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Linus Torvalds
04e2f1741d Add memory barrier semantics to wake_up() & co
Oleg Nesterov and others have pointed out that on some architectures,
the traditional sequence of

	set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
	if (CONDITION)
		return;
	schedule();

is racy wrt another CPU doing

	CONDITION = 1;
	wake_up_process(p);

because while set_current_state() has a memory barrier separating
setting of the TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE state from reading of the CONDITION
variable, there is no such memory barrier on the wakeup side.

Now, wake_up_process() does actually take a spinlock before it reads and
sets the task state on the waking side, and on x86 (and many other
architectures) that spinlock is in fact equivalent to a memory barrier,
but that is not generally guaranteed.  The write that sets CONDITION
could move into the critical region protected by the runqueue spinlock.

However, adding a smp_wmb() to before the spinlock should now order the
writing of CONDITION wrt the lock itself, which in turn is ordered wrt
the accesses within the spinlock (which includes the reading of the old
state).

This should thus close the race (which probably has never been seen in
practice, but since smp_wmb() is a no-op on x86, it's not like this will
make anything worse either on the most common architecture where the
spinlock already gave the required protection).

Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-23 18:05:03 -08:00
Srinivasa Ds
4362758279 kprobes: refuse kprobe insertion on add/sub_preempt_counter()
Kprobes makes use of preempt_disable(),preempt_enable_noresched() and these
functions inturn call add/sub_preempt_count().  So we need to refuse user from
inserting probe in to these functions.

This patch disallows user from probing add/sub_preempt_count().

Signed-off-by: Srinivasa DS <srinivasa@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-23 17:13:24 -08:00
Peter Zijlstra
b68aa2300c sched: rt-group: refure unrunnable tasks
Refuse to accept or create RT tasks in groups that can't run them.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-13 15:45:40 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
bccbe08a60 sched: rt-group: clean up the ifdeffery
Clean up some of the excessive ifdeffery introduces in the last patch.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-13 15:45:40 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
052f1dc7eb sched: rt-group: make rt groups scheduling configurable
Make the rt group scheduler compile time configurable.
Keep it experimental for now.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-13 15:45:40 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
9f0c1e560c sched: rt-group: interface
Change the rt_ratio interface to rt_runtime_us, to match rt_period_us.
This avoids picking a granularity for the ratio.

Extend the /sys/kernel/uids/<uid>/ interface to allow setting
the group's rt_runtime.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-13 15:45:39 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
23b0fdfc92 sched: rt-group: deal with PI
Steven mentioned the fun case where a lock holding task will be throttled.

Simple fix: allow groups that have boosted tasks to run anyway.

If a runnable task in a throttled group gets boosted the dequeue/enqueue
done by rt_mutex_setprio() is enough to unthrottle the group.

This is ofcourse not quite correct. Two possible ways forward are:
  - second prio array for boosted tasks
  - boost to a prio ceiling (this would also work for deadline scheduling)

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-13 15:45:39 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
4cf5d77a6e sched: fix incorrect irq lock usage in normalize_rt_tasks()
lockdep spotted this bogus irq locking. normalize_rt_tasks() can be called
from hardirq context through sysrq-n

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-13 15:45:39 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
8ed3699682 sched: fair-group: separate tg->shares from task_group_lock
On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 15:09 +0300, Denis V. Lunev wrote:
> BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context
> at /home/den/src/linux-netns26/kernel/mutex.c:209
> in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():0
> no locks held by swapper/0.
> Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.24 #304
>
> Call Trace:
>  <IRQ>  [<ffffffff80252d1e>] ? __debug_show_held_locks+0x15/0x27
>  [<ffffffff8022c2a8>] __might_sleep+0xc0/0xdf
>  [<ffffffff8049f1df>] mutex_lock_nested+0x28/0x2a9
>  [<ffffffff80231294>] sched_destroy_group+0x18/0xea
>  [<ffffffff8023e835>] sched_destroy_user+0xd/0xf
>  [<ffffffff8023e8c1>] free_uid+0x8a/0xab
>  [<ffffffff80233e24>] __put_task_struct+0x3f/0xd3
>  [<ffffffff80236708>] delayed_put_task_struct+0x23/0x25
>  [<ffffffff8026fda7>] __rcu_process_callbacks+0x8d/0x215
>  [<ffffffff8026ff52>] rcu_process_callbacks+0x23/0x44
>  [<ffffffff8023a2ae>] __do_softirq+0x79/0xf8
>  [<ffffffff8020f8c3>] ? profile_pc+0x2a/0x67
>  [<ffffffff8020d38c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
>  [<ffffffff8020f689>] do_softirq+0x61/0x9c
>  [<ffffffff8023a233>] irq_exit+0x51/0x53
>  [<ffffffff8021bd1a>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x77/0xad
>  [<ffffffff8020ce3b>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x6b/0x70
>  <EOI>  [<ffffffff8020b0dd>] ? default_idle+0x43/0x76
>  [<ffffffff8020b0db>] ? default_idle+0x41/0x76
>  [<ffffffff8020b09a>] ? default_idle+0x0/0x76
>  [<ffffffff8020b186>] ? cpu_idle+0x76/0x98

separate the tg->shares protection from the task_group lock.

Reported-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Tested-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-13 15:45:39 +01:00
Harvey Harrison
7ad5b3a505 kernel: remove fastcall in kernel/*
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:31 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
75659ca0c1 Merge branch 'task_killable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/willy/misc
* 'task_killable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/willy/misc: (22 commits)
  Remove commented-out code copied from NFS
  NFS: Switch from intr mount option to TASK_KILLABLE
  Add wait_for_completion_killable
  Add wait_event_killable
  Add schedule_timeout_killable
  Use mutex_lock_killable in vfs_readdir
  Add mutex_lock_killable
  Use lock_page_killable
  Add lock_page_killable
  Add fatal_signal_pending
  Add TASK_WAKEKILL
  exit: Use task_is_*
  signal: Use task_is_*
  sched: Use task_contributes_to_load, TASK_ALL and TASK_NORMAL
  ptrace: Use task_is_*
  power: Use task_is_*
  wait: Use TASK_NORMAL
  proc/base.c: Use task_is_*
  proc/array.c: Use TASK_REPORT
  perfmon: Use task_is_*
  ...

Fixed up conflicts in NFS/sunrpc manually..
2008-02-01 11:45:47 +11:00
Gerald Stralko
5aff0531ee sched: remove unused params
This removes the extra struct task_struct *p parameter in inc_nr_running
and dec_nr_running functions.

Signed-off by: Jerry Stralko <gerb.stralko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-31 22:45:23 +01:00
Nick Piggin
95c354fe9f spinlock: lockbreak cleanup
The break_lock data structure and code for spinlocks is quite nasty.
Not only does it double the size of a spinlock but it changes locking to
a potentially less optimal trylock.

Put all of that under CONFIG_GENERIC_LOCKBREAK, and introduce a
__raw_spin_is_contended that uses the lock data itself to determine whether
there are waiters on the lock, to be used if CONFIG_GENERIC_LOCKBREAK is
not set.

Rename need_lockbreak to spin_needbreak, make it use spin_is_contended to
decouple it from the spinlock implementation, and make it typesafe (rwlocks
do not have any need_lockbreak sites -- why do they even get bloated up
with that break_lock then?).

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:31:20 +01:00
Nick Piggin
5fb5e6de55 sched: print backtrace of running tasks too
The attached patch is something really simple that can sometimes help
in getting more info out of a hung system.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:34 +01:00
Guillaume Chazarain
cc203d2422 sched: monitor clock underflows in /proc/sched_debug
We monitor clock overflows, let's also monitor clock underflows.

Signed-off-by: Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@yahoo.fr>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:34 +01:00
Guillaume Chazarain
782daeee3d sched: fix rq->clock warps on frequency changes
sched: fix rq->clock warps on frequency changes

Fix 2bacec8c31
(sched: touch softlockup watchdog after idling) that reintroduced warps
on frequency changes. touch_softlockup_watchdog() calls __update_rq_clock
that checks rq->clock for warps, so call it after adjusting rq->clock.

Signed-off-by: Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@yahoo.fr>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:33 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
6478d8800b sched: remove the !PREEMPT_BKL code
remove the !PREEMPT_BKL code.

this removes 160 lines of legacy code.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:33 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
48d5e25821 sched: rt throttling vs no_hz
We need to teach no_hz about the rt throttling because its tick driven.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:31 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
6f505b1642 sched: rt group scheduling
Extend group scheduling to also cover the realtime classes. It uses the time
limiting introduced by the previous patch to allow multiple realtime groups.

The hard time limit is required to keep behaviour deterministic.

The algorithms used make the realtime scheduler O(tg), linear scaling wrt the
number of task groups. This is the worst case behaviour I can't seem to get out
of, the avg. case of the algorithms can be improved, I focused on correctness
and worst case.

[ akpm@linux-foundation.org: move side-effects out of BUG_ON(). ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:30 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
fa85ae2418 sched: rt time limit
Very simple time limit on the realtime scheduling classes.
Allow the rq's realtime class to consume sched_rt_ratio of every
sched_rt_period slice. If the class exceeds this quota the fair class
will preempt the realtime class.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:29 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
8f4d37ec07 sched: high-res preemption tick
Use HR-timers (when available) to deliver an accurate preemption tick.

The regular scheduler tick that runs at 1/HZ can be too coarse when nice
level are used. The fairness system will still keep the cpu utilisation 'fair'
by then delaying the task that got an excessive amount of CPU time but try to
minimize this by delivering preemption points spot-on.

The average frequency of this extra interrupt is sched_latency / nr_latency.
Which need not be higher than 1/HZ, its just that the distribution within the
sched_latency period is important.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:29 +01:00
Herbert Xu
02b67cc3ba sched: do not do cond_resched() when CONFIG_PREEMPT
Why do we even have cond_resched when real preemption
is on? It seems to be a waste of space and time.

remove cond_resched with CONFIG_PREEMPT on.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:28 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
03319ec8b0 sched: documentation, whitespace fixes
whitespace fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:28 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
fa717060f1 sched: sched_rt_entity
Move the task_struct members specific to rt scheduling together.
A future optimization could be to put sched_entity and sched_rt_entity
into a union.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
CC: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:27 +01:00
Gregory Haskins
dc938520d2 sched: dynamically update the root-domain span/online maps
The baseline code statically builds the span maps when the domain is formed.
Previous attempts at dynamically updating the maps caused a suspend-to-ram
regression, which should now be fixed.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
CC: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:26 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
cb46984504 sched: RT-balance, add new methods to sched_class
Dmitry Adamushko found that the current implementation of the RT
balancing code left out changes to the sched_setscheduler and
rt_mutex_setprio.

This patch addresses this issue by adding methods to the schedule classes
to handle being switched out of (switched_from) and being switched into
(switched_to) a sched_class. Also a method for changing of priorities
is also added (prio_changed).

This patch also removes some duplicate logic between rt_mutex_setprio and
sched_setscheduler.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:22 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
9a897c5a67 sched: RT-balance, replace hooks with pre/post schedule and wakeup methods
To make the main sched.c code more agnostic to the schedule classes.
Instead of having specific hooks in the schedule code for the RT class
balancing. They are replaced with a pre_schedule, post_schedule
and task_wake_up methods. These methods may be used by any of the classes
but currently, only the sched_rt class implements them.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:22 +01:00
Dmitry Adamushko
5d2f5a616d sched: get rid of 'new_cpu' in try_to_wake_up()
Clean-up try_to_wake_up().

Get rid of the 'new_cpu' variable in try_to_wake_up() [ that's, one
#ifdef section less ].  Also remove a few redundant blank lines.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:21 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
b913176917 sched: add credits for RT balancing improvements
add credits for RT balancing improvements.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:19 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
0eab914657 sched: style cleanup, #2
style cleanup of various changes that were done recently.

no code changed:

      text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
     26399    2578      48   29025    7161 sched.o.before
     26399    2578      48   29025    7161 sched.o.after

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:19 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
d7876a08db sched: remove unused JIFFIES_TO_NS() macro
remove unused JIFFIES_TO_NS() macro.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:19 +01:00
Gregory Haskins
637f50851b sched: only balance our RT tasks within our domain
We move the rt-overload data as the first global to per-domain
reclassification.  This limits the scope of overload related cache-line
bouncing to stay with a specified partition instead of affecting all
cpus in the system.

Finally, we limit the scope of find_lowest_cpu searches to the domain
instead of the entire system.  Note that we would always respect domain
boundaries even without this patch, but we first would scan potentially
all cpus before whittling the list down.  Now we can avoid looking at
RQs that are out of scope, again reducing cache-line hits.

Note: In some cases, task->cpus_allowed will effectively reduce our search
to within our domain.  However, I believe there are cases where the
cpus_allowed mask may be all ones and therefore we err on the side of
caution.  If it can be optimized later, so be it.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
CC: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:18 +01:00
Gregory Haskins
57d885fea0 sched: add sched-domain roots
We add the notion of a root-domain which will be used later to rescope
global variables to per-domain variables.  Each exclusive cpuset
essentially defines an island domain by fully partitioning the member cpus
from any other cpuset.  However, we currently still maintain some
policy/state as global variables which transcend all cpusets.  Consider,
for instance, rt-overload state.

Whenever a new exclusive cpuset is created, we also create a new
root-domain object and move each cpu member to the root-domain's span.
By default the system creates a single root-domain with all cpus as
members (mimicking the global state we have today).

We add some plumbing for storing class specific data in our root-domain.
Whenever a RQ is switching root-domains (because of repartitioning) we
give each sched_class the opportunity to remove any state from its old
domain and add state to the new one.  This logic doesn't have any clients
yet but it will later in the series.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
CC: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
CC: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
CC: Simon Derr <simon.derr@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:18 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
0d1311a536 sched: RT-balance on new task
rt-balance when creating new tasks.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:14 +01:00
Gregory Haskins
a22d7fc187 sched: wake-balance fixes
We have logic to detect whether the system has migratable tasks, but we are
not using it when deciding whether to push tasks away.  So we add support
for considering this new information.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:12 +01:00
Gregory Haskins
e7693a362e sched: de-SCHED_OTHER-ize the RT path
The current wake-up code path tries to determine if it can optimize the
wake-up to "this_cpu" by computing load calculations.  The problem is that
these calculations are only relevant to SCHED_OTHER tasks where load is king.
For RT tasks, priority is king.  So the load calculation is completely wasted
bandwidth.

Therefore, we create a new sched_class interface to help with
pre-wakeup routing decisions and move the load calculation as a function
of CFS task's class.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:09 +01:00
Gregory Haskins
73fe6aae84 sched: add RT-balance cpu-weight
Some RT tasks (particularly kthreads) are bound to one specific CPU.
It is fairly common for two or more bound tasks to get queued up at the
same time.  Consider, for instance, softirq_timer and softirq_sched.  A
timer goes off in an ISR which schedules softirq_thread to run at RT50.
Then the timer handler determines that it's time to smp-rebalance the
system so it schedules softirq_sched to run.  So we are in a situation
where we have two RT50 tasks queued, and the system will go into
rt-overload condition to request other CPUs for help.

This causes two problems in the current code:

1) If a high-priority bound task and a low-priority unbounded task queue
   up behind the running task, we will fail to ever relocate the unbounded
   task because we terminate the search on the first unmovable task.

2) We spend precious futile cycles in the fast-path trying to pull
   overloaded tasks over.  It is therefore optimial to strive to avoid the
   overhead all together if we can cheaply detect the condition before
   overload even occurs.

This patch tries to achieve this optimization by utilizing the hamming
weight of the task->cpus_allowed mask.  A weight of 1 indicates that
the task cannot be migrated.  We will then utilize this information to
skip non-migratable tasks and to eliminate uncessary rebalance attempts.

We introduce a per-rq variable to count the number of migratable tasks
that are currently running.  We only go into overload if we have more
than one rt task, AND at least one of them is migratable.

In addition, we introduce a per-task variable to cache the cpus_allowed
weight, since the hamming calculation is probably relatively expensive.
We only update the cached value when the mask is updated which should be
relatively infrequent, especially compared to scheduling frequency
in the fast path.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:07 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
4642dafdf9 sched: push RT tasks from overloaded CPUs
This patch adds pushing of overloaded RT tasks from a runqueue that is
having tasks (most likely RT tasks) added to the run queue.

TODO: We don't cover the case of waking of new RT tasks (yet).

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:07 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
f65eda4f78 sched: pull RT tasks from overloaded runqueues
This patch adds the algorithm to pull tasks from RT overloaded runqueues.

When a pull RT is initiated, all overloaded runqueues are examined for
a RT task that is higher in prio than the highest prio task queued on the
target runqueue. If another runqueue holds a RT task that is of higher
prio than the highest prio task on the target runqueue is found it is pulled
to the target runqueue.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:07 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
e8fa136262 sched: add RT task pushing
This patch adds an algorithm to push extra RT tasks off a run queue to
other CPU runqueues.

When more than one RT task is added to a run queue, this algorithm takes
an assertive approach to push the RT tasks that are not running onto other
run queues that have lower priority.  The way this works is that the highest
RT task that is not running is looked at and we examine the runqueues on
the CPUS for that tasks affinity mask. We find the runqueue with the lowest
prio in the CPU affinity of the picked task, and if it is lower in prio than
the picked task, we push the task onto that CPU runqueue.

We continue pushing RT tasks off the current runqueue until we don't push any
more.  The algorithm stops when the next highest RT task can't preempt any
other processes on other CPUS.

TODO: The algorithm may stop when there are still RT tasks that can be
 migrated. Specifically, if the highest non running RT task CPU affinity
 is restricted to CPUs that are running higher priority tasks, there may
 be a lower priority task queued that has an affinity with a CPU that is
 running a lower priority task that it could be migrated to.  This
 patch set does not address this issue.

Note: checkpatch reveals two over 80 character instances. I'm not sure
 that breaking them up will help visually, so I left them as is.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:05 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
764a9d6fe4 sched: track highest prio task queued
This patch adds accounting to each runqueue to keep track of the
highest prio task queued on the run queue. We only care about
RT tasks, so if the run queue does not contain any active RT tasks
its priority will be considered MAX_RT_PRIO.

This information will be used for later patches.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:04 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
63489e45e2 sched: count # of queued RT tasks
This patch adds accounting to keep track of the number of RT tasks running
on a runqueue. This information will be used in later patches.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:03 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
82a1fcb902 softlockup: automatically detect hung TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE tasks
this patch extends the soft-lockup detector to automatically
detect hung TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE tasks. Such hung tasks are
printed the following way:

 ------------------>
 INFO: task prctl:3042 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
 "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message
 prctl         D fd5e3793     0  3042   2997
        f6050f38 00000046 00000001 fd5e3793 00000009 c06d8264 c06dae80 00000286
        f6050f40 f6050f00 f7d34d90 f7d34fc8 c1e1be80 00000001 f6050000 00000000
        f7e92d00 00000286 f6050f18 c0489d1a f6050f40 00006605 00000000 c0133a5b
 Call Trace:
  [<c04883a5>] schedule_timeout+0x6d/0x8b
  [<c04883d8>] schedule_timeout_uninterruptible+0x15/0x17
  [<c0133a76>] msleep+0x10/0x16
  [<c0138974>] sys_prctl+0x30/0x1e2
  [<c0104c52>] sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0xa5
  =======================
 2 locks held by prctl/3042:
 #0:  (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#5){--..}, at: [<c0197d11>] do_fsync+0x38/0x7a
 #1:  (jbd_handle){--..}, at: [<c01ca3d2>] journal_start+0xc7/0xe9
 <------------------

the current default timeout is 120 seconds. Such messages are printed
up to 10 times per bootup. If the system has crashed already then the
messages are not printed.

if lockdep is enabled then all held locks are printed as well.

this feature is a natural extension to the softlockup-detector (kernel
locked up without scheduling) and to the NMI watchdog (kernel locked up
with IRQs disabled).

[ Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>: CPU hotplug fixes. ]
[ Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: build warning fix. ]

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2008-01-25 21:08:02 +01:00
Gautham R Shenoy
95402b3829 cpu-hotplug: replace per-subsystem mutexes with get_online_cpus()
This patch converts the known per-subsystem mutexes to get_online_cpus
put_online_cpus. It also eliminates the CPU_LOCK_ACQUIRE and
CPU_LOCK_RELEASE hotplug notification events.

Signed-off-by: Gautham  R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:02 +01:00
Gautham R Shenoy
86ef5c9a8e cpu-hotplug: replace lock_cpu_hotplug() with get_online_cpus()
Replace all lock_cpu_hotplug/unlock_cpu_hotplug from the kernel and use
get_online_cpus and put_online_cpus instead as it highlights the
refcount semantics in these operations.

The new API guarantees protection against the cpu-hotplug operation, but
it doesn't guarantee serialized access to any of the local data
structures. Hence the changes needs to be reviewed.

In case of pseries_add_processor/pseries_remove_processor, use
cpu_maps_update_begin()/cpu_maps_update_done() as we're modifying the
cpu_present_map there.

Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:02 +01:00
Srivatsa Vaddagiri
6b2d770026 sched: group scheduler, fix fairness of cpu bandwidth allocation for task groups
The current load balancing scheme isn't good enough for precise
group fairness.

For example: on a 8-cpu system, I created 3 groups as under:

	a = 8 tasks (cpu.shares = 1024)
	b = 4 tasks (cpu.shares = 1024)
	c = 3 tasks (cpu.shares = 1024)

a, b and c are task groups that have equal weight. We would expect each
of the groups to receive 33.33% of cpu bandwidth under a fair scheduler.

This is what I get with the latest scheduler git tree:

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Col1  | Col2    | Col3  |  Col4
------|---------|-------|-------------------------------------------------------
a     | 277.676 | 57.8% | 54.1%  54.1%  54.1%  54.2%  56.7%  62.2%  62.8% 64.5%
b     | 116.108 | 24.2% | 47.4%  48.1%  48.7%  49.3%
c     |  86.326 | 18.0% | 47.5%  47.9%  48.5%
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Explanation of o/p:

Col1 -> Group name
Col2 -> Cumulative execution time (in seconds) received by all tasks of that
	group in a 60sec window across 8 cpus
Col3 -> CPU bandwidth received by the group in the 60sec window, expressed in
        percentage. Col3 data is derived as:
		Col3 = 100 * Col2 / (NR_CPUS * 60)
Col4 -> CPU bandwidth received by each individual task of the group.
		Col4 = 100 * cpu_time_recd_by_task / 60

[I can share the test case that produces a similar o/p if reqd]

The deviation from desired group fairness is as below:

	a = +24.47%
	b = -9.13%
	c = -15.33%

which is quite high.

After the patch below is applied, here are the results:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Col1  | Col2    | Col3  |  Col4
------|---------|-------|-------------------------------------------------------
a     | 163.112 | 34.0% | 33.2%  33.4%  33.5%  33.5%  33.7%  34.4%  34.8% 35.3%
b     | 156.220 | 32.5% | 63.3%  64.5%  66.1%  66.5%
c     | 160.653 | 33.5% | 85.8%  90.6%  91.4%
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Deviation from desired group fairness is as below:

	a = +0.67%
	b = -0.83%
	c = +0.17%

which is far better IMO. Most of other runs have yielded a deviation within
+-2% at the most, which is good.

Why do we see bad (group) fairness with current scheuler?
=========================================================

Currently cpu's weight is just the summation of individual task weights.
This can yield incorrect results. For ex: consider three groups as below
on a 2-cpu system:

	CPU0	CPU1
---------------------------
	A (10)  B(5)
		C(5)
---------------------------

Group A has 10 tasks, all on CPU0, Group B and C have 5 tasks each all
of which are on CPU1. Each task has the same weight (NICE_0_LOAD =
1024).

The current scheme would yield a cpu weight of 10240 (10*1024) for each cpu and
the load balancer will think both CPUs are perfectly balanced and won't
move around any tasks. This, however, would yield this bandwidth:

	A = 50%
	B = 25%
	C = 25%

which is not the desired result.

What's changing in the patch?
=============================

	- How cpu weights are calculated when CONFIF_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED is
	  defined (see below)
	- API Change
		- Two tunables introduced in sysfs (under SCHED_DEBUG) to
		  control the frequency at which the load balance monitor
		  thread runs.

The basic change made in this patch is how cpu weight (rq->load.weight) is
calculated. Its now calculated as the summation of group weights on a cpu,
rather than summation of task weights. Weight exerted by a group on a
cpu is dependent on the shares allocated to it and also the number of
tasks the group has on that cpu compared to the total number of
(runnable) tasks the group has in the system.

Let,
	W(K,i)  = Weight of group K on cpu i
	T(K,i)  = Task load present in group K's cfs_rq on cpu i
	T(K)    = Total task load of group K across various cpus
	S(K) 	= Shares allocated to group K
	NRCPUS	= Number of online cpus in the scheduler domain to
	 	  which group K is assigned.

Then,
	W(K,i) = S(K) * NRCPUS * T(K,i) / T(K)

A load balance monitor thread is created at bootup, which periodically
runs and adjusts group's weight on each cpu. To avoid its overhead, two
min/max tunables are introduced (under SCHED_DEBUG) to control the rate
at which it runs.

Fixes from: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>

- don't start the load_balance_monitor when there is only a single cpu.
- rename the kthread because its currently longer than TASK_COMM_LEN

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:00 +01:00
Srivatsa Vaddagiri
a183561567 sched: introduce a mutex and corresponding API to serialize access to doms_curarray
doms_cur[] array represents various scheduling domains which are
mutually exclusive. Currently cpusets code can modify this array (by
calling partition_sched_domains()) as a result of user modifying
sched_load_balance flag for various cpusets.

This patch introduces a mutex and corresponding API (only when
CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED is defined) which allows a reader to safely read
the doms_cur[] array w/o worrying abt concurrent modifications to the
array.

The fair group scheduler code (introduced in next patch of this series)
makes use of this mutex to walk thr' doms_cur[] array while rebalancing
shares of task groups across cpus.

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:00 +01:00
Srivatsa Vaddagiri
58e2d4ca58 sched: group scheduling, change how cpu load is calculated
This patch changes how the cpu load exerted by fair_sched_class tasks
is calculated. Load exerted by fair_sched_class tasks on a cpu is now
a summation of the group weights, rather than summation of task weights.
Weight exerted by a group on a cpu is dependent on the shares allocated
to it.

This version of patch has a minor impact on code size, but should have
no runtime/functional impact for !CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED.

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:00 +01:00
Srivatsa Vaddagiri
ec2c507fe8 sched: group scheduling, minor fixes
Minor bug fixes for the group scheduler:

- Use a mutex to serialize add/remove of task groups and also when
  changing shares of a task group. Use the same mutex when printing
  cfs_rq debugging stats for various task groups.

- Use list_for_each_entry_rcu in for_each_leaf_cfs_rq macro (when
  walking task group list)

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:07:59 +01:00
Srivatsa Vaddagiri
93f992ccc0 sched: group scheduling code cleanup
Minor cleanups:

- Fix coding style
- remove obsolete comment

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:07:59 +01:00