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Dmitry Safonov 9cb8f069de kernel: rename show_stack_loglvl() => show_stack()
Now the last users of show_stack() got converted to use an explicit log
level, show_stack_loglvl() can drop it's redundant suffix and become once
again well known show_stack().

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200418201944.482088-51-dima@arista.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-09 09:39:13 -07:00
Dmitry Safonov 8ba09b1dc1 sched: print stack trace with KERN_INFO
Aligning with other messages printed in sched_show_task() - use KERN_INFO
to print the backtrace.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200418201944.482088-49-dima@arista.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-09 09:39:12 -07:00
Dmitry Safonov 2062a4e8ae kallsyms/printk: add loglvl to print_ip_sym()
Patch series "Add log level to show_stack()", v3.

Add log level argument to show_stack().

Done in three stages:
1. Introducing show_stack_loglvl() for every architecture
2. Migrating old users with an explicit log level
3. Renaming show_stack_loglvl() into show_stack()

Justification:

- It's a design mistake to move a business-logic decision into platform
  realization detail.

- I have currently two patches sets that would benefit from this work:
  Removing console_loglevel jumps in sysrq driver [1] Hung task warning
  before panic [2] - suggested by Tetsuo (but he probably didn't realise
  what it would involve).

- While doing (1), (2) the backtraces were adjusted to headers and other
  messages for each situation - so there won't be a situation when the
  backtrace is printed, but the headers are missing because they have
  lesser log level (or the reverse).

- As the result in (2) plays with console_loglevel for kdb are removed.

The least important for upstream, but maybe still worth to note that every
company I've worked in so far had an off-list patch to print backtrace
with the needed log level (but only for the architecture they cared
about).  If you have other ideas how you will benefit from show_stack()
with a log level - please, reply to this cover letter.

See also discussion on v1:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20191106083538.z5nlpuf64cigxigh@pathway.suse.cz/

This patch (of 50):

print_ip_sym() needs to have a log level parameter to comply with other
parts being printed.  Otherwise, half of the expected backtrace would be
printed and other may be missing with some logging level.

The following callee(s) are using now the adjusted log level:
- microblaze/unwind: the same level as headers & userspace unwind.
  Note that pr_debug()'s there are for debugging the unwinder itself.
- nds32/traps: symbol addresses are printed with the same log level
  as backtrace headers.
- lockdep: ip for locking issues is printed with the same log level
  as other part of the warning.
- sched: ip where preemption was disabled is printed as error like
  the rest part of the message.
- ftrace: bug reports are now consistent in the log level being used.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: Greentime Hu <green.hu@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Paul Burton <paulburton@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vincent Chen <deanbo422@gmail.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot <jacquiot.aurelien@gmail.com>
Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Brian Cain <bcain@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Ley Foon Tan <lftan@altera.com>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Cc: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson <stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Cc: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200418201944.482088-2-dima@arista.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-09 09:39:10 -07:00
Linus Torvalds cb8e59cc87 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) Allow setting bluetooth L2CAP modes via socket option, from Luiz
    Augusto von Dentz.

 2) Add GSO partial support to igc, from Sasha Neftin.

 3) Several cleanups and improvements to r8169 from Heiner Kallweit.

 4) Add IF_OPER_TESTING link state and use it when ethtool triggers a
    device self-test. From Andrew Lunn.

 5) Start moving away from custom driver versions, use the globally
    defined kernel version instead, from Leon Romanovsky.

 6) Support GRO vis gro_cells in DSA layer, from Alexander Lobakin.

 7) Allow hard IRQ deferral during NAPI, from Eric Dumazet.

 8) Add sriov and vf support to hinic, from Luo bin.

 9) Support Media Redundancy Protocol (MRP) in the bridging code, from
    Horatiu Vultur.

10) Support netmap in the nft_nat code, from Pablo Neira Ayuso.

11) Allow UDPv6 encapsulation of ESP in the ipsec code, from Sabrina
    Dubroca. Also add ipv6 support for espintcp.

12) Lots of ReST conversions of the networking documentation, from Mauro
    Carvalho Chehab.

13) Support configuration of ethtool rxnfc flows in bcmgenet driver,
    from Doug Berger.

14) Allow to dump cgroup id and filter by it in inet_diag code, from
    Dmitry Yakunin.

15) Add infrastructure to export netlink attribute policies to
    userspace, from Johannes Berg.

16) Several optimizations to sch_fq scheduler, from Eric Dumazet.

17) Fallback to the default qdisc if qdisc init fails because otherwise
    a packet scheduler init failure will make a device inoperative. From
    Jesper Dangaard Brouer.

18) Several RISCV bpf jit optimizations, from Luke Nelson.

19) Correct the return type of the ->ndo_start_xmit() method in several
    drivers, it's netdev_tx_t but many drivers were using
    'int'. From Yunjian Wang.

20) Add an ethtool interface for PHY master/slave config, from Oleksij
    Rempel.

21) Add BPF iterators, from Yonghang Song.

22) Add cable test infrastructure, including ethool interfaces, from
    Andrew Lunn. Marvell PHY driver is the first to support this
    facility.

23) Remove zero-length arrays all over, from Gustavo A. R. Silva.

24) Calculate and maintain an explicit frame size in XDP, from Jesper
    Dangaard Brouer.

25) Add CAP_BPF, from Alexei Starovoitov.

26) Support terse dumps in the packet scheduler, from Vlad Buslov.

27) Support XDP_TX bulking in dpaa2 driver, from Ioana Ciornei.

28) Add devm_register_netdev(), from Bartosz Golaszewski.

29) Minimize qdisc resets, from Cong Wang.

30) Get rid of kernel_getsockopt and kernel_setsockopt in order to
    eliminate set_fs/get_fs calls. From Christoph Hellwig.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2517 commits)
  selftests: net: ip_defrag: ignore EPERM
  net_failover: fixed rollback in net_failover_open()
  Revert "tipc: Fix potential tipc_aead refcnt leak in tipc_crypto_rcv"
  Revert "tipc: Fix potential tipc_node refcnt leak in tipc_rcv"
  vmxnet3: allow rx flow hash ops only when rss is enabled
  hinic: add set_channels ethtool_ops support
  selftests/bpf: Add a default $(CXX) value
  tools/bpf: Don't use $(COMPILE.c)
  bpf, selftests: Use bpf_probe_read_kernel
  s390/bpf: Use bcr 0,%0 as tail call nop filler
  s390/bpf: Maintain 8-byte stack alignment
  selftests/bpf: Fix verifier test
  selftests/bpf: Fix sample_cnt shared between two threads
  bpf, selftests: Adapt cls_redirect to call csum_level helper
  bpf: Add csum_level helper for fixing up csum levels
  bpf: Fix up bpf_skb_adjust_room helper's skb csum setting
  sfc: add missing annotation for efx_ef10_try_update_nic_stats_vf()
  crypto/chtls: IPv6 support for inline TLS
  Crypto/chcr: Fixes a coccinile check error
  Crypto/chcr: Fixes compilations warnings
  ...
2020-06-03 16:27:18 -07:00
Linus Torvalds d479c5a191 The changes in this cycle are:
- Optimize the task wakeup CPU selection logic, to improve scalability and
    reduce wakeup latency spikes
 
  - PELT enhancements
 
  - CFS bandwidth handling fixes
 
  - Optimize the wakeup path by remove rq->wake_list and replacing it with ->ttwu_pending
 
  - Optimize IPI cross-calls by making flush_smp_call_function_queue()
    process sync callbacks first.
 
  - Misc fixes and enhancements.
 
 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'sched-core-2020-06-02' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The changes in this cycle are:

   - Optimize the task wakeup CPU selection logic, to improve
     scalability and reduce wakeup latency spikes

   - PELT enhancements

   - CFS bandwidth handling fixes

   - Optimize the wakeup path by remove rq->wake_list and replacing it
     with ->ttwu_pending

   - Optimize IPI cross-calls by making flush_smp_call_function_queue()
     process sync callbacks first.

   - Misc fixes and enhancements"

* tag 'sched-core-2020-06-02' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (36 commits)
  irq_work: Define irq_work_single() on !CONFIG_IRQ_WORK too
  sched/headers: Split out open-coded prototypes into kernel/sched/smp.h
  sched: Replace rq::wake_list
  sched: Add rq::ttwu_pending
  irq_work, smp: Allow irq_work on call_single_queue
  smp: Optimize send_call_function_single_ipi()
  smp: Move irq_work_run() out of flush_smp_call_function_queue()
  smp: Optimize flush_smp_call_function_queue()
  sched: Fix smp_call_function_single_async() usage for ILB
  sched/core: Offload wakee task activation if it the wakee is descheduling
  sched/core: Optimize ttwu() spinning on p->on_cpu
  sched: Defend cfs and rt bandwidth quota against overflow
  sched/cpuacct: Fix charge cpuacct.usage_sys
  sched/fair: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array
  sched/pelt: Sync util/runnable_sum with PELT window when propagating
  sched/cpuacct: Use __this_cpu_add() instead of this_cpu_ptr()
  sched/fair: Optimize enqueue_task_fair()
  sched: Make scheduler_ipi inline
  sched: Clean up scheduler_ipi()
  sched/core: Simplify sched_init()
  ...
2020-06-03 13:06:42 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 533b220f7b arm64 updates for 5.8
- Branch Target Identification (BTI)
 	* Support for ARMv8.5-BTI in both user- and kernel-space. This
 	  allows branch targets to limit the types of branch from which
 	  they can be called and additionally prevents branching to
 	  arbitrary code, although kernel support requires a very recent
 	  toolchain.
 
 	* Function annotation via SYM_FUNC_START() so that assembly
 	  functions are wrapped with the relevant "landing pad"
 	  instructions.
 
 	* BPF and vDSO updates to use the new instructions.
 
 	* Addition of a new HWCAP and exposure of BTI capability to
 	  userspace via ID register emulation, along with ELF loader
 	  support for the BTI feature in .note.gnu.property.
 
 	* Non-critical fixes to CFI unwind annotations in the sigreturn
 	  trampoline.
 
 - Shadow Call Stack (SCS)
 	* Support for Clang's Shadow Call Stack feature, which reserves
 	  platform register x18 to point at a separate stack for each
 	  task that holds only return addresses. This protects function
 	  return control flow from buffer overruns on the main stack.
 
 	* Save/restore of x18 across problematic boundaries (user-mode,
 	  hypervisor, EFI, suspend, etc).
 
 	* Core support for SCS, should other architectures want to use it
 	  too.
 
 	* SCS overflow checking on context-switch as part of the existing
 	  stack limit check if CONFIG_SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK=y.
 
 - CPU feature detection
 	* Removed numerous "SANITY CHECK" errors when running on a system
 	  with mismatched AArch32 support at EL1. This is primarily a
 	  concern for KVM, which disabled support for 32-bit guests on
 	  such a system.
 
 	* Addition of new ID registers and fields as the architecture has
 	  been extended.
 
 - Perf and PMU drivers
 	* Minor fixes and cleanups to system PMU drivers.
 
 - Hardware errata
 	* Unify KVM workarounds for VHE and nVHE configurations.
 
 	* Sort vendor errata entries in Kconfig.
 
 - Secure Monitor Call Calling Convention (SMCCC)
 	* Update to the latest specification from Arm (v1.2).
 
 	* Allow PSCI code to query the SMCCC version.
 
 - Software Delegated Exception Interface (SDEI)
 	* Unexport a bunch of unused symbols.
 
 	* Minor fixes to handling of firmware data.
 
 - Pointer authentication
 	* Add support for dumping the kernel PAC mask in vmcoreinfo so
 	  that the stack can be unwound by tools such as kdump.
 
 	* Simplification of key initialisation during CPU bringup.
 
 - BPF backend
 	* Improve immediate generation for logical and add/sub
 	  instructions.
 
 - vDSO
 	- Minor fixes to the linker flags for consistency with other
 	  architectures and support for LLVM's unwinder.
 
 	- Clean up logic to initialise and map the vDSO into userspace.
 
 - ACPI
 	- Work around for an ambiguity in the IORT specification relating
 	  to the "num_ids" field.
 
 	- Support _DMA method for all named components rather than only
 	  PCIe root complexes.
 
 	- Minor other IORT-related fixes.
 
 - Miscellaneous
 	* Initialise debug traps early for KGDB and fix KDB cacheflushing
 	  deadlock.
 
 	* Minor tweaks to early boot state (documentation update, set
 	  TEXT_OFFSET to 0x0, increase alignment of PE/COFF sections).
 
 	* Refactoring and cleanup
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Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux

Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
 "A sizeable pile of arm64 updates for 5.8.

  Summary below, but the big two features are support for Branch Target
  Identification and Clang's Shadow Call stack. The latter is currently
  arm64-only, but the high-level parts are all in core code so it could
  easily be adopted by other architectures pending toolchain support

  Branch Target Identification (BTI):

   - Support for ARMv8.5-BTI in both user- and kernel-space. This allows
     branch targets to limit the types of branch from which they can be
     called and additionally prevents branching to arbitrary code,
     although kernel support requires a very recent toolchain.

   - Function annotation via SYM_FUNC_START() so that assembly functions
     are wrapped with the relevant "landing pad" instructions.

   - BPF and vDSO updates to use the new instructions.

   - Addition of a new HWCAP and exposure of BTI capability to userspace
     via ID register emulation, along with ELF loader support for the
     BTI feature in .note.gnu.property.

   - Non-critical fixes to CFI unwind annotations in the sigreturn
     trampoline.

  Shadow Call Stack (SCS):

   - Support for Clang's Shadow Call Stack feature, which reserves
     platform register x18 to point at a separate stack for each task
     that holds only return addresses. This protects function return
     control flow from buffer overruns on the main stack.

   - Save/restore of x18 across problematic boundaries (user-mode,
     hypervisor, EFI, suspend, etc).

   - Core support for SCS, should other architectures want to use it
     too.

   - SCS overflow checking on context-switch as part of the existing
     stack limit check if CONFIG_SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK=y.

  CPU feature detection:

   - Removed numerous "SANITY CHECK" errors when running on a system
     with mismatched AArch32 support at EL1. This is primarily a concern
     for KVM, which disabled support for 32-bit guests on such a system.

   - Addition of new ID registers and fields as the architecture has
     been extended.

  Perf and PMU drivers:

   - Minor fixes and cleanups to system PMU drivers.

  Hardware errata:

   - Unify KVM workarounds for VHE and nVHE configurations.

   - Sort vendor errata entries in Kconfig.

  Secure Monitor Call Calling Convention (SMCCC):

   - Update to the latest specification from Arm (v1.2).

   - Allow PSCI code to query the SMCCC version.

  Software Delegated Exception Interface (SDEI):

   - Unexport a bunch of unused symbols.

   - Minor fixes to handling of firmware data.

  Pointer authentication:

   - Add support for dumping the kernel PAC mask in vmcoreinfo so that
     the stack can be unwound by tools such as kdump.

   - Simplification of key initialisation during CPU bringup.

  BPF backend:

   - Improve immediate generation for logical and add/sub instructions.

  vDSO:

   - Minor fixes to the linker flags for consistency with other
     architectures and support for LLVM's unwinder.

   - Clean up logic to initialise and map the vDSO into userspace.

  ACPI:

   - Work around for an ambiguity in the IORT specification relating to
     the "num_ids" field.

   - Support _DMA method for all named components rather than only PCIe
     root complexes.

   - Minor other IORT-related fixes.

  Miscellaneous:

   - Initialise debug traps early for KGDB and fix KDB cacheflushing
     deadlock.

   - Minor tweaks to early boot state (documentation update, set
     TEXT_OFFSET to 0x0, increase alignment of PE/COFF sections).

   - Refactoring and cleanup"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (148 commits)
  KVM: arm64: Move __load_guest_stage2 to kvm_mmu.h
  KVM: arm64: Check advertised Stage-2 page size capability
  arm64/cpufeature: Add get_arm64_ftr_reg_nowarn()
  ACPI/IORT: Remove the unused __get_pci_rid()
  arm64/cpuinfo: Add ID_MMFR4_EL1 into the cpuinfo_arm64 context
  arm64/cpufeature: Add remaining feature bits in ID_AA64PFR1 register
  arm64/cpufeature: Add remaining feature bits in ID_AA64PFR0 register
  arm64/cpufeature: Add remaining feature bits in ID_AA64ISAR0 register
  arm64/cpufeature: Add remaining feature bits in ID_MMFR4 register
  arm64/cpufeature: Add remaining feature bits in ID_PFR0 register
  arm64/cpufeature: Introduce ID_MMFR5 CPU register
  arm64/cpufeature: Introduce ID_DFR1 CPU register
  arm64/cpufeature: Introduce ID_PFR2 CPU register
  arm64/cpufeature: Make doublelock a signed feature in ID_AA64DFR0
  arm64/cpufeature: Drop TraceFilt feature exposure from ID_DFR0 register
  arm64/cpufeature: Add explicit ftr_id_isar0[] for ID_ISAR0 register
  arm64: mm: Add asid_gen_match() helper
  firmware: smccc: Fix missing prototype warning for arm_smccc_version_init
  arm64: vdso: Fix CFI directives in sigreturn trampoline
  arm64: vdso: Don't prefix sigreturn trampoline with a BTI C instruction
  ...
2020-06-01 15:18:27 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 1f8db41505 sched/headers: Split out open-coded prototypes into kernel/sched/smp.h
Move the prototypes for sched_ttwu_pending() and send_call_function_single_ipi()
into the newly created kernel/sched/smp.h header, to make sure they are all
the same, and to architectures happy that use -Wmissing-prototypes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2020-05-28 11:03:20 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra a148866489 sched: Replace rq::wake_list
The recent commit: 90b5363acd ("sched: Clean up scheduler_ipi()")
got smp_call_function_single_async() subtly wrong. Even though it will
return -EBUSY when trying to re-use a csd, that condition is not
atomic and still requires external serialization.

The change in ttwu_queue_remote() got this wrong.

While on first reading ttwu_queue_remote() has an atomic test-and-set
that appears to serialize the use, the matching 'release' is not in
the right place to actually guarantee this serialization.

The actual race is vs the sched_ttwu_pending() call in the idle loop;
that can run the wakeup-list without consuming the CSD.

Instead of trying to chain the lists, merge them.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200526161908.129371594@infradead.org
2020-05-28 10:54:16 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 126c2092e5 sched: Add rq::ttwu_pending
In preparation of removing rq->wake_list, replace the
!list_empty(rq->wake_list) with rq->ttwu_pending. This is not fully
equivalent as this new variable is racy.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200526161908.070399698@infradead.org
2020-05-28 10:54:16 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra b2a02fc43a smp: Optimize send_call_function_single_ipi()
Just like the ttwu_queue_remote() IPI, make use of _TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG
to avoid sending IPIs to idle CPUs.

[ mingo: Fix UP build bug. ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200526161907.953304789@infradead.org
2020-05-28 10:54:15 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 19a1f5ec69 sched: Fix smp_call_function_single_async() usage for ILB
The recent commit: 90b5363acd ("sched: Clean up scheduler_ipi()")
got smp_call_function_single_async() subtly wrong. Even though it will
return -EBUSY when trying to re-use a csd, that condition is not
atomic and still requires external serialization.

The change in kick_ilb() got this wrong.

While on first reading kick_ilb() has an atomic test-and-set that
appears to serialize the use, the matching 'release' is not in the
right place to actually guarantee this serialization.

Rework the nohz_idle_balance() trigger so that the release is in the
IPI callback and thus guarantees the required serialization for the
CSD.

Fixes: 90b5363acd ("sched: Clean up scheduler_ipi()")
Reported-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: mgorman@techsingularity.net
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200526161907.778543557@infradead.org
2020-05-28 10:54:15 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 58ef57b16d Merge branch 'core/rcu' into sched/core, to pick up dependency
We are going to rely on the loosening of RCU callback semantics,
introduced by this commit:

  806f04e9fd2c: ("rcu: Allow for smp_call_function() running callbacks from idle")

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2020-05-28 10:52:53 +02:00
Mel Gorman 2ebb177175 sched/core: Offload wakee task activation if it the wakee is descheduling
The previous commit:

  c6e7bd7afaeb: ("sched/core: Optimize ttwu() spinning on p->on_cpu")

avoids spinning on p->on_rq when the task is descheduling, but only if the
wakee is on a CPU that does not share cache with the waker.

This patch offloads the activation of the wakee to the CPU that is about to
go idle if the task is the only one on the runqueue. This potentially allows
the waker task to continue making progress when the wakeup is not strictly
synchronous.

This is very obvious with netperf UDP_STREAM running on localhost. The
waker is sending packets as quickly as possible without waiting for any
reply. It frequently wakes the server for the processing of packets and
when netserver is using local memory, it quickly completes the processing
and goes back to idle. The waker often observes that netserver is on_rq
and spins excessively leading to a drop in throughput.

This is a comparison of 5.7-rc6 against "sched: Optimize ttwu() spinning
on p->on_cpu" and against this patch labeled vanilla, optttwu-v1r1 and
localwakelist-v1r2 respectively.

                                  5.7.0-rc6              5.7.0-rc6              5.7.0-rc6
                                    vanilla           optttwu-v1r1     localwakelist-v1r2
Hmean     send-64         251.49 (   0.00%)      258.05 *   2.61%*      305.59 *  21.51%*
Hmean     send-128        497.86 (   0.00%)      519.89 *   4.43%*      600.25 *  20.57%*
Hmean     send-256        944.90 (   0.00%)      997.45 *   5.56%*     1140.19 *  20.67%*
Hmean     send-1024      3779.03 (   0.00%)     3859.18 *   2.12%*     4518.19 *  19.56%*
Hmean     send-2048      7030.81 (   0.00%)     7315.99 *   4.06%*     8683.01 *  23.50%*
Hmean     send-3312     10847.44 (   0.00%)    11149.43 *   2.78%*    12896.71 *  18.89%*
Hmean     send-4096     13436.19 (   0.00%)    13614.09 (   1.32%)    15041.09 *  11.94%*
Hmean     send-8192     22624.49 (   0.00%)    23265.32 *   2.83%*    24534.96 *   8.44%*
Hmean     send-16384    34441.87 (   0.00%)    36457.15 *   5.85%*    35986.21 *   4.48%*

Note that this benefit is not universal to all wakeups, it only applies
to the case where the waker often spins on p->on_rq.

The impact can be seen from a "perf sched latency" report generated from
a single iteration of one packet size:

   -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Task                  |   Runtime ms  | Switches | Average delay ms | Maximum delay ms | Maximum delay at       |
   -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

  vanilla
    netperf:4337          |  21709.193 ms |     2932 | avg:    0.002 ms | max:    0.041 ms | max at:    112.154512 s
    netserver:4338        |  14629.459 ms |  5146990 | avg:    0.001 ms | max: 1615.864 ms | max at:    140.134496 s

  localwakelist-v1r2
    netperf:4339          |  29789.717 ms |     2460 | avg:    0.002 ms | max:    0.059 ms | max at:    138.205389 s
    netserver:4340        |  18858.767 ms |  7279005 | avg:    0.001 ms | max:    0.362 ms | max at:    135.709683 s
   -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Note that the average wakeup delay is quite small on both the vanilla
kernel and with the two patches applied. However, there are significant
outliers with the vanilla kernel with the maximum one measured as 1615
milliseconds with a vanilla kernel but never worse than 0.362 ms with
both patches applied and a much higher rate of context switching.

Similarly a separate profile of cycles showed that 2.83% of all cycles
were spent in try_to_wake_up() with almost half of the cycles spent
on spinning on p->on_rq. With the two patches, the percentage of cycles
spent in try_to_wake_up() drops to 1.13%

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jirka Hladky <jhladky@redhat.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: valentin.schneider@arm.com
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200524202956.27665-3-mgorman@techsingularity.net
2020-05-25 07:04:10 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra c6e7bd7afa sched/core: Optimize ttwu() spinning on p->on_cpu
Both Rik and Mel reported seeing ttwu() spend significant time on:

  smp_cond_load_acquire(&p->on_cpu, !VAL);

Attempt to avoid this by queueing the wakeup on the CPU that owns the
p->on_cpu value. This will then allow the ttwu() to complete without
further waiting.

Since we run schedule() with interrupts disabled, the IPI is
guaranteed to happen after p->on_cpu is cleared, this is what makes it
safe to queue early.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jirka Hladky <jhladky@redhat.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: valentin.schneider@arm.com
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200524202956.27665-2-mgorman@techsingularity.net
2020-05-25 07:01:44 +02:00
Huaixin Chang d505b8af58 sched: Defend cfs and rt bandwidth quota against overflow
When users write some huge number into cpu.cfs_quota_us or
cpu.rt_runtime_us, overflow might happen during to_ratio() shifts of
schedulable checks.

to_ratio() could be altered to avoid unnecessary internal overflow, but
min_cfs_quota_period is less than 1 << BW_SHIFT, so a cutoff would still
be needed. Set a cap MAX_BW for cfs_quota_us and rt_runtime_us to
prevent overflow.

Signed-off-by: Huaixin Chang <changhuaixin@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200425105248.60093-1-changhuaixin@linux.alibaba.com
2020-05-19 20:34:14 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner 1ed0948eea Merge tag 'noinstr-lds-2020-05-19' into core/rcu
Get the noinstr section and annotation markers to base the RCU parts on.
2020-05-19 15:50:34 +02:00
Will Deacon 88485be531 scs: Move scs_overflow_check() out of architecture code
There is nothing architecture-specific about scs_overflow_check() as
it's just a trivial wrapper around scs_corrupted().

For parity with task_stack_end_corrupted(), rename scs_corrupted() to
task_scs_end_corrupted() and call it from schedule_debug() when
CONFIG_SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK_is enabled, which better reflects its
purpose as a debug feature to catch inadvertent overflow of the SCS.
Finally, remove the unused scs_overflow_check() function entirely.

This has absolutely no impact on architectures that do not support SCS
(currently arm64 only).

Tested-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
2020-05-18 17:47:40 +01:00
Sami Tolvanen d08b9f0ca6 scs: Add support for Clang's Shadow Call Stack (SCS)
This change adds generic support for Clang's Shadow Call Stack,
which uses a shadow stack to protect return addresses from being
overwritten by an attacker. Details are available here:

  https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ShadowCallStack.html

Note that security guarantees in the kernel differ from the ones
documented for user space. The kernel must store addresses of
shadow stacks in memory, which means an attacker capable reading
and writing arbitrary memory may be able to locate them and hijack
control flow by modifying the stacks.

Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
[will: Numerous cosmetic changes]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
2020-05-15 16:35:45 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner 2a0a24ebb4 sched: Make scheduler_ipi inline
Now that the scheduler IPI is trivial and simple again there is no point to
have the little function out of line. This simplifies the effort of
constraining the instrumentation nicely.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200505134058.453581595@linutronix.de
2020-05-12 17:10:49 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 90b5363acd sched: Clean up scheduler_ipi()
The scheduler IPI has grown weird and wonderful over the years, time
for spring cleaning.

Move all the non-trivial stuff out of it and into a regular smp function
call IPI. This then reduces the schedule_ipi() to most of it's former NOP
glory and ensures to keep the interrupt vector lean and mean.

Aside of that avoiding the full irq_enter() in the x86 IPI implementation
is incorrect as scheduler_ipi() can be instrumented. To work around that
scheduler_ipi() had an irq_enter/exit() hack when heavy work was
pending. This is gone now.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200505134058.361859938@linutronix.de
2020-05-12 17:10:48 +02:00
Wei Yang b1d1779e5e sched/core: Simplify sched_init()
Currently root_task_group.shares and cfs_bandwidth are initialized for
each online cpu, which not necessary.

Let's take it out to do it only once.

Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200423214443.29994-1-richard.weiyang@gmail.com
2020-04-30 20:14:42 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra bf2c59fce4 sched/core: Fix illegal RCU from offline CPUs
In the CPU-offline process, it calls mmdrop() after idle entry and the
subsequent call to cpuhp_report_idle_dead(). Once execution passes the
call to rcu_report_dead(), RCU is ignoring the CPU, which results in
lockdep complaining when mmdrop() uses RCU from either memcg or
debugobjects below.

Fix it by cleaning up the active_mm state from BP instead. Every arch
which has CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU should have already called idle_task_exit()
from AP. The only exception is parisc because it switches them to
&init_mm unconditionally (see smp_boot_one_cpu() and smp_cpu_init()),
but the patch will still work there because it calls mmgrab(&init_mm) in
smp_cpu_init() and then should call mmdrop(&init_mm) in finish_cpu().

  WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
  -----------------------------
  kernel/workqueue.c:710 RCU or wq_pool_mutex should be held!

  other info that might help us debug this:

  RCU used illegally from offline CPU!
  Call Trace:
   dump_stack+0xf4/0x164 (unreliable)
   lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x140/0x164
   get_work_pool+0x110/0x150
   __queue_work+0x1bc/0xca0
   queue_work_on+0x114/0x120
   css_release+0x9c/0xc0
   percpu_ref_put_many+0x204/0x230
   free_pcp_prepare+0x264/0x570
   free_unref_page+0x38/0xf0
   __mmdrop+0x21c/0x2c0
   idle_task_exit+0x170/0x1b0
   pnv_smp_cpu_kill_self+0x38/0x2e0
   cpu_die+0x48/0x64
   arch_cpu_idle_dead+0x30/0x50
   do_idle+0x2f4/0x470
   cpu_startup_entry+0x38/0x40
   start_secondary+0x7a8/0xa80
   start_secondary_resume+0x10/0x14

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200401214033.8448-1-cai@lca.pw
2020-04-30 20:14:41 +02:00
Chen Yu 457d1f4657 sched: Extract the task putting code from pick_next_task()
Introduce a new function put_prev_task_balance() to do the balance
when necessary, and then put previous task back to the run queue.
This function is extracted from pick_next_task() to prepare for
future usage by other type of task picking logic.

No functional change.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/5a99860cf66293db58a397d6248bcb2eee326776.1587464698.git.yu.c.chen@intel.com
2020-04-30 20:14:40 +02:00
Daniel Borkmann 0b54142e4b Merge branch 'work.sysctl' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull in Christoph Hellwig's series that changes the sysctl's ->proc_handler
methods to take kernel pointers instead. It gets rid of the set_fs address
space overrides used by BPF. As per discussion, pull in the feature branch
into bpf-next as it relates to BPF sysctl progs.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200427071508.GV23230@ZenIV.linux.org.uk/T/
2020-04-28 21:23:38 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney 2beaf3280e sched/core: Add function to sample state of locked-down task
A running task's state can be sampled in a consistent manner (for example,
for diagnostic purposes) simply by invoking smp_call_function_single()
on its CPU, which may be obtained using task_cpu(), then having the
IPI handler verify that the desired task is in fact still running.
However, if the task is not running, this sampling can in theory be done
immediately and directly.  In practice, the task might start running at
any time, including during the sampling period.  Gaining a consistent
sample of a not-running task therefore requires that something be done
to lock down the target task's state.

This commit therefore adds a try_invoke_on_locked_down_task() function
that invokes a specified function if the specified task can be locked
down, returning true if successful and if the specified function returns
true.  Otherwise this function simply returns false.  Given that the
function passed to try_invoke_on_nonrunning_task() might be invoked with
a runqueue lock held, that function had better be quite lightweight.

The function is passed the target task's task_struct pointer and the
argument passed to try_invoke_on_locked_down_task(), allowing easy access
to task state and to a location for further variables to be passed in
and out.

Note that the specified function will be called even if the specified
task is currently running.  The function can use ->on_rq and task_curr()
to quickly and easily determine the task's state, and can return false
if this state is not to the function's liking.  The caller of the
try_invoke_on_locked_down_task() would then see the false return value,
and could take appropriate action, for example, trying again later or
sending an IPI if matters are more urgent.

It is expected that use cases such as the RCU CPU stall warning code will
simply return false if the task is currently running.  However, there are
use cases involving nohz_full CPUs where the specified function might
instead fall back to an alternative sampling scheme that relies on heavier
synchronization (such as memory barriers) in the target task.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
[ paulmck: Apply feedback from Peter Zijlstra and Steven Rostedt. ]
[ paulmck: Invoke if running to handle feedback from Mathieu Desnoyers. ]
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:03:50 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig 32927393dc sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler
Instead of having all the sysctl handlers deal with user pointers, which
is rather hairy in terms of the BPF interaction, copy the input to and
from  userspace in common code.  This also means that the strings are
always NUL-terminated by the common code, making the API a little bit
safer.

As most handler just pass through the data to one of the common handlers
a lot of the changes are mechnical.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Andrey Ignatov <rdna@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2020-04-27 02:07:40 -04:00
Quentin Perret eaf5a92ebd sched/core: Fix reset-on-fork from RT with uclamp
uclamp_fork() resets the uclamp values to their default when the
reset-on-fork flag is set. It also checks whether the task has a RT
policy, and sets its uclamp.min to 1024 accordingly. However, during
reset-on-fork, the task's policy is lowered to SCHED_NORMAL right after,
hence leading to an erroneous uclamp.min setting for the new task if it
was forked from RT.

Fix this by removing the unnecessary check on rt_task() in
uclamp_fork() as this doesn't make sense if the reset-on-fork flag is
set.

Fixes: 1a00d99997 ("sched/uclamp: Set default clamps for RT tasks")
Reported-by: Chitti Babu Theegala <ctheegal@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@matbug.net>
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200416085956.217587-1-qperret@google.com
2020-04-22 23:10:13 +02:00
Vincent Donnefort 275b2f6723 sched/core: Remove unused rq::last_load_update_tick
The following commit:

  5e83eafbfd ("sched/fair: Remove the rq->cpu_load[] update code")

eliminated the last use case for rq->last_load_update_tick, so remove
the field as well.

Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vincent.donnefort@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1584710495-308969-1-git-send-email-vincent.donnefort@arm.com
2020-04-08 11:35:23 +02:00
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 62849a9612 workqueue: Remove the warning in wq_worker_sleeping()
The kernel test robot triggered a warning with the following race:
   task-ctx A                            interrupt-ctx B
 worker
  -> process_one_work()
    -> work_item()
      -> schedule();
         -> sched_submit_work()
           -> wq_worker_sleeping()
             -> ->sleeping = 1
               atomic_dec_and_test(nr_running)
         __schedule();                *interrupt*
                                       async_page_fault()
                                       -> local_irq_enable();
                                       -> schedule();
                                          -> sched_submit_work()
                                            -> wq_worker_sleeping()
                                               -> if (WARN_ON(->sleeping)) return
                                          -> __schedule()
                                            ->  sched_update_worker()
                                              -> wq_worker_running()
                                                 -> atomic_inc(nr_running);
                                                 -> ->sleeping = 0;

      ->  sched_update_worker()
        -> wq_worker_running()
          if (!->sleeping) return

In this context the warning is pointless everything is fine.
An interrupt before wq_worker_sleeping() will perform the ->sleeping
assignment (0 -> 1 > 0) twice.
An interrupt after wq_worker_sleeping() will trigger the warning and
nr_running will be decremented (by A) and incremented once (only by B, A
will skip it). This is the case until the ->sleeping is zeroed again in
wq_worker_running().

Remove the WARN statement because this condition may happen. Document
that preemption around wq_worker_sleeping() needs to be disabled to
protect ->sleeping and not just as an optimisation.

Fixes: 6d25be5782 ("sched/core, workqueues: Distangle worker accounting from rq lock")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200327074308.GY11705@shao2-debian
2020-04-08 11:35:20 +02:00
Valentin Schneider d76343c6b2 sched/fair: Align rq->avg_idle and rq->avg_scan_cost
sched/core.c uses update_avg() for rq->avg_idle and sched/fair.c uses an
open-coded version (with the exact same decay factor) for
rq->avg_scan_cost. On top of that, select_idle_cpu() expects to be able to
compare these two fields.

The only difference between the two is that rq->avg_scan_cost is computed
using a pure division rather than a shift. Turns out it actually matters,
first of all because the shifted value can be negative, and the standard
has this to say about it:

  """
  The result of E1 >> E2 is E1 right-shifted E2 bit positions. [...] If E1
  has a signed type and a negative value, the resulting value is
  implementation-defined.
  """

Not only this, but (arithmetic) right shifting a negative value (using 2's
complement) is *not* equivalent to dividing it by the corresponding power
of 2. Let's look at a few examples:

  -4      -> 0xF..FC
  -4 >> 3 -> 0xF..FF == -1 != -4 / 8

  -8      -> 0xF..F8
  -8 >> 3 -> 0xF..FF == -1 == -8 / 8

  -9      -> 0xF..F7
  -9 >> 3 -> 0xF..FE == -2 != -9 / 8

Make update_avg() use a division, and export it to the private scheduler
header to reuse it where relevant. Note that this still lets compilers use
a shift here, but should prevent any unwanted surprise. The disassembly of
select_idle_cpu() remains unchanged on arm64, and ttwu_do_wakeup() gains 2
instructions; the diff sort of looks like this:

  - sub x1, x1, x0
  + subs x1, x1, x0 // set condition codes
  + add x0, x1, #0x7
  + csel x0, x0, x1, mi // x0 = x1 < 0 ? x0 : x1
    add x0, x3, x0, asr #3

which does the right thing (i.e. gives us the expected result while still
using an arithmetic shift)

Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200330090127.16294-1-valentin.schneider@arm.com
2020-04-08 11:35:18 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 992a1a3b45 CPU (hotplug) updates:
- Support for locked CSD objects in smp_call_function_single_async()
     which allows to simplify callsites in the scheduler core and MIPS
 
   - Treewide consolidation of CPU hotplug functions which ensures the
     consistency between the sysfs interface and kernel state. The low level
     functions cpu_up/down() are now confined to the core code and not
     longer accessible from random code.
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Merge tag 'smp-core-2020-03-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull core SMP updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "CPU (hotplug) updates:

   - Support for locked CSD objects in smp_call_function_single_async()
     which allows to simplify callsites in the scheduler core and MIPS

   - Treewide consolidation of CPU hotplug functions which ensures the
     consistency between the sysfs interface and kernel state. The low
     level functions cpu_up/down() are now confined to the core code and
     not longer accessible from random code"

* tag 'smp-core-2020-03-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (22 commits)
  cpu/hotplug: Ignore pm_wakeup_pending() for disable_nonboot_cpus()
  cpu/hotplug: Hide cpu_up/down()
  cpu/hotplug: Move bringup of secondary CPUs out of smp_init()
  torture: Replace cpu_up/down() with add/remove_cpu()
  firmware: psci: Replace cpu_up/down() with add/remove_cpu()
  xen/cpuhotplug: Replace cpu_up/down() with device_online/offline()
  parisc: Replace cpu_up/down() with add/remove_cpu()
  sparc: Replace cpu_up/down() with add/remove_cpu()
  powerpc: Replace cpu_up/down() with add/remove_cpu()
  x86/smp: Replace cpu_up/down() with add/remove_cpu()
  arm64: hibernate: Use bringup_hibernate_cpu()
  cpu/hotplug: Provide bringup_hibernate_cpu()
  arm64: Use reboot_cpu instead of hardconding it to 0
  arm64: Don't use disable_nonboot_cpus()
  ARM: Use reboot_cpu instead of hardcoding it to 0
  ARM: Don't use disable_nonboot_cpus()
  ia64: Replace cpu_down() with smp_shutdown_nonboot_cpus()
  cpu/hotplug: Create a new function to shutdown nonboot cpus
  cpu/hotplug: Add new {add,remove}_cpu() functions
  sched/core: Remove rq.hrtick_csd_pending
  ...
2020-03-30 18:06:39 -07:00
Johannes Weiner b05e75d611 psi: Fix cpu.pressure for cpu.max and competing cgroups
For simplicity, cpu pressure is defined as having more than one
runnable task on a given CPU. This works on the system-level, but it
has limitations in a cgrouped reality: When cpu.max is in use, it
doesn't capture the time in which a task is not executing on the CPU
due to throttling. Likewise, it doesn't capture the time in which a
competing cgroup is occupying the CPU - meaning it only reflects
cgroup-internal competitive pressure, not outside pressure.

Enable tracking of currently executing tasks, and then change the
definition of cpu pressure in a cgroup from

	NR_RUNNING > 1

to

	NR_RUNNING > ON_CPU

which will capture the effects of cpu.max as well as competition from
outside the cgroup.

After this patch, a cgroup running `stress -c 1` with a cpu.max
setting of 5000 10000 shows ~50% continuous CPU pressure.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200316191333.115523-2-hannes@cmpxchg.org
2020-03-20 13:06:18 +01:00
Paul Turner 46a87b3851 sched/core: Distribute tasks within affinity masks
Currently, when updating the affinity of tasks via either cpusets.cpus,
or, sched_setaffinity(); tasks not currently running within the newly
specified mask will be arbitrarily assigned to the first CPU within the
mask.

This (particularly in the case that we are restricting masks) can
result in many tasks being assigned to the first CPUs of their new
masks.

This:
 1) Can induce scheduling delays while the load-balancer has a chance to
    spread them between their new CPUs.
 2) Can antogonize a poor load-balancer behavior where it has a
    difficult time recognizing that a cross-socket imbalance has been
    forced by an affinity mask.

This change adds a new cpumask interface to allow iterated calls to
distribute within the intersection of the provided masks.

The cases that this mainly affects are:
 - modifying cpuset.cpus
 - when tasks join a cpuset
 - when modifying a task's affinity via sched_setaffinity(2)

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>
Tested-by: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200311010113.136465-1-joshdon@google.com
2020-03-20 13:06:18 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 14533a16c4 thermal/cpu-cooling, sched/core: Move the arch_set_thermal_pressure() API to generic scheduler code
drivers/base/arch_topology.c is only built if CONFIG_GENERIC_ARCH_TOPOLOGY=y,
resulting in such build failures:

  cpufreq_cooling.c:(.text+0x1e7): undefined reference to `arch_set_thermal_pressure'

Move it to sched/core.c instead, and keep it enabled on x86 despite
us not having a arch_scale_thermal_pressure() facility there, to
build-test this thing.

Cc: Thara Gopinath <thara.gopinath@linaro.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2020-03-06 14:26:31 +01:00
Peter Xu fd3eafda8f sched/core: Remove rq.hrtick_csd_pending
Now smp_call_function_single_async() provides the protection that
we'll return with -EBUSY if the csd object is still pending, then we
don't need the rq.hrtick_csd_pending any more.

Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191216213125.9536-4-peterx@redhat.com
2020-03-06 13:42:28 +01:00
Thara Gopinath 05289b90c2 sched/fair: Enable tuning of decay period
Thermal pressure follows pelt signals which means the decay period for
thermal pressure is the default pelt decay period. Depending on SoC
characteristics and thermal activity, it might be beneficial to decay
thermal pressure slower, but still in-tune with the pelt signals.  One way
to achieve this is to provide a command line parameter to set a decay
shift parameter to an integer between 0 and 10.

Signed-off-by: Thara Gopinath <thara.gopinath@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200222005213.3873-10-thara.gopinath@linaro.org
2020-03-06 12:57:21 +01:00
Thara Gopinath b4eccf5f8e sched/fair: Enable periodic update of average thermal pressure
Introduce support in scheduler periodic tick and other CFS bookkeeping
APIs to trigger the process of computing average thermal pressure for a
CPU. Also consider avg_thermal.load_avg in others_have_blocked which
allows for decay of pelt signals.

Signed-off-by: Thara Gopinath <thara.gopinath@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200222005213.3873-7-thara.gopinath@linaro.org
2020-03-06 12:57:20 +01:00
Vincent Guittot 0dacee1bfa sched/pelt: Remove unused runnable load average
Now that runnable_load_avg is no more used, we can remove it to make
space for a new signal.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: "Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>"
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Cc: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200224095223.13361-8-mgorman@techsingularity.net
2020-02-24 11:36:36 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 546121b65f Linux 5.6-rc3
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2020-02-24 11:36:09 +01:00
Scott Wood 82e0516ce3 sched/core: Remove duplicate assignment in sched_tick_remote()
A redundant "curr = rq->curr" was added; remove it.

Fixes: ebc0f83c78 ("timers/nohz: Update NOHZ load in remote tick")
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <swood@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1580776558-12882-1-git-send-email-swood@redhat.com
2020-02-20 21:03:13 +01:00
Mel Gorman 52262ee567 sched/fair: Allow a per-CPU kthread waking a task to stack on the same CPU, to fix XFS performance regression
The following XFS commit:

  8ab39f11d9 ("xfs: prevent CIL push holdoff in log recovery")

changed the logic from using bound workqueues to using unbound
workqueues. Functionally this makes sense but it was observed at the
time that the dbench performance dropped quite a lot and CPU migrations
were increased.

The current pattern of the task migration is straight-forward. With XFS,
an IO issuer delegates work to xlog_cil_push_work ()on an unbound kworker.
This runs on a nearby CPU and on completion, dbench wakes up on its old CPU
as it is still idle and no migration occurs. dbench then queues the real
IO on the blk_mq_requeue_work() work item which runs on a bound kworker
which is forced to run on the same CPU as dbench. When IO completes,
the bound kworker wakes dbench but as the kworker is a bound but,
real task, the CPU is not considered idle and dbench gets migrated by
select_idle_sibling() to a new CPU. dbench may ping-pong between two CPUs
for a while but ultimately it starts a round-robin of all CPUs sharing
the same LLC. High-frequency migration on each IO completion has poor
performance overall. It has negative implications both in commication
costs and power management. mpstat confirmed that at low thread counts
that all CPUs sharing an LLC has low level of activity.

Note that even if the CIL patch was reverted, there still would
be migrations but the impact is less noticeable. It turns out that
individually the scheduler, XFS, blk-mq and workqueues all made sensible
decisions but in combination, the overall effect was sub-optimal.

This patch special cases the IO issue/completion pattern and allows
a bound kworker waker and a task wakee to stack on the same CPU if
there is a strong chance they are directly related. The expectation
is that the kworker is likely going back to sleep shortly. This is not
guaranteed as the IO could be queued asynchronously but there is a very
strong relationship between the task and kworker in this case that would
justify stacking on the same CPU instead of migrating. There should be
few concerns about kworker starvation given that the special casing is
only when the kworker is the waker.

DBench on XFS
MMTests config: io-dbench4-async modified to run on a fresh XFS filesystem

UMA machine with 8 cores sharing LLC
                          5.5.0-rc7              5.5.0-rc7
                  tipsched-20200124           kworkerstack
Amean     1        22.63 (   0.00%)       20.54 *   9.23%*
Amean     2        25.56 (   0.00%)       23.40 *   8.44%*
Amean     4        28.63 (   0.00%)       27.85 *   2.70%*
Amean     8        37.66 (   0.00%)       37.68 (  -0.05%)
Amean     64      469.47 (   0.00%)      468.26 (   0.26%)
Stddev    1         1.00 (   0.00%)        0.72 (  28.12%)
Stddev    2         1.62 (   0.00%)        1.97 ( -21.54%)
Stddev    4         2.53 (   0.00%)        3.58 ( -41.19%)
Stddev    8         5.30 (   0.00%)        5.20 (   1.92%)
Stddev    64       86.36 (   0.00%)       94.53 (  -9.46%)

NUMA machine, 48 CPUs total, 24 CPUs share cache
                           5.5.0-rc7              5.5.0-rc7
                   tipsched-20200124      kworkerstack-v1r2
Amean     1         58.69 (   0.00%)       30.21 *  48.53%*
Amean     2         60.90 (   0.00%)       35.29 *  42.05%*
Amean     4         66.77 (   0.00%)       46.55 *  30.28%*
Amean     8         81.41 (   0.00%)       68.46 *  15.91%*
Amean     16       113.29 (   0.00%)      107.79 *   4.85%*
Amean     32       199.10 (   0.00%)      198.22 *   0.44%*
Amean     64       478.99 (   0.00%)      477.06 *   0.40%*
Amean     128     1345.26 (   0.00%)     1372.64 *  -2.04%*
Stddev    1          2.64 (   0.00%)        4.17 ( -58.08%)
Stddev    2          4.35 (   0.00%)        5.38 ( -23.73%)
Stddev    4          6.77 (   0.00%)        6.56 (   3.00%)
Stddev    8         11.61 (   0.00%)       10.91 (   6.04%)
Stddev    16        18.63 (   0.00%)       19.19 (  -3.01%)
Stddev    32        38.71 (   0.00%)       38.30 (   1.06%)
Stddev    64       100.28 (   0.00%)       91.24 (   9.02%)
Stddev    128      186.87 (   0.00%)      160.34 (  14.20%)

Dbench has been modified to report the time to complete a single "load
file". This is a more meaningful metric for dbench that a throughput
metric as the benchmark makes many different system calls that are not
throughput-related

Patch shows a 9.23% and 48.53% reduction in the time to process a load
file with the difference partially explained by the number of CPUs sharing
a LLC. In a separate run, task migrations were almost eliminated by the
patch for low client counts. In case people have issue with the metric
used for the benchmark, this is a comparison of the throughputs as
reported by dbench on the NUMA machine.

dbench4 Throughput (misleading but traditional)
                           5.5.0-rc7              5.5.0-rc7
                   tipsched-20200124      kworkerstack-v1r2
Hmean     1        321.41 (   0.00%)      617.82 *  92.22%*
Hmean     2        622.87 (   0.00%)     1066.80 *  71.27%*
Hmean     4       1134.56 (   0.00%)     1623.74 *  43.12%*
Hmean     8       1869.96 (   0.00%)     2212.67 *  18.33%*
Hmean     16      2673.11 (   0.00%)     2806.13 *   4.98%*
Hmean     32      3032.74 (   0.00%)     3039.54 (   0.22%)
Hmean     64      2514.25 (   0.00%)     2498.96 *  -0.61%*
Hmean     128     1778.49 (   0.00%)     1746.05 *  -1.82%*

Note that this is somewhat specific to XFS and ext4 shows no performance
difference as it does not rely on kworkers in the same way. No major
problem was observed running other workloads on different machines although
not all tests have completed yet.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200128154006.GD3466@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2020-02-10 11:24:37 +01:00
Giovanni Gherdovich 1567c3e346 x86, sched: Add support for frequency invariance
Implement arch_scale_freq_capacity() for 'modern' x86. This function
is used by the scheduler to correctly account usage in the face of
DVFS.

The present patch addresses Intel processors specifically and has positive
performance and performance-per-watt implications for the schedutil cpufreq
governor, bringing it closer to, if not on-par with, the powersave governor
from the intel_pstate driver/framework.

Large performance gains are obtained when the machine is lightly loaded and
no regression are observed at saturation. The benchmarks with the largest
gains are kernel compilation, tbench (the networking version of dbench) and
shell-intensive workloads.

1. FREQUENCY INVARIANCE: MOTIVATION
   * Without it, a task looks larger if the CPU runs slower

2. PECULIARITIES OF X86
   * freq invariance accounting requires knowing the ratio freq_curr/freq_max
   2.1 CURRENT FREQUENCY
       * Use delta_APERF / delta_MPERF * freq_base (a.k.a "BusyMHz")
   2.2 MAX FREQUENCY
       * It varies with time (turbo). As an approximation, we set it to a
         constant, i.e. 4-cores turbo frequency.

3. EFFECTS ON THE SCHEDUTIL FREQUENCY GOVERNOR
   * The invariant schedutil's formula has no feedback loop and reacts faster
     to utilization changes

4. KNOWN LIMITATIONS
   * In some cases tasks can't reach max util despite how hard they try

5. PERFORMANCE TESTING
   5.1 MACHINES
       * Skylake, Broadwell, Haswell
   5.2 SETUP
       * baseline Linux v5.2 w/ non-invariant schedutil. Tested freq_max = 1-2-3-4-8-12
         active cores turbo w/ invariant schedutil, and intel_pstate/powersave
   5.3 BENCHMARK RESULTS
       5.3.1 NEUTRAL BENCHMARKS
             * NAS Parallel Benchmark (HPC), hackbench
       5.3.2 NON-NEUTRAL BENCHMARKS
             * tbench (10-30% better), kernbench (10-15% better),
               shell-intensive-scripts (30-50% better)
             * no regressions
       5.3.3 SELECTION OF DETAILED RESULTS
       5.3.4 POWER CONSUMPTION, PERFORMANCE-PER-WATT
             * dbench (5% worse on one machine), kernbench (3% worse),
               tbench (5-10% better), shell-intensive-scripts (10-40% better)

6. MICROARCH'ES ADDRESSED HERE
   * Xeon Core before Scalable Performance processors line (Xeon Gold/Platinum
     etc have different MSRs semantic for querying turbo levels)

7. REFERENCES
   * MMTests performance testing framework, github.com/gormanm/mmtests

 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 | 1. FREQUENCY INVARIANCE: MOTIVATION
 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

For example; suppose a CPU has two frequencies: 500 and 1000 Mhz. When
running a task that would consume 1/3rd of a CPU at 1000 MHz, it would
appear to consume 2/3rd (or 66.6%) when running at 500 MHz, giving the
false impression this CPU is almost at capacity, even though it can go
faster [*]. In a nutshell, without frequency scale-invariance tasks look
larger just because the CPU is running slower.

[*] (footnote: this assumes a linear frequency/performance relation; which
everybody knows to be false, but given realities its the best approximation
we can make.)

 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 | 2. PECULIARITIES OF X86
 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Accounting for frequency changes in PELT signals requires the computation of
the ratio freq_curr / freq_max. On x86 neither of those terms is readily
available.

2.1 CURRENT FREQUENCY
====================

Since modern x86 has hardware control over the actual frequency we run
at (because amongst other things, Turbo-Mode), we cannot simply use
the frequency as requested through cpufreq.

Instead we use the APERF/MPERF MSRs to compute the effective frequency
over the recent past. Also, because reading MSRs is expensive, don't
do so every time we need the value, but amortize the cost by doing it
every tick.

2.2 MAX FREQUENCY
=================

Obtaining freq_max is also non-trivial because at any time the hardware can
provide a frequency boost to a selected subset of cores if the package has
enough power to spare (eg: Turbo Boost). This means that the maximum frequency
available to a given core changes with time.

The approach taken in this change is to arbitrarily set freq_max to a constant
value at boot. The value chosen is the "4-cores (4C) turbo frequency" on most
microarchitectures, after evaluating the following candidates:

    * 1-core (1C) turbo frequency (the fastest turbo state available)
    * around base frequency (a.k.a. max P-state)
    * something in between, such as 4C turbo

To interpret these options, consider that this is the denominator in
freq_curr/freq_max, and that ratio will be used to scale PELT signals such as
util_avg and load_avg. A large denominator will undershoot (util_avg looks a
bit smaller than it really is), viceversa with a smaller denominator PELT
signals will tend to overshoot. Given that PELT drives frequency selection
in the schedutil governor, we will have:

    freq_max set to     | effect on DVFS
    --------------------+------------------
    1C turbo            | power efficiency (lower freq choices)
    base freq           | performance (higher util_avg, higher freq requests)
    4C turbo            | a bit of both

4C turbo proves to be a good compromise in a number of benchmarks (see below).

 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 | 3. EFFECTS ON THE SCHEDUTIL FREQUENCY GOVERNOR
 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Once an architecture implements a frequency scale-invariant utilization (the
PELT signal util_avg), schedutil switches its frequency selection formula from

    freq_next = 1.25 * freq_curr * util            [non-invariant util signal]

to

    freq_next = 1.25 * freq_max * util             [invariant util signal]

where, in the second formula, freq_max is set to the 1C turbo frequency (max
turbo). The advantage of the second formula, whose usage we unlock with this
patch, is that freq_next doesn't depend on the current frequency in an
iterative fashion, but can jump to any frequency in a single update. This
absence of feedback in the formula makes it quicker to react to utilization
changes and more robust against pathological instabilities.

Compare it to the update formula of intel_pstate/powersave:

    freq_next = 1.25 * freq_max * Busy%

where again freq_max is 1C turbo and Busy% is the percentage of time not spent
idling (calculated with delta_MPERF / delta_TSC); essentially the same as
invariant schedutil, and largely responsible for intel_pstate/powersave good
reputation. The non-invariant schedutil formula is derived from the invariant
one by approximating util_inv with util_raw * freq_curr / freq_max, but this
has limitations.

Testing shows improved performances due to better frequency selections when
the machine is lightly loaded, and essentially no change in behaviour at
saturation / overutilization.

 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 | 4. KNOWN LIMITATIONS
 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

It's been shown that it is possible to create pathological scenarios where a
CPU-bound task cannot reach max utilization, if the normalizing factor
freq_max is fixed to a constant value (see [Lelli-2018]).

If freq_max is set to 4C turbo as we do here, one needs to peg at least 5
cores in a package doing some busywork, and observe that none of those task
will ever reach max util (1024) because they're all running at less than the
4C turbo frequency.

While this concern still applies, we believe the performance benefit of
frequency scale-invariant PELT signals outweights the cost of this limitation.

 [Lelli-2018]
 https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180517150418.GF22493@localhost.localdomain/

 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 | 5. PERFORMANCE TESTING
 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

5.1 MACHINES
============

We tested the patch on three machines, with Skylake, Broadwell and Haswell
CPUs. The details are below, together with the available turbo ratios as
reported by the appropriate MSRs.

* 8x-SKYLAKE-UMA:
  Single socket E3-1240 v5, Skylake 4 cores/8 threads
  Max EFFiciency, BASE frequency and available turbo levels (MHz):

    EFFIC    800 |********
    BASE    3500 |***********************************
    4C      3700 |*************************************
    3C      3800 |**************************************
    2C      3900 |***************************************
    1C      3900 |***************************************

* 80x-BROADWELL-NUMA:
  Two sockets E5-2698 v4, 2x Broadwell 20 cores/40 threads
  Max EFFiciency, BASE frequency and available turbo levels (MHz):

    EFFIC   1200 |************
    BASE    2200 |**********************
    8C      2900 |*****************************
    7C      3000 |******************************
    6C      3100 |*******************************
    5C      3200 |********************************
    4C      3300 |*********************************
    3C      3400 |**********************************
    2C      3600 |************************************
    1C      3600 |************************************

* 48x-HASWELL-NUMA
  Two sockets E5-2670 v3, 2x Haswell 12 cores/24 threads
  Max EFFiciency, BASE frequency and available turbo levels (MHz):

    EFFIC   1200 |************
    BASE    2300 |***********************
    12C     2600 |**************************
    11C     2600 |**************************
    10C     2600 |**************************
    9C      2600 |**************************
    8C      2600 |**************************
    7C      2600 |**************************
    6C      2600 |**************************
    5C      2700 |***************************
    4C      2800 |****************************
    3C      2900 |*****************************
    2C      3100 |*******************************
    1C      3100 |*******************************

5.2 SETUP
=========

* The baseline is Linux v5.2 with schedutil (non-invariant) and the intel_pstate
  driver in passive mode.
* The rationale for choosing the various freq_max values to test have been to
  try all the 1-2-3-4C turbo levels (note that 1C and 2C turbo are identical
  on all machines), plus one more value closer to base_freq but still in the
  turbo range (8C turbo for both 80x-BROADWELL-NUMA and 48x-HASWELL-NUMA).
* In addition we've run all tests with intel_pstate/powersave for comparison.
* The filesystem is always XFS, the userspace is openSUSE Leap 15.1.
* 8x-SKYLAKE-UMA is capable of HWP (Hardware-Managed P-States), so the runs
  with active intel_pstate on this machine use that.

This gives, in terms of combinations tested on each machine:

* 8x-SKYLAKE-UMA
  * Baseline: Linux v5.2, non-invariant schedutil, intel_pstate passive
  * intel_pstate active + powersave + HWP
  * invariant schedutil, freq_max = 1C turbo
  * invariant schedutil, freq_max = 3C turbo
  * invariant schedutil, freq_max = 4C turbo

* both 80x-BROADWELL-NUMA and 48x-HASWELL-NUMA
  * [same as 8x-SKYLAKE-UMA, but no HWP capable]
  * invariant schedutil, freq_max = 8C turbo
    (which on 48x-HASWELL-NUMA is the same as 12C turbo, or "all cores turbo")

5.3 BENCHMARK RESULTS
=====================

5.3.1 NEUTRAL BENCHMARKS
------------------------

Tests that didn't show any measurable difference in performance on any of the
test machines between non-invariant schedutil and our patch are:

* NAS Parallel Benchmarks (NPB) using either MPI or openMP for IPC, any
  computational kernel
* flexible I/O (FIO)
* hackbench (using threads or processes, and using pipes or sockets)

5.3.2 NON-NEUTRAL BENCHMARKS
----------------------------

What follow are summary tables where each benchmark result is given a score.

* A tilde (~) means a neutral result, i.e. no difference from baseline.
* Scores are computed with the ratio result_new / result_baseline, so a tilde
  means a score of 1.00.
* The results in the score ratio are the geometric means of results running
  the benchmark with different parameters (eg: for kernbench: using 1, 2, 4,
  ... number of processes; for pgbench: varying the number of clients, and so
  on).
* The first three tables show higher-is-better kind of tests (i.e. measured in
  operations/second), the subsequent three show lower-is-better kind of tests
  (i.e. the workload is fixed and we measure elapsed time, think kernbench).
* "gitsource" is a name we made up for the test consisting in running the
  entire unit tests suite of the Git SCM and measuring how long it takes. We
  take it as a typical example of shell-intensive serialized workload.
* In the "I_PSTATE" column we have the results for intel_pstate/powersave. Other
  columns show invariant schedutil for different values of freq_max. 4C turbo
  is circled as it's the value we've chosen for the final implementation.

80x-BROADWELL-NUMA (comparison ratio; higher is better)
                                         +------+
                 I_PSTATE   1C     3C    | 4C   |  8C
pgbench-ro           1.14   ~      ~     | 1.11 |  1.14
pgbench-rw           ~      ~      ~     | ~    |  ~
netperf-udp          1.06   ~      1.06  | 1.05 |  1.07
netperf-tcp          ~      1.03   ~     | 1.01 |  1.02
tbench4              1.57   1.18   1.22  | 1.30 |  1.56
                                         +------+

8x-SKYLAKE-UMA (comparison ratio; higher is better)
                                         +------+
             I_PSTATE/HWP   1C     3C    | 4C   |
pgbench-ro           ~      ~      ~     | ~    |
pgbench-rw           ~      ~      ~     | ~    |
netperf-udp          ~      ~      ~     | ~    |
netperf-tcp          ~      ~      ~     | ~    |
tbench4              1.30   1.14   1.14  | 1.16 |
                                         +------+

48x-HASWELL-NUMA (comparison ratio; higher is better)
                                         +------+
                 I_PSTATE   1C     3C    | 4C   |  12C
pgbench-ro           1.15   ~      ~     | 1.06 |  1.16
pgbench-rw           ~      ~      ~     | ~    |  ~
netperf-udp          1.05   0.97   1.04  | 1.04 |  1.02
netperf-tcp          0.96   1.01   1.01  | 1.01 |  1.01
tbench4              1.50   1.05   1.13  | 1.13 |  1.25
                                         +------+

In the table above we see that active intel_pstate is slightly better than our
4C-turbo patch (both in reference to the baseline non-invariant schedutil) on
read-only pgbench and much better on tbench. Both cases are notable in which
it shows that lowering our freq_max (to 8C-turbo and 12C-turbo on
80x-BROADWELL-NUMA and 48x-HASWELL-NUMA respectively) helps invariant
schedutil to get closer.

If we ignore active intel_pstate and focus on the comparison with baseline
alone, there are several instances of double-digit performance improvement.

80x-BROADWELL-NUMA (comparison ratio; lower is better)
                                         +------+
                 I_PSTATE   1C     3C    | 4C   |  8C
dbench4              1.23   0.95   0.95  | 0.95 |  0.95
kernbench            0.93   0.83   0.83  | 0.83 |  0.82
gitsource            0.98   0.49   0.49  | 0.49 |  0.48
                                         +------+

8x-SKYLAKE-UMA (comparison ratio; lower is better)
                                         +------+
             I_PSTATE/HWP   1C     3C    | 4C   |
dbench4              ~      ~      ~     | ~    |
kernbench            ~      ~      ~     | ~    |
gitsource            0.92   0.55   0.55  | 0.55 |
                                         +------+

48x-HASWELL-NUMA (comparison ratio; lower is better)
                                         +------+
                 I_PSTATE   1C     3C    | 4C   |  8C
dbench4              ~      ~      ~     | ~    |  ~
kernbench            0.94   0.90   0.89  | 0.90 |  0.90
gitsource            0.97   0.69   0.69  | 0.69 |  0.69
                                         +------+

dbench is not very remarkable here, unless we notice how poorly active
intel_pstate is performing on 80x-BROADWELL-NUMA: 23% regression versus
non-invariant schedutil. We repeated that run getting consistent results. Out
of scope for the patch at hand, but deserving future investigation. Other than
that, we previously ran this campaign with Linux v5.0 and saw the patch doing
better on dbench a the time. We haven't checked closely and can only speculate
at this point.

On the NUMA boxes kernbench gets 10-15% improvements on average; we'll see in
the detailed tables that the gains concentrate on low process counts (lightly
loaded machines).

The test we call "gitsource" (running the git unit test suite, a long-running
single-threaded shell script) appears rather spectacular in this table (gains
of 30-50% depending on the machine). It is to be noted, however, that
gitsource has no adjustable parameters (such as the number of jobs in
kernbench, which we average over in order to get a single-number summary
score) and is exactly the kind of low-parallelism workload that benefits the
most from this patch. When looking at the detailed tables of kernbench or
tbench4, at low process or client counts one can see similar numbers.

5.3.3 SELECTION OF DETAILED RESULTS
-----------------------------------

Machine            : 48x-HASWELL-NUMA
Benchmark          : tbench4 (i.e. dbench4 over the network, actually loopback)
Varying parameter  : number of clients
Unit               : MB/sec (higher is better)

                   5.2.0 vanilla (BASELINE)               5.2.0 intel_pstate                   5.2.0 1C-turbo
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Hmean  1        126.73  +- 0.31% (        )      315.91  +- 0.66% ( 149.28%)      125.03  +- 0.76% (  -1.34%)
Hmean  2        258.04  +- 0.62% (        )      614.16  +- 0.51% ( 138.01%)      269.58  +- 1.45% (   4.47%)
Hmean  4        514.30  +- 0.67% (        )     1146.58  +- 0.54% ( 122.94%)      533.84  +- 1.99% (   3.80%)
Hmean  8       1111.38  +- 2.52% (        )     2159.78  +- 0.38% (  94.33%)     1359.92  +- 1.56% (  22.36%)
Hmean  16      2286.47  +- 1.36% (        )     3338.29  +- 0.21% (  46.00%)     2720.20  +- 0.52% (  18.97%)
Hmean  32      4704.84  +- 0.35% (        )     4759.03  +- 0.43% (   1.15%)     4774.48  +- 0.30% (   1.48%)
Hmean  64      7578.04  +- 0.27% (        )     7533.70  +- 0.43% (  -0.59%)     7462.17  +- 0.65% (  -1.53%)
Hmean  128     6998.52  +- 0.16% (        )     6987.59  +- 0.12% (  -0.16%)     6909.17  +- 0.14% (  -1.28%)
Hmean  192     6901.35  +- 0.25% (        )     6913.16  +- 0.10% (   0.17%)     6855.47  +- 0.21% (  -0.66%)

                             5.2.0 3C-turbo                   5.2.0 4C-turbo                  5.2.0 12C-turbo
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Hmean  1        128.43  +- 0.28% (   1.34%)      130.64  +- 3.81% (   3.09%)      153.71  +- 5.89% (  21.30%)
Hmean  2        311.70  +- 6.15% (  20.79%)      281.66  +- 3.40% (   9.15%)      305.08  +- 5.70% (  18.23%)
Hmean  4        641.98  +- 2.32% (  24.83%)      623.88  +- 5.28% (  21.31%)      906.84  +- 4.65% (  76.32%)
Hmean  8       1633.31  +- 1.56% (  46.96%)     1714.16  +- 0.93% (  54.24%)     2095.74  +- 0.47% (  88.57%)
Hmean  16      3047.24  +- 0.42% (  33.27%)     3155.02  +- 0.30% (  37.99%)     3634.58  +- 0.15% (  58.96%)
Hmean  32      4734.31  +- 0.60% (   0.63%)     4804.38  +- 0.23% (   2.12%)     4674.62  +- 0.27% (  -0.64%)
Hmean  64      7699.74  +- 0.35% (   1.61%)     7499.72  +- 0.34% (  -1.03%)     7659.03  +- 0.25% (   1.07%)
Hmean  128     6935.18  +- 0.15% (  -0.91%)     6942.54  +- 0.10% (  -0.80%)     7004.85  +- 0.12% (   0.09%)
Hmean  192     6901.62  +- 0.12% (   0.00%)     6856.93  +- 0.10% (  -0.64%)     6978.74  +- 0.10% (   1.12%)

This is one of the cases where the patch still can't surpass active
intel_pstate, not even when freq_max is as low as 12C-turbo. Otherwise, gains are
visible up to 16 clients and the saturated scenario is the same as baseline.

The scores in the summary table from the previous sections are ratios of
geometric means of the results over different clients, as seen in this table.

Machine            : 80x-BROADWELL-NUMA
Benchmark          : kernbench (kernel compilation)
Varying parameter  : number of jobs
Unit               : seconds (lower is better)

                   5.2.0 vanilla (BASELINE)               5.2.0 intel_pstate                   5.2.0 1C-turbo
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Amean  2        379.68  +- 0.06% (        )      330.20  +- 0.43% (  13.03%)      285.93  +- 0.07% (  24.69%)
Amean  4        200.15  +- 0.24% (        )      175.89  +- 0.22% (  12.12%)      153.78  +- 0.25% (  23.17%)
Amean  8        106.20  +- 0.31% (        )       95.54  +- 0.23% (  10.03%)       86.74  +- 0.10% (  18.32%)
Amean  16        56.96  +- 1.31% (        )       53.25  +- 1.22% (   6.50%)       48.34  +- 1.73% (  15.13%)
Amean  32        34.80  +- 2.46% (        )       33.81  +- 0.77% (   2.83%)       30.28  +- 1.59% (  12.99%)
Amean  64        26.11  +- 1.63% (        )       25.04  +- 1.07% (   4.10%)       22.41  +- 2.37% (  14.16%)
Amean  128       24.80  +- 1.36% (        )       23.57  +- 1.23% (   4.93%)       21.44  +- 1.37% (  13.55%)
Amean  160       24.85  +- 0.56% (        )       23.85  +- 1.17% (   4.06%)       21.25  +- 1.12% (  14.49%)

                             5.2.0 3C-turbo                   5.2.0 4C-turbo                   5.2.0 8C-turbo
- - - - - - - -  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Amean  2        284.08  +- 0.13% (  25.18%)      283.96  +- 0.51% (  25.21%)      285.05  +- 0.21% (  24.92%)
Amean  4        153.18  +- 0.22% (  23.47%)      154.70  +- 1.64% (  22.71%)      153.64  +- 0.30% (  23.24%)
Amean  8         87.06  +- 0.28% (  18.02%)       86.77  +- 0.46% (  18.29%)       86.78  +- 0.22% (  18.28%)
Amean  16        48.03  +- 0.93% (  15.68%)       47.75  +- 1.99% (  16.17%)       47.52  +- 1.61% (  16.57%)
Amean  32        30.23  +- 1.20% (  13.14%)       30.08  +- 1.67% (  13.57%)       30.07  +- 1.67% (  13.60%)
Amean  64        22.59  +- 2.02% (  13.50%)       22.63  +- 0.81% (  13.32%)       22.42  +- 0.76% (  14.12%)
Amean  128       21.37  +- 0.67% (  13.82%)       21.31  +- 1.15% (  14.07%)       21.17  +- 1.93% (  14.63%)
Amean  160       21.68  +- 0.57% (  12.76%)       21.18  +- 1.74% (  14.77%)       21.22  +- 1.00% (  14.61%)

The patch outperform active intel_pstate (and baseline) by a considerable
margin; the summary table from the previous section says 4C turbo and active
intel_pstate are 0.83 and 0.93 against baseline respectively, so 4C turbo is
0.83/0.93=0.89 against intel_pstate (~10% better on average). There is no
noticeable difference with regard to the value of freq_max.

Machine            : 8x-SKYLAKE-UMA
Benchmark          : gitsource (time to run the git unit test suite)
Varying parameter  : none
Unit               : seconds (lower is better)

                            5.2.0 vanilla           5.2.0 intel_pstate/hwp         5.2.0 1C-turbo
- - - - - - - -  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Amean         858.85  +- 1.16% (        )      791.94  +- 0.21% (   7.79%)      474.95 (  44.70%)

                           5.2.0 3C-turbo                   5.2.0 4C-turbo
- - - - - - - -  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Amean         475.26  +- 0.20% (  44.66%)      474.34  +- 0.13% (  44.77%)

In this test, which is of interest as representing shell-intensive
(i.e. fork-intensive) serialized workloads, invariant schedutil outperforms
intel_pstate/powersave by a whopping 40% margin.

5.3.4 POWER CONSUMPTION, PERFORMANCE-PER-WATT
---------------------------------------------

The following table shows average power consumption in watt for each
benchmark. Data comes from turbostat (package average), which in turn is read
from the RAPL interface on CPUs. We know the patch affects CPU frequencies so
it's reasonable to ignore other power consumers (such as memory or I/O). Also,
we don't have a power meter available in the lab so RAPL is the best we have.

turbostat sampled average power every 10 seconds for the entire duration of
each benchmark. We took all those values and averaged them (i.e. with don't
have detail on a per-parameter granularity, only on whole benchmarks).

80x-BROADWELL-NUMA (power consumption, watts)
                                                    +--------+
               BASELINE I_PSTATE       1C       3C  |     4C |      8C
pgbench-ro       130.01   142.77   131.11   132.45  | 134.65 |  136.84
pgbench-rw        68.30    60.83    71.45    71.70  |  71.65 |   72.54
dbench4           90.25    59.06   101.43    99.89  | 101.10 |  102.94
netperf-udp       65.70    69.81    66.02    68.03  |  68.27 |   68.95
netperf-tcp       88.08    87.96    88.97    88.89  |  88.85 |   88.20
tbench4          142.32   176.73   153.02   163.91  | 165.58 |  176.07
kernbench         92.94   101.95   114.91   115.47  | 115.52 |  115.10
gitsource         40.92    41.87    75.14    75.20  |  75.40 |   75.70
                                                    +--------+
8x-SKYLAKE-UMA (power consumption, watts)
                                                    +--------+
              BASELINE I_PSTATE/HWP    1C       3C  |     4C |
pgbench-ro        46.49    46.68    46.56    46.59  |  46.52 |
pgbench-rw        29.34    31.38    30.98    31.00  |  31.00 |
dbench4           27.28    27.37    27.49    27.41  |  27.38 |
netperf-udp       22.33    22.41    22.36    22.35  |  22.36 |
netperf-tcp       27.29    27.29    27.30    27.31  |  27.33 |
tbench4           41.13    45.61    43.10    43.33  |  43.56 |
kernbench         42.56    42.63    43.01    43.01  |  43.01 |
gitsource         13.32    13.69    17.33    17.30  |  17.35 |
                                                    +--------+
48x-HASWELL-NUMA (power consumption, watts)
                                                    +--------+
               BASELINE I_PSTATE       1C       3C  |     4C |     12C
pgbench-ro       128.84   136.04   129.87   132.43  | 132.30 |  134.86
pgbench-rw        37.68    37.92    37.17    37.74  |  37.73 |   37.31
dbench4           28.56    28.73    28.60    28.73  |  28.70 |   28.79
netperf-udp       56.70    60.44    56.79    57.42  |  57.54 |   57.52
netperf-tcp       75.49    75.27    75.87    76.02  |  76.01 |   75.95
tbench4          115.44   139.51   119.53   123.07  | 123.97 |  130.22
kernbench         83.23    91.55    95.58    95.69  |  95.72 |   96.04
gitsource         36.79    36.99    39.99    40.34  |  40.35 |   40.23
                                                    +--------+

A lower power consumption isn't necessarily better, it depends on what is done
with that energy. Here are tables with the ratio of performance-per-watt on
each machine and benchmark. Higher is always better; a tilde (~) means a
neutral ratio (i.e. 1.00).

80x-BROADWELL-NUMA (performance-per-watt ratios; higher is better)
                                     +------+
             I_PSTATE     1C     3C  |   4C |    8C
pgbench-ro       1.04   1.06   0.94  | 1.07 |  1.08
pgbench-rw       1.10   0.97   0.96  | 0.96 |  0.97
dbench4          1.24   0.94   0.95  | 0.94 |  0.92
netperf-udp      ~      1.02   1.02  | ~    |  1.02
netperf-tcp      ~      1.02   ~     | ~    |  1.02
tbench4          1.26   1.10   1.06  | 1.12 |  1.26
kernbench        0.98   0.97   0.97  | 0.97 |  0.98
gitsource        ~      1.11   1.11  | 1.11 |  1.13
                                     +------+

8x-SKYLAKE-UMA (performance-per-watt ratios; higher is better)
                                     +------+
         I_PSTATE/HWP     1C     3C  |   4C |
pgbench-ro       ~      ~      ~     | ~    |
pgbench-rw       0.95   0.97   0.96  | 0.96 |
dbench4          ~      ~      ~     | ~    |
netperf-udp      ~      ~      ~     | ~    |
netperf-tcp      ~      ~      ~     | ~    |
tbench4          1.17   1.09   1.08  | 1.10 |
kernbench        ~      ~      ~     | ~    |
gitsource        1.06   1.40   1.40  | 1.40 |
                                     +------+

48x-HASWELL-NUMA  (performance-per-watt ratios; higher is better)
                                     +------+
             I_PSTATE     1C     3C  |   4C |   12C
pgbench-ro       1.09   ~      1.09  | 1.03 |  1.11
pgbench-rw       ~      0.86   ~     | ~    |  0.86
dbench4          ~      1.02   1.02  | 1.02 |  ~
netperf-udp      ~      0.97   1.03  | 1.02 |  ~
netperf-tcp      0.96   ~      ~     | ~    |  ~
tbench4          1.24   ~      1.06  | 1.05 |  1.11
kernbench        0.97   0.97   0.98  | 0.97 |  0.96
gitsource        1.03   1.33   1.32  | 1.32 |  1.33
                                     +------+

These results are overall pleasing: in plenty of cases we observe
performance-per-watt improvements. The few regressions (read/write pgbench and
dbench on the Broadwell machine) are of small magnitude. kernbench loses a few
percentage points (it has a 10-15% performance improvement, but apparently the
increase in power consumption is larger than that). tbench4 and gitsource, which
benefit the most from the patch, keep a positive score in this table which is
a welcome surprise; that suggests that in those particular workloads the
non-invariant schedutil (and active intel_pstate, too) makes some rather
suboptimal frequency selections.

+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| 6. MICROARCH'ES ADDRESSED HERE
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

The patch addresses Xeon Core processors that use MSR_PLATFORM_INFO and
MSR_TURBO_RATIO_LIMIT to advertise their base frequency and turbo frequencies
respectively. This excludes the recent Xeon Scalable Performance processors
line (Xeon Gold, Platinum etc) whose MSRs have to be parsed differently.

Subsequent patches will address:

* Xeon Scalable Performance processors and Atom Goldmont/Goldmont Plus
* Xeon Phi (Knights Landing, Knights Mill)
* Atom Silvermont

+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| 7. REFERENCES
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Tests have been run with the help of the MMTests performance testing
framework, see github.com/gormanm/mmtests. The configuration file names for
the benchmark used are:

    db-pgbench-timed-ro-small-xfs
    db-pgbench-timed-rw-small-xfs
    io-dbench4-async-xfs
    network-netperf-unbound
    network-tbench
    scheduler-unbound
    workload-kerndevel-xfs
    workload-shellscripts-xfs
    hpc-nas-c-class-mpi-full-xfs
    hpc-nas-c-class-omp-full

All those benchmarks are generally available on the web:

pgbench: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/pgbench.html
netperf: https://hewlettpackard.github.io/netperf/
dbench/tbench: https://dbench.samba.org/
gitsource: git unit test suite, github.com/git/git
NAS Parallel Benchmarks: https://www.nas.nasa.gov/publications/npb.html
hackbench: https://people.redhat.com/mingo/cfs-scheduler/tools/hackbench.c

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Giovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200122151617.531-2-ggherdovich@suse.cz
2020-01-28 21:36:59 +01:00
Vincent Guittot 2a4b03ffc6 sched/fair: Prevent unlimited runtime on throttled group
When a running task is moved on a throttled task group and there is no
other task enqueued on the CPU, the task can keep running using 100% CPU
whatever the allocated bandwidth for the group and although its cfs rq is
throttled. Furthermore, the group entity of the cfs_rq and its parents are
not enqueued but only set as curr on their respective cfs_rqs.

We have the following sequence:

sched_move_task
  -dequeue_task: dequeue task and group_entities.
  -put_prev_task: put task and group entities.
  -sched_change_group: move task to new group.
  -enqueue_task: enqueue only task but not group entities because cfs_rq is
    throttled.
  -set_next_task : set task and group_entities as current sched_entity of
    their cfs_rq.

Another impact is that the root cfs_rq runnable_load_avg at root rq stays
null because the group_entities are not enqueued. This situation will stay
the same until an "external" event triggers a reschedule. Let trigger it
immediately instead.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1579011236-31256-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
2020-01-28 21:36:58 +01:00
Wanpeng Li e938b9c941 sched/nohz: Optimize get_nohz_timer_target()
On a machine, CPU 0 is used for housekeeping, the other 39 CPUs in the
same socket are in nohz_full mode. We can observe huge time burn in the
loop for seaching nearest busy housekeeper cpu by ftrace.

  2)               |                        get_nohz_timer_target() {
  2)   0.240 us    |                          housekeeping_test_cpu();
  2)   0.458 us    |                          housekeeping_test_cpu();

  ...

  2)   0.292 us    |                          housekeeping_test_cpu();
  2)   0.240 us    |                          housekeeping_test_cpu();
  2)   0.227 us    |                          housekeeping_any_cpu();
  2) + 43.460 us   |                        }

This patch optimizes the searching logic by finding a nearest housekeeper
CPU in the housekeeping cpumask, it can minimize the worst searching time
from ~44us to < 10us in my testing. In addition, the last iterated busy
housekeeper can become a random candidate while current CPU is a better
fallback if it is a housekeeper.

Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1578876627-11938-1-git-send-email-wanpengli@tencent.com
2020-01-28 21:36:57 +01:00
Qais Yousef b562d14064 sched/uclamp: Reject negative values in cpu_uclamp_write()
The check to ensure that the new written value into cpu.uclamp.{min,max}
is within range, [0:100], wasn't working because of the signed
comparison

 7301                 if (req.percent > UCLAMP_PERCENT_SCALE) {
 7302                         req.ret = -ERANGE;
 7303                         return req;
 7304                 }

	# echo -1 > cpu.uclamp.min
	# cat cpu.uclamp.min
	42949671.96

Cast req.percent into u64 to force the comparison to be unsigned and
work as intended in capacity_from_percent().

	# echo -1 > cpu.uclamp.min
	sh: write error: Numerical result out of range

Fixes: 2480c09313 ("sched/uclamp: Extend CPU's cgroup controller")
Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200114210947.14083-1-qais.yousef@arm.com
2020-01-28 21:36:56 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra (Intel) ebc0f83c78 timers/nohz: Update NOHZ load in remote tick
The way loadavg is tracked during nohz only pays attention to the load
upon entering nohz.  This can be particularly noticeable if full nohz is
entered while non-idle, and then the cpu goes idle and stays that way for
a long time.

Use the remote tick to ensure that full nohz cpus report their deltas
within a reasonable time.

[ swood: Added changelog and removed recheck of stopped tick. ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <swood@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1578736419-14628-3-git-send-email-swood@redhat.com
2020-01-28 21:36:44 +01:00
Scott Wood 488603b815 sched/core: Don't skip remote tick for idle CPUs
This will be used in the next patch to get a loadavg update from
nohz cpus.  The delta check is skipped because idle_sched_class
doesn't update se.exec_start.

Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <swood@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1578736419-14628-2-git-send-email-swood@redhat.com
2020-01-28 21:36:16 +01:00
Li Guanglei dcd6dffb0a sched/core: Fix size of rq::uclamp initialization
rq::uclamp is an array of struct uclamp_rq, make sure we clear the
whole thing.

Fixes: 69842cba9a ("sched/uclamp: Add CPU's clamp buckets refcountinga")
Signed-off-by: Li Guanglei <guanglei.li@unisoc.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1577259844-12677-1-git-send-email-guangleix.li@gmail.com
2020-01-17 10:19:20 +01:00
Qais Yousef 7226017ad3 sched/uclamp: Fix a bug in propagating uclamp value in new cgroups
When a new cgroup is created, the effective uclamp value wasn't updated
with a call to cpu_util_update_eff() that looks at the hierarchy and
update to the most restrictive values.

Fix it by ensuring to call cpu_util_update_eff() when a new cgroup
becomes online.

Without this change, the newly created cgroup uses the default
root_task_group uclamp values, which is 1024 for both uclamp_{min, max},
which will cause the rq to to be clamped to max, hence cause the
system to run at max frequency.

The problem was observed on Ubuntu server and was reproduced on Debian
and Buildroot rootfs.

By default, Ubuntu and Debian create a cpu controller cgroup hierarchy
and add all tasks to it - which creates enough noise to keep the rq
uclamp value at max most of the time. Imitating this behavior makes the
problem visible in Buildroot too which otherwise looks fine since it's a
minimal userspace.

Fixes: 0b60ba2dd3 ("sched/uclamp: Propagate parent clamps")
Reported-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net>
Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/000701d5b965$361b6c60$a2524520$@net/
2020-01-17 10:19:20 +01:00
Valentin Schneider 686516b55e sched/uclamp: Make uclamp util helpers use and return UL values
Vincent pointed out recently that the canonical type for utilization
values is 'unsigned long'. Internally uclamp uses 'unsigned int' values for
cache optimization, but this doesn't have to be exported to its users.

Make the uclamp helpers that deal with utilization use and return unsigned
long values.

Tested-By: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191211113851.24241-3-valentin.schneider@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-12-25 10:42:08 +01:00