21 Jun, 2013
1 commit
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Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"Two smaller fixes - plus a context tracking tracing fix that is a bit
bigger"* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
tracing/context-tracking: Add preempt_schedule_context() for tracing
sched: Fix clear NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK
sched/x86: Construct all sibling maps if smt
19 Jun, 2013
1 commit
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Dave Jones hit the following bug report:
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[ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
3.10.0-rc2+ #1 Not tainted
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include/linux/rcupdate.h:771 rcu_read_lock() used illegally while idle!
other info that might help us debug this:
RCU used illegally from idle CPU! rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
RCU used illegally from extended quiescent state!
2 locks held by cc1/63645:
#0: (&rq->lock){-.-.-.}, at: [] __schedule+0xed/0x9b0
#1: (rcu_read_lock){.+.+..}, at: [] cpuacct_charge+0x5/0x1f0CPU: 1 PID: 63645 Comm: cc1 Not tainted 3.10.0-rc2+ #1 [loadavg: 40.57 27.55 13.39 25/277 64369]
Hardware name: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. GA-MA78GM-S2H/GA-MA78GM-S2H, BIOS F12a 04/23/2010
0000000000000000 ffff88010f78fcf8 ffffffff816ae383 ffff88010f78fd28
ffffffff810b698d ffff88011c092548 000000000023d073 ffff88011c092500
0000000000000001 ffff88010f78fd60 ffffffff8109d7c5 ffffffff8109d645
Call Trace:
[] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
[] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0xfd/0x130
[] cpuacct_charge+0x185/0x1f0
[] ? cpuacct_charge+0x5/0x1f0
[] update_curr+0xec/0x240
[] put_prev_task_fair+0x228/0x480
[] __schedule+0x161/0x9b0
[] preempt_schedule+0x51/0x80
[] ? __cond_resched_softirq+0x60/0x60
[] ? retint_careful+0x12/0x2e
[] ftrace_ops_control_func+0x1dc/0x210
[] ftrace_call+0x5/0x2f
[] ? retint_careful+0xb/0x2e
[] ? schedule_user+0x5/0x70
[] ? schedule_user+0x5/0x70
[] ? retint_careful+0x12/0x2e
------------[ cut here ]------------What happened was that the function tracer traced the schedule_user() code
that tells RCU that the system is coming back from userspace, and to
add the CPU back to the RCU monitoring.Because the function tracer does a preempt_disable/enable_notrace() calls
the preempt_enable_notrace() checks the NEED_RESCHED flag. If it is set,
then preempt_schedule() is called. But this is called before the user_exit()
function can inform the kernel that the CPU is no longer in user mode and
needs to be accounted for by RCU.The fix is to create a new preempt_schedule_context() that checks if
the kernel is still in user mode and if so to switch it to kernel mode
before calling schedule. It also switches back to user mode coming back
from schedule in need be.The only user of this currently is the preempt_enable_notrace(), which is
only used by the tracing subsystem.Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1369423420.6828.226.camel@gandalf.local.home
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
31 May, 2013
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The kvm_host.h header file doesn't handle well
inclusion when archs don't support KVM.This results in build crashes for such archs when they
want to implement context tracking because this subsystem
includes kvm_host.h in order to implement the
guest_enter/exit APIs but it doesn't handle KVM off case.To fix this, move the guest_enter()/guest_exit()
declarations and generic implementation to the context
tracking headers. These generic APIs actually belong to
this subsystem, besides other domains boundary tracking
like user_enter() et al.KVM now properly becomes a user of this library, not the
other buggy way around.Reported-by: Kevin Hilman
Reviewed-by: Kevin Hilman
Tested-by: Kevin Hilman
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Paul E. McKenney
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Kevin Hilman
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti
Cc: Gleb Natapov
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
20 Feb, 2013
1 commit
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Pull scheduler changes from Ingo Molnar:
"Main changes:- scheduler side full-dynticks (user-space execution is undisturbed
and receives no timer IRQs) preparation changes that convert the
cputime accounting code to be full-dynticks ready, from Frederic
Weisbecker.- Initial sched.h split-up changes, by Clark Williams
- select_idle_sibling() performance improvement by Mike Galbraith:
" 1 tbench pair (worst case) in a 10 core + SMT package:
pre 15.22 MB/sec 1 procs
post 252.01 MB/sec 1 procs "- sched_rr_get_interval() ABI fix/change. We think this detail is not
used by apps (so it's not an ABI in practice), but lets keep it
under observation.- misc RT scheduling cleanups, optimizations"
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
sched/rt: Add header to
cputime: Remove irqsave from seqlock readers
sched, powerpc: Fix sched.h split-up build failure
cputime: Restore CPU_ACCOUNTING config defaults for PPC64
sched/rt: Move rt specific bits into new header file
sched/rt: Add a tuning knob to allow changing SCHED_RR timeslice
sched: Move sched.h sysctl bits into separate header
sched: Fix signedness bug in yield_to()
sched: Fix select_idle_sibling() bouncing cow syndrome
sched/rt: Further simplify pick_rt_task()
sched/rt: Do not account zero delta_exec in update_curr_rt()
cputime: Safely read cputime of full dynticks CPUs
kvm: Prepare to add generic guest entry/exit callbacks
cputime: Use accessors to read task cputime stats
cputime: Allow dynamic switch between tick/virtual based cputime accounting
cputime: Generic on-demand virtual cputime accounting
cputime: Move default nsecs_to_cputime() to jiffies based cputime file
cputime: Librarize per nsecs resolution cputime definitions
cputime: Avoid multiplication overflow on utime scaling
context_tracking: Export context state for generic vtime
...Fix up conflict in kernel/context_tracking.c due to comment additions.
28 Jan, 2013
2 commits
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While remotely reading the cputime of a task running in a
full dynticks CPU, the values stored in utime/stime fields
of struct task_struct may be stale. Its values may be those
of the last kernel user transition time snapshot and
we need to add the tickless time spent since this snapshot.To fix this, flush the cputime of the dynticks CPUs on
kernel user transition and record the time / context
where we did this. Then on top of this snapshot and the current
time, perform the fixup on the reader side from task_times()
accessors.Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Li Zhong
Cc: Namhyung Kim
Cc: Paul E. McKenney
Cc: Paul Gortmaker
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
[fixed kvm module related build errors]
Signed-off-by: Sedat Dilek -
If we want to stop the tick further idle, we need to be
able to account the cputime without using the tick.Virtual based cputime accounting solves that problem by
hooking into kernel/user boundaries.However implementing CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING require
low level hooks and involves more overhead. But we already
have a generic context tracking subsystem that is required
for RCU needs by archs which plan to shut down the tick
outside idle.This patch implements a generic virtual based cputime
accounting that relies on these generic kernel/user hooks.There are some upsides of doing this:
- This requires no arch code to implement CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
if context tracking is already built (already necessary for RCU in full
tickless mode).- We can rely on the generic context tracking subsystem to dynamically
(de)activate the hooks, so that we can switch anytime between virtual
and tick based accounting. This way we don't have the overhead
of the virtual accounting when the tick is running periodically.And one downside:
- There is probably more overhead than a native virtual based cputime
accounting. But this relies on hooks that are already set anyway.Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Li Zhong
Cc: Namhyung Kim
Cc: Paul E. McKenney
Cc: Paul Gortmaker
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
27 Jan, 2013
2 commits
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This subsystem lacks many explanations on its purpose and
design. Add these missing comments.v4: Document function parameter to be more kernel-doc
friendly, as per Namhyung suggestion.Reported-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: Chris Metcalf
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Geoff Levand
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef
Cc: Hakan Akkan
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Li Zhong
Cc: Namhyung Kim
Cc: Paul E. McKenney
Cc: Paul Gortmaker
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney -
Export the context state: whether we run in user / kernel
from the context tracking subsystem point of view.This is going to be used by the generic virtual cputime
accounting subsystem that is needed to implement the full
dynticks.Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Li Zhong
Cc: Namhyung Kim
Cc: Paul E. McKenney
Cc: Paul Gortmaker
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
01 Dec, 2012
1 commit
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Create a new subsystem that probes on kernel boundaries
to keep track of the transitions between level contexts
with two basic initial contexts: user or kernel.This is an abstraction of some RCU code that use such tracking
to implement its userspace extended quiescent state.We need to pull this up from RCU into this new level of indirection
because this tracking is also going to be used to implement an "on
demand" generic virtual cputime accounting. A necessary step to
shutdown the tick while still accounting the cputime.Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: H. Peter Anvin
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Paul E. McKenney
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Li Zhong
Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt
[ paulmck: fix whitespace error and email address. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney