lwn.git/include/linux/sched.h, branch docs-5.0-fix

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

2018-12-26T22:56:10+00:00

Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes in this cycle were: - Introduce "Energy Aware Scheduling" - by Quentin Perret. This is a coherent topology description of CPUs in cooperation with the PM subsystem, with the goal to schedule more energy-efficiently on asymetric SMP platform - such as waking up tasks to the more energy-efficient CPUs first, as long as the system isn't oversubscribed. For details of the design, see: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180724122521.22109-1-quentin.perret@arm.com/ - Misc cleanups and smaller enhancements" * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits) sched/fair: Select an energy-efficient CPU on task wake-up sched/fair: Introduce an energy estimation helper function sched/fair: Add over-utilization/tipping point indicator sched/fair: Clean-up update_sg_lb_stats parameters sched/toplogy: Introduce the 'sched_energy_present' static key sched/topology: Make Energy Aware Scheduling depend on schedutil sched/topology: Disable EAS on inappropriate platforms sched/topology: Add lowest CPU asymmetry sched_domain level pointer sched/topology: Reference the Energy Model of CPUs when available PM: Introduce an Energy Model management framework sched/cpufreq: Prepare schedutil for Energy Aware Scheduling sched/topology: Relocate arch_scale_cpu_capacity() to the internal header sched/core: Remove unnecessary unlikely() in push_*_task() sched/topology: Remove the ::smt_gain field from 'struct sched_domain' sched: Fix various typos in comments sched/core: Clean up the #ifdef block in add_nr_running() sched/fair: Make some variables static sched/core: Create task_has_idle_policy() helper sched/fair: Add lsub_positive() and use it consistently sched/fair: Mask UTIL_AVG_UNCHANGED usages ...

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

2018-12-26T21:07:19+00:00

Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar: "The biggest RCU changes in this cycle were: - Convert RCU's BUG_ON() and similar calls to WARN_ON() and similar. - Replace calls of RCU-bh and RCU-sched update-side functions to their vanilla RCU counterparts. This series is a step towards complete removal of the RCU-bh and RCU-sched update-side functions. ( Note that some of these conversions are going upstream via their respective maintainers. ) - Documentation updates, including a number of flavor-consolidation updates from Joel Fernandes. - Miscellaneous fixes. - Automate generation of the initrd filesystem used for rcutorture testing. - Convert spin_is_locked() assertions to instead use lockdep. ( Note that some of these conversions are going upstream via their respective maintainers. ) - SRCU updates, especially including a fix from Dennis Krein for a bag-on-head-class bug. - RCU torture-test updates" * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (112 commits) rcutorture: Don't do busted forward-progress testing rcutorture: Use 100ms buckets for forward-progress callback histograms rcutorture: Recover from OOM during forward-progress tests rcutorture: Print forward-progress test age upon failure rcutorture: Print time since GP end upon forward-progress failure rcutorture: Print histogram of CB invocation at OOM time rcutorture: Print GP age upon forward-progress failure rcu: Print per-CPU callback counts for forward-progress failures rcu: Account for nocb-CPU callback counts in RCU CPU stall warnings rcutorture: Dump grace-period diagnostics upon forward-progress OOM rcutorture: Prepare for asynchronous access to rcu_fwd_startat torture: Remove unnecessary "ret" variables rcutorture: Affinity forward-progress test to avoid housekeeping CPUs rcutorture: Break up too-long rcu_torture_fwd_prog() function rcutorture: Remove cbflood facility torture: Bring any extra CPUs online during kernel startup rcutorture: Add call_rcu() flooding forward-progress tests rcutorture/formal: Replace synchronize_sched() with synchronize_rcu() tools/kernel.h: Replace synchronize_sched() with synchronize_rcu() net/decnet: Replace rcu_barrier_bh() with rcu_barrier() ...

Merge branch 'x86-cache-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2018-12-26T20:17:43+00:00

Pull x86 cache control updates from Borislav Petkov: - The generalization of the RDT code to accommodate the addition of AMD's very similar implementation of the cache monitoring feature. This entails a subsystem move into a separate and generic arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/ directory along with adding vendor-specific initialization and feature detection helpers. Ontop of that is the unification of user-visible strings, both in the resctrl filesystem error handling and Kconfig. Provided by Babu Moger and Sherry Hurwitz. - Code simplifications and error handling improvements by Reinette Chatre. * 'x86-cache-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/resctrl: Fix rdt_find_domain() return value and checks x86/resctrl: Remove unnecessary check for cbm_validate() x86/resctrl: Use rdt_last_cmd_puts() where possible MAINTAINERS: Update resctrl filename patterns Documentation: Rename and update intel_rdt_ui.txt to resctrl_ui.txt x86/resctrl: Introduce AMD QOS feature x86/resctrl: Fixup the user-visible strings x86/resctrl: Add AMD's X86_FEATURE_MBA to the scattered CPUID features x86/resctrl: Rename the config option INTEL_RDT to RESCTRL x86/resctrl: Add vendor check for the MBA software controller x86/resctrl: Bring cbm_validate() into the resource structure x86/resctrl: Initialize the vendor-specific resource functions x86/resctrl: Move all the macros to resctrl/internal.h x86/resctrl: Re-arrange the RDT init code x86/resctrl: Rename the RDT functions and definitions x86/resctrl: Rename and move rdt files to a separate directory

Merge branch 'for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu

2018-12-04T06:52:30+00:00

Pull RCU changes from Paul E. McKenney: - Convert RCU's BUG_ON() and similar calls to WARN_ON() and similar. - Replace calls of RCU-bh and RCU-sched update-side functions to their vanilla RCU counterparts. This series is a step towards complete removal of the RCU-bh and RCU-sched update-side functions. ( Note that some of these conversions are going upstream via their respective maintainers. ) - Documentation updates, including a number of flavor-consolidation updates from Joel Fernandes. - Miscellaneous fixes. - Automate generation of the initrd filesystem used for rcutorture testing. - Convert spin_is_locked() assertions to instead use lockdep. ( Note that some of these conversions are going upstream via their respective maintainers. ) - SRCU updates, especially including a fix from Dennis Krein for a bag-on-head-class bug. - RCU torture-test updates. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched: Fix various typos in comments

2018-12-03T10:55:42+00:00

Go over the scheduler source code and fix common typos in comments - and a typo in an actual variable name. No change in functionality intended. Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2018-12-01T20:35:48+00:00

Pull STIBP fallout fixes from Thomas Gleixner: "The performance destruction department finally got it's act together and came up with a cure for the STIPB regression: - Provide a command line option to control the spectre v2 user space mitigations. Default is either seccomp or prctl (if seccomp is disabled in Kconfig). prctl allows mitigation opt-in, seccomp enables the migitation for sandboxed processes. - Rework the code to handle the conditional STIBP/IBPB control and remove the now unused ptrace_may_access_sched() optimization attempt - Disable STIBP automatically when SMT is disabled - Optimize the switch_to() logic to avoid MSR writes and invocations of __switch_to_xtra(). - Make the asynchronous speculation TIF updates synchronous to prevent stale mitigation state. As a general cleanup this also makes retpoline directly depend on compiler support and removes the 'minimal retpoline' option which just pretended to provide some form of security while providing none" * 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (31 commits) x86/speculation: Provide IBPB always command line options x86/speculation: Add seccomp Spectre v2 user space protection mode x86/speculation: Enable prctl mode for spectre_v2_user x86/speculation: Add prctl() control for indirect branch speculation x86/speculation: Prepare arch_smt_update() for PRCTL mode x86/speculation: Prevent stale SPEC_CTRL msr content x86/speculation: Split out TIF update ptrace: Remove unused ptrace_may_access_sched() and MODE_IBRS x86/speculation: Prepare for conditional IBPB in switch_mm() x86/speculation: Avoid __switch_to_xtra() calls x86/process: Consolidate and simplify switch_to_xtra() code x86/speculation: Prepare for per task indirect branch speculation control x86/speculation: Add command line control for indirect branch speculation x86/speculation: Unify conditional spectre v2 print functions x86/speculataion: Mark command line parser data __initdata x86/speculation: Mark string arrays const correctly x86/speculation: Reorder the spec_v2 code x86/l1tf: Show actual SMT state x86/speculation: Rework SMT state change sched/smt: Expose sched_smt_present static key ...

x86/speculation: Add prctl() control for indirect branch speculation

2018-11-28T10:57:13+00:00

Add the PR_SPEC_INDIRECT_BRANCH option for the PR_GET_SPECULATION_CTRL and PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL prctls to allow fine grained per task control of indirect branch speculation via STIBP and IBPB. Invocations: Check indirect branch speculation status with - prctl(PR_GET_SPECULATION_CTRL, PR_SPEC_INDIRECT_BRANCH, 0, 0, 0); Enable indirect branch speculation with - prctl(PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL, PR_SPEC_INDIRECT_BRANCH, PR_SPEC_ENABLE, 0, 0); Disable indirect branch speculation with - prctl(PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL, PR_SPEC_INDIRECT_BRANCH, PR_SPEC_DISABLE, 0, 0); Force disable indirect branch speculation with - prctl(PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL, PR_SPEC_INDIRECT_BRANCH, PR_SPEC_FORCE_DISABLE, 0, 0); See Documentation/userspace-api/spec_ctrl.rst. Signed-off-by: Tim Chen Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Jiri Kosina Cc: Tom Lendacky Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: David Woodhouse Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Casey Schaufler Cc: Asit Mallick Cc: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Jon Masters Cc: Waiman Long Cc: Greg KH Cc: Dave Stewart Cc: Kees Cook Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181125185005.866780996@linutronix.de

function_graph: Use new curr_ret_depth to manage depth instead of curr_ret_stack

2018-11-28T01:31:54+00:00

Currently, the depth of the ret_stack is determined by curr_ret_stack index. The issue is that there's a race between setting of the curr_ret_stack and calling of the callback attached to the return of the function. Commit 03274a3ffb44 ("tracing/fgraph: Adjust fgraph depth before calling trace return callback") moved the calling of the callback to after the setting of the curr_ret_stack, even stating that it was safe to do so, when in fact, it was the reason there was a barrier() there (yes, I should have commented that barrier()). Not only does the curr_ret_stack keep track of the current call graph depth, it also keeps the ret_stack content from being overwritten by new data. The function profiler, uses the "subtime" variable of ret_stack structure and by moving the curr_ret_stack, it allows for interrupts to use the same structure it was using, corrupting the data, and breaking the profiler. To fix this, there needs to be two variables to handle the call stack depth and the pointer to where the ret_stack is being used, as they need to change at two different locations. Cc: stable@kernel.org Fixes: 03274a3ffb449 ("tracing/fgraph: Adjust fgraph depth before calling trace return callback") Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

x86/resctrl: Rename the config option INTEL_RDT to RESCTRL

2018-11-22T19:16:19+00:00

The resource control feature is supported by both Intel and AMD. So, rename CONFIG_INTEL_RDT to the vendor-neutral CONFIG_RESCTRL. Now CONFIG_RESCTRL will be used for both Intel and AMD to enable Resource Control support. Update the texts in config and condition accordingly. [ bp: Simplify Kconfig text. ] Signed-off-by: Babu Moger Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Brijesh Singh Cc: "Chang S. Bae" Cc: David Miller Cc: David Woodhouse Cc: Dmitry Safonov Cc: Fenghua Yu Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Joerg Roedel Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Kate Stewart Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Cc: Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Philippe Ombredanne Cc: Pu Wen Cc: Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Reinette Chatre Cc: Rian Hunter Cc: Sherry Hurwitz Cc: Suravee Suthikulpanit Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Thomas Lendacky Cc: Tony Luck Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov Cc: Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181121202811.4492-9-babu.moger@amd.com

rcu: Speed up expedited GPs when interrupting RCU reader

2018-11-12T17:03:59+00:00

In PREEMPT kernels, an expedited grace period might send an IPI to a CPU that is executing an RCU read-side critical section. In that case, it would be nice if the rcu_read_unlock() directly interacted with the RCU core code to immediately report the quiescent state. And this does happen in the case where the reader has been preempted. But it would also be a nice performance optimization if immediate reporting also happened in the preemption-free case. This commit therefore adds an ->exp_hint field to the task_struct structure's ->rcu_read_unlock_special field. The IPI handler sets this hint when it has interrupted an RCU read-side critical section, and this causes the outermost rcu_read_unlock() call to invoke rcu_read_unlock_special(), which, if preemption is enabled, reports the quiescent state immediately. If preemption is disabled, then the report is required to be deferred until preemption (or bottom halves or interrupts or whatever) is re-enabled. Because this is a hint, it does nothing for more complicated cases. For example, if the IPI interrupts an RCU reader, but interrupts are disabled across the rcu_read_unlock(), but another rcu_read_lock() is executed before interrupts are re-enabled, the hint will already have been cleared. If you do crazy things like this, reporting will be deferred until some later RCU_SOFTIRQ handler, context switch, cond_resched(), or similar. Reported-by: Joel Fernandes Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Acked-by: Joel Fernandes (Google)