linux/kernel/sched/core.c, branch v3.6

Revert "sched: Improve scalability via 'CPU buddies', which withstand random perturbations"

2012-09-16T19:29:43Z

This reverts commit 970e178985cadbca660feb02f4d2ee3a09f7fdda. Nikolay Ulyanitsky reported thatthe 3.6-rc5 kernel has a 15-20% performance drop on PostgreSQL 9.2 on his machine (running "pgbench"). Borislav Petkov was able to reproduce this, and bisected it to this commit 970e178985ca ("sched: Improve scalability via 'CPU buddies' ...") apparently because the new single-idle-buddy model simply doesn't find idle CPU's to reschedule on aggressively enough. Mike Galbraith suspects that it is likely due to the user-mode spinlocks in PostgreSQL not reacting well to preemption, but we don't really know the details - I'll just revert the commit for now. There are hopefully other approaches to improve scheduler scalability without it causing these kinds of downsides. Reported-by: Nikolay Ulyanitsky Bisected-by: Borislav Petkov Acked-by: Mike Galbraith Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sched: Unthrottle rt runqueues in __disable_runtime()

2012-09-04T12:30:30Z

migrate_tasks() uses _pick_next_task_rt() to get tasks from the real-time runqueues to be migrated. When rt_rq is throttled _pick_next_task_rt() won't return anything, in which case migrate_tasks() can't move all threads over and gets stuck in an infinite loop. Instead unthrottle rt runqueues before migrating tasks. Additionally: move unthrottle_offline_cfs_rqs() to rq_offline_fair() Signed-off-by: Peter Boonstoppel Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Paul Turner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5FBF8E85CA34454794F0F7ECBA79798F379D3648B7@HQMAIL04.nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched: Fix load avg vs cpu-hotplug

2012-09-04T12:30:18Z

Rabik and Paul reported two different issues related to the same few lines of code. Rabik's issue is that the nr_uninterruptible migration code is wrong in that he sees artifacts due to this (Rabik please do expand in more detail). Paul's issue is that this code as it stands relies on us using stop_machine() for unplug, we all would like to remove this assumption so that eventually we can remove this stop_machine() usage altogether. The only reason we'd have to migrate nr_uninterruptible is so that we could use for_each_online_cpu() loops in favour of for_each_possible_cpu() loops, however since nr_uninterruptible() is the only such loop and its using possible lets not bother at all. The problem Rabik sees is (probably) caused by the fact that by migrating nr_uninterruptible we screw rq->calc_load_active for both rqs involved. So don't bother with fancy migration schemes (meaning we now have to keep using for_each_possible_cpu()) and instead fold any nr_active delta after we migrate all tasks away to make sure we don't have any skewed nr_active accounting. Reported-by: Rakib Mullick Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1345454817.23018.27.camel@twins Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2012-08-20T17:35:05Z

Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar. * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched: Fix migration thread runtime bogosity sched,rt: fix isolated CPUs leaving root_task_group indefinitely throttled sched,cgroup: Fix up task_groups list sched: fix divide by zero at {thread_group,task}_times sched, cgroup: Reduce rq->lock hold times for large cgroup hierarchies

sched,cgroup: Fix up task_groups list

2012-08-13T16:41:54Z

With multiple instances of task_groups, for_each_rt_rq() is a noop, no task groups having been added to the rt.c list instance. This renders __enable/disable_runtime() and print_rt_stats() noop, the user (non) visible effect being that rt task groups are missing in /proc/sched_debug. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith Cc: stable@kernel.org # v3.3+ Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344308413.6846.7.camel@marge.simpson.net Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

sched: fix divide by zero at {thread_group,task}_times

2012-08-13T16:41:54Z

On architectures where cputime_t is 64 bit type, is possible to trigger divide by zero on do_div(temp, (__force u32) total) line, if total is a non zero number but has lower 32 bit's zeroed. Removing casting is not a good solution since some do_div() implementations do cast to u32 internally. This problem can be triggered in practice on very long lived processes: PID: 2331 TASK: ffff880472814b00 CPU: 2 COMMAND: "oraagent.bin" #0 [ffff880472a51b70] machine_kexec at ffffffff8103214b #1 [ffff880472a51bd0] crash_kexec at ffffffff810b91c2 #2 [ffff880472a51ca0] oops_end at ffffffff814f0b00 #3 [ffff880472a51cd0] die at ffffffff8100f26b #4 [ffff880472a51d00] do_trap at ffffffff814f03f4 #5 [ffff880472a51d60] do_divide_error at ffffffff8100cfff #6 [ffff880472a51e00] divide_error at ffffffff8100be7b [exception RIP: thread_group_times+0x56] RIP: ffffffff81056a16 RSP: ffff880472a51eb8 RFLAGS: 00010046 RAX: bc3572c9fe12d194 RBX: ffff880874150800 RCX: 0000000110266fad RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff880472a51eb8 RDI: 001038ae7d9633dc RBP: ffff880472a51ef8 R8: 00000000b10a3a64 R9: ffff880874150800 R10: 00007fcba27ab680 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: ffff880472a51f08 R13: ffff880472a51f10 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000007 ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff CS: 0010 SS: 0018 #7 [ffff880472a51f00] do_sys_times at ffffffff8108845d #8 [ffff880472a51f40] sys_times at ffffffff81088524 #9 [ffff880472a51f80] system_call_fastpath at ffffffff8100b0f2 RIP: 0000003808caac3a RSP: 00007fcba27ab6d8 RFLAGS: 00000202 RAX: 0000000000000064 RBX: ffffffff8100b0f2 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 00007fcba27ab6e0 RSI: 000000000076d58e RDI: 00007fcba27ab6e0 RBP: 00007fcba27ab700 R8: 0000000000000020 R9: 000000000000091b R10: 00007fcba27ab680 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 00007fff9ca41940 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00007fcba27ac9c0 R15: 00007fff9ca41940 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000064 CS: 0033 SS: 002b Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120808092714.GA3580@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2012-08-03T17:58:13Z

Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar: "Fixes and two late cleanups" * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched/cleanups: Add load balance cpumask pointer to 'struct lb_env' sched: Fix comment about PREEMPT_ACTIVE bit location sched: Fix minor code style issues sched: Use task_rq_unlock() in __sched_setscheduler() sched/numa: Add SD_PERFER_SIBLING to CPU domain

Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2012-07-31T22:34:13Z

Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar: "The biggest changes are Intel Nehalem-EX PMU uncore support, uprobes updates/cleanups/fixes from Oleg and diverse tooling updates (mostly fixes) now that Arnaldo is back from vacation." * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (40 commits) uprobes: __replace_page() needs munlock_vma_page() uprobes: Rename vma_address() and make it return "unsigned long" uprobes: Fix register_for_each_vma()->vma_address() check uprobes: Introduce vaddr_to_offset(vma, vaddr) uprobes: Teach build_probe_list() to consider the range uprobes: Remove insert_vm_struct()->uprobe_mmap() uprobes: Remove copy_vma()->uprobe_mmap() uprobes: Fix overflow in vma_address()/find_active_uprobe() uprobes: Suppress uprobe_munmap() from mmput() uprobes: Uprobe_mmap/munmap needs list_for_each_entry_safe() uprobes: Clean up and document write_opcode()->lock_page(old_page) uprobes: Kill write_opcode()->lock_page(new_page) uprobes: __replace_page() should not use page_address_in_vma() uprobes: Don't recheck vma/f_mapping in write_opcode() perf/x86: Fix missing struct before structure name perf/x86: Fix format definition of SNB-EP uncore QPI box perf/x86: Make bitfield unsigned perf/x86: Fix LLC-* and node-* events on Intel SandyBridge perf/x86: Add Intel Nehalem-EX uncore support perf/x86: Fix typo in format definition of uncore PCU filter ...

sched: Deliver sched_switch events to the current task

2012-07-26T10:23:10Z

Otherwise they can't be filtered for a defined task: perf record -e sched:sched_switch ./foo This command doesn't report any events without this patch. I think it isn't a security concern if someone knows who will be executed next - this can already be observed by polling /proc state. By default perf is disabled for non-root users in any case. I need these events for profiling sleep times. sched_switch is used for getting callchains and sched_stat_* is used for getting time periods. These events are combined in user space, then it can be analyzed by perf tools. Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Arun Sharma Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1342088069-1005148-1-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched: Use task_rq_unlock() in __sched_setscheduler()

2012-07-26T09:46:59Z

It seems there's no specific reason to open-code it. I guess commit 0122ec5b02f76 ("sched: Add p->pi_lock to task_rq_lock()") simply missed it. Let's be consistent with others. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1341647342-6742-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar