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2009-03-10sched: optimize ttwu vs group schedulingPeter Zijlstra
Impact: micro-optimization We can avoid the sched domain walk on try_to_wake_up() when we know there are no groups. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1236603381.8389.455.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-06Merge branch 'x86/core' into tracing/texteditIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/Kconfig block/blktrace.c kernel/irq/handle.c Semantic conflict: kernel/trace/blktrace.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-06sched: TIF_NEED_RESCHED -> need_reshed() cleanupLai Jiangshan
Impact: cleanup Use test_tsk_need_resched(), set_tsk_need_resched(), need_resched() instead of using TIF_NEED_RESCHED. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <49B10BA4.9070209@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-06Merge branch 'sched/core' into sched/cleanupsIngo Molnar
2009-03-05Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/coreIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap_64.h Semantic merge: arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-05sched: don't rebalance if attached on NULL domainFrederic Weisbecker
Impact: fix function graph trace hang / drop pointless softirq on UP While debugging a function graph trace hang on an old PII, I saw that it consumed most of its time on the timer interrupt. And the domain rebalancing softirq was the most concerned. The timer interrupt calls trigger_load_balance() which will decide if it is worth to schedule a rebalancing softirq. In case of builtin UP kernel, no problem arises because there is no domain question. In case of builtin SMP kernel running on an SMP box, still no problem, the softirq will be raised each time we reach the next_balance time. In case of builtin SMP kernel running on a UP box (most distros provide default SMP kernels, whatever the box you have), then the CPU is attached to the NULL sched domain. So a kind of unexpected behaviour happen: trigger_load_balance() -> raises the rebalancing softirq later on softirq: run_rebalance_domains() -> rebalance_domains() where the for_each_domain(cpu, sd) is not taken because of the NULL domain we are attached at. Which means rq->next_balance is never updated. So on the next timer tick, we will enter trigger_load_balance() which will always reschedule() the rebalacing softirq: if (time_after_eq(jiffies, rq->next_balance)) raise_softirq(SCHED_SOFTIRQ); So for each tick, we process this pointless softirq. This patch fixes it by checking if we are attached to the null domain before raising the softirq, another possible fix would be to set the maximal possible JIFFIES value to rq->next_balance if we are attached to the NULL domain. v2: build fix on UP Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <49af242d.1c07d00a.32d5.ffffc019@mx.google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-04Merge branch 'core/locking' into tracing/ftraceIngo Molnar
2009-03-04Merge commit 'v2.6.29-rc7' into perfcounters/coreIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/mm/iomap_32.c
2009-03-04Merge branch 'tracing/ftrace'; commit 'v2.6.29-rc7' into tracing/coreIngo Molnar
2009-03-02sched: kill unused parameter of pick_next_task()Wang Chen
Impact: micro-optimization Parameter "prev" is not used really. Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-02Merge branches 'sched/clock', 'sched/urgent' and 'linus' into sched/coreIngo Molnar
2009-02-27sched: don't allow setuid to succeed if the user does not have rt bandwidthDhaval Giani
Impact: fix hung task with certain (non-default) rt-limit settings Corey Hickey reported that on using setuid to change the uid of a rt process, the process would be unkillable and not be running. This is because there was no rt runtime for that user group. Add in a check to see if a user can attach an rt task to its task group. On failure, return EINVAL, which is also returned in CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED. Reported-by: Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org> Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-26sched_rt: don't start timer when rt bandwidth disabledHiroshi Shimamoto
Impact: fix incorrect condition check No need to start rt bandwidth timer when rt bandwidth is disabled. If this timer starts, it may stop at sched_rt_period_timer() on the first time. Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-26cpuacct: add a branch predictionLi Zefan
cpuacct_charge() is in fast-path, and checking of !cpuacct_susys.active always returns false after cpuacct has been initialized at system boot. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-26Merge branch 'x86/core' into perfcounters/coreIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c arch/x86/kernel/irqinit_32.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25generic-ipi: remove CSD_FLAG_WAITPeter Zijlstra
Oleg noticed that we don't strictly need CSD_FLAG_WAIT, rework the code so that we can use CSD_FLAG_LOCK for both purposes. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-24Merge branch 'tj-percpu' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc into core/percpu Conflicts: arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
2009-02-22Merge branch 'linus' into x86/apicIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/mach-default/setup.c Semantic conflict resolution: arch/x86/kernel/setup.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-20alloc_percpu: change percpu_ptr to per_cpu_ptrRusty Russell
Impact: cleanup There are two allocated per-cpu accessor macros with almost identical spelling. The original and far more popular is per_cpu_ptr (44 files), so change over the other 4 files. tj: kill percpu_ptr() and update UP too Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: mingo@redhat.com Cc: lenb@kernel.org Cc: cpufreq@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-02-19Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/blktraceIngo Molnar
Conflicts: block/blktrace.c Semantic merge: kernel/trace/blktrace.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-16sched: use TASK_NICE for task_structAmérico Wang
#define TASK_NICE(p) PRIO_TO_NICE((p)->static_prio) So it's better to use TASK_NICE here. Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <wangcong@zeuux.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-15sched: idle_at_tick is only used when CONFIG_SMP is setHenrik Austad
Impact: struct rq size optimization The idle_at_tick in struct rq is only used in SMP settings and it does not make sense to have this in the rq in an UP setup. Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-15Merge branch 'sched/urgent'; commit 'v2.6.29-rc5' into sched/coreIngo Molnar
2009-02-13Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/ring-buffer', 'tracing/sysprof', ↵Ingo Molnar
'tracing/urgent' and 'linus' into tracing/core
2009-02-13Merge branch 'linus' into x86/apicIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c arch/x86/mm/fault.c
2009-02-13Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/coreIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
2009-02-12sched: cpu hotplug fixIngo Molnar
rq_attach_root() does a kfree() with the runqueue lock held. That's not a very wise move, fix it. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-11Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: revert recent sync wakeup changes
2009-02-11Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: timers: fix TIMER_ABSTIME for process wide cpu timers timers: split process wide cpu clocks/timers, fix x86: clean up hpet timer reinit timers: split process wide cpu clocks/timers, remove spurious warning timers: split process wide cpu clocks/timers signal: re-add dead task accumulation stats. x86: fix hpet timer reinit for x86_64 sched: fix nohz load balancer on cpu offline
2009-02-11sched: revert recent sync wakeup changesPeter Zijlstra
Intel reported a 10% regression (mysql+sysbench) on a 16-way machine with these patches: 1596e29: sched: symmetric sync vs avg_overlap d942fb6: sched: fix sync wakeups Revert them. Reported-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Bisected-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>
2009-02-11Merge commit 'v2.6.29-rc4' into sched/coreIngo Molnar
2009-02-11Merge commit 'v2.6.29-rc4' into perfcounters/coreIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c arch/x86/mm/fault.c drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c kernel/irq/handle.c
2009-02-09Merge commit 'v2.6.29-rc4' into core/percpuIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/mach-voyager/voyager_smp.c arch/x86/mm/fault.c
2009-02-09perf_counters: make software counters work as per-cpu countersPaul Mackerras
Impact: kernel crash fix Yanmin Zhang reported that using a PERF_COUNT_TASK_CLOCK software counter as a per-cpu counter would reliably crash the system, because it calls __task_delta_exec with a null pointer. The page fault, context switch and cpu migration counters also won't function correctly as per-cpu counters since they reference the current task. This fixes the problem by redirecting the task_clock counter to the cpu_clock counter when used as a per-cpu counter, and by implementing per-cpu page fault, context switch and cpu migration counters. Along the way, this: - Initializes counter->ctx earlier, in perf_counter_alloc, so that sw_perf_counter_init can use it - Adds code to kernel/sched.c to count task migrations into each cpu, in rq->nr_migrations_in - Exports the per-cpu context switch and task migration counts via new functions added to kernel/sched.c - Makes sure that if sw_perf_counter_init fails, we don't try to initialize the counter as a hardware counter. Since the user has passed a negative, non-raw event type, they clearly don't intend for it to be interpreted as a hardware event. Reported-by: "Zhang Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-09Merge commit 'v2.6.29-rc4' into tracing/coreIngo Molnar
2009-02-08Merge branches 'sched/rt' and 'sched/urgent' into sched/coreIngo Molnar
2009-02-07Merge branch 'linus' into core/lockingIngo Molnar
Conflicts: fs/btrfs/locking.c
2009-02-05Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/apicIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/mach-default/setup.c Semantic merge: arch/x86/kernel/irqinit_32.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-05wait: prevent exclusive waiter starvationJohannes Weiner
With exclusive waiters, every process woken up through the wait queue must ensure that the next waiter down the line is woken when it has finished. Interruptible waiters don't do that when aborting due to a signal. And if an aborting waiter is concurrently woken up through the waitqueue, noone will ever wake up the next waiter. This has been observed with __wait_on_bit_lock() used by lock_page_killable(): the first contender on the queue was aborting when the actual lock holder woke it up concurrently. The aborted contender didn't acquire the lock and therefor never did an unlock followed by waking up the next waiter. Add abort_exclusive_wait() which removes the process' wait descriptor from the waitqueue, iff still queued, or wakes up the next waiter otherwise. It does so under the waitqueue lock. Racing with a wake up means the aborting process is either already woken (removed from the queue) and will wake up the next waiter, or it will remove itself from the queue and the concurrent wake up will apply to the next waiter after it. Use abort_exclusive_wait() in __wait_event_interruptible_exclusive() and __wait_on_bit_lock() when they were interrupted by other means than a wake up through the queue. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Reported-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Mentored-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Cc: Chuck Lever <cel@citi.umich.edu> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> ["after some testing"] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-04sched: fix nohz load balancer on cpu offlineSuresh Siddha
Christian Borntraeger reports: > After a logical cpu offline, even on a complete idle system, there > is one cpu with full ticks. It turns out that nohz.cpu_mask has the > the offlined cpu still set. > > In select_nohz_load_balancer() we check if the system is completely > idle to turn of load balancing. We compare cpu_online_map with > nohz.cpu_mask. Since cpu_online_map is updated on cpu unplug, > but nohz.cpu_mask is not, the check fails and the scheduler believes > that we need an "idle load balancer" even on a fully idle system. > Since the ilb cpu does not deactivate the timer tick this breaks NOHZ. Fix the select_nohz_load_balancer() to not set the nohz.cpu_mask while a cpu is going offline. Reported-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-03Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/kmemtrace' and 'linus' into ↵Ingo Molnar
tracing/core
2009-02-01sched: symmetric sync vs avg_overlapPeter Zijlstra
Reinstate the weakening of the sync hint if set. This yields a more symmetric usage of avg_overlap. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-01sched: fix sync wakeupsPeter Zijlstra
Pawel Dziekonski reported that the openssl benchmark and his quantum chemistry application both show slowdowns due to the scheduler under-parallelizing execution. The reason are pipe wakeups still doing 'sync' wakeups which overrides the normal buddy wakeup logic - even if waker and wakee are loosely coupled. Fix an inversion of logic in the buddy wakeup code. Reported-by: Pawel Dziekonski <dzieko@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-23trace, lockdep: manual preempt count adding for local_bh_disableSteven Rostedt
Impact: fix to preempt trace triggering lockdep check_flag failure In local_bh_disable, the use of add_preempt_count causes the preempt tracer to start recording the time preemption is off. But because it already modified the preempt_count to show softirqs disabled, and before it called the lockdep code to handle this, it causes a state that lockdep can not handle. The preempt tracer will reset the ring buffer on start of a trace, and the ring buffer reset code does a spin_lock_irqsave. This calls into lockdep and lockdep will fail when it detects the invalid state of having softirqs disabled but the internal current->softirqs_enabled is still set. The fix is to manually add the SOFTIRQ_OFFSET to preempt count and call the preempt tracer code outside the lockdep critical area. Thanks to Peter Zijlstra for suggesting this solution. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-23Merge branch 'core/percpu' into perfcounters/coreIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/include/asm/hardirq_32.h arch/x86/include/asm/hardirq_64.h Semantic merge: arch/x86/include/asm/hardirq.h [ added apic_perf_irqs field. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-21Merge commit 'v2.6.29-rc2' into perfcounters/coreIngo Molnar
Conflicts: include/linux/syscalls.h
2009-01-21Merge branch 'x86/mm' into core/percpuIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/mm/fault.c
2009-01-18Merge branch 'core/percpu' into stackprotectorIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/include/asm/pda.h arch/x86/include/asm/system.h Also, moved include/asm-x86/stackprotector.h to arch/x86/include/asm. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-18Merge branch 'core/percpu' into perfcounters/coreIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/include/asm/pda.h We merge tip/core/percpu into tip/perfcounters/core because of a semantic and contextual conflict: the former eliminates the PDA, while the latter extends it with apic_perf_irqs field. Resolve the conflict by moving the new field to the irq_cpustat structure on 64-bit too. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-15Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: sched_slice() fixlet sched: fix update_min_vruntime sched: SCHED_OTHER vs SCHED_IDLE isolation sched: SCHED_IDLE weight change sched: fix bandwidth validation for UID grouping Revert "sched: improve preempt debugging"