oom_reaper relies on the mmap_sem for read to do its job. Many places
which might block readers have been converted to use down_write_killable
and that has reduced chances of the contention a lot. Some paths where
the mmap_sem is held for write can take other locks and they might
either be not prepared to fail due to fatal signal pending or too
impractical to be changed.
This patch introduces MMF_OOM_NOT_REAPABLE flag which gets set after the
first attempt to reap a task's mm fails. If the flag is present after
the failure then we set MMF_OOM_REAPED to hide this mm from the oom
killer completely so it can go and chose another victim.
As a result a risk of OOM deadlock when the oom victim would be blocked
indefinetly and so the oom killer cannot make any progress should be
mitigated considerably while we still try really hard to perform all
reclaim attempts and stay predictable in the behavior.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466426628-15074-10-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
vforked tasks are not really sitting on any memory. They are sharing the
mm with parent until they exec into a new code. Until then it is just
pinning the address space. OOM killer will kill the vforked task along
with its parent but we still can end up selecting vforked task when the
parent wouldn't be selected. E.g. init doing vfork to launch a task or
vforked being a child of oom unkillable task with an updated oom_score_adj
to be killable.
Add a new helper to check whether a task is in the vfork sharing memory
with its parent and use it in oom_badness to skip over these tasks.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466426628-15074-6-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Vincent and Yuyang found another few scenarios in which entity
tracking goes wobbly.
The scenarios are basically due to the fact that new tasks are not
immediately attached and thereby differ from the normal situation -- a
task is always attached to a cfs_rq load average (such that it
includes its blocked contribution) and are explicitly
detached/attached on migration to another cfs_rq.
Scenario 1: switch to fair class
p->sched_class = fair_class;
if (queued)
enqueue_task(p);
...
enqueue_entity()
enqueue_entity_load_avg()
migrated = !sa->last_update_time (true)
if (migrated)
attach_entity_load_avg()
check_class_changed()
switched_from() (!fair)
switched_to() (fair)
switched_to_fair()
attach_entity_load_avg()
If @p is a new task that hasn't been fair before, it will have
!last_update_time and, per the above, end up in
attach_entity_load_avg() _twice_.
Scenario 2: change between cgroups
sched_move_group(p)
if (queued)
dequeue_task()
task_move_group_fair()
detach_task_cfs_rq()
detach_entity_load_avg()
set_task_rq()
attach_task_cfs_rq()
attach_entity_load_avg()
if (queued)
enqueue_task();
...
enqueue_entity()
enqueue_entity_load_avg()
migrated = !sa->last_update_time (true)
if (migrated)
attach_entity_load_avg()
Similar as with scenario 1, if @p is a new task, it will have
!load_update_time and we'll end up in attach_entity_load_avg()
_twice_.
Furthermore, notice how we do a detach_entity_load_avg() on something
that wasn't attached to begin with.
As stated above; the problem is that the new task isn't yet attached
to the load tracking and thereby violates the invariant assumption.
This patch remedies this by ensuring a new task is indeed properly
attached to the load tracking on creation, through
post_init_entity_util_avg().
Of course, this isn't entirely as straightforward as one might think,
since the task is hashed before we call wake_up_new_task() and thus
can be poked at. We avoid this by adding TASK_NEW and teaching
cpu_cgroup_can_attach() to refuse such tasks.
Reported-by: Yuyang Du <yuyang.du@intel.com>
Reported-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
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>
We've had the thread info allocated together with the thread stack for
most architectures for a long time (since the thread_info was split off
from the task struct), but that is about to change.
But the patches that move the thread info to be off-stack (and a part of
the task struct instead) made it clear how confused the allocator and
freeing functions are.
Because the common case was that we share an allocation with the thread
stack and the thread_info, the two pointers were identical. That
identity then meant that we would have things like
ti = alloc_thread_info_node(tsk, node);
...
tsk->stack = ti;
which certainly _worked_ (since stack and thread_info have the same
value), but is rather confusing: why are we assigning a thread_info to
the stack? And if we move the thread_info away, the "confusing" code
just gets to be entirely bogus.
So remove all this confusion, and make it clear that we are doing the
stack allocation by renaming and clarifying the function names to be
about the stack. The fact that the thread_info then shares the
allocation is an implementation detail, and not really about the
allocation itself.
This is a pure renaming and type fix: we pass in the same pointer, it's
just that we clarify what the pointer means.
The ia64 code that actually only has one single allocation (for all of
task_struct, thread_info and kernel thread stack) now looks a bit odd,
but since "tsk->stack" is actually not even used there, that oddity
doesn't matter. It would be a separate thing to clean that up, I
intentionally left the ia64 changes as a pure brute-force renaming and
type change.
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Generally task_struct is only protected by RCU if it was found on a
RCU protected list (say, for_each_process() or find_task_by_vpid()).
As Kirill pointed out rq->curr isn't protected by RCU, the scheduler
drops the (potentially) last reference without RCU gp, this means
that we need to fix the code which uses foreign_rq->curr under
rcu_read_lock().
Add a new helper which can be used to dereference rq->curr or any
other pointer to task_struct assuming that it should be cleared or
updated before the final put_task_struct(). It returns non-NULL
only if this task can't go away before rcu_read_unlock().
( Also add try_get_task_struct() to make it easier to use this API
correctly. )
Suggested-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
[ Updated comments; added try_get_task_struct()]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@yandex.ru>
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: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160518170218.GY3192@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"Two fixes: one for a lost wakeup, the other to fix the compiler
optimizing out preempt operations on ARM64 (and possibly other non-x86
architectures)"
* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched/core: Fix remote wakeups
sched/preempt: Fix preempt_count manipulations
Currently the size of "struct signal_struct"->oom_flags member is
sizeof(unsigned) bytes, but only one flag OOM_FLAG_ORIGIN which is
updated by current thread is defined. We can convert OOM_FLAG_ORIGIN
into a bool, and reuse the saved bytes for updating from the OOM killer
and/or the OOM reaper thread.
By the way, do we care about a race window between run_store() and
swapoff() because it would be theoretically possible that two threads
sharing the "struct signal_struct" concurrently call respective
functions? If we care, we can make oom_flags an atomic_t.
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
- the rest of MM
- KASAN updates
- procfs updates
- exit, fork updates
- printk updates
- lib/ updates
- radix-tree testsuite updates
- checkpatch updates
- kprobes updates
- a few other misc bits
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (162 commits)
samples/kprobes: print out the symbol name for the hooks
samples/kprobes: add a new module parameter
kprobes: add the "tls" argument for j_do_fork
init/main.c: simplify initcall_blacklisted()
fs/efs/super.c: fix return value
checkpatch: improve --git <commit-count> shortcut
checkpatch: reduce number of `git log` calls with --git
checkpatch: add support to check already applied git commits
checkpatch: add --list-types to show message types to show or ignore
checkpatch: advertise the --fix and --fix-inplace options more
checkpatch: whine about ACCESS_ONCE
checkpatch: add test for keywords not starting on tabstops
checkpatch: improve CONSTANT_COMPARISON test for structure members
checkpatch: add PREFER_IS_ENABLED test
lib/GCD.c: use binary GCD algorithm instead of Euclidean
radix-tree: free up the bottom bit of exceptional entries for reuse
dax: move RADIX_DAX_ definitions to dax.c
radix-tree: make radix_tree_descend() more useful
radix-tree: introduce radix_tree_replace_clear_tags()
radix-tree: tidy up __radix_tree_create()
...
Pull staging and IIO driver updates from Greg KH:
"Here's the big staging and iio driver update for 4.7-rc1.
I think we almost broke even with this release, only adding a few more
lines than we removed, which isn't bad overall given that there's a
bunch of new iio drivers added.
The Lustre developers seem to have woken up from their sleep and have
been doing a great job in cleaning up the code and pruning unused or
old cruft, the filesystem is almost readable :)
Other than that, just a lot of basic coding style cleanups in the
churn. All have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues"
* tag 'staging-4.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging: (938 commits)
Staging: emxx_udc: emxx_udc: fixed coding style issue
staging/gdm724x: fix "alignment should match open parenthesis" issues
staging/gdm724x: Fix avoid CamelCase
staging: unisys: rename misleading var ii with frag
staging: unisys: visorhba: switch success handling to error handling
staging: unisys: visorhba: main path needs to flow down the left margin
staging: unisys: visorinput: handle_locking_key() simplifications
staging: unisys: visorhba: fail gracefully for thread creation failures
staging: unisys: visornic: comment restructuring and removing bad diction
staging: unisys: fix format string %Lx to %llx for u64
staging: unisys: remove unused struct members
staging: unisys: visorchannel: correct variable misspelling
staging: unisys: visorhba: replace functionlike macro with function
staging: dgnc: Need to check for NULL of ch
staging: dgnc: remove redundant condition check
staging: dgnc: fix 'line over 80 characters'
staging: dgnc: clean up the dgnc_get_modem_info()
staging: lustre: lnet: enable configuration per NI interface
staging: lustre: o2iblnd: properly set ibr_why
staging: lustre: o2iblnd: remove last of kiblnd_tunables_fini
...
We need to call exit_thread from copy_process in a fail path. So make it
accept task_struct as a parameter.
[v2]
* s390: exit_thread_runtime_instr doesn't make sense to be called for
non-current tasks.
* arm: fix the comment in vfp_thread_copy
* change 'me' to 'tsk' for task_struct
* now we can change only archs that actually have exit_thread
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot <a-jacquiot@ti.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Chen Liqin <liqin.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com>
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Cc: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com>
Cc: Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@gmail.com>
Cc: Ley Foon Tan <lftan@altera.com>
Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Steven Miao <realmz6@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Define HAVE_EXIT_THREAD for archs which want to do something in
exit_thread. For others, let's define exit_thread as an empty inline.
This is a cleanup before we change the prototype of exit_thread to
accept a task parameter.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mips]
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot <a-jacquiot@ti.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Chen Liqin <liqin.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com>
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Cc: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com>
Cc: Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@gmail.com>
Cc: Ley Foon Tan <lftan@altera.com>
Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Steven Miao <realmz6@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
userfaultfd_file_create() increments mm->mm_users; this means that the
memory won't be unmapped/freed if mm owner exits/execs, and UFFDIO_COPY
after that can populate the orphaned mm more.
Change userfaultfd_file_create() and userfaultfd_ctx_put() to use
mm->mm_count to pin mm_struct. This means that
atomic_inc_not_zero(mm->mm_users) is needed when we are going to
actually play with this memory. Except handle_userfault() path doesn't
need this, the caller must already have a reference.
The patch adds the new trivial helper, mmget_not_zero(), it can have
more users.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160516172254.GA8595@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Since commit 3a5dda7a17 ("oom: prevent unnecessary oom kills or kernel
panics"), select_bad_process() is using for_each_process_thread().
Since oom_unkillable_task() scans all threads in the caller's thread
group and oom_task_origin() scans signal_struct of the caller's thread
group, we don't need to call oom_unkillable_task() and oom_task_origin()
on each thread. Also, since !mm test will be done later at
oom_badness(), we don't need to do !mm test on each thread. Therefore,
we only need to do TIF_MEMDIE test on each thread.
Although the original code was correct it was quite inefficient because
each thread group was scanned num_threads times which can be a lot
especially with processes with many threads. Even though the OOM is
extremely cold path it is always good to be as effective as possible
when we are inside rcu_read_lock() - aka unpreemptible context.
If we track number of TIF_MEMDIE threads inside signal_struct, we don't
need to do TIF_MEMDIE test on each thread. This will allow
select_bad_process() to use for_each_process().
This patch adds a counter to signal_struct for tracking how many
TIF_MEMDIE threads are in a given thread group, and check it at
oom_scan_process_thread() so that select_bad_process() can use
for_each_process() rather than for_each_process_thread().
[mhocko@suse.com: do not blow the signal_struct size]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160520075035.GF19172@dhcp22.suse.cz
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/201605182230.IDC73435.MVSOHLFOQFOJtF@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tetsuo has properly noted that mmput slow path might get blocked waiting
for another party (e.g. exit_aio waits for an IO). If that happens the
oom_reaper would be put out of the way and will not be able to process
next oom victim. We should strive for making this context as reliable
and independent on other subsystems as much as possible.
Introduce mmput_async which will perform the slow path from an async
(WQ) context. This will delay the operation but that shouldn't be a
problem because the oom_reaper has reclaimed the victim's address space
for most cases as much as possible and the remaining context shouldn't
bind too much memory anymore. The only exception is when mmap_sem
trylock has failed which shouldn't happen too often.
The issue is only theoretical but not impossible.
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit 36324a990c ("oom: clear TIF_MEMDIE after oom_reaper managed to
unmap the address space") not only clears TIF_MEMDIE for oom reaped task
but also set OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN for the target task to hide it from the
oom killer. This works in simple cases but it is not sufficient for
(unlikely) cases where the mm is shared between independent processes
(as they do not share signal struct). If the mm had only small amount
of memory which could be reaped then another task sharing the mm could
be selected and that wouldn't help to move out from the oom situation.
Introduce MMF_OOM_REAPED mm flag which is checked in oom_badness (same
as OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN) and task is skipped if the flag is set. Set the
flag after __oom_reap_task is done with a task. This will force the
select_bad_process() to ignore all already oom reaped tasks as well as
no such task is sacrificed for its parent.
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
"The majority of changes go into the cpufreq subsystem this time.
To me, quite obviously, the biggest ticket item is the new "schedutil"
governor. Interestingly enough, it's the first new cpufreq governor
since the beginning of the git era (except for some out-of-the-tree
ones).
There are two main differences between it and the existing governors.
First, it uses the information provided by the scheduler directly for
making its decisions, so it doesn't have to track anything by itself.
Second, it can invoke drivers (supporting that feature) to adjust CPU
performance right away without having to spawn work items to be
executed in process context or similar. Currently, the acpi-cpufreq
driver is the only one supporting that mode of operation, but then it
is used on a large number of systems.
The "schedutil" governor as included here is very simple and mostly
regarded as a foundation for future work on the integration of the
scheduler with CPU power management (in fact, there is work in
progress on top of it already). Nevertheless it works and the
preliminary results obtained with it are encouraging.
There also is some consolidation of CPU frequency management for ARM
platforms that can add their machine IDs the the new stub dt-platdev
driver now and that will take care of creating the requisite platform
device for cpufreq-dt, so it is not necessary to do that in platform
code any more. Several ARM platforms are switched over to using this
generic mechanism.
In addition to that, the intel_pstate driver is now going to respect
CPU frequency limits set by the platform firmware (or a BMC) and
provided via the ACPI _PPC object.
The devfreq subsystem is getting a new "passive" governor for SoCs
subsystems that will depend on somebody else to manage their voltage
rails and its support for Samsung Exynos SoCs is consolidated.
The rest is support for new hardware (Intel Broxton support in
intel_idle for one example), bug fixes, optimizations and cleanups in
a number of places.
Specifics:
- New cpufreq "schedutil" governor (making decisions based on CPU
utilization information provided by the scheduler and capable of
switching CPU frequencies right away if the underlying driver
supports that) and support for fast frequency switching in the
acpi-cpufreq driver (Rafael Wysocki)
- Consolidation of CPU frequency management on ARM platforms allowing
them to get rid of some platform-specific boilerplate code if they
are going to use the cpufreq-dt driver (Viresh Kumar, Finley Xiao,
Marc Gonzalez)
- Support for ACPI _PPC and CPU frequency limits in the intel_pstate
driver (Srinivas Pandruvada)
- Fixes and cleanups in the cpufreq core and generic governor code
(Rafael Wysocki, Sai Gurrappadi)
- intel_pstate driver optimizations and cleanups (Rafael Wysocki,
Philippe Longepe, Chen Yu, Joe Perches)
- cpufreq powernv driver fixes and cleanups (Akshay Adiga, Shilpasri
Bhat)
- cpufreq qoriq driver fixes and cleanups (Jia Hongtao)
- ACPI cpufreq driver cleanups (Viresh Kumar)
- Assorted cpufreq driver updates (Ashwin Chaugule, Geliang Tang,
Javier Martinez Canillas, Paul Gortmaker, Sudeep Holla)
- Assorted cpufreq fixes and cleanups (Joe Perches, Arnd Bergmann)
- Fixes and cleanups in the OPP (Operating Performance Points)
framework, mostly related to OPP sharing, and reorganization of
OF-dependent code in it (Viresh Kumar, Arnd Bergmann, Sudeep Holla)
- New "passive" governor for devfreq (for SoC subsystems that will
rely on someone else for the management of their power resources)
and consolidation of devfreq support for Exynos platforms, coding
style and typo fixes for devfreq (Chanwoo Choi, MyungJoo Ham)
- PM core fixes and cleanups, mostly to make it work better with the
generic power domains (genpd) framework, and updates for that
framework (Ulf Hansson, Thierry Reding, Colin Ian King)
- Intel Broxton support for the intel_idle driver (Len Brown)
- cpuidle core optimization and fix (Daniel Lezcano, Dave Gerlach)
- ARM cpuidle cleanups (Jisheng Zhang)
- Intel Kabylake support for the RAPL power capping driver (Jacob
Pan)
- AVS (Adaptive Voltage Switching) rockchip-io driver update (Heiko
Stuebner)
- Updates for the cpupower tool (Arjun Sreedharan, Colin Ian King,
Mattia Dongili, Thomas Renninger)"
* tag 'pm-4.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (112 commits)
intel_pstate: Clean up get_target_pstate_use_performance()
intel_pstate: Use sample.core_avg_perf in get_avg_pstate()
intel_pstate: Clarify average performance computation
intel_pstate: Avoid unnecessary synchronize_sched() during initialization
cpufreq: schedutil: Make default depend on CONFIG_SMP
cpufreq: powernv: del_timer_sync when global and local pstate are equal
cpufreq: powernv: Move smp_call_function_any() out of irq safe block
intel_pstate: Clean up intel_pstate_get()
cpufreq: schedutil: Make it depend on CONFIG_SMP
cpufreq: governor: Fix handling of special cases in dbs_update()
PM / OPP: Move CONFIG_OF dependent code in a separate file
cpufreq: intel_pstate: Ignore _PPC processing under HWP
cpufreq: arm_big_little: use generic OPP functions for {init, free}_opp_table
PM / OPP: add non-OF versions of dev_pm_opp_{cpumask_, }remove_table
cpufreq: tango: Use generic platdev driver
PM / OPP: pass cpumask by reference
cpufreq: Fix GOV_LIMITS handling for the userspace governor
cpupower: fix potential memory leak
PM / devfreq: style/typo fixes
PM / devfreq: exynos: Add the detailed correlation for Exynos5422 bus
..
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
- massive CPU hotplug rework (Thomas Gleixner)
- improve migration fairness (Peter Zijlstra)
- CPU load calculation updates/cleanups (Yuyang Du)
- cpufreq updates (Steve Muckle)
- nohz optimizations (Frederic Weisbecker)
- switch_mm() micro-optimization on x86 (Andy Lutomirski)
- ... lots of other enhancements, fixes and cleanups.
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (66 commits)
ARM: Hide finish_arch_post_lock_switch() from modules
sched/core: Provide a tsk_nr_cpus_allowed() helper
sched/core: Use tsk_cpus_allowed() instead of accessing ->cpus_allowed
sched/loadavg: Fix loadavg artifacts on fully idle and on fully loaded systems
sched/fair: Correct unit of load_above_capacity
sched/fair: Clean up scale confusion
sched/nohz: Fix affine unpinned timers mess
sched/fair: Fix fairness issue on migration
sched/core: Kill sched_class::task_waking to clean up the migration logic
sched/fair: Prepare to fix fairness problems on migration
sched/fair: Move record_wakee()
sched/core: Fix comment typo in wake_q_add()
sched/core: Remove unused variable
sched: Make hrtick_notifier an explicit call
sched/fair: Make ilb_notifier an explicit call
sched/hotplug: Make activate() the last hotplug step
sched/hotplug: Move migration CPU_DYING to sched_cpu_dying()
sched/migration: Move CPU_ONLINE into scheduler state
sched/migration: Move calc_load_migrate() into CPU_DYING
sched/migration: Move prepare transition to SCHED_STARTING state
...
Pull core signal updates from Ingo Molnar:
"These updates from Stas Sergeev and Andy Lutomirski, improve the
sigaltstack interface by extending its ABI with the SS_AUTODISARM
feature, which makes it possible to use swapcontext() in a sighandler
that works on sigaltstack. Without this flag, the subsequent signal
will corrupt the state of the switched-away sighandler.
The inspiration is more robust dosemu signal handling"
* 'core-signals-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
signals/sigaltstack: Change SS_AUTODISARM to (1U << 31)
signals/sigaltstack: Report current flag bits in sigaltstack()
selftests/sigaltstack: Fix the sigaltstack test on old kernels
signals/sigaltstack: If SS_AUTODISARM, bypass on_sig_stack()
selftests/sigaltstack: Add new testcase for sigaltstack(SS_ONSTACK|SS_AUTODISARM)
signals/sigaltstack: Implement SS_AUTODISARM flag
signals/sigaltstack: Prepare to add new SS_xxx flags
signals/sigaltstack, x86/signals: Unify the x86 sigaltstack check with other architectures
Pull core/lib update from Ingo Molnar:
"This contains a single commit that removes an unused facility that the
scheduler used to make use of"
* 'core-lib-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
lib/proportions: Remove unused code
Andy Lutomirski
Michal Hocko
Peter Zijlstra
Ingo Molnar
Linus Torvalds
Oleg Nesterov
Tetsuo Handa
Jiri Slaby
Thomas Gleixner