Instrument the scheduler activity (sched_switch, migration, wakeups,
wait for a task, signal delivery) and process/thread
creation/destruction (fork, exit, kthread stop). Actually, kthread
creation is not instrumented in this patch because it is architecture
dependent. It allows to connect tracers such as ftrace which detects
scheduling latencies, good/bad scheduler decisions. Tools like LTTng can
export this scheduler information along with instrumentation of the rest
of the kernel activity to perform post-mortem analysis on the scheduler
activity.
About the performance impact of tracepoints (which is comparable to
markers), even without immediate values optimizations, tests done by
Hideo Aoki on ia64 show no regression. His test case was using hackbench
on a kernel where scheduler instrumentation (about 5 events in code
scheduler code) was added. See the "Tracepoints" patch header for
performance result detail.
Changelog :
- Change instrumentation location and parameter to match ftrace
instrumentation, previously done with kernel markers.
[ mingo@elte.hu: conflict resolutions ]
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Acked-by: 'Peter Zijlstra' <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
add /proc/sys/kernel/sched_domain/cpu0/domain0/name, to make
it easier to see which specific scheduler domain remained at
that entry.
Since we process the scheduler domain tree and
simplify it, it's not always immediately clear during debugging
which domain came from where.
depends on CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
css will be initialized by cgroup core.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: per CPU hrtimers can be migrated from a dead CPU
The hrtimer code has no knowledge about per CPU timers, but we need to
prevent the migration of such timers and warn when such a timer is
active at migration time.
Explicitely mark the timers as per CPU and use a more understandable
mode descriptor for the interrupts safe unlocked callback mode, which
is used by hrtimer_sleeper and the scheduler code.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
While playing around with it, I noticed we missed some sanity checks.
Also add some comments while we're there.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
- Add some comments to try to make the ifdef puzzle a bit clearer
- Explicitly inline one of the three init_hrtick() implementations.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LD kernel/built-in.o
WARNING: kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x326): Section mismatch in reference
from the function init_hrtick() to the variable
.cpuinit.data:hotplug_hrtick_nb.8
The function init_hrtick() references
the variable __cpuinitdata hotplug_hrtick_nb.8.
This is often because init_hrtick lacks a __cpuinitdata
annotation or the annotation of hotplug_hrtick_nb.8 is wrong.
Signed-off-by: Md.Rakib H. Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Lin Ming reported a 10% OLTP regression against 2.6.27-rc4.
The difference seems to come from different preemption agressiveness,
which affects the cache footprint of the workload and its effective
cache trashing.
Aggresively preempt a task if its avg overlap is very small, this should
avoid the task going to sleep and find it still running when we schedule
back to it - saving a wakeup.
Reported-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
What I realized recently is that calling rebuild_sched_domains() in
arch_reinit_sched_domains() by itself is not enough when cpusets are enabled.
partition_sched_domains() code is trying to avoid unnecessary domain rebuilds
and will not actually rebuild anything if new domain masks match the old ones.
What this means is that doing
echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/sched_mc_power_savings
on a system with cpusets enabled will not take affect untill something changes
in the cpuset setup (ie new sets created or deleted).
This patch fixes restore correct behaviour where domains must be rebuilt in
order to enable MC powersaving flags.
Test on quad-core Core2 box with both CONFIG_CPUSETS and !CONFIG_CPUSETS.
Also tested on dual-core Core2 laptop. Lockdep is happy and things are working
as expected.
Signed-off-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Tested-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
I found that 2.6.27-rc5-mm1 does not compile with gcc 3.4.6.
The error is:
CC kernel/sched.o
kernel/sched.c: In function `start_rt_bandwidth':
kernel/sched.c:208: sorry, unimplemented: inlining failed in call to 'rt_bandwidth_enabled': function body not available
kernel/sched.c:214: sorry, unimplemented: called from here
make[1]: *** [kernel/sched.o] Error 1
make: *** [kernel] Error 2
It seems that the gcc 3.4.6 requires full inline definition before first usage.
The patch below fixes the compilation problem.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl> (if needed>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Spencer reported a problem where utime and stime were going negative despite
the fixes in commit b27f03d4bd. The suspected
reason for the problem is that signal_struct maintains it's own utime and
stime (of exited tasks), these are not updated using the new task_utime()
routine, hence sig->utime can go backwards and cause the same problem
to occur (sig->utime, adds tsk->utime and not task_utime()). This patch
fixes the problem
TODO: using max(task->prev_utime, derived utime) works for now, but a more
generic solution is to implement cputime_max() and use the cputime_gt()
function for comparison.
Reported-by: spencer@bluehost.com
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
fix:
kernel/sched.c: In function '__rt_schedulable':
kernel/sched.c:8771: error: implicit declaration of function 'walk_tg_tree'
kernel/sched.c:8771: error: 'tg_nop' undeclared (first use in this function)
kernel/sched.c:8771: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
kernel/sched.c:8771: error: for each function it appears in.)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch adds kernel doc for the completion feature.
An error in the split-man.pl PERL snippet in kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt is
also fixed.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Diggs <kevdig@hypersurf.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
wait_task_inactive() returns 1 when p->nvcsw == 0 || p->nvcsw == 1. This
means that two subsequent calls can return the same number while the task
was scheduled in between.
Change the code to return "nvcsw | LONG_MIN" instead of "nvcsw ?: 1", now
the overlap always needs LONG_MAX schedules.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
If wait_task_inactive() returns success the task was deactivated. In that
case schedule() always increments ->nvcsw which alone can be used as a
"generation counter".
If the next call returns the same number, we can be sure that the task was
unscheduled. Otherwise, because we know that .on_rq == 0 again, ->nvcsw
should have been changed in between.
Q: perhaps it is better to do "ncsw = (p->nvcsw << 1) | 1" ? This
decreases the possibility of "was it unscheduled" false positive when
->nvcsw == 0.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Change do_wait_for_common() to use signal_pending_state() instead of open
coding.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The last patch allows sysctl_sched_rt_runtime to disable bandwidth accounting
for the group scheduler - however it doesn't deal with sched_setscheduler(),
which will keep tasks out of groups that have no assigned runtime.
If we relax this, we get into the situation where RT tasks can get into a group
when we disable bandwidth control, and then starve them by enabling it again.
Rework the schedulability code to check for this condition and fail to turn
on bandwidth control with -EBUSY when this situation is found.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Extract walk_tg_tree() and make it a little more generic so we can use it
in the schedulablity test.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
More extensive disable of bandwidth control. It allows sysctl_sched_rt_runtime
to disable full group bandwidth control.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
sched: scale sysctl_sched_shares_ratelimit with nr_cpus
sched: fix rt-bandwidth hotplug race
sched: fix the race between walk_tg_tree and sched_create_group
David reported that his Niagra spend a little too much time in
tg_shares_up(), which considering he has a large cpu count makes sense.
So scale the ratelimit value with the number of cpus like we do for
other controls as well.
Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
m68k fails to build with these functions inlined in completion.h. Move
them out of line into sched.c and export them to avoid this problem.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
sched, cpu hotplug: fix set_cpus_allowed() use in hotplug callbacks
sched: fix mysql+oltp regression
sched_clock: delay using sched_clock()
sched clock: couple local and remote clocks
sched clock: simplify __update_sched_clock()
sched: eliminate scd->prev_raw
sched clock: clean up sched_clock_cpu()
sched clock: revert various sched_clock() changes
sched: move sched_clock before first use
sched: test runtime rather than period in global_rt_runtime()
sched: fix SCHED_HRTICK dependency
sched: fix warning in hrtick_start_fair()
Instead of using a per-rq lock class, use the regular nesting operations.
However, take extra care with double_lock_balance() as it can release the
already held rq->lock (and therefore change its nesting class).
So what can happen is:
spin_lock(rq->lock); // this rq subclass 0
double_lock_balance(rq, other_rq);
// release rq
// acquire other_rq->lock subclass 0
// acquire rq->lock subclass 1
spin_unlock(other_rq->lock);
leaving you with rq->lock in subclass 1
So a subsequent double_lock_balance() call can try to nest a subclass 1
lock while already holding a subclass 1 lock.
Fix this by introducing double_unlock_balance() which releases the other
rq's lock, but also re-sets the subclass for this rq's lock to 0.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The "user" parameter to __sched_setscheduler indicates whether the
change is being done on behalf of a user process or not. If not, we
shouldn't apply any permissions checks, so don't call
security_task_setscheduler().
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Tested-by: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
While thinking about David's graph walk lockdep patch it _finally_
dawned on me that there is no reason we have a lock class per cpu ...
Sorry for being dense :-/
The below changes the annotation from a lock class per cpu, to a single
nested lock, as the scheduler never holds more that 2 rq locks at a time
anyway.
If there was code requiring holding all rq locks this would not work and
the original annotation would be the only option, but that not being the
case, this is a much lighter one.
Compiles and boots on a 2-way x86_64.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
They are really class devices, but were incorrectly declared. This
leads to crashes with the recent changes that makes non normal sysdevs
use a different prototype.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Test runtime rather than period
Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This extends wait_task_inactive() with a new argument so it can be used in
a "soft" mode where it will check for the task changing state unexpectedly
and back off. There is no change to existing callers. This lays the
groundwork to allow robust, noninvasive tracing that can try to sample a
blocked thread but back off safely if it wakes up.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
A previous patch added the early_initcall(), to allow a cleaner hooking of
pre-SMP initcalls. Now we remove the older interface, converting all
existing users to the new one.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: warning fix]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: warning fix]
Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Adapt acct_update_integrals() to include user time when calculating the time
difference. The units of acct_rss_mem1 and acct_vm_mem1 are also changed from
pages-jiffies to pages-usecs to avoid calling jiffies_to_usecs() in
xacct_add_tsk() which might overflow.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Lim <jlim@sgi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'sched/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
sched: hrtick_enabled() should use cpu_active()
sched, x86: clean up hrtick implementation
sched: fix build error, provide partition_sched_domains() unconditionally
sched: fix warning in inc_rt_tasks() to not declare variable 'rq' if it's not needed
cpu hotplug: Make cpu_active_map synchronization dependency clear
cpu hotplug, sched: Introduce cpu_active_map and redo sched domain managment (take 2)
sched: rework of "prioritize non-migratable tasks over migratable ones"
sched: reduce stack size in isolated_cpu_setup()
Revert parts of "ftrace: do not trace scheduler functions"
Fixed up conflicts in include/asm-x86/thread_info.h (due to the
TIF_SINGLESTEP unification vs TIF_HRTICK_RESCHED removal) and
kernel/sched_fair.c (due to cpu_active_map vs for_each_cpu_mask_nr()
introduction).
* 'cpus4096-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (31 commits)
NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in speedstep-centrino.c
cpumask: Provide a generic set of CPUMASK_ALLOC macros, FIXUP
NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in cpufreq userspace routines
NR_CPUS: Replace per_cpu(..., smp_processor_id()) with __get_cpu_var
NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in arch/x86/kernel/genapic_flat_64.c
NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in arch/x86/kernel/genx2apic_uv_x.c
NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/proc.c
NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_64.c
cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in lib/smp_processor_id.c, fix
cpumask: Use optimized CPUMASK_ALLOC macros in the centrino_target
cpumask: Provide a generic set of CPUMASK_ALLOC macros
cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in lib/smp_processor_id.c
cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in kernel/time/tick-common.c
cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_main.c
cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_64.c
cpumask: Replace cpumask_of_cpu with cpumask_of_cpu_ptr
Revert "cpumask: introduce new APIs"
cpumask: make for_each_cpu_mask a bit smaller
net: Pass reference to cpumask variable in net/sunrpc/svc.c
...
Fix up trivial conflicts in drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c manually
This allow to dynamically generate attributes and share show/store
functions between attributes. Right now most attributes are generated
by special macros and lots of duplicated code. With the attribute
passed it's instead possible to attach some data to the attribute
and then use that in shared low level functions to do different things.
I need this for the dynamically generated bank attributes in the x86
machine check code, but it'll allow some further cleanups.
I converted all users in tree to the new show/store prototype. It's a single
huge patch to avoid unbisectable sections.
Runtime tested: x86-32, x86-64
Compiled only: ia64, powerpc
Not compile tested/only grep converted: sh, arm, avr32
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
random uvesafb failures were reported against Gentoo:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=222799
and Mihai Moldovan bisected it back to:
> 8f4d37ec07 is first bad commit
> commit 8f4d37ec07
> Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> Date: Fri Jan 25 21:08:29 2008 +0100
>
> sched: high-res preemption tick
Linus suspected it to be hrtick + vm86 interaction and observed:
> Btw, Peter, Ingo: I think that commit is doing bad things. They aren't
> _incorrect_ per se, but they are definitely bad.
>
> Why?
>
> Using random _TIF_WORK_MASK flags is really impolite for doing
> "scheduling" work. There's a reason that arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
> special-cases the _TIF_NEED_RESCHED flag: we don't want to exit out of
> vm86 mode unnecessarily.
>
> See the "work_notifysig_v86" label, and how it does that
> "save_v86_state()" thing etc etc.
Right, I never liked having to fiddle with those TIF flags. Initially I
needed it because the hrtimer base lock could not nest in the rq lock.
That however is fixed these days.
Currently the only reason left to fiddle with the TIF flags is remote
wakeups. We cannot program a remote cpu's hrtimer. I've been thinking
about using the new and improved IPI function call stuff to implement
hrtimer_start_on().
However that does require that smp_call_function_single(.wait=0) works
from interrupt context - /me looks at the latest series from Jens - Yes
that does seem to be supported, good.
Here's a stab at cleaning this stuff up ...
Mihai reported test success as well.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Mihai Moldovan <ionic@ionic.de>
Cc: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>
Cc: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This is based on Linus' idea of creating cpu_active_map that prevents
scheduler load balancer from migrating tasks to the cpu that is going
down.
It allows us to simplify domain management code and avoid unecessary
domain rebuilds during cpu hotplug event handling.
Please ignore the cpusets part for now. It needs some more work in order
to avoid crazy lock nesting. Although I did simplfy and unify domain
reinitialization logic. We now simply call partition_sched_domains() in
all the cases. This means that we're using exact same code paths as in
cpusets case and hence the test below cover cpusets too.
Cpuset changes to make rebuild_sched_domains() callable from various
contexts are in the separate patch (right next after this one).
This not only boots but also easily handles
while true; do make clean; make -j 8; done
and
while true; do on-off-cpu 1; done
at the same time.
(on-off-cpu 1 simple does echo 0/1 > /sys/.../cpu1/online thing).
Suprisingly the box (dual-core Core2) is quite usable. In fact I'm typing
this on right now in gnome-terminal and things are moving just fine.
Also this is running with most of the debug features enabled (lockdep,
mutex, etc) no BUG_ONs or lockdep complaints so far.
I believe I addressed all of the Dmitry's comments for original Linus'
version. I changed both fair and rt balancer to mask out non-active cpus.
And replaced cpu_is_offline() with !cpu_active() in the main scheduler
code where it made sense (to me).
Signed-off-by: Max Krasnyanskiy <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Cc: dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com
Cc: pj@sgi.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
