linux/kernel/sched/rt.c, branch v5.7

sched/rt: Remove unnecessary push for unfit tasks

2020-03-06T11:57:29Z

In task_woken_rt() and switched_to_rto() we try trigger push-pull if the task is unfit. But the logic is found lacking because if the task was the only one running on the CPU, then rt_rq is not in overloaded state and won't trigger a push. The necessity of this logic was under a debate as well, a summary of the discussion can be found in the following thread: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200226160247.iqvdakiqbakk2llz@e107158-lin.cambridge.arm.com/ Remove the logic for now until a better approach is agreed upon. Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Fixes: 804d402fb6f6 ("sched/rt: Make RT capacity-aware") Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200302132721.8353-6-qais.yousef@arm.com

sched/rt: Allow pulling unfitting task

2020-03-06T11:57:28Z

When implemented RT Capacity Awareness; the logic was done such that if a task was running on a fitting CPU, then it was sticky and we would try our best to keep it there. But as Steve suggested, to adhere to the strict priority rules of RT class; allow pulling an RT task to unfitting CPU to ensure it gets a chance to run ASAP. LINK: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200203111451.0d1da58f@oasis.local.home/ Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Fixes: 804d402fb6f6 ("sched/rt: Make RT capacity-aware") Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200302132721.8353-5-qais.yousef@arm.com

sched/rt: Optimize cpupri_find() on non-heterogenous systems

2020-03-06T11:57:27Z

By introducing a new cpupri_find_fitness() function that takes the fitness_fn as an argument and only called when asym_system static key is enabled. cpupri_find() is now a wrapper function that calls cpupri_find_fitness() passing NULL as a fitness_fn, hence disabling the logic that handles fitness by default. LINK: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/c0772fca-0a4b-c88d-fdf2-5715fcf8447b@arm.com/ Reported-by: Dietmar Eggemann Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Fixes: 804d402fb6f6 ("sched/rt: Make RT capacity-aware") Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200302132721.8353-4-qais.yousef@arm.com

sched/rt: Re-instate old behavior in select_task_rq_rt()

2020-03-06T11:57:27Z

When RT Capacity Aware support was added, the logic in select_task_rq_rt was modified to force a search for a fitting CPU if the task currently doesn't run on one. But if the search failed, and the search was only triggered to fulfill the fitness request; we could end up selecting a new CPU unnecessarily. Fix this and re-instate the original behavior by ensuring we bail out in that case. This behavior change only affected asymmetric systems that are using util_clamp to implement capacity aware. None asymmetric systems weren't affected. LINK: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200218041620.GD28029@codeaurora.org/ Reported-by: Pavan Kondeti Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Fixes: 804d402fb6f6 ("sched/rt: Make RT capacity-aware") Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200302132721.8353-3-qais.yousef@arm.com

sched/rt: Optimize checking group RT scheduler constraints

2020-01-28T20:37:09Z

Group RT scheduler contains protection against setting zero runtime for cgroup with RT tasks. Right now function tg_set_rt_bandwidth() iterates over all CPU cgroups and calls tg_has_rt_tasks() for any cgroup which runtime is zero (not only for changed one). Default RT runtime is zero, thus tg_has_rt_tasks() will is called for almost at CPU cgroups. This protection already is slightly racy: runtime limit could be changed between cpu_cgroup_can_attach() and cpu_cgroup_attach() because changing cgroup attribute does not lock cgroup_mutex while attach does not lock rt_constraints_mutex. Changing task scheduler class also races with changing rt runtime: check in __sched_setscheduler() isn't protected. Function tg_has_rt_tasks() iterates over all threads in the system. This gives NR_CGROUPS * NR_TASKS operations under single tasklist_lock locked for read tg_set_rt_bandwidth(). Any concurrent attempt of locking tasklist_lock for write (for example fork) will stuck with disabled irqs. This patch makes two optimizations: 1) Remove locking tasklist_lock and iterate only tasks in cgroup 2) Call tg_has_rt_tasks() iff rt runtime changes from non-zero to zero All changed code is under CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED. Testcase: # mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/test{1..10000} # echo 0 | tee /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/test*/cpu.rt_runtime_us At the same time without patch fork time will be >100ms: # perf trace -e clone --duration 100 stress-ng --fork 1 Also remote ping will show timings >100ms caused by irq latency. Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/157996383820.4651.11292439232549211693.stgit@buzz

sched/rt: Make RT capacity-aware

2019-12-25T09:42:10Z

Capacity Awareness refers to the fact that on heterogeneous systems (like Arm big.LITTLE), the capacity of the CPUs is not uniform, hence when placing tasks we need to be aware of this difference of CPU capacities. In such scenarios we want to ensure that the selected CPU has enough capacity to meet the requirement of the running task. Enough capacity means here that capacity_orig_of(cpu) >= task.requirement. The definition of task.requirement is dependent on the scheduling class. For CFS, utilization is used to select a CPU that has >= capacity value than the cfs_task.util. capacity_orig_of(cpu) >= cfs_task.util DL isn't capacity aware at the moment but can make use of the bandwidth reservation to implement that in a similar manner CFS uses utilization. The following patchset implements that: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190506044836.2914-1-luca.abeni@santannapisa.it/ capacity_orig_of(cpu)/SCHED_CAPACITY >= dl_deadline/dl_runtime For RT we don't have a per task utilization signal and we lack any information in general about what performance requirement the RT task needs. But with the introduction of uclamp, RT tasks can now control that by setting uclamp_min to guarantee a minimum performance point. ATM the uclamp value are only used for frequency selection; but on heterogeneous systems this is not enough and we need to ensure that the capacity of the CPU is >= uclamp_min. Which is what implemented here. capacity_orig_of(cpu) >= rt_task.uclamp_min Note that by default uclamp.min is 1024, which means that RT tasks will always be biased towards the big CPUs, which make for a better more predictable behavior for the default case. Must stress that the bias acts as a hint rather than a definite placement strategy. For example, if all big cores are busy executing other RT tasks we can't guarantee that a new RT task will be placed there. On non-heterogeneous systems the original behavior of RT should be retained. Similarly if uclamp is not selected in the config. [ mingo: Minor edits to comments. ] Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191009104611.15363-1-qais.yousef@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/core: Further clarify sched_class::set_next_task()

2019-11-11T07:35:21Z

It turns out there really is something special to the first set_next_task() invocation. In specific the 'change' pattern really should not cause balance callbacks. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: bsegall@google.com Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com Cc: juri.lelli@redhat.com Cc: ktkhai@virtuozzo.com Cc: mgorman@suse.de Cc: qais.yousef@arm.com Cc: qperret@google.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: valentin.schneider@arm.com Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org Fixes: f95d4eaee6d0 ("sched/{rt,deadline}: Fix set_next_task vs pick_next_task") Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191108131909.775434698@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/core: Simplify sched_class::pick_next_task()

2019-11-11T07:35:20Z

Now that the indirect class call never uses the last two arguments of pick_next_task(), remove them. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: bsegall@google.com Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com Cc: juri.lelli@redhat.com Cc: ktkhai@virtuozzo.com Cc: mgorman@suse.de Cc: qais.yousef@arm.com Cc: qperret@google.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: valentin.schneider@arm.com Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191108131909.660595546@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched: Fix pick_next_task() vs 'change' pattern race

2019-11-08T21:34:14Z

Commit 67692435c411 ("sched: Rework pick_next_task() slow-path") inadvertly introduced a race because it changed a previously unexplored dependency between dropping the rq->lock and sched_class::put_prev_task(). The comments about dropping rq->lock, in for example newidle_balance(), only mentions the task being current and ->on_cpu being set. But when we look at the 'change' pattern (in for example sched_setnuma()): queued = task_on_rq_queued(p); /* p->on_rq == TASK_ON_RQ_QUEUED */ running = task_current(rq, p); /* rq->curr == p */ if (queued) dequeue_task(...); if (running) put_prev_task(...); /* change task properties */ if (queued) enqueue_task(...); if (running) set_next_task(...); It becomes obvious that if we do this after put_prev_task() has already been called on @p, things go sideways. This is exactly what the commit in question allows to happen when it does: prev->sched_class->put_prev_task(rq, prev, rf); if (!rq->nr_running) newidle_balance(rq, rf); The newidle_balance() call will drop rq->lock after we've called put_prev_task() and that allows the above 'change' pattern to interleave and mess up the state. Furthermore, it turns out we lost the RT-pull when we put the last DL task. Fix both problems by extracting the balancing from put_prev_task() and doing a multi-class balance() pass before put_prev_task(). Fixes: 67692435c411 ("sched: Rework pick_next_task() slow-path") Reported-by: Quentin Perret Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Tested-by: Quentin Perret Tested-by: Valentin Schneider

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

2019-09-17T19:35:15Z

Pull core timer updates from Thomas Gleixner: "Timers and timekeeping updates: - A large overhaul of the posix CPU timer code which is a preparation for moving the CPU timer expiry out into task work so it can be properly accounted on the task/process. An update to the bogus permission checks will come later during the merge window as feedback was not complete before heading of for travel. - Switch the timerqueue code to use cached rbtrees and get rid of the homebrewn caching of the leftmost node. - Consolidate hrtimer_init() + hrtimer_init_sleeper() calls into a single function - Implement the separation of hrtimers to be forced to expire in hard interrupt context even when PREEMPT_RT is enabled and mark the affected timers accordingly. - Implement a mechanism for hrtimers and the timer wheel to protect RT against priority inversion and live lock issues when a (hr)timer which should be canceled is currently executing the callback. Instead of infinitely spinning, the task which tries to cancel the timer blocks on a per cpu base expiry lock which is held and released by the (hr)timer expiry code. - Enable the Hyper-V TSC page based sched_clock for Hyper-V guests resulting in faster access to timekeeping functions. - Updates to various clocksource/clockevent drivers and their device tree bindings. - The usual small improvements all over the place" * 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (101 commits) posix-cpu-timers: Fix permission check regression posix-cpu-timers: Always clear head pointer on dequeue hrtimer: Add a missing bracket and hide `migration_base' on !SMP posix-cpu-timers: Make expiry_active check actually work correctly posix-timers: Unbreak CONFIG_POSIX_TIMERS=n build tick: Mark sched_timer to expire in hard interrupt context hrtimer: Add kernel doc annotation for HRTIMER_MODE_HARD x86/hyperv: Hide pv_ops access for CONFIG_PARAVIRT=n posix-cpu-timers: Utilize timerqueue for storage posix-cpu-timers: Move state tracking to struct posix_cputimers posix-cpu-timers: Deduplicate rlimit handling posix-cpu-timers: Remove pointless comparisons posix-cpu-timers: Get rid of 64bit divisions posix-cpu-timers: Consolidate timer expiry further posix-cpu-timers: Get rid of zero checks rlimit: Rewrite non-sensical RLIMIT_CPU comment posix-cpu-timers: Respect INFINITY for hard RTTIME limit posix-cpu-timers: Switch thread group sampling to array posix-cpu-timers: Restructure expiry array posix-cpu-timers: Remove cputime_expires ...