linux/kernel/sched/debug.c, branch v6.16

Revert "sched/numa: add statistics of numa balance task"

2025-07-10T04:07:56Z

This reverts commit ad6b26b6a0a79166b53209df2ca1cf8636296382. This commit introduces per-memcg/task NUMA balance statistics, but unfortunately it introduced a NULL pointer exception due to the following race condition: After a swap task candidate was chosen, its mm_struct pointer was set to NULL due to task exit. Later, when performing the actual task swapping, the p->mm caused the problem. CPU0 CPU1 : ... task_numa_migrate task_numa_find_cpu task_numa_compare # a normal task p is chosen env->best_task = p # p exit: exit_signals(p); p->flags |= PF_EXITING exit_mm p->mm = NULL; migrate_swap_stop __migrate_swap_task((arg->src_task, arg->dst_cpu) count_memcg_event_mm(p->mm, NUMA_TASK_SWAP)# p->mm is NULL task_lock() should be held and the PF_EXITING flag needs to be checked to prevent this from happening. After discussion, the conclusion was that adding a lock is not worthwhile for some statistics calculations. Revert the change and rely on the tracepoint for this purpose. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250704135620.685752-1-yu.c.chen@intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250708064917.BBD13C4CEED@smtp.kernel.org Fixes: ad6b26b6a0a7 ("sched/numa: add statistics of numa balance task") Signed-off-by: Chen Yu Reported-by: Jirka Hladky Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAE4VaGBLJxpd=NeRJXpSCuw=REhC5LWJpC29kDy-Zh2ZDyzQZA@mail.gmail.com/ Reported-by: Srikanth Aithal Reported-by: Suneeth D Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Hladky Cc: Libo Chen Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-06-01-14-06' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2025-06-02T23:00:26Z

Pull more MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "zram: support algorithm-specific parameters" from Sergey Senozhatsky adds infrastructure for passing algorithm-specific parameters into zram. A single parameter `winbits' is implemented at this time. - "memcg: nmi-safe kmem charging" from Shakeel Butt makes memcg charging nmi-safe, which is required by BFP, which can operate in NMI context. - "Some random fixes and cleanup to shmem" from Kemeng Shi implements small fixes and cleanups in the shmem code. - "Skip mm selftests instead when kernel features are not present" from Zi Yan fixes some issues in the MM selftest code. - "mm/damon: build-enable essential DAMON components by default" from SeongJae Park reworks DAMON Kconfig to make it easier to enable CONFIG_DAMON. - "sched/numa: add statistics of numa balance task migration" from Libo Chen adds more info into sysfs and procfs files to improve visibility into the NUMA balancer's task migration activity. - "selftests/mm: cow and gup_longterm cleanups" from Mark Brown provides various updates to some of the MM selftests to make them play better with the overall containing framework. * tag 'mm-stable-2025-06-01-14-06' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (43 commits) mm/khugepaged: clean up refcount check using folio_expected_ref_count() selftests/mm: fix test result reporting in gup_longterm selftests/mm: report unique test names for each cow test selftests/mm: add helper for logging test start and results selftests/mm: use standard ksft_finished() in cow and gup_longterm selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: skip testcases if CONFIG_DAMON_SYSFS is disabled sched/numa: add statistics of numa balance task sched/numa: fix task swap by skipping kernel threads tools/testing: check correct variable in open_procmap() tools/testing/vma: add missing function stub mm/gup: update comment explaining why gup_fast() disables IRQs selftests/mm: two fixes for the pfnmap test mm/khugepaged: fix race with folio split/free using temporary reference mm: add CONFIG_PAGE_BLOCK_ORDER to select page block order mmu_notifiers: remove leftover stub macros selftests/mm: deduplicate test names in madv_populate kcov: rust: add flags for KCOV with Rust mm: rust: make CONFIG_MMU ifdefs more narrow mmu_gather: move tlb flush for VM_PFNMAP/VM_MIXEDMAP vmas into free_pgtables() mm/damon/Kconfig: enable CONFIG_DAMON by default ...

sched/numa: add statistics of numa balance task

2025-06-01T05:46:15Z

On systems with NUMA balancing enabled, it has been found that tracking task activities resulting from NUMA balancing is beneficial. NUMA balancing employs two mechanisms for task migration: one is to migrate a task to an idle CPU within its preferred node, and the other is to swap tasks located on different nodes when they are on each other's preferred nodes. The kernel already provides NUMA page migration statistics in /sys/fs/cgroup/mytest/memory.stat and /proc/{PID}/sched. However, it lacks statistics regarding task migration and swapping. Therefore, relevant counts for task migration and swapping should be added. The following two new fields: numa_task_migrated numa_task_swapped will be shown in /sys/fs/cgroup/{GROUP}/memory.stat, /proc/{PID}/sched and /proc/vmstat. Introducing both per-task and per-memory cgroup (memcg) NUMA balancing statistics facilitates a rapid evaluation of the performance and resource utilization of the target workload. For instance, users can first identify the container with high NUMA balancing activity and then further pinpoint a specific task within that group, and subsequently adjust the memory policy for that task. In short, although it is possible to iterate through /proc/$pid/sched to locate the problematic task, the introduction of aggregated NUMA balancing activity for tasks within each memcg can assist users in identifying the task more efficiently through a divide-and-conquer approach. As Libo Chen pointed out, the memcg event relies on the text names in vmstat_text, and /proc/vmstat generates corresponding items based on vmstat_text. Thus, the relevant task migration and swapping events introduced in vmstat_text also need to be populated by count_vm_numa_event(), otherwise these values are zero in /proc/vmstat. In theory, task migration and swap events are part of the scheduler's activities. The reason for exposing them through the memory.stat/vmstat interface is that we already have NUMA balancing statistics in memory.stat/vmstat, and these events are closely related to each other. Following Shakeel's suggestion, we describe the end-to-end flow/story of all these events occurring on a timeline for future reference: The goal of NUMA balancing is to co-locate a task and its memory pages on the same NUMA node. There are two strategies: migrate the pages to the task's node, or migrate the task to the node where its pages reside. Suppose a task p1 is running on Node 0, but its pages are located on Node 1. NUMA page fault statistics for p1 reveal its "page footprint" across nodes. If NUMA balancing detects that most of p1's pages are on Node 1: 1.Page Migration Attempt: The Numa balance first tries to migrate p1's pages to Node 0. The numa_page_migrate counter increments. 2.Task Migration Strategies: After the page migration finishes, Numa balance checks every 1 second to see if p1 can be migrated to Node 1. Case 2.1: Idle CPU Available If Node 1 has an idle CPU, p1 is directly scheduled there. This event is logged as numa_task_migrated. Case 2.2: No Idle CPU (Task Swap) If all CPUs on Node1 are busy, direct migration could cause CPU contention or load imbalance. Instead: The Numa balance selects a candidate task p2 on Node 1 that prefers Node 0 (e.g., due to its own page footprint). p1 and p2 are swapped. This cross-node swap is recorded as numa_task_swapped. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d00edb12ba0f0de3c5222f61487e65f2ac58f5b1.1748493462.git.yu.c.chen@intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/7ef90a88602ed536be46eba7152ed0d33bad5790.1748002400.git.yu.c.chen@intel.com Signed-off-by: Chen Yu Tested-by: K Prateek Nayak Tested-by: Madadi Vineeth Reddy Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote Cc: Aubrey Li Cc: Ayush Jain Cc: "Chen, Tim C" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Libo Chen Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Michal Koutný Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

sched/debug: Print the local group's asym_prefer_cpu

2025-04-16T19:09:11Z

Add a file to read local group's "asym_prefer_cpu" from debugfs. This information was useful when debugging issues where "asym_prefer_cpu" was incorrectly set to a CPU with a lower asym priority. Signed-off-by: K Prateek Nayak Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250409053446.23367-5-kprateek.nayak@amd.com

sched/topology: Wrappers for sched_domains_mutex

2025-03-17T10:23:41Z

Create wrappers for sched_domains_mutex so that it can transparently be used on both CONFIG_SMP and !CONFIG_SMP, as some function will need to do. Fixes: 53916d5fd3c0 ("sched/deadline: Check bandwidth overflow earlier for hotplug") Reported-by: Jon Hunter Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann Tested-by: Waiman Long Tested-by: Jon Hunter Tested-by: Dietmar Eggemann Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Z9MP5Oq9RB8jBs3y@jlelli-thinkpadt14gen4.remote.csb

sched: Add a generic function to return the preemption string

2025-03-17T10:23:38Z

The individual architectures often add the preemption model to the begin of the backtrace. This is the case on X86 or ARM64 for the "die" case but not for regular warning. With the addition of DYNAMIC_PREEMPT for PREEMPT_RT we end up with CONFIG_PREEMPT and CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT set simultaneously. That means that everyone who tried to add that piece of information gets it wrong for PREEMPT_RT because PREEMPT is checked first. Provide a generic function which returns the current scheduling model considering LAZY preempt and the current state of PREEMPT_DYNAMIC. The resulting strings are: ┏━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┃ Model ┃ -RT -DYN ┃ +RT -DYN ┃ -RT +DYN ┃ +RT +DYN ┃ ┡━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩ │NONE │ NONE │ n/a │ PREEMPT(none) │ n/a │ ├───────────┼──────────────┼───────────────────┼────────────────────┼───────────────────┤ │VOLUNTARY │ VOLUNTARY │ n/a │ PREEMPT(voluntary) │ n/a │ ├───────────┼──────────────┼───────────────────┼────────────────────┼───────────────────┤ │FULL │ PREEMPT │ PREEMPT_RT │ PREEMPT(full) │ PREEMPT_{RT,full} │ ├───────────┼──────────────┼───────────────────┼────────────────────┼───────────────────┤ │LAZY │ PREEMPT_LAZY │ PREEMPT_{RT,LAZY} │ PREEMPT(lazy) │ PREEMPT_{RT,lazy} │ └───────────┴──────────────┴───────────────────┴────────────────────┴───────────────────┘ [ The dynamic building of the string can lead to an empty string if the function is invoked simultaneously on two CPUs. ] Co-developed-by: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" Signed-off-by: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" Co-developed-by: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" Signed-off-by: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Reviewed-by: Shrikanth Hegde Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250314160810.2373416-2-bigeasy@linutronix.de

Merge tag 'sched-urgent-2025-02-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2025-02-08T19:16:22Z

Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar: "Fix a cfs_rq->h_nr_runnable accounting bug that trips up a defensive SCHED_WARN_ON() on certain workloads. The bug is believed to be (accidentally) self-correcting, hence no behavioral side effects are expected. Also print se.slice in debug output, since this value can now be set via the syscall ABI and can be useful to track" * tag 'sched-urgent-2025-02-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched/debug: Provide slice length for fair tasks sched/fair: Fix inaccurate h_nr_runnable accounting with delayed dequeue

sched/debug: Provide slice length for fair tasks

2025-01-31T09:45:33Z

Since commit: 857b158dc5e8 ("sched/eevdf: Use sched_attr::sched_runtime to set request/slice suggestion") ... we have the userspace per-task tunable slice length, which is a key parameter that is otherwise difficult to obtain, so provide it in /proc/$PID/sched. [ mingo: Clarified the changelog. ] Signed-off-by: Christian Loehle Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/453349b1-1637-42f5-a7b2-2385392b5956@arm.com

sched/debug: Change need_resched warnings to pr_err

2025-01-13T13:10:23Z

need_resched warnings, if enabled, are treated as WARNINGs. If kernel.panic_on_warn is enabled, then this causes a kernel panic. It's highly unlikely that a panic is desired for these warnings, only a stack trace is normally required to debug and resolve. Thus, switch need_resched warnings to simply be a printk with an associated stack trace so they are no longer in scope for panic_on_warn. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Reviewed-by: Madadi Vineeth Reddy Acked-by: Josh Don Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e8d52023-5291-26bd-5299-8bb9eb604929@google.com

sched/fair: Rename cfs_rq.nr_running into nr_queued

2024-12-09T10:48:12Z

Rename cfs_rq.nr_running into cfs_rq.nr_queued which better reflects the reality as the value includes both the ready to run tasks and the delayed dequeue tasks. Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241202174606.4074512-10-vincent.guittot@linaro.org