some slow-path static_cpu_has() callers to boot_cpu_has()
in cpufreq (Borislav Petkov).
- Fix the frequency calculation loop in the armada-37xx cpufreq
driver (Gregory CLEMENT).
- Fix possible object reference leaks in multuple cpufreq drivers
(Wen Yang).
- Fix kerneldoc comment in the centrino cpufreq driver (dongjian).
- Clean up the ACPI and maple cpufreq drivers (Viresh Kumar, Mohan
Kumar).
- Add support for lx2160a and ls1028a to the qoriq cpufreq driver
(Vabhav Sharma, Yuantian Tang).
- Fix kobject memory leak in the cpufreq core (Viresh Kumar).
- Simplify the IOwait boosting in the schedutil cpufreq governor and
rework the TSC cpufreq notifier on x86 (Rafael Wysocki).
- Clean up the cpufreq core and statistics code (Yue Hu, Kyle Lin).
- Improve the cpufreq documentation, add SPDX license tags to some PM
documentation files and unify copyright notices in them (Rafael
Wysocki).
- Add support for "CPU" domains to the generic power domains (genpd)
framework and provide low-level PSCI firmware support for that
feature (Ulf Hansson).
- Rearrange the PSCI firmware support code and add support for
SYSTEM_RESET2 to it (Ulf Hansson, Sudeep Holla).
- Improve genpd support for devices in multiple power domains (Ulf
Hansson).
- Unify target residency for the AFTR and coupled AFTR states in the
exynos cpuidle driver (Marek Szyprowski).
- Introduce new helper routine in the operating performance points
(OPP) framework (Andrew-sh.Cheng).
- Add support for passing on-die termination (ODT) and auto power
down parameters from the kernel to Trusted Firmware-A (TF-A) to the
rk3399_dmc devfreq driver (Enric Balletbo i Serra).
- Add tracing to devfreq (Lukasz Luba).
- Make the exynos-bus devfreq driver suspend all devices on system
shutdown (Marek Szyprowski).
- Fix a few minor issues in the devfreq subsystem and clean it up
somewhat (Enric Balletbo i Serra, MyungJoo Ham, Rob Herring,
Saravana Kannan, Yangtao Li).
- Improve system wakeup diagnostics (Stephen Boyd).
- Rework filesystem sync messages emitted during system suspend and
hibernation (Harry Pan)"
* tag 'pm-5.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (72 commits)
cpufreq: Fix kobject memleak
cpufreq: armada-37xx: fix frequency calculation for opp
cpufreq: centrino: Fix centrino_setpolicy() kerneldoc comment
cpufreq: qoriq: add support for lx2160a
x86: tsc: Rework time_cpufreq_notifier()
PM / Domains: Allow to attach a CPU via genpd_dev_pm_attach_by_id|name()
PM / Domains: Search for the CPU device outside the genpd lock
PM / Domains: Drop unused in-parameter to some genpd functions
PM / Domains: Use the base device for driver_deferred_probe_check_state()
cpufreq: qoriq: Add ls1028a chip support
PM / Domains: Enable genpd_dev_pm_attach_by_id|name() for single PM domain
PM / Domains: Allow OF lookup for multi PM domain case from ->attach_dev()
PM / Domains: Don't kfree() the virtual device in the error path
cpufreq: Move ->get callback check outside of __cpufreq_get()
PM / Domains: remove unnecessary unlikely()
cpufreq: Remove needless bios_limit check in show_bios_limit()
drivers/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c: This fixes the following checkpatch warning
firmware/psci: add support for SYSTEM_RESET2
PM / devfreq: add tracing for scheduling work
trace: events: add devfreq trace event file
...
To be able to predict the sleep duration for a CPU entering idle, it
is essential to know the expiration time of the next timer. Both the
teo and the menu cpuidle governors already use this information for
CPU idle state selection.
Moving forward, a similar prediction needs to be made for a group of
idle CPUs rather than for a single one and the following changes
implement a new genpd governor for that purpose.
In order to support that feature, add a new function called
tick_nohz_get_next_hrtimer() that will return the next hrtimer
expiration time of a given CPU to be invoked after deciding
whether or not to stop the scheduler tick on that CPU.
Make the cpuidle core call tick_nohz_get_next_hrtimer() right
before invoking the ->enter() callback provided by the cpuidle
driver for the given state and store its return value in the
per-CPU struct cpuidle_device, so as to make it available to code
outside of cpuidle.
Note that at the point when cpuidle calls tick_nohz_get_next_hrtimer(),
the governor's ->select() callback has already returned and indicated
whether or not the tick should be stopped, so in fact the value
returned by tick_nohz_get_next_hrtimer() always is the next hrtimer
expiration time for the given CPU, possibly including the tick (if
it hasn't been stopped).
Co-developed-by: Lina Iyer <lina.iyer@linaro.org>
Co-developed-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
[ rjw: Subject & changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Valentin reported that unplugging a CPU occasionally results in a warning
in the tick broadcast code which is triggered when an offline CPU is in the
broadcast mask.
This happens because the outgoing CPU is not removing itself from the
broadcast masks, especially not from the broadcast_force_mask. The removal
happens on the control CPU after the outgoing CPU is dead. It's a long
standing issue, but the warning is harmless.
Rework the hotplug mechanism so that the outgoing CPU removes itself from
the broadcast masks after disabling interrupts and removing itself from the
online mask.
Reported-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.21.1903211540180.1784@nanos.tec.linutronix.de
If the tick isn't stopped, the target residency of the state selected
by the menu governor may be greater than the actual time to the next
tick and that means lost energy.
To avoid that, make tick_nohz_get_sleep_length() return the current
time to the next event (before stopping the tick) in addition to the
estimated one via an extra pointer argument and make menu_select()
use that value to refine the state selection when necessary.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
In order to address the issue with short idle duration predictions
by the idle governor after the scheduler tick has been stopped,
reorder the code in cpuidle_idle_call() so that the governor idle
state selection runs before tick_nohz_idle_go_idle() and use the
"nohz" hint returned by cpuidle_select() to decide whether or not
to stop the tick.
This isn't straightforward, because menu_select() invokes
tick_nohz_get_sleep_length() to get the time to the next timer
event and the number returned by the latter comes from
__tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick(). Fortunately, however, it is possible
to compute that number without actually stopping the tick and with
the help of the existing code.
Namely, tick_nohz_get_sleep_length() can be made call
tick_nohz_next_event(), introduced earlier, to get the time to the
next non-highres timer event. If that happens, tick_nohz_next_event()
need not be called by __tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick() again.
If it turns out that the scheduler tick cannot be stopped going
forward or the next timer event is too close for the tick to be
stopped, tick_nohz_get_sleep_length() can simply return the time to
the next event currently programmed into the corresponding clock
event device.
In addition to knowing the return value of tick_nohz_next_event(),
however, tick_nohz_get_sleep_length() needs to know the time to the
next highres timer event, but with the scheduler tick timer excluded,
which can be computed with the help of hrtimer_get_next_event().
That minimum of that number and the tick_nohz_next_event() return
value is the total time to the next timer event with the assumption
that the tick will be stopped. It can be returned to the idle
governor which can use it for predicting idle duration (under the
assumption that the tick will be stopped) and deciding whether or
not it makes sense to stop the tick before putting the CPU into the
selected idle state.
With the above, the sleep_length field in struct tick_sched is not
necessary any more, so drop it.
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199227
Reported-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net>
Reported-by: Thomas Ilsche <thomas.ilsche@tu-dresden.de>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Add a new pointer argument to cpuidle_select() and to the ->select
cpuidle governor callback to allow a boolean value indicating
whether or not the tick should be stopped before entering the
selected state to be returned from there.
Make the ladder governor ignore that pointer (to preserve its
current behavior) and make the menu governor return 'false" through
it if:
(1) the idle exit latency is constrained at 0, or
(2) the selected state is a polling one, or
(3) the expected idle period duration is within the tick period
range.
In addition to that, the correction factor computations in the menu
governor need to take the possibility that the tick may not be
stopped into account to avoid artificially small correction factor
values. To that end, add a mechanism to record tick wakeups, as
suggested by Peter Zijlstra, and use it to modify the menu_update()
behavior when tick wakeup occurs. Namely, if the CPU is woken up by
the tick and the return value of tick_nohz_get_sleep_length() is not
within the tick boundary, the predicted idle duration is likely too
short, so make menu_update() try to compensate for that by updating
the governor statistics as though the CPU was idle for a long time.
Since the value returned through the new argument pointer of
cpuidle_select() is not used by its caller yet, this change by
itself is not expected to alter the functionality of the code.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Push the decision whether or not to stop the tick somewhat deeper
into the idle loop.
Stopping the tick upfront leads to unpleasant outcomes in case the
idle governor doesn't agree with the nohz code on the duration of the
upcoming idle period. Specifically, if the tick has been stopped and
the idle governor predicts short idle, the situation is bad regardless
of whether or not the prediction is accurate. If it is accurate, the
tick has been stopped unnecessarily which means excessive overhead.
If it is not accurate, the CPU is likely to spend too much time in
the (shallow, because short idle has been predicted) idle state
selected by the governor [1].
As the first step towards addressing this problem, change the code
to make the tick stopping decision inside of the loop in do_idle().
In particular, do not stop the tick in the cpu_idle_poll() code path.
Also don't do that in tick_nohz_irq_exit() which doesn't really have
enough information on whether or not to stop the tick.
Link: https://marc.info/?l=linux-pm&m=150116085925208&w=2 # [1]
Link: https://tu-dresden.de/zih/forschung/ressourcen/dateien/projekte/haec/powernightmares.pdf
Suggested-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Prepare the scheduler tick code for reworking the idle loop to
avoid stopping the tick in some cases.
The idea is to split the nohz idle entry call to decouple the idle
time stats accounting and preparatory work from the actual tick stop
code, in order to later be able to delay the tick stop once we reach
more power-knowledgeable callers.
Move away the tick_nohz_start_idle() invocation from
__tick_nohz_idle_enter(), rename the latter to
__tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick() and define tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick()
as a wrapper around it for calling it from the outside.
Make tick_nohz_idle_enter() only call tick_nohz_start_idle() instead
of calling the entire __tick_nohz_idle_enter(), add another wrapper
disabling and enabling interrupts around tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick()
and make the current callers of tick_nohz_idle_enter() call it too
to retain their current functionality.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Since the recent remote cpufreq callback work, its possible that a cpufreq
update is triggered from a remote CPU. For single policies however, the current
code uses the local CPU when trying to determine if the remote sg_cpu entered
idle or is busy. This is incorrect. To remedy this, compare with the nohz tick
idle_calls counter of the remote CPU.
Fixes: 674e75411f (sched: cpufreq: Allow remote cpufreq callbacks)
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Cc: 4.14+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.14+
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.
By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.
Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.
This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.
How this work was done:
Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,
Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.
The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.
The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).
All documentation files were explicitly excluded.
The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.
- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.
For non */uapi/* files that summary was:
SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139
and resulted in the first patch in this series.
If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:
SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930
and resulted in the second patch in this series.
- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:
SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1
and that resulted in the third patch in this series.
- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).
- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.
- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).
- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.
In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.
Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.
In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.
Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct
This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.
These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The way the schedutil governor uses the PELT metric causes it to
underestimate the CPU utilization in some cases.
That can be easily demonstrated by running kernel compilation on
a Sandy Bridge Intel processor, running turbostat in parallel with
it and looking at the values written to the MSR_IA32_PERF_CTL
register. Namely, the expected result would be that when all CPUs
were 100% busy, all of them would be requested to run in the maximum
P-state, but observation shows that this clearly isn't the case.
The CPUs run in the maximum P-state for a while and then are
requested to run slower and go back to the maximum P-state after
a while again. That causes the actual frequency of the processor to
visibly oscillate below the sustainable maximum in a jittery fashion
which clearly is not desirable.
That has been attributed to CPU utilization metric updates on task
migration that cause the total utilization value for the CPU to be
reduced by the utilization of the migrated task. If that happens,
the schedutil governor may see a CPU utilization reduction and will
attempt to reduce the CPU frequency accordingly right away. That
may be premature, though, for example if the system is generally
busy and there are other runnable tasks waiting to be run on that
CPU already.
This is unlikely to be an issue on systems where cpufreq policies are
shared between multiple CPUs, because in those cases the policy
utilization is computed as the maximum of the CPU utilization values
over the whole policy and if that turns out to be low, reducing the
frequency for the policy most likely is a good idea anyway. On
systems with one CPU per policy, however, it may affect performance
adversely and even lead to increased energy consumption in some cases.
On those systems it may be addressed by taking another utilization
metric into consideration, like whether or not the CPU whose
frequency is about to be reduced has been idle recently, because if
that's not the case, the CPU is likely to be busy in the near future
and its frequency should not be reduced.
To that end, use the counter of idle calls in the timekeeping code.
Namely, make the schedutil governor look at that counter for the
current CPU every time before its frequency is about to be reduced.
If the counter has not changed since the previous iteration of the
governor computations for that CPU, the CPU has been busy for all
that time and its frequency should not be decreased, so if the new
frequency would be lower than the one set previously, the governor
will skip the frequency update.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
ktime is a union because the initial implementation stored the time in
scalar nanoseconds on 64 bit machine and in a endianess optimized timespec
variant for 32bit machines. The Y2038 cleanup removed the timespec variant
and switched everything to scalar nanoseconds. The union remained, but
become completely pointless.
Get rid of the union and just keep ktime_t as simple typedef of type s64.
The conversion was done with coccinelle and some manual mopping up.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
