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2013-07-30sched: Ensure update_cfs_shares() is called for parents of ↵Peter Zijlstra
continuously-running tasks We typically update a task_group's shares within the dequeue/enqueue path. However, continuously running tasks sharing a CPU are not subject to these updates as they are only put/picked. Unfortunately, when we reverted f269ae046 (in 17bc14b7), we lost the augmenting periodic update that was supposed to account for this; resulting in a potential loss of fairness. To fix this, re-introduce the explicit update in update_cfs_rq_blocked_load() [called via entity_tick()]. Reported-by: Max Hailperin <max@gustavus.edu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-9545m3apw5d93ubyrotrj31y@git.kernel.org Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-07-30sched_clock: Add support for >32 bit sched_clockStephen Boyd
The ARM architected system counter has at least 56 usable bits. Add support for counters with more than 32 bits to the generic sched_clock implementation so we can increase the time between wakeups due to dealing with wrap-around on these devices while benefiting from the irqtime accounting and suspend/resume handling that the generic sched_clock code already has. On my system using 56 bits over 32 bits changes the wraparound time from a few minutes to an hour. For faster running counters (GHz range) this is even more important because we may not be able to execute the timer in time to deal with the wraparound if only 32 bits are used. We choose a maxsec value of 3600 seconds because we assume no system will go idle for more than an hour. In the future we may need to increase this value. Note: All users should switch over to the 64-bit read function so we can remove setup_sched_clock() in favor of sched_clock_register(). Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2013-07-30sched_clock: Use an hrtimer instead of timerStephen Boyd
In the next patch we're going to increase the number of bits that the generic sched_clock can handle to be greater than 32. With more than 32 bits the wraparound time can be larger than what can fit into the units that msecs_to_jiffies takes (unsigned int). Luckily, the wraparound is initially calculated in nanoseconds which we can easily use with hrtimers, so switch to using an hrtimer. Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> [jstultz: Fixup hrtimer intitialization order issue] Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2013-07-30sched_clock: Use seqcount instead of rolling our ownStephen Boyd
We're going to increase the cyc value to 64 bits in the near future. Doing that is going to break the custom seqcount implementation in the sched_clock code because 64 bit numbers aren't guaranteed to be atomic. Replace the cyc_copy with a seqcount to avoid this problem. Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2013-07-30clocksource: Extract max nsec calculation into separate functionStephen Boyd
We need to calculate the same number in the clocksource code and the sched_clock code, so extract this code into its own function. We also drop the min_t and just use min() because the two types are the same. Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2013-07-30aio: convert the ioctx list to table lookup v3Benjamin LaHaise
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 11:14:40AM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote: > On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 02:40:55PM +0300, Octavian Purdila wrote: > > When using a large number of threads performing AIO operations the > > IOCTX list may get a significant number of entries which will cause > > significant overhead. For example, when running this fio script: > > > > rw=randrw; size=256k ;directory=/mnt/fio; ioengine=libaio; iodepth=1 > > blocksize=1024; numjobs=512; thread; loops=100 > > > > on an EXT2 filesystem mounted on top of a ramdisk we can observe up to > > 30% CPU time spent by lookup_ioctx: > > > > 32.51% [guest.kernel] [g] lookup_ioctx > > 9.19% [guest.kernel] [g] __lock_acquire.isra.28 > > 4.40% [guest.kernel] [g] lock_release > > 4.19% [guest.kernel] [g] sched_clock_local > > 3.86% [guest.kernel] [g] local_clock > > 3.68% [guest.kernel] [g] native_sched_clock > > 3.08% [guest.kernel] [g] sched_clock_cpu > > 2.64% [guest.kernel] [g] lock_release_holdtime.part.11 > > 2.60% [guest.kernel] [g] memcpy > > 2.33% [guest.kernel] [g] lock_acquired > > 2.25% [guest.kernel] [g] lock_acquire > > 1.84% [guest.kernel] [g] do_io_submit > > > > This patchs converts the ioctx list to a radix tree. For a performance > > comparison the above FIO script was run on a 2 sockets 8 core > > machine. This are the results (average and %rsd of 10 runs) for the > > original list based implementation and for the radix tree based > > implementation: > > > > cores 1 2 4 8 16 32 > > list 109376 ms 69119 ms 35682 ms 22671 ms 19724 ms 16408 ms > > %rsd 0.69% 1.15% 1.17% 1.21% 1.71% 1.43% > > radix 73651 ms 41748 ms 23028 ms 16766 ms 15232 ms 13787 ms > > %rsd 1.19% 0.98% 0.69% 1.13% 0.72% 0.75% > > % of radix > > relative 66.12% 65.59% 66.63% 72.31% 77.26% 83.66% > > to list > > > > To consider the impact of the patch on the typical case of having > > only one ctx per process the following FIO script was run: > > > > rw=randrw; size=100m ;directory=/mnt/fio; ioengine=libaio; iodepth=1 > > blocksize=1024; numjobs=1; thread; loops=100 > > > > on the same system and the results are the following: > > > > list 58892 ms > > %rsd 0.91% > > radix 59404 ms > > %rsd 0.81% > > % of radix > > relative 100.87% > > to list > > So, I was just doing some benchmarking/profiling to get ready to send > out the aio patches I've got for 3.11 - and it looks like your patch is > causing a ~1.5% throughput regression in my testing :/ ... <snip> I've got an alternate approach for fixing this wart in lookup_ioctx()... Instead of using an rbtree, just use the reserved id in the ring buffer header to index an array pointing the ioctx. It's not finished yet, and it needs to be tidied up, but is most of the way there. -ben -- "Thought is the essence of where you are now." -- kmo> And, a rework of Ben's code, but this was entirely his idea kmo> -Kent bcrl> And fix the code to use the right mm_struct in kill_ioctx(), actually free memory. Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
2013-07-30freezer: set PF_SUSPEND_TASK flag on tasks that call freeze_processesColin Cross
Calling freeze_processes sets a global flag that will cause any process that calls try_to_freeze to enter the refrigerator. It skips sending a signal to the current task, but if the current task ever hits try_to_freeze, all threads will be frozen and the system will deadlock. Set a new flag, PF_SUSPEND_TASK, on the task that calls freeze_processes. The flag notifies the freezer that the thread is involved in suspend and should not be frozen. Also add a WARN_ON in thaw_processes if the caller does not have the PF_SUSPEND_TASK flag set to catch if a different task calls thaw_processes than the one that called freeze_processes, leaving a task with PF_SUSPEND_TASK permanently set on it. Threads that spawn off a task with PF_SUSPEND_TASK set (which swsusp does) will also have PF_SUSPEND_TASK set, preventing them from freezing while they are helping with suspend, but they need to be dead by the time suspend is triggered, otherwise they may run when userspace is expected to be frozen. Add a WARN_ON in thaw_processes if more than one thread has the PF_SUSPEND_TASK flag set. Reported-and-tested-by: Michael Leun <lkml20130126@newton.leun.net> Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-07-29ftrace: Consolidate some duplicate code for updating ftrace opsSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
When ftrace ops modifies the functions that it will trace, the update to the function mcount callers may need to be modified. Consolidate the two places that do the checks to see if an update is required with a wrapper function for those checks. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-07-29tracing: Change remove_event_file_dir() to clear "d_subdirs"->i_privateOleg Nesterov
Change remove_event_file_dir() to clear ->i_private for every file we are going to remove. We need to check file->dir != NULL because event_create_dir() can fail. debugfs_remove_recursive(NULL) is fine but the patch moves it under the same check anyway for readability. spin_lock(d_lock) and "d_inode != NULL" check are not needed afaics, but I do not understand this code enough. tracing_open_generic_file() and tracing_release_generic_file() can go away, ftrace_enable_fops and ftrace_event_filter_fops() use tracing_open_generic() but only to check tracing_disabled. This fixes all races with event_remove() or instance_delete(). f_op->read/write/whatever can never use the freed file/call, all event/* files were changed to check and use ->i_private under event_mutex. Note: this doesn't not fix other problems, event_remove() can destroy the active ftrace_event_call, we need more changes but those changes are completely orthogonal. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130728183527.GB16723@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-07-29tracing: Introduce remove_event_file_dir()Oleg Nesterov
Preparation for the next patch. Extract the common code from remove_event_from_tracers() and __trace_remove_event_dirs() into the new helper, remove_event_file_dir(). The patch looks more complicated than it actually is, it also moves remove_subsystem() up to avoid the forward declaration. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130726172547.GA3629@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-07-29tracing: Change f_start() to take event_mutex and verify i_private != NULLOleg Nesterov
trace_format_open() and trace_format_seq_ops are racy, nothing protects ftrace_event_call from trace_remove_event_call(). Change f_start() to take event_mutex and verify i_private != NULL, change f_stop() to drop this lock. This fixes nothing, but now we can change debugfs_remove("format") callers to nullify ->i_private and fix the the problem. Note: the usage of event_mutex is sub-optimal but simple, we can change this later. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130726172543.GA3622@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-07-29tracing: Change event_filter_read/write to verify i_private != NULLOleg Nesterov
event_filter_read/write() are racy, ftrace_event_call can be already freed by trace_remove_event_call() callers. 1. Shift mutex_lock(event_mutex) from print/apply_event_filter to the callers. 2. Change the callers, event_filter_read() and event_filter_write() to read i_private under this mutex and abort if it is NULL. This fixes nothing, but now we can change debugfs_remove("filter") callers to nullify ->i_private and fix the the problem. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130726172540.GA3619@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-07-29tracing: Change event_enable/disable_read() to verify i_private != NULLOleg Nesterov
tracing_open_generic_file() is racy, ftrace_event_file can be already freed by rmdir or trace_remove_event_call(). Change event_enable_read() and event_disable_read() to read and verify "file = i_private" under event_mutex. This fixes nothing, but now we can change debugfs_remove("enable") callers to nullify ->i_private and fix the the problem. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130726172536.GA3612@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-07-29tracing: Turn event/id->i_private into call->event.typeOleg Nesterov
event_id_read() is racy, ftrace_event_call can be already freed by trace_remove_event_call() callers. Change event_create_dir() to pass "data = call->event.type", this is all event_id_read() needs. ftrace_event_id_fops no longer needs tracing_open_generic(). We add the new helper, event_file_data(), to read ->i_private, it will have more users. Note: currently ACCESS_ONCE() and "id != 0" check are not needed, but we are going to change event_remove/rmdir to clear ->i_private. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130726172532.GA3605@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-07-29rcu: Have the RCU tracepoints use the tracepoint_string infrastructureSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
Currently, RCU tracepoints save only a pointer to strings in the ring buffer. When displayed via the /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace file they are referenced like the printf "%s" that looks at the address in the ring buffer and prints out the string it points too. This requires that the strings are constant and persistent in the kernel. The problem with this is for tools like trace-cmd and perf that read the binary data from the buffers but have no access to the kernel memory to find out what string is represented by the address in the buffer. By using the tracepoint_string infrastructure, the RCU tracepoint strings can be exported such that userspace tools can map the addresses to the strings. # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/printk_formats 0xffffffff81a4a0e8 : "rcu_preempt" 0xffffffff81a4a0f4 : "rcu_bh" 0xffffffff81a4a100 : "rcu_sched" 0xffffffff818437a0 : "cpuqs" 0xffffffff818437a6 : "rcu_sched" 0xffffffff818437a0 : "cpuqs" 0xffffffff818437b0 : "rcu_bh" 0xffffffff818437b7 : "Start context switch" 0xffffffff818437cc : "End context switch" 0xffffffff818437a0 : "cpuqs" [...] Now userspaces tools can display: rcu_utilization: Start context switch rcu_dyntick: Start 1 0 rcu_utilization: End context switch rcu_batch_start: rcu_preempt CBs=0/5 bl=10 rcu_dyntick: End 0 140000000000000 rcu_invoke_callback: rcu_preempt rhp=0xffff880071c0d600 func=proc_i_callback rcu_invoke_callback: rcu_preempt rhp=0xffff880077b5b230 func=__d_free rcu_dyntick: Start 140000000000000 0 rcu_invoke_callback: rcu_preempt rhp=0xffff880077563980 func=file_free_rcu rcu_batch_end: rcu_preempt CBs-invoked=3 idle=>c<>c<>c<>c< rcu_utilization: End RCU core rcu_grace_period: rcu_preempt 9741 start rcu_dyntick: Start 1 0 rcu_dyntick: End 0 140000000000000 rcu_dyntick: Start 140000000000000 0 Instead of: rcu_utilization: ffffffff81843110 rcu_future_grace_period: ffffffff81842f1d 9939 9939 9940 0 0 3 ffffffff81842f32 rcu_batch_start: ffffffff81842f1d CBs=0/4 bl=10 rcu_future_grace_period: ffffffff81842f1d 9939 9939 9940 0 0 3 ffffffff81842f3c rcu_grace_period: ffffffff81842f1d 9939 ffffffff81842f80 rcu_invoke_callback: ffffffff81842f1d rhp=0xffff88007888aac0 func=file_free_rcu rcu_grace_period: ffffffff81842f1d 9939 ffffffff81842f95 rcu_invoke_callback: ffffffff81842f1d rhp=0xffff88006aeb4600 func=proc_i_callback rcu_future_grace_period: ffffffff81842f1d 9939 9939 9940 0 0 3 ffffffff81842f32 rcu_future_grace_period: ffffffff81842f1d 9939 9939 9940 0 0 3 ffffffff81842f3c rcu_invoke_callback: ffffffff81842f1d rhp=0xffff880071cb9fc0 func=__d_free rcu_grace_period: ffffffff81842f1d 9939 ffffffff81842f80 rcu_invoke_callback: ffffffff81842f1d rhp=0xffff88007888ae80 func=file_free_rcu rcu_batch_end: ffffffff81842f1d CBs-invoked=4 idle=>c<>c<>c<>c< rcu_utilization: ffffffff8184311f Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-07-29rcu: Simplify RCU_STATE_INITIALIZER() macroSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
The RCU_STATE_INITIALIZER() macro is used only in the rcutree.c file as well as the rcutree_plugin.h file. It is passed as a rvalue to a variable of a similar name. A per_cpu variable is also created with a similar name as well. The uses of RCU_STATE_INITIALIZER() can be simplified to remove some of the duplicate code that is done. Currently the three users of this macro has this format: struct rcu_state rcu_sched_state = RCU_STATE_INITIALIZER(rcu_sched, call_rcu_sched); DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct rcu_data, rcu_sched_data); Notice that "rcu_sched" is called three times. This is the same with the other two users. This can be condensed to just: RCU_STATE_INITIALIZER(rcu_sched, call_rcu_sched); by moving the rest into the macro itself. This also opens the door to allow the RCU tracepoint strings and their addresses to be exported so that userspace tracing tools can translate the contents of the pointers of the RCU tracepoints. The change will allow for helper code to be placed in the RCU_STATE_INITIALIZER() macro to export the name that is used. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-07-29rcu: Add const annotation to char * for RCU tracepoints and functionsSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
All the RCU tracepoints and functions that reference char pointers do so with just 'char *' even though they do not modify the contents of the string itself. This will cause warnings if a const char * is used in one of these functions. The RCU tracepoints store the pointer to the string to refer back to them when the trace output is displayed. As this can be minutes, hours or even days later, those strings had better be constant. This change also opens the door to allow the RCU tracepoint strings and their addresses to be exported so that userspace tracing tools can translate the contents of the pointers of the RCU tracepoints. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-07-29cpuset: relocate a misplaced commentZhao Hongjiang
Comment for cpuset_css_offline() was on top of cpuset_css_free(). Move it. Signed-off-by: Zhao Hongjiang <zhaohongjiang@huawei.com> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2013-07-29cpuset: get rid of the useless forward declaration of cpusetZhao Hongjiang
get rid of the useless forward declaration of the struct cpuset cause the below define it. Signed-off-by: Zhao Hongjiang <zhaohongjiang@huawei.com> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2013-07-29Revert "cpuidle: Quickly notice prediction failure for repeat mode"Rafael J. Wysocki
Revert commit 69a37bea (cpuidle: Quickly notice prediction failure for repeat mode), because it has been identified as the source of a significant performance regression in v3.8 and later as explained by Jeremy Eder: We believe we've identified a particular commit to the cpuidle code that seems to be impacting performance of variety of workloads. The simplest way to reproduce is using netperf TCP_RR test, so we're using that, on a pair of Sandy Bridge based servers. We also have data from a large database setup where performance is also measurably/positively impacted, though that test data isn't easily share-able. Included below are test results from 3 test kernels: kernel reverts ----------------------------------------------------------- 1) vanilla upstream (no reverts) 2) perfteam2 reverts e11538d1f03914eb92af5a1a378375c05ae8520c 3) test reverts 69a37beabf1f0a6705c08e879bdd5d82ff6486c4 e11538d1f03914eb92af5a1a378375c05ae8520c In summary, netperf TCP_RR numbers improve by approximately 4% after reverting 69a37beabf1f0a6705c08e879bdd5d82ff6486c4. When 69a37beabf1f0a6705c08e879bdd5d82ff6486c4 is included, C0 residency never seems to get above 40%. Taking that patch out gets C0 near 100% quite often, and performance increases. The below data are histograms representing the %c0 residency @ 1-second sample rates (using turbostat), while under netperf test. - If you look at the first 4 histograms, you can see %c0 residency almost entirely in the 30,40% bin. - The last pair, which reverts 69a37beabf1f0a6705c08e879bdd5d82ff6486c4, shows %c0 in the 80,90,100% bins. Below each kernel name are netperf TCP_RR trans/s numbers for the particular kernel that can be disclosed publicly, comparing the 3 test kernels. We ran a 4th test with the vanilla kernel where we've also set /dev/cpu_dma_latency=0 to show overall impact boosting single-threaded TCP_RR performance over 11% above baseline. 3.10-rc2 vanilla RX + c0 lock (/dev/cpu_dma_latency=0): TCP_RR trans/s 54323.78 ----------------------------------------------------------- 3.10-rc2 vanilla RX (no reverts) TCP_RR trans/s 48192.47 Receiver %c0 0.0000 - 10.0000 [ 1]: * 10.0000 - 20.0000 [ 0]: 20.0000 - 30.0000 [ 0]: 30.0000 - 40.0000 [ 59]: *********************************************************** 40.0000 - 50.0000 [ 1]: * 50.0000 - 60.0000 [ 0]: 60.0000 - 70.0000 [ 0]: 70.0000 - 80.0000 [ 0]: 80.0000 - 90.0000 [ 0]: 90.0000 - 100.0000 [ 0]: Sender %c0 0.0000 - 10.0000 [ 1]: * 10.0000 - 20.0000 [ 0]: 20.0000 - 30.0000 [ 0]: 30.0000 - 40.0000 [ 11]: *********** 40.0000 - 50.0000 [ 49]: ************************************************* 50.0000 - 60.0000 [ 0]: 60.0000 - 70.0000 [ 0]: 70.0000 - 80.0000 [ 0]: 80.0000 - 90.0000 [ 0]: 90.0000 - 100.0000 [ 0]: ----------------------------------------------------------- 3.10-rc2 perfteam2 RX (reverts commit e11538d1f03914eb92af5a1a378375c05ae8520c) TCP_RR trans/s 49698.69 Receiver %c0 0.0000 - 10.0000 [ 1]: * 10.0000 - 20.0000 [ 1]: * 20.0000 - 30.0000 [ 0]: 30.0000 - 40.0000 [ 59]: *********************************************************** 40.0000 - 50.0000 [ 0]: 50.0000 - 60.0000 [ 0]: 60.0000 - 70.0000 [ 0]: 70.0000 - 80.0000 [ 0]: 80.0000 - 90.0000 [ 0]: 90.0000 - 100.0000 [ 0]: Sender %c0 0.0000 - 10.0000 [ 1]: * 10.0000 - 20.0000 [ 0]: 20.0000 - 30.0000 [ 0]: 30.0000 - 40.0000 [ 2]: ** 40.0000 - 50.0000 [ 58]: ********************************************************** 50.0000 - 60.0000 [ 0]: 60.0000 - 70.0000 [ 0]: 70.0000 - 80.0000 [ 0]: 80.0000 - 90.0000 [ 0]: 90.0000 - 100.0000 [ 0]: ----------------------------------------------------------- 3.10-rc2 test RX (reverts 69a37beabf1f0a6705c08e879bdd5d82ff6486c4 and e11538d1f03914eb92af5a1a378375c05ae8520c) TCP_RR trans/s 47766.95 Receiver %c0 0.0000 - 10.0000 [ 1]: * 10.0000 - 20.0000 [ 1]: * 20.0000 - 30.0000 [ 0]: 30.0000 - 40.0000 [ 27]: *************************** 40.0000 - 50.0000 [ 2]: ** 50.0000 - 60.0000 [ 0]: 60.0000 - 70.0000 [ 2]: ** 70.0000 - 80.0000 [ 0]: 80.0000 - 90.0000 [ 0]: 90.0000 - 100.0000 [ 28]: **************************** Sender: 0.0000 - 10.0000 [ 1]: * 10.0000 - 20.0000 [ 0]: 20.0000 - 30.0000 [ 0]: 30.0000 - 40.0000 [ 11]: *********** 40.0000 - 50.0000 [ 0]: 50.0000 - 60.0000 [ 1]: * 60.0000 - 70.0000 [ 0]: 70.0000 - 80.0000 [ 3]: *** 80.0000 - 90.0000 [ 7]: ******* 90.0000 - 100.0000 [ 38]: ************************************** These results demonstrate gaining back the tendency of the CPU to stay in more responsive, performant C-states (and thus yield measurably better performance), by reverting commit 69a37beabf1f0a6705c08e879bdd5d82ff6486c4. Requested-by: Jeremy Eder <jeder@redhat.com> Tested-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: 3.8+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-07-28Merge tag 'trace-fixes-3.11-rc2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt: "Oleg is working on fixing a very tight race between opening a event file and deleting that event at the same time (both must be done as root). I also found a bug while testing Oleg's patches which has to do with a race with kprobes using the function tracer. There's also a deadlock fix that was introduced with the previous fixes" * tag 'trace-fixes-3.11-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: tracing: Remove locking trace_types_lock from tracing_reset_all_online_cpus() ftrace: Add check for NULL regs if ops has SAVE_REGS set tracing: Kill trace_cpu struct/members tracing: Change tracing_fops/snapshot_fops to rely on tracing_get_cpu() tracing: Change tracing_entries_fops to rely on tracing_get_cpu() tracing: Change tracing_stats_fops to rely on tracing_get_cpu() tracing: Change tracing_buffers_fops to rely on tracing_get_cpu() tracing: Change tracing_pipe_fops() to rely on tracing_get_cpu() tracing: Introduce trace_create_cpu_file() and tracing_get_cpu()
2013-07-26sysctl: range checking in do_proc_dointvec_ms_jiffies_convFrancesco Fusco
When (integer) sysctl values are expressed in ms and have to be represented internally as jiffies. The msecs_to_jiffies function returns an unsigned long, which gets assigned to the integer. This patch prevents the value to be assigned if bigger than INT_MAX, done in a similar way as in cba9f3 ("Range checking in do_proc_dointvec_(userhz_)jiffies_conv"). Signed-off-by: Francesco Fusco <ffusco@redhat.com> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-07-26tracing: Add __tracepoint_string() to export string pointersSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
There are several tracepoints (mostly in RCU), that reference a string pointer and uses the print format of "%s" to display the string that exists in the kernel, instead of copying the actual string to the ring buffer (saves time and ring buffer space). But this has an issue with userspace tools that read the binary buffers that has the address of the string but has no access to what the string itself is. The end result is just output that looks like: rcu_dyntick: ffffffff818adeaa 1 0 rcu_dyntick: ffffffff818adeb5 0 140000000000000 rcu_dyntick: ffffffff818adeb5 0 140000000000000 rcu_utilization: ffffffff8184333b rcu_utilization: ffffffff8184333b The above is pretty useless when read by the userspace tools. Ideally we would want something that looks like this: rcu_dyntick: Start 1 0 rcu_dyntick: End 0 140000000000000 rcu_dyntick: Start 140000000000000 0 rcu_callback: rcu_preempt rhp=0xffff880037aff710 func=put_cred_rcu 0/4 rcu_callback: rcu_preempt rhp=0xffff880078961980 func=file_free_rcu 0/5 rcu_dyntick: End 0 1 The trace_printk() which also only stores the address of the string format instead of recording the string into the buffer itself, exports the mapping of kernel addresses to format strings via the printk_format file in the debugfs tracing directory. The tracepoint strings can use this same method and output the format to the same file and the userspace tools will be able to decipher the address without any modification. The tracepoint strings need its own section to save the strings because the trace_printk section will cause the trace_printk() buffers to be allocated if anything exists within the section. trace_printk() is only used for debugging and should never exist in the kernel, we can not use the trace_printk sections. Add a new tracepoint_str section that will also be examined by the output of the printk_format file. Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-07-26tracing: Remove locking trace_types_lock from tracing_reset_all_online_cpus()Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
Commit a82274151af "tracing: Protect ftrace_trace_arrays list in trace_events.c" added taking the trace_types_lock mutex in trace_events.c as there were several locations that needed it for protection. Unfortunately, it also encapsulated a call to tracing_reset_all_online_cpus() which also takes the trace_types_lock, causing a deadlock. This happens when a module has tracepoints and has been traced. When the module is removed, the trace events module notifier will grab the trace_types_lock, do a bunch of clean ups, and also clears the buffer by calling tracing_reset_all_online_cpus. This doesn't happen often which explains why it wasn't caught right away. Commit a82274151af was marked for stable, which means this must be sent to stable too. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51EEC646.7070306@broadcom.com Reported-by: Arend van Spril <arend@broadcom.com> Tested-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> Cc: Alexander Z Lam <azl@google.com> Cc: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com> Cc: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.10 Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-07-26PM / Sleep: increase ftrace coverage in suspend/resumeBrandt, Todd E
Change where ftrace is disabled and re-enabled during system suspend/resume to allow tracing of device driver pm callbacks. Ftrace will now be turned off when suspend reaches disable_nonboot_cpus() instead of at the very beginning of system suspend. Ftrace was disabled during suspend/resume back in 2008 by Steven Rostedt as he discovered there was a conflict in the enable_nonboot_cpus() call (see commit f42ac38 "ftrace: disable tracing for suspend to ram"). This change preserves his fix by disabling ftrace, but only at the function where it is known to cause problems. The new change allows tracing of the device level code for better debug. [rjw: Changelog] Signed-off-by: Todd Brandt <todd.e.brandt@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-07-25mutex: Avoid label warning when !CONFIG_MUTEX_SPIN_ON_OWNERDavidlohr Bueso
Fengguang reported the following warning when optimistic spinning is disabled (ie: make allnoconfig): kernel/mutex.c:599:1: warning: label 'done' defined but not used Remove the 'done' label altogether. Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-07-25Merge branch 'timers/urgent' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks into timers/urgent Pull nohz fixes from Frederic Weisbecker. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-07-24nohz: fix compile warning in tick_nohz_init()Li Zhong
cpu is not used after commit 5b8621a68fdcd2baf1d3b413726f913a5254d46a Signed-off-by: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2013-07-24nohz: Do not warn about unstable tsc unless user uses nohz_fullSteven Rostedt
If the user enables CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL and runs the kernel on a machine with an unstable TSC, it will produce a WARN_ON dump as well as taint the kernel. This is a bit extreme for a kernel that just enables a feature but doesn't use it. The warning should only happen if the user tries to use the feature by either adding nohz_full to the kernel command line, or by enabling CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_ALL that makes nohz used on all CPUs at boot up. Note, this second feature should not (yet) be used by distros or anyone that doesn't care if NO_HZ is used or not. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2013-07-24workqueue: allow work_on_cpu() to be called recursivelyLai Jiangshan
If the @fn call work_on_cpu() again, the lockdep will complain: > [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ] > 3.11.0-rc1-lockdep-fix-a #6 Not tainted > --------------------------------------------- > kworker/0:1/142 is trying to acquire lock: > ((&wfc.work)){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff81077100>] flush_work+0x0/0xb0 > > but task is already holding lock: > ((&wfc.work)){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff81075dd9>] process_one_work+0x169/0x610 > > other info that might help us debug this: > Possible unsafe locking scenario: > > CPU0 > ---- > lock((&wfc.work)); > lock((&wfc.work)); > > *** DEADLOCK *** It is false-positive lockdep report. In this sutiation, the two "wfc"s of the two work_on_cpu() are different, they are both on stack. flush_work() can't be deadlock. To fix this, we need to avoid the lockdep checking in this case, thus we instroduce a internal __flush_work() which skip the lockdep. tj: Minor comment adjustment. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Reported-by: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reported-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2013-07-24ftrace: Add check for NULL regs if ops has SAVE_REGS setSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
If a ftrace ops is registered with the SAVE_REGS flag set, and there's already a ops registered to one of its functions but without the SAVE_REGS flag, there's a small race window where the SAVE_REGS ops gets added to the list of callbacks to call for that function before the callback trampoline gets set to save the regs. The problem is, the function is not currently saving regs, which opens a small race window where the ops that is expecting regs to be passed to it, wont. This can cause a crash if the callback were to reference the regs, as the SAVE_REGS guarantees that regs will be set. To fix this, we add a check in the loop case where it checks if the ops has the SAVE_REGS flag set, and if so, it will ignore it if regs is not set. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-07-24tracing: Kill trace_cpu struct/membersOleg Nesterov
After the previous changes trace_array_cpu->trace_cpu and trace_array->trace_cpu becomes write-only. Remove these members and kill "struct trace_cpu" as well. As a side effect this also removes memset(per_cpu_memory, 0). It was not needed, alloc_percpu() returns zero-filled memory. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130723152613.GA23741@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-07-24tracing: Change tracing_fops/snapshot_fops to rely on tracing_get_cpu()Oleg Nesterov
tracing_open() and tracing_snapshot_open() are racy, the memory inode->i_private points to can be already freed. Convert these last users of "inode->i_private == trace_cpu" to use "i_private = trace_array" and rely on tracing_get_cpu(). v2: incorporate the fix from Steven, tracing_release() must not blindly dereference file->private_data unless we know that the file was opened for reading. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130723152610.GA23737@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-07-24tracing: Change tracing_entries_fops to rely on tracing_get_cpu()Oleg Nesterov
tracing_open_generic_tc() is racy, the memory inode->i_private points to can be already freed. 1. Change its last user, tracing_entries_fops, to use tracing_*_generic_tr() instead. 2. Change debugfs_create_file("buffer_size_kb", data) callers to pass "data = tr". 3. Change tracing_entries_read() and tracing_entries_write() to use tracing_get_cpu(). 4. Kill the no longer used tracing_open_generic_tc() and tracing_release_generic_tc(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130723152606.GA23730@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-07-24tracing: Change tracing_stats_fops to rely on tracing_get_cpu()Oleg Nesterov
tracing_open_generic_tc() is racy, the memory inode->i_private points to can be already freed. 1. Change one of its users, tracing_stats_fops, to use tracing_*_generic_tr() instead. 2. Change trace_create_cpu_file("stats", data) to pass "data = tr". 3. Change tracing_stats_read() to use tracing_get_cpu(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130723152603.GA23727@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-07-24tracing: Change tracing_buffers_fops to rely on tracing_get_cpu()Oleg Nesterov
tracing_buffers_open() is racy, the memory inode->i_private points to can be already freed. Change debugfs_create_file("trace_pipe_raw", data) caller to pass "data = tr", tracing_buffers_open() can use tracing_get_cpu(). Change debugfs_create_file("snapshot_raw_fops", data) caller too, this file uses tracing_buffers_open/release. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130723152600.GA23720@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-07-24tracing: Change tracing_pipe_fops() to rely on tracing_get_cpu()Oleg Nesterov
tracing_open_pipe() is racy, the memory inode->i_private points to can be already freed. Change debugfs_create_file("trace_pipe", data) callers to to pass "data = tr", tracing_open_pipe() can use tracing_get_cpu(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130723152557.GA23717@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-07-24tracing: Introduce trace_create_cpu_file() and tracing_get_cpu()Oleg Nesterov
Every "file_operations" used by tracing_init_debugfs_percpu is buggy. f_op->open/etc does: 1. struct trace_cpu *tc = inode->i_private; struct trace_array *tr = tc->tr; 2. trace_array_get(tr) or fail; 3. do_something(tc); But tc (and tr) can be already freed before trace_array_get() is called. And it doesn't matter whether this file is per-cpu or it was created by init_tracer_debugfs(), free_percpu() or kfree() are equally bad. Note that even 1. is not safe, the freed memory can be unmapped. But even if it was safe trace_array_get() can wrongly succeed if we also race with the next new_instance_create() which can re-allocate the same tr, or tc was overwritten and ->tr points to the valid tr. In this case 3. uses the freed/reused memory. Add the new trivial helper, trace_create_cpu_file() which simply calls trace_create_file() and encodes "cpu" in "struct inode". Another helper, tracing_get_cpu() will be used to read cpu_nr-or-RING_BUFFER_ALL_CPUS. The patch abuses ->i_cdev to encode the number, it is never used unless the file is S_ISCHR(). But we could use something else, say, i_bytes or even ->d_fsdata. In any case this hack is hidden inside these 2 helpers, it would be trivial to change them if needed. This patch only changes tracing_init_debugfs_percpu() to use the new trace_create_cpu_file(), the next patches will change file_operations. Note: tracing_get_cpu(inode) is always safe but you can't trust the result unless trace_array_get() was called, without trace_types_lock which acts as a barrier it can wrongly return RING_BUFFER_ALL_CPUS. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130723152554.GA23710@redhat.com Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-07-23Merge branch 'for-3.11-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup Pull cgroup changes from Tejun Heo: "This contains two patches, both of which aren't fixes per-se but I think it'd be better to fast-track them. One removes bcache_subsys_id which was added without proper review through the block tree. Fortunately, bcache cgroup code is unconditionally disabled, so this was never exposed to userland. The cgroup subsys_id is removed. Kent will remove the affected (disabled) code through bcache branch. The other simplifies task_group_path_from_hierarchy(). The function doesn't currently have in-kernel users but there are external code and development going on dependent on the function and making the function available for 3.11 would make things go smoother" * 'for-3.11-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: cgroup: replace task_cgroup_path_from_hierarchy() with task_cgroup_path() cgroup: remove bcache_subsys_id which got added stealthily
2013-07-23Fix __wait_on_atomic_t() to call the action func if the counter != 0David Howells
Fix __wait_on_atomic_t() so that it calls the action func if the counter != 0 rather than if the counter is 0 so as to be analogous to __wait_on_bit(). Thanks to Yacine who found this by visual inspection. This will affect FS-Cache in that it will could fail to sleep correctly when trying to clean up after a netfs cookie is withdrawn. Reported-by: Yacine Belkadi <yacine.belkadi.1@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> cc: Milosz Tanski <milosz@adfin.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-23sched: Micro-optimize the smart wake-affine logicPeter Zijlstra
Smart wake-affine is using node-size as the factor currently, but the overhead of the mask operation is high. Thus, this patch introduce the 'sd_llc_size' percpu variable, which will record the highest cache-share domain size, and make it to be the new factor, in order to reduce the overhead and make it more reasonable. Tested-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com> Tested-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51D5008E.6030102@linux.vnet.ibm.com [ Tidied up the changelog. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-07-23sched: Implement smarter wake-affine logicMichael Wang
The wake-affine scheduler feature is currently always trying to pull the wakee close to the waker. In theory this should be beneficial if the waker's CPU caches hot data for the wakee, and it's also beneficial in the extreme ping-pong high context switch rate case. Testing shows it can benefit hackbench up to 15%. However, the feature is somewhat blind, from which some workloads such as pgbench suffer. It's also time-consuming algorithmically. Testing shows it can damage pgbench up to 50% - far more than the benefit it brings in the best case. So wake-affine should be smarter and it should realize when to stop its thankless effort at trying to find a suitable CPU to wake on. This patch introduces 'wakee_flips', which will be increased each time the task flips (switches) its wakee target. So a high 'wakee_flips' value means the task has more than one wakee, and the bigger the number, the higher the wakeup frequency. Now when making the decision on whether to pull or not, pay attention to the wakee with a high 'wakee_flips', pulling such a task may benefit the wakee. Also imply that the waker will face cruel competition later, it could be very cruel or very fast depends on the story behind 'wakee_flips', waker therefore suffers. Furthermore, if waker also has a high 'wakee_flips', that implies that multiple tasks rely on it, then waker's higher latency will damage all of them, so pulling wakee seems to be a bad deal. Thus, when 'waker->wakee_flips / wakee->wakee_flips' becomes higher and higher, the cost of pulling seems to be worse and worse. The patch therefore helps the wake-affine feature to stop its pulling work when: wakee->wakee_flips > factor && waker->wakee_flips > (factor * wakee->wakee_flips) The 'factor' here is the number of CPUs in the current CPU's NUMA node, so a bigger node will lead to more pulling since the trial becomes more severe. After applying the patch, pgbench shows up to 40% improvements and no regressions. Tested with 12 cpu x86 server and tip 3.10.0-rc7. The percentages in the final column highlight the areas with the biggest wins, all other areas improved as well: pgbench base smart | db_size | clients | tps | | tps | +---------+---------+-------+ +-------+ | 22 MB | 1 | 10598 | | 10796 | | 22 MB | 2 | 21257 | | 21336 | | 22 MB | 4 | 41386 | | 41622 | | 22 MB | 8 | 51253 | | 57932 | | 22 MB | 12 | 48570 | | 54000 | | 22 MB | 16 | 46748 | | 55982 | +19.75% | 22 MB | 24 | 44346 | | 55847 | +25.93% | 22 MB | 32 | 43460 | | 54614 | +25.66% | 7484 MB | 1 | 8951 | | 9193 | | 7484 MB | 2 | 19233 | | 19240 | | 7484 MB | 4 | 37239 | | 37302 | | 7484 MB | 8 | 46087 | | 50018 | | 7484 MB | 12 | 42054 | | 48763 | | 7484 MB | 16 | 40765 | | 51633 | +26.66% | 7484 MB | 24 | 37651 | | 52377 | +39.11% | 7484 MB | 32 | 37056 | | 51108 | +37.92% | 15 GB | 1 | 8845 | | 9104 | | 15 GB | 2 | 19094 | | 19162 | | 15 GB | 4 | 36979 | | 36983 | | 15 GB | 8 | 46087 | | 49977 | | 15 GB | 12 | 41901 | | 48591 | | 15 GB | 16 | 40147 | | 50651 | +26.16% | 15 GB | 24 | 37250 | | 52365 | +40.58% | 15 GB | 32 | 36470 | | 50015 | +37.14% Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51D50057.9000809@linux.vnet.ibm.com [ Improved the changelog. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-07-23sched: Move h_load calculation to task_h_load()Vladimir Davydov
The bad thing about update_h_load(), which computes hierarchical load factor for task groups, is that it is called for each task group in the system before every load balancer run, and since rebalance can be triggered very often, this function can eat really a lot of cpu time if there are many cpu cgroups in the system. Although the situation was improved significantly by commit a35b646 ('sched, cgroup: Reduce rq->lock hold times for large cgroup hierarchies'), the problem still can arise under some kinds of loads, e.g. when cpus are switching from idle to busy and back very frequently. For instance, when I start 1000 of processes that wake up every millisecond on my 8 cpus host, 'top' and 'perf top' show: Cpu(s): 17.8%us, 24.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 57.9%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si Events: 243K cycles 7.57% [kernel] [k] __schedule 7.08% [kernel] [k] timerqueue_add 6.13% libc-2.12.so [.] usleep Then if I create 10000 *idle* cpu cgroups (no processes in them), cpu usage increases significantly although the 'wakers' are still executing in the root cpu cgroup: Cpu(s): 19.1%us, 48.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 31.6%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.7%si Events: 230K cycles 24.56% [kernel] [k] tg_load_down 5.76% [kernel] [k] __schedule This happens because this particular kind of load triggers 'new idle' rebalance very frequently, which requires calling update_h_load(), which, in turn, calls tg_load_down() for every *idle* cpu cgroup even though it is absolutely useless, because idle cpu cgroups have no tasks to pull. This patch tries to improve the situation by making h_load calculation proceed only when h_load is really necessary. To achieve this, it substitutes update_h_load() with update_cfs_rq_h_load(), which computes h_load only for a given cfs_rq and all its ascendants, and makes the load balancer call this function whenever it considers if a task should be pulled, i.e. it moves h_load calculations directly to task_h_load(). For h_load of the same cfs_rq not to be updated multiple times (in case several tasks in the same cgroup are considered during the same balance run), the patch keeps the time of the last h_load update for each cfs_rq and breaks calculation when it finds h_load to be uptodate. The benefit of it is that h_load is computed only for those cfs_rq's, which really need it, in particular all idle task groups are skipped. Although this, in fact, moves h_load calculation under rq lock, it should not affect latency much, because the amount of work done under rq lock while trying to pull tasks is limited by sched_nr_migrate. After the patch applied with the setup described above (1000 wakers in the root cgroup and 10000 idle cgroups), I get: Cpu(s): 16.9%us, 24.8%sy, 0.0%ni, 58.4%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si Events: 242K cycles 7.57% [kernel] [k] __schedule 6.70% [kernel] [k] timerqueue_add 5.93% libc-2.12.so [.] usleep Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1373896159-1278-1-git-send-email-vdavydov@parallels.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-07-23perf: Update perf_event_type documentationPeter Zijlstra
Due to a discussion with Adrian I had a good look at the perf_event_type record layout and found the documentation to be somewhat unclear. Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130716150907.GL23818@dyad.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-07-23mutex: Do not unnecessarily deal with waitersDavidlohr Bueso
Upon entering the slowpath, we immediately attempt to acquire the lock by checking if it is already unlocked. If we are lucky enough that this is the case, then we don't need to deal with any waiter related logic. Furthermore any checks for an empty wait_list are unnecessary as we already know that count is non-negative and hence no one is waiting for the lock. Move the count check and xchg calls to be done before any waiters are setup - including waiter debugging. Upon failure to acquire the lock, the xchg sets the counter to 0, instead of -1 as it was originally. This can be done here since we set it back to -1 right at the beginning of the loop so other waiters are woken up when the lock is released. When tested on a 8-socket (80 core) system against a vanilla 3.10-rc1 kernel, this patch provides some small performance benefits (+2-6%). While it could be considered in the noise level, the average percentages were stable across multiple runs and no performance regressions were seen. Two big winners, for small amounts of users (10-100), were the short and compute workloads had a +19.36% and +%15.76% in jobs per minute. Also change some break statements to 'goto slowpath', which IMO makes a little more intuitive to read. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@canonical.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1372450398.2106.1.camel@buesod1.americas.hpqcorp.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-07-23Merge tag 'v3.11-rc2' into core/lockingIngo Molnar
Merge in Linux 3.11-rc2 before moving on with new work. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-07-23kprobes/x86: Call out into INT3 handler directly instead of using notifierJiri Kosina
In fd4363fff3d96 ("x86: Introduce int3 (breakpoint)-based instruction patching"), the mechanism that was introduced for notifying alternatives code from int3 exception handler that and exception occured was die_notifier. This is however problematic, as early code might be using jump labels even before the notifier registration has been performed, which will then lead to an oops due to unhandled exception. One of such occurences has been encountered by Fengguang: int3: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC Modules linked in: CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 3.11.0-rc1-01429-g04bf576 #8 task: ffff88000da1b040 ti: ffff88000da1c000 task.ti: ffff88000da1c000 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff811098cc>] [<ffffffff811098cc>] ttwu_do_wakeup+0x28/0x225 RSP: 0000:ffff88000dd03f10 EFLAGS: 00000006 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88000dd12940 RCX: ffffffff81769c40 RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000001 RBP: ffff88000dd03f28 R08: ffffffff8176a8c0 R09: 0000000000000002 R10: ffffffff810ff484 R11: ffff88000dd129e8 R12: ffff88000dbc90c0 R13: ffff88000dbc90c0 R14: ffff88000da1dfd8 R15: ffff88000da1dfd8 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88000dd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: 00000000ffffffff CR3: 0000000001c88000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 Stack: ffff88000dd12940 ffff88000dbc90c0 ffff88000da1dfd8 ffff88000dd03f48 ffffffff81109e2b ffff88000dd12940 0000000000000000 ffff88000dd03f68 ffffffff81109e9e 0000000000000000 0000000000012940 ffff88000dd03f98 Call Trace: <IRQ> [<ffffffff81109e2b>] ttwu_do_activate.constprop.56+0x6d/0x79 [<ffffffff81109e9e>] sched_ttwu_pending+0x67/0x84 [<ffffffff8110c845>] scheduler_ipi+0x15a/0x2b0 [<ffffffff8104dfb4>] smp_reschedule_interrupt+0x38/0x41 [<ffffffff8173bf5d>] reschedule_interrupt+0x6d/0x80 <EOI> [<ffffffff810ff484>] ? __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x5/0xc1 [<ffffffff8105cc30>] ? native_safe_halt+0xd/0x16 [<ffffffff81015f10>] default_idle+0x147/0x282 [<ffffffff81017026>] arch_cpu_idle+0x3d/0x5d [<ffffffff81127d6a>] cpu_idle_loop+0x46d/0x5db [<ffffffff81127f5c>] cpu_startup_entry+0x84/0x84 [<ffffffff8104f4f8>] start_secondary+0x3c8/0x3d5 [...] Fix this by directly calling poke_int3_handler() from the int3 exception handler (analogically to what ftrace has been doing already), instead of relying on notifier, registration of which might not have yet been finalized by the time of the first trap. Reported-and-tested-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LNX.2.00.1307231007490.14024@pobox.suse.cz Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-07-22Merge tag 'trace-3.11-rc2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace Pull tracing fixes and cleanups from Steven Rostedt: "This contains fixes, optimizations and some clean ups Some of the fixes need to go back to 3.10. They are minor, and deal mostly with incorrect ref counting in accessing event files. There was a couple of optimizations that should have perf perform a bit better when accessing trace events. And some various clean ups. Some of the clean ups are necessary to help in a fix to a theoretical race between opening a event file and deleting that event" * tag 'trace-3.11-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: tracing: Kill the unbalanced tr->ref++ in tracing_buffers_open() tracing: Kill trace_array->waiter tracing: Do not (ab)use trace_seq in event_id_read() tracing: Simplify the iteration logic in f_start/f_next tracing: Add ref_data to function and fgraph tracer structs tracing: Miscellaneous fixes for trace_array ref counting tracing: Fix error handling to ensure instances can always be removed tracing/kprobe: Wait for disabling all running kprobe handlers tracing/perf: Move the PERF_MAX_TRACE_SIZE check into perf_trace_buf_prepare() tracing/syscall: Avoid perf_trace_buf_*() if sys_data->perf_events is empty tracing/function: Avoid perf_trace_buf_*() if event_function.perf_events is empty tracing: Typo fix on ring buffer comments tracing: Use trace_seq_puts()/trace_seq_putc() where possible tracing: Use correct config guard CONFIG_STACK_TRACER
2013-07-22sched_clock: Fix integer overflowBaruch Siach
The expression '(1 << 32)' happens to evaluate as 0 on ARM, but it evaluates as 1 on xtensa and x86_64. This zeros sched_clock_mask, and breaks sched_clock(). Set the type of 1 to 'unsigned long long' to get the value we need. Reported-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> Tested-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2013-07-22clocksource: Fix !CONFIG_CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG compilePrarit Bhargava
If I explicitly disable the clocksource watchdog in the x86 Kconfig, the x86 kernel will not compile unless this is properly defined. Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: x86@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>