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* nohz: Select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN from full dynticks configFrederic Weisbecker2013-04-261-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Turn the full dynticks passive dependency on VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN to an active one. The full dynticks Kconfig is currently hidden behind the full dynticks cputime accounting, which is an awkward and counter-intuitive layout: the user first has to select the dynticks cputime accounting in order to make the full dynticks feature to be visible. We definetly want it the other way around. The usual way to perform this kind of active dependency is use "select" on the depended target. Now we can't use the Kconfig "select" instruction when the target is a "choice". So this patch inspires on how the RCU subsystem Kconfig interact with its dependencies on SMP and PREEMPT: we make sure that cputime accounting can't propose another option than VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN when NO_HZ_FULL is selected by using the right "depends on" instruction for each cputime accounting choices. v2: Keep full dynticks cputime accounting available even without full dynticks, as per Paul McKenney's suggestion. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* nohz: Remove full dynticks' superfluous dependency on RCU treeFrederic Weisbecker2013-04-241-2/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove the dependency on (TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU). The full dynticks option already depends on SMP which implies (whatever flavour of) RCU tree config anyway. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* nohz: Add basic tracingFrederic Weisbecker2013-04-221-4/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It's not obvious to find out why the full dynticks subsystem doesn't always stop the tick: whether this is due to kthreads, posix timers, perf events, etc... These new tracepoints are here to help the user diagnose the failures and test this feature. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* nohz: Select wide RCU nocb for full dynticksFrederic Weisbecker2013-04-221-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It makes testing and implementation much easier as we know in advance that all CPUs are RCU nocbs. Also this prepares to remove the dynamic check for nohz_full= boot mask to be a subset of rcu_nocbs= Eventually this should also help removing the requirement for the boot CPU to be outside the full dynticks range. Suggested-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* nohz: Disable the tick when irq resume in full dynticks CPUFrederic Weisbecker2013-04-221-5/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Eventually try to disable tick on irq exit, now that the fundamental infrastructure is in place. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* nohz: Re-evaluate the tick for the new task after a context switchFrederic Weisbecker2013-04-222-0/+22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When a task is scheduled in, it may have some properties of its own that could make the CPU reconsider the need for the tick: posix cpu timers, perf events, ... So notify the full dynticks subsystem when a task gets scheduled in and re-check the tick dependency at this stage. This is done through a self IPI to avoid messing up with any current lock scenario. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* nohz: Prepare to stop the tick on irq exitFrederic Weisbecker2013-04-221-6/+25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Interrupt exit is a natural place to stop the tick: it happens after all events happening before and during the irq which are liable to update the dependency on the tick occured. Also it makes sure that any check on tick dependency is well ordered against dynticks kick IPIs. Bring in the infrastructure that performs the tick dependency checks on irq exit and shut it down if these checks show that we can do it safely. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* nohz: Implement full dynticks kickFrederic Weisbecker2013-04-221-4/+38
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Implement the full dynticks kick that is performed from IPIs sent by various subsystems (scheduler, posix timers, ...) when they want to notify about a new event that may reconsider the dependency on the tick. Most of the time, such an event end up restarting the tick. (Part of the design with subsystems providing *_can_stop_tick() helpers suggested by Peter Zijlstra a while ago). Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* nohz: Re-evaluate the tick from the scheduler IPIFrederic Weisbecker2013-04-222-2/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The scheduler IPI is used by the scheduler to kick full dynticks CPUs asynchronously when more than one task are running or when a new timer list timer is enqueued. This way the destination CPU can decide to restart the tick to handle this new situation. Now let's call that kick in the scheduler IPI. (Reusing the scheduler IPI rather than implementing a new IPI was suggested by Peter Zijlstra a while ago) Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* sched: New helper to prevent from stopping the tick in full dynticksFrederic Weisbecker2013-04-221-0/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Provide a new helper to be called from the full dynticks engine before stopping the tick in order to make sure we don't stop it when there is more than one task running on the CPU. This way we make sure that the tick stays alive to maintain fairness. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* sched: Kick full dynticks CPU that have more than one task enqueued.Frederic Weisbecker2013-04-221-0/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Kick the tick on full dynticks CPUs when they get more than one task running on their queue. This makes sure that local fairness is maintained by the tick on the destination. This is done regardless of these tasks' class. We should be able to be more clever in the future depending on these. eg: a CPU that runs a SCHED_FIFO task doesn't need to maintain fairness against local pending tasks of the fair class. But keep things simple for now. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* perf: New helper to prevent full dynticks CPUs from stopping tickFrederic Weisbecker2013-04-221-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Provide a new helper that help full dynticks CPUs to prevent from stopping their tick in case there are events in the local rotation list. This way we make sure that perf_event_task_tick() is serviced on demand. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
* perf: Kick full dynticks CPU if events rotation is neededFrederic Weisbecker2013-04-221-1/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Kick the current CPU's tick by sending it a self IPI when an event is queued on the rotation list and it is the first element inserted. This makes sure that perf_event_task_tick() works on full dynticks CPUs. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
* posix_timers: Fix pre-condition to stop the tick on full dynticksFrederic Weisbecker2013-04-221-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The test that checks if a CPU can stop its tick from posix CPU timers angle was mistakenly inverted. What we want is to prevent the tick from being stopped as long as the current CPU's task runs a posix CPU timer. Fix this. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* Merge branch 'timers/nohz-posix-timers-v2' of ↵Ingo Molnar2013-04-213-16/+112
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks into timers/nohz Pull posix cpu timers handling on full dynticks from Frederic Weisbecker. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
| * posix_timers: New API to prevent from stopping the tick when timers are runningFrederic Weisbecker2013-04-191-15/+26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Bring a new helper that the full dynticks infrastructure can call in order to know if it can safely stop the tick from the posix cpu timers subsystem point of view. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| * posix_timers: Kick full dynticks CPUs when a posix cpu timer is armedFrederic Weisbecker2013-04-191-1/+34
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Kick the full dynticks CPUs when a posix cpu timer is enqueued by way of a standard call to posix_cpu_timer_set() or set_process_cpu_timer(). This also include rescheduled firing timers. This way they can re-evaluate the state of (and possibly restart) their tick against the new expiry modification. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| * nohz: New APIs to re-evaluate the tick on full dynticks CPUsFrederic Weisbecker2013-04-182-0/+52
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Provide two new helpers in order to notify the full dynticks CPUs about some internal system changes against which they may reconsider the state of their tick. Some practical examples include: posix cpu timers, perf tick and sched clock tick. For now the notifying handler, implemented through IPIs, is a stub that will be implemented when we get the tick stop/restart infrastructure in. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* | nohz: New option to default all CPUs in full dynticks rangeFrederic Weisbecker2013-04-192-2/+31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Provide a new kernel config that defaults all CPUs to be part of the full dynticks range, except the boot one for timekeeping. This default setting is overriden by the nohz_full= boot option if passed by the user. This is helpful for those who don't need a finegrained range of full dynticks CPU and also for automated testing. Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* | nohz: Ensure full dynticks CPUs are RCU nocbsFrederic Weisbecker2013-04-194-19/+23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We need full dynticks CPU to also be RCU nocb so that we don't have to keep the tick to handle RCU callbacks. Make sure the range passed to nohz_full= boot parameter is a subset of rcu_nocbs= The CPUs that fail to meet this requirement will be excluded from the nohz_full range. This is checked early in boot time, before any CPU has the opportunity to stop its tick. Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* | nohz: Force boot CPU outside full dynticks rangeFrederic Weisbecker2013-04-191-39/+15
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The timekeeping job must be able to run early on boot because there may be some pre-SMP (and thus pre-initcalls ) components that rely on it. The IO-APIC is one such users as it tests the timer health by watching jiffies progression. Given that it happens before we know the initial online set, we can't rely on it to select a timekeeper. We need one before SMP time otherwise we simply crash on boot. To fix this and keep things simple for now, force the boot CPU outside of the full dynticks range in any case and do this early on kernel parameter parsing time. We might want a trickier solution later, expecially for aSMP architectures that need to assign housekeeping tasks to arbitrary low power CPUs. But it's still first pass KISS time for now. Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* rcu: Kick adaptive-ticks CPUs that are holding up RCU grace periodsPaul E. McKenney2013-04-153-0/+29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Adaptive-ticks CPUs inform RCU when they enter kernel mode, but they do not necessarily turn the scheduler-clock tick back on. This state of affairs could result in RCU waiting on an adaptive-ticks CPU running for an extended period in kernel mode. Such a CPU will never run the RCU state machine, and could therefore indefinitely extend the RCU state machine, sooner or later resulting in an OOM condition. This patch, inspired by an earlier patch by Frederic Weisbecker, therefore causes RCU's force-quiescent-state processing to check for this condition and to send an IPI to CPUs that remain in that state for too long. "Too long" currently means about three jiffies by default, which is quite some time for a CPU to remain in the kernel without blocking. The rcu_tree.jiffies_till_first_fqs and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs sysfs variables may be used to tune "too long" if needed. Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* nohz: Improve a bit the full dynticks Kconfig documentationFrederic Weisbecker2013-04-151-3/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove the "single task" statement from CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL title. The constraint can be invalidated when tasks from other sched classes than SCHED_FAIR are running. Moreover it's possible that hrtick join the party in the future. Also add a line about the dependency on SMP. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* nohz: Align periodic tick Kconfig with other choices' naming conventionFrederic Weisbecker2013-04-151-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Rename CONFIG_PERIODIC_HZ to CONFIG_HZ_PERIODIC in order to stay consistent with other tick implementation entries: CONFIG_HZ_PERIODIC CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* nohz: Switch from "extended nohz" to "full nohz" based namingFrederic Weisbecker2013-04-155-34/+34
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | "Extended nohz" was used as a naming base for the full dynticks API and Kconfig symbols. It reflects the fact the system tries to stop the tick in more places than just idle. But that "extended" name is a bit opaque and vague. Rename it to "full" makes it clearer what the system tries to do under this config: try to shutdown the tick anytime it can. The various constraints that prevent that to happen shouldn't be considered as fundamental properties of this feature but rather technical issues that may be solved in the future. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* nohz: Fix old dynticks idle Kconfig backward compatibilityFrederic Weisbecker2013-04-151-4/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In order to enforce backward compatibility with older config files, we want the new dynticks-idle Kconfig entry to default its value to the one of the old CONFIG_NO_HZ symbol if present. Namely we want: config NO_HZ # old obsolete dynticks idle symbol bool config NO_HZ_IDLE # new dynticks idle symbol default NO_HZ However Kconfig prevents this to work if the old symbol is not visible. And this is currently the case because NO_HZ lacks a title in order to show it in make oldconfig and alike. To fix this, bring a minimal title and help text to the obsolete Kconfig entry that explains its purpose. This makes the "defaulting" to work. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* nohz: Print final full dynticks CPUs range on bootFrederic Weisbecker2013-04-031-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Given that we apply a few restrictions on the full dynticks CPUs range (keep an online timekeeper oustide the range, then in the future have the range be an RCU nocb CPUs subset), let's print the final resulting range of full dynticks CPUs to the user so that he knows what's really going to run. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* nohz: Pack nohz Kconfig option in a menu of choicesFrederic Weisbecker2013-04-031-5/+23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now the user has the choice between three implementations of the timer tick: * Static periodic tick * Idle dynticks * Full dynticks At least for now, these are mutually exclusive choices, so let's rely on the proper Kconfig feature to display these to the user. A new entry CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE is created and the old CONFIG_NO_HZ maps to it for config file backward compatibility. The old name was too general now that we have more granular dynticks implementations. While at it, add some explanation to help the user on his decision between the 3 entries. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* nohz: Rename CONFIG_NO_HZ to CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMONFrederic Weisbecker2013-04-038-31/+36
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We are planning to convert the dynticks Kconfig options layout into a choice menu. The user must be able to easily pick any of the following implementations: constant periodic tick, idle dynticks, full dynticks. As this implies a mutual exclusion, the two dynticks implementions need to converge on the selection of a common Kconfig option in order to ease the sharing of a common infrastructure. It would thus seem pretty natural to reuse CONFIG_NO_HZ to that end. It already implements all the idle dynticks code and the full dynticks depends on all that code for now. So ideally the choice menu would propose CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and CONFIG_NO_HZ_EXTENDED then both would select CONFIG_NO_HZ. On the other hand we want to stay backward compatible: if CONFIG_NO_HZ is set in an older config file, we want to enable CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE by default. But we can't afford both at the same time or we run into a circular dependency: 1) CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and CONFIG_NO_HZ_EXTENDED both select CONFIG_NO_HZ 2) If CONFIG_NO_HZ is set, we default to CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE We might be able to support that from Kconfig/Kbuild but it may not be wise to introduce such a confusing behaviour. So to solve this, create a new CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON option which gathers the common code between idle and full dynticks (that common code for now is simply the idle dynticks code) and select it from their referring Kconfig. Then we'll later create CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and map CONFIG_NO_HZ to it for backward compatibility. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* nohz: Unhide full dynticks feature from its dependenciesFrederic Weisbecker2013-04-021-5/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The full dynticks feature only shows up when all its Kconfig dependencies are met (RCU nocbs, RCU user mode, ...) This is far from being user friendly as those who want to activate this feature need to look into the Kconfig files and iterate through each dependency then activate these by hand in order to show and select the full dynticks Kconfig option. So process the other way around: show up the Kconfig option if the minimal low level dependencies are met and activate the high level ones when we enable the feature. Note there is one exception in the picture: CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN is part of a Kconfig choice menu and it appears we can't select it from another Kconfig selection when it's under such layout. So for now this particular item stays as a passive dependency. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* nohz: Wake up full dynticks CPUs when a timer gets enqueuedFrederic Weisbecker2013-03-212-7/+25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Wake up a CPU when a timer list timer is enqueued there and the target is part of the full dynticks range. Sending an IPI to it makes it reconsidering the next timer to program on top of recent updates. This may later be improved by checking if the tick is really stopped on the target. This would need some careful synchronization though. So deal with such optimization later and start simple. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* nohz: Assign timekeeping duty to a CPU outside the full dynticks rangeFrederic Weisbecker2013-03-213-4/+51
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This way the full nohz CPUs can safely run with the tick stopped with a guarantee that somebody else is taking care of the jiffies and GTOD progression. Once the duty is attributed to a CPU, it won't change. Also that CPU can't enter into dyntick idle mode or be hot unplugged. This may later be improved from a power consumption POV. At least we should be able to share the duty amongst all CPUs outside the full dynticks range. Then the duty could even be shared with full dynticks CPUs when those can't stop their tick for any reason. But let's start with that very simple approach first. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> [fix have_nohz_full_mask offcase] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* nohz: Basic full dynticks interfaceFrederic Weisbecker2013-03-212-0/+81
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For extreme usecases such as Real Time or HPC, having the ability to shutdown the tick when a single task runs on a CPU is a desired feature: * Reducing the amount of interrupts improves throughput for CPU-bound tasks. The CPU is less distracted from its real job, from an execution time and from the cache point of views. * This also improve latency response as we have less critical sections. Start with introducing a very simple interface to define full dynticks CPU: use a boot time option defined cpumask through the "nohz_extended=" kernel parameter. CPUs that are part of this range will have their tick shutdown whenever possible: provided they run a single task and they don't do kernel activity that require the periodic tick. These details will be later documented in Documentation/* An online CPU must be kept outside this range to handle the timekeeping. Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* sched/tracing: Allow tracing the preemption decision on wakeupPeter Zijlstra2013-03-181-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Thomas noted that we do the wakeup preemption check after the wakeup trace point, this means the tracepoint cannot test/report this decision; which is rather important for latency sensitive workloads. Therefore move the tracepoint after doing the preemption check. Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1363254519.26965.9.camel@laptop Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* Merge branch 'sched/core' of ↵Ingo Molnar2013-03-181-12/+34
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks into sched/core Pull CPU runtime stats/accounting fixes from Frederic Weisbecker: " Some users are complaining that their threadgroup's runtime accounting freezes after a week or so of intense cpu-bound workload. This set tries to fix the issue by reducing the risk of multiplication overflow in the cputime scaling code. " Stanislaw Gruszka further explained the historic context and impact of the bug: " Commit 0cf55e1ec08bb5a22e068309e2d8ba1180ab4239 start to use scalling for whole thread group, so increase chances of hitting multiplication overflow, depending on how many CPUs are on the system. We have multiplication utime * rtime for one thread since commit b27f03d4bdc145a09fb7b0c0e004b29f1ee555fa. Overflow will happen after: rtime * utime > 0xffffffffffffffff jiffies if thread utilize 100% of CPU time, that gives: rtime > sqrt(0xffffffffffffffff) jiffies ritme > sqrt(0xffffffffffffffff) / (24 * 60 * 60 * HZ) days For HZ 100 it will be 497 days for HZ 1000 it will be 49 days. Bug affect only users, who run CPU intensive application for that long period. Also they have to be interested on utime,stime values, as bug has no other visible effect as making those values incorrect. " Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
| * sched: Lower chances of cputime scaling overflowFrederic Weisbecker2013-03-131-12/+34
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some users have reported that after running a process with hundreds of threads on intensive CPU-bound loads, the cputime of the group started to freeze after a few days. This is due to how we scale the tick-based cputime against the scheduler precise execution time value. We add the values of all threads in the group and we multiply that against the sum of the scheduler exec runtime of the whole group. This easily overflows after a few days/weeks of execution. A proposed solution to solve this was to compute that multiplication on stime instead of utime: 62188451f0d63add7ad0cd2a1ae269d600c1663d ("cputime: Avoid multiplication overflow on utime scaling") The rationale behind that was that it's easy for a thread to spend most of its time in userspace under intensive CPU-bound workload but it's much harder to do CPU-bound intensive long run in the kernel. This postulate got defeated when a user recently reported he was still seeing cputime freezes after the above patch. The workload that triggers this issue relates to intensive networking workloads where most of the cputime is consumed in the kernel. To reduce much more the opportunities for multiplication overflow, lets reduce the multiplication factors to the remainders of the division between sched exec runtime and cputime. Assuming the difference between these shouldn't ever be that large, it could work on many situations. This gets the same results as in the upstream scaling code except for a small difference: the upstream code always rounds the results to the nearest integer not greater to what would be the precise result. The new code rounds to the nearest integer either greater or not greater. In practice this difference probably shouldn't matter but it's worth mentioning. If this solution appears not to be enough in the end, we'll need to partly revert back to the behaviour prior to commit 0cf55e1ec08bb5a22e068309e2d8ba1180ab4239 ("sched, cputime: Introduce thread_group_times()") Back then, the scaling was done on exit() time before adding the cputime of an exiting thread to the signal struct. And then we'll need to scale one-by-one the live threads cputime in thread_group_cputime(). The drawback may be a slightly slower code on exit time. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
* | sched: Fix variable name misnomer, add commentsAndrei Epure2013-03-141-4/+5
|/ | | | | | | | | | The min_vruntime variable actually stores the maximum value. The added comment was taken from place_entity function. Signed-off-by: Andrei Epure <epure.andrei@gmail.com> Cc: peterz@infradead.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1363115544-1964-1-git-send-email-epure.andrei@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* sched: Spelling fixAndrei Epure2013-03-111-1/+1
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Andrei Epure <epure.andrei@gmail.com> Cc: trivial@kernel.org Cc: peterz@infradead.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1362996200-2674-1-git-send-email-epure.andrei@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* sched: Fix update_group_power() prototype placement to fix build warning ↵Li Zefan2013-03-111-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | when !CONFIG_SMP All warnings: In file included from kernel/sched/core.c:85:0: kernel/sched/sched.h:1036:39: warning: 'struct sched_domain' declared inside parameter list kernel/sched/sched.h:1036:39: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want It's because struct sched_domain is defined inside #if CONFIG_SMP, while update_group_power() is declared unconditionally. Fix this warning by declaring update_group_power() only if CONFIG_SMP=n. Build tested with CONFIG_SMP enabled and then disabled. Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5137F4BA.2060101@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* Merge branch 'sched/cputime' of ↵Ingo Molnar2013-03-083-76/+86
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks into sched/core Pull cputime changes from Frederic Weisbecker: * Generalize exception handling * Fix race in context tracking state restore on return from exception and irq exit kernel preemption * Fix cputime scaling in full dynticks accounting dynamic off-case * Fix default Kconfig value Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
| * cputime: Dynamically scale cputime for full dynticks accountingFrederic Weisbecker2013-03-072-75/+81
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The full dynticks cputime accounting is able to account either using the tick or the context tracking subsystem. This way the housekeeping CPU can keep the low overhead tick based solution. This latter mode has a low jiffies resolution granularity and need to be scaled against CFS precise runtime accounting to improve its result. We are doing this for CONFIG_TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING, now we also need to expand it to full dynticks accounting dynamic off-case as well. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Mats Liljegren <mats.liljegren@enea.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| * context_tracking: Restore preempted context state after preempt_schedule_irq()Frederic Weisbecker2013-03-071-1/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | From the context tracking POV, preempt_schedule_irq() behaves pretty much like an exception: It can be called anytime and schedule another task. But currently it doesn't restore the context tracking state of the preempted code on preempt_schedule_irq() return. As a result, if preempt_schedule_irq() is called in the tiny frame between user_enter() and the actual return to userspace, we resume userspace with the wrong context tracking state. Fix this by using exception_enter/exit() which are a perfect fit for this kind of issue. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Mats Liljegren <mats.liljegren@enea.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* | sched: Remove double declaration of root_task_groupLi Zefan2013-03-062-5/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It's already declared in include/linux/sched.h Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5135A7D8.7000107@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* | sched: Move group scheduling functions out of include/linux/sched.hLi Zefan2013-03-062-5/+17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Make sched_group_{set_,}runtime(), sched_group_{set_,}period() and sched_rt_can_attach() static. - Move sched_{create,destroy,online,offline}_group() to kernel/sched/sched.h. - Remove declaration of sched_group_shares(). Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5135A7C5.3000708@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* | sched: Make default_scale_freq_power() staticLi Zefan2013-03-061-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As default_scale_{freq,smt}_power() and update_rt_power() are used in kernel/sched/fair.c only, annotate them as static functions. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5135A7AF.8010900@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* | sched: Move struct sched_class to kernel/sched/sched.hLi Zefan2013-03-061-0/+55
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It's used internally only. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5135A79F.8090502@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* | sched: Move wake flags to kernel/sched/sched.hLi Zefan2013-03-061-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | They are used internally only. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5135A78E.7040609@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* | sched: Move struct sched_group to kernel/sched/sched.hLi Zefan2013-03-061-0/+56
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Move struct sched_group_power and sched_group and related inline functions to kernel/sched/sched.h, as they are used internally only. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5135A77F.2010705@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* | sched: Move SCHED_LOAD_SHIFT macros to kernel/sched/sched.hLi Zefan2013-03-061-1/+25
|/ | | | | | | | | They are used internally only. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5135A771.4070104@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2013-03-031-1/+1
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull more VFS bits from Al Viro: "Unfortunately, it looks like xattr series will have to wait until the next cycle ;-/ This pile contains 9p cleanups and fixes (races in v9fs_fid_add() etc), fixup for nommu breakage in shmem.c, several cleanups and a bit more file_inode() work" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: constify path_get/path_put and fs_struct.c stuff fix nommu breakage in shmem.c cache the value of file_inode() in struct file 9p: if v9fs_fid_lookup() gets to asking server, it'd better have hashed dentry 9p: make sure ->lookup() adds fid to the right dentry 9p: untangle ->lookup() a bit 9p: double iput() in ->lookup() if d_materialise_unique() fails 9p: v9fs_fid_add() can't fail now v9fs: get rid of v9fs_dentry 9p: turn fid->dlist into hlist 9p: don't bother with private lock in ->d_fsdata; dentry->d_lock will do just fine more file_inode() open-coded instances selinux: opened file can't have NULL or negative ->f_path.dentry (In the meantime, the hlist traversal macros have changed, so this required a semantic conflict fixup for the newly hlistified fid->dlist)
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