lwn.git/kernel/sched/idle_task.c, branch docs-6.8-2

sched/idle: Merge kernel/sched/idle.c and kernel/sched/idle_task.c

2018-03-04T11:39:33+00:00

Merge these two small .c modules as they implement two aspects of idle task handling. Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/headers: Simplify and clean up header usage in the scheduler

2018-03-04T11:39:29+00:00

Do the following cleanups and simplifications: - sched/sched.h already includes , so no need to include it in sched/core.c again. - order the headers alphabetically - add all headers to kernel/sched/sched.h - remove all unnecessary includes from the .c files that are already included in kernel/sched/sched.h. Finally, make all scheduler .c files use a single common header: #include "sched.h" ... which now contains a union of the relied upon headers. This makes the various .c files easier to read and easier to handle. Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched: Clean up and harmonize the coding style of the scheduler code base

2018-03-03T14:50:21+00:00

A good number of small style inconsistencies have accumulated in the scheduler core, so do a pass over them to harmonize all these details: - fix speling in comments, - use curly braces for multi-line statements, - remove unnecessary parentheses from integer literals, - capitalize consistently, - remove stray newlines, - add comments where necessary, - remove invalid/unnecessary comments, - align structure definitions and other data types vertically, - add missing newlines for increased readability, - fix vertical tabulation where it's misaligned, - harmonize preprocessor conditional block labeling and vertical alignment, - remove line-breaks where they uglify the code, - add newline after local variable definitions, No change in functionality: md5: 1191fa0a890cfa8132156d2959d7e9e2 built-in.o.before.asm 1191fa0a890cfa8132156d2959d7e9e2 built-in.o.after.asm Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/nohz: Remove the 1 Hz tick code

2018-02-21T08:49:09+00:00

Now that the 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, we can safely remove the residual code that used to handle it locally. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Chris Metcalf Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Luiz Capitulino Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Wanpeng Li Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1519186649-3242-7-git-send-email-frederic@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/isolation: Offload residual 1Hz scheduler tick

2018-02-21T08:49:09+00:00

When a CPU runs in full dynticks mode, a 1Hz tick remains in order to keep the scheduler stats alive. However this residual tick is a burden for bare metal tasks that can't stand any interruption at all, or want to minimize them. The usual boot parameters "nohz_full=" or "isolcpus=nohz" will now outsource these scheduler ticks to the global workqueue so that a housekeeping CPU handles those remotely. The sched_class::task_tick() implementations have been audited and look safe to be called remotely as the target runqueue and its current task are passed in parameter and don't seem to be accessed locally. Note that in the case of using isolcpus, it's still up to the user to affine the global workqueues to the housekeeping CPUs through /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask or domains isolation "isolcpus=nohz,domain". Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Chris Metcalf Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Luiz Capitulino Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Wanpeng Li Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1519186649-3242-6-git-send-email-frederic@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sched/core: Add wrappers for lockdep_(un)pin_lock()

2017-01-14T10:29:30+00:00

In preparation for adding diagnostic checks to catch missing calls to update_rq_clock(), provide wrappers for (re)pinning and unpinning rq->lock. Because the pending diagnostic checks allow state to be maintained in rq_flags across pin contexts, swap the 'struct pin_cookie' arguments for 'struct rq_flags *'. Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Byungchul Park Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Luca Abeni Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Petr Mladek Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Wanpeng Li Cc: Yuyang Du Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160921133813.31976-5-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/core: Rewrite and improve select_idle_siblings()

2016-09-30T09:03:09+00:00

select_idle_siblings() is a known pain point for a number of workloads; it either does too much or not enough and sometimes just does plain wrong. This rewrite attempts to address a number of issues (but sadly not all). The current code does an unconditional sched_domain iteration; with the intent of finding an idle core (on SMT hardware). The problems which this patch tries to address are: - its pointless to look for idle cores if the machine is real busy; at which point you're just wasting cycles. - it's behaviour is inconsistent between SMT and !SMT hardware in that !SMT hardware ends up doing a scan for any idle CPU in the LLC domain, while SMT hardware does a scan for idle cores and if that fails, falls back to a scan for idle threads on the 'target' core. The new code replaces the sched_domain scan with 3 explicit scans: 1) search for an idle core in the LLC 2) search for an idle CPU in the LLC 3) search for an idle thread in the 'target' core where 1 and 3 are conditional on SMT support and 1 and 2 have runtime heuristics to skip the step. Step 1) is conditional on sd_llc_shared->has_idle_cores; when a cpu goes idle and sd_llc_shared->has_idle_cores is false, we scan all SMT siblings of the CPU going idle. Similarly, we clear sd_llc_shared->has_idle_cores when we fail to find an idle core. Step 2) tracks the average cost of the scan and compares this to the average idle time guestimate for the CPU doing the wakeup. There is a significant fudge factor involved to deal with the variability of the averages. Esp. hackbench was sensitive to this. Step 3) is unconditional; we assume (also per step 1) that scanning all SMT siblings in a core is 'cheap'. With this; SMT systems gain step 2, which cures a few benchmarks -- notably one from Facebook. One 'feature' of the sched_domain iteration, which we preserve in the new code, is that it would start scanning from the 'target' CPU, instead of scanning the cpumask in cpu id order. This avoids multiple CPUs in the LLC scanning for idle to gang up and find the same CPU quite as much. The down side is that tasks can end up hopping across the LLC for no apparent reason. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/debug: Clean up schedstat macros

2016-09-05T11:29:46+00:00

The schedstat_*() macros are inconsistent: most of them take a pointer and a field which the macro combines, whereas schedstat_set() takes the already combined ptr->field. The already combined ptr->field argument is actually more intuitive and easier to use, and there's no reason to require the user to split the variable up, so convert the macros to use the combined argument. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Matt Fleming Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Srikar Dronamraju Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/54953ca25bb579f3a5946432dee409b0e05222c6.1466184592.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

locking/lockdep, sched/core: Implement a better lock pinning scheme

2016-05-05T07:23:59+00:00

The problem with the existing lock pinning is that each pin is of value 1; this mean you can simply unpin if you know its pinned, without having any extra information. This scheme generates a random (16 bit) cookie for each pin and requires this same cookie to unpin. This means you have to keep the cookie in context. No objsize difference for !LOCKDEP kernels. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar