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2006-06-28[PATCH] sched: CPU hotplug race vs. set_cpus_allowed()Kirill Korotaev
There is a race between set_cpus_allowed() and move_task_off_dead_cpu(). __migrate_task() doesn't report any err code, so task can be left on its runqueue if its cpus_allowed mask changed so that dest_cpu is not longer a possible target. Also, chaning cpus_allowed mask requires rq->lock being held. Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Acked-By: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-28[PATCH] unnecessary long index i in schedSteven Rostedt
Unless we expect to have more than 2G CPUs, there's no reason to have 'i' as a long long here. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-28[PATCH] sched: fix interactive ceiling codeCon Kolivas
The relationship between INTERACTIVE_SLEEP and the ceiling is not perfect and not explicit enough. The sleep boost is not supposed to be any larger than without this code and the comment is not clear enough about what exactly it does, just the reason it does it. Fix it. There is a ceiling to the priority beyond which tasks that only ever sleep for very long periods cannot surpass. Fix it. Prevent the on-runqueue bonus logic from defeating the idle sleep logic. Opportunity to micro-optimise. Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-28[PATCH] sched: simplify bitmap definitionSteven Rostedt
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-28[PATCH] sched: fix smt nice lock contention and optimizationChen, Kenneth W
Initial report and lock contention fix from Chris Mason: Recent benchmarks showed some performance regressions between 2.6.16 and 2.6.5. We tracked down one of the regressions to lock contention in schedule heavy workloads (~70,000 context switches per second) kernel/sched.c:dependent_sleeper() was responsible for most of the lock contention, hammering on the run queue locks. The patch below is more of a discussion point than a suggested fix (although it does reduce lock contention significantly). The dependent_sleeper code looks very expensive to me, especially for using a spinlock to bounce control between two different siblings in the same cpu. It is further optimized: * perform dependent_sleeper check after next task is determined * convert wake_sleeping_dependent to use trylock * skip smt runqueue check if trylock fails * optimize double_rq_lock now that smt nice is converted to trylock * early exit in searching first SD_SHARE_CPUPOWER domain * speedup fast path of dependent_sleeper [akpm@osdl.org: cleanup] Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-28[PATCH] cpu hotplug: make cpu_notifier related notifier calls __cpuinit onlyChandra Seetharaman
Make notifier_calls associated with cpu_notifier as __cpuinit. __cpuinit makes sure that the function is init time only unless CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is defined. [akpm@osdl.org: section fix] Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-28[PATCH] cpu hotplug: revert initdata patch submitted for 2.6.17Chandra Seetharaman
This patch reverts notifier_block changes made in 2.6.17 Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26Merge branch 'x86-64'Linus Torvalds
* x86-64: (83 commits) [PATCH] x86_64: x86_64 stack usage debugging [PATCH] x86_64: (resend) x86_64 stack overflow debugging [PATCH] x86_64: msi_apic.c build fix [PATCH] x86_64: i386/x86-64 Add nmi watchdog support for new Intel CPUs [PATCH] x86_64: Avoid broadcasting NMI IPIs [PATCH] x86_64: fix apic error on bootup [PATCH] x86_64: enlarge window for stack growth [PATCH] x86_64: Minor string functions optimizations [PATCH] x86_64: Move export symbols to their C functions [PATCH] x86_64: Standardize i386/x86_64 handling of NMI_VECTOR [PATCH] x86_64: Fix modular pc speaker [PATCH] x86_64: remove sys32_ni_syscall() [PATCH] x86_64: Do not use -ffunction-sections for modules [PATCH] x86_64: Add cpu_relax to apic_wait_icr_idle [PATCH] x86_64: adjust kstack_depth_to_print default [PATCH] i386/x86-64: adjust /proc/interrupts column headings [PATCH] x86_64: Fix race in cpu_local_* on preemptible kernels [PATCH] x86_64: Fix fast check in safe_smp_processor_id [PATCH] x86_64: x86_64 setup.c - printing cmp related boottime information [PATCH] i386/x86-64/ia64: Move polling flag into thread_info_status ... Manual resolve of trivial conflict in arch/i386/kernel/Makefile
2006-06-26[PATCH] i386/x86-64/ia64: Move polling flag into thread_info_statusAndi Kleen
During some profiling I noticed that default_idle causes a lot of memory traffic. I think that is caused by the atomic operations to clear/set the polling flag in thread_info. There is actually no reason to make this atomic - only the idle thread does it to itself, other CPUs only read it. So I moved it into ti->status. Converted i386/x86-64/ia64 for now because that was the easiest way to fix ACPI which also manipulates these flags in its idle function. Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@novell.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] sched: fix SCHED_FIFO bug in sys_sched_rr_get_interval()Peter Williams
The introduction of SCHED_BATCH scheduling class with a value of 3 means that the expression (p->policy & SCHED_FIFO) will return true if policy is SCHED_BATCH or SCHED_FIFO. Unfortunately, this expression is used in sys_sched_rr_get_interval() and in the absence of a comment to say that this is intentional I presume that it is unintentional and erroneous. The fix is to change the expression to (p->policy == SCHED_FIFO). Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] cpu hotplug: fix CPU_UP_CANCEL handlingHeiko Carstens
If a cpu hotplug callback fails on CPU_UP_PREPARE, all callbacks will be called with CPU_UP_CANCELED. A few of these callbacks assume that on CPU_UP_PREPARE a pointer to task has been stored in a percpu array. This assumption is not true if CPU_UP_PREPARE fails and the following calls to kthread_bind() in CPU_UP_CANCELED will cause an addressing exception because of passing a NULL pointer. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] Define __raw_get_cpu_var and use itPaul Mackerras
There are several instances of per_cpu(foo, raw_smp_processor_id()), which is semantically equivalent to __get_cpu_var(foo) but without the warning that smp_processor_id() can give if CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT is enabled. For those architectures with optimized per-cpu implementations, namely ia64, powerpc, s390, sparc64 and x86_64, per_cpu() turns into more and slower code than __get_cpu_var(), so it would be preferable to use __get_cpu_var on those platforms. This defines a __raw_get_cpu_var(x) macro which turns into per_cpu(x, raw_smp_processor_id()) on architectures that use the generic per-cpu implementation, and turns into __get_cpu_var(x) on the architectures that have an optimized per-cpu implementation. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] cond_resched() might_sleep() fixIngo Molnar
add the __might_sleep() check back to cond_resched(). Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] SELinux: add security hooks to {get,set}affinityDavid Quigley
This patch adds LSM hooks into the setaffinity and getaffinity functions to enable security modules to control these operations between tasks with task_setscheduler and task_getscheduler LSM hooks. Signed-off-by: David Quigley <dpquigl@tycho.nsa.gov> Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-22Revert "[PATCH] sched: fix interactive task starvation"Linus Torvalds
This reverts commit 5ce74abe788a26698876e66b9c9ce7e7acc25413 (and its dependent commit 8a5bc075b8d8cf7a87b3f08fad2fba0f5d13295e), because of audio underruns. Reported by Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>, who also pinpointed the exact cause of the underruns: "Audio underruns galore, with only ogg123 and firefox (browsing the GIT tree online is also a nice trigger by the way). If I back it out, everything is fine for me again." Cc: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Acked-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-26[PATCH] Remove __devinitdata from notifier block definitionsChandra Seetharaman
Few of the notifier_chain_register() callers use __devinitdata in the definition of notifier_block data structure. It is incorrect as the data structure should be available after the initializations (they do not unregister them during initializations). This was leading to an oops when notifier_chain_register() call is invoked for those callback chains after initialization. This patch fixes all such usages to _not_ have the notifier_block data structure in the init data section. Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] sched: don't awaken RT tasks on expired arrayMike Galbraith
RT tasks are being awakened on the expired array when expired_starving() is true, whereas they really should be excluded. Fix. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] sched: fix interactive task starvationMike Galbraith
Fix a starvation problem that occurs when a stream of highly interactive tasks delay an array switch for extended periods despite EXPIRED_STARVING(rq) being true. AFAIKT, the only choice is to enqueue awakening tasks on the expired array in this case. Without this patch, it can be nearly impossible to remotely login to a busy server, and interactive shell commands can starve for minutes. Also, convert the EXPIRED_STARVING macro into an inline function which humans can understand. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Acked-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] sched: activate SCHED BATCH expiredCon Kolivas
To increase the strength of SCHED_BATCH as a scheduling hint we can activate batch tasks on the expired array since by definition they are latency insensitive tasks. Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] sched: remove on runqueue requeueingCon Kolivas
On runqueue time is used to elevate priority in schedule(). In the code it currently requeues tasks even if their priority is not elevated, which would end up placing them at the end of their runqueue array effectively delaying them instead of improving their priority. Bug spotted by Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> This patch removes this requeueing. Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] sched: include noninteractive sleep in idle detectCon Kolivas
Tasks waiting in SLEEP_NONINTERACTIVE state can now get to best priority so they need to be included in the idle detection code. Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] sched: dont decrease idle sleep avgCon Kolivas
We watch for tasks that sleep extended periods and don't allow one single prolonged sleep period from elevating priority to maximum bonus to prevent cpu bound tasks from getting high priority with single long sleeps. There is a bug in the current code that also penalises tasks that already have high priority. Correct that bug. Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] sched: make task_noninteractive use sleep_typeCon Kolivas
Alterations to the pipe code in the kernel made it possible for relative starvation to occur with tasks that slept waiting on a pipe getting unfair priority bonuses even if they were otherwise fully cpu bound so the TASK_NONINTERACTIVE flag was introduced which prevented any change to sleep_avg while sleeping waiting on a pipe. This change also leads to the converse though, preventing any priority boost from occurring in truly interactive tasks that wait on pipes. Convert the TASK_NONINTERACTIVE flag to set sleep_type to SLEEP_NONINTERACTIVE which will allow a linear bonus to priority based on sleep time thus allowing interactive tasks to get high priority if they sleep enough. Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] sched: cleanup task_activated()Con Kolivas
The activated flag in task_struct is used to track different sleep types and its usage is somewhat obfuscated. Convert the variable to an enum with more descriptive names without altering the function. Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] sched: reduce overhead of calc_loadJack Steiner
Currently, count_active_tasks() calls both nr_running() & nr_interruptible(). Each of these functions does a "for_each_cpu" & reads values from the runqueue of each cpu. Although this is not a lot of instructions, each runqueue may be located on different node. Depending on the architecture, a unique TLB entry may be required to access each runqueue. Since there may be more runqueues than cpu TLB entries, a scan of all runqueues can trash the TLB. Each memory reference incurs a TLB miss & refill. In addition, the runqueue cacheline that contains nr_running & nr_uninterruptible may be evicted from the cache between the two passes. This causes unnecessary cache misses. Combining nr_running() & nr_interruptible() into a single function substantially reduces the TLB & cache misses on large systems. This should have no measureable effect on smaller systems. On a 128p IA64 system running a memory stress workload, the new function reduced the overhead of calc_load() from 605 usec/call to 324 usec/call. Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28[PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: fixes for generic partKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
replaces for_each_cpu with for_each_possible_cpu(). Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-27[PATCH] sched: fix group power for allnodes_domainsSiddha, Suresh B
Current sched groups power calculation for allnodes_domains is wrong. We should really be using cumulative power of the physical packages in that group (similar to the calculation in node_domains) Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-27[PATCH] sched: new sched domain for representing multi-coreSiddha, Suresh B
Add a new sched domain for representing multi-core with shared caches between cores. Consider a dual package system, each package containing two cores and with last level cache shared between cores with in a package. If there are two runnable processes, with this appended patch those two processes will be scheduled on different packages. On such systems, with this patch we have observed 8% perf improvement with specJBB(2 warehouse) benchmark and 35% improvement with CFP2000 rate(with 2 users). This new domain will come into play only on multi-core systems with shared caches. On other systems, this sched domain will be removed by domain degeneration code. This new domain can be also used for implementing power savings policy (see OLS 2005 CMP kernel scheduler paper for more details.. I will post another patch for power savings policy soon) Most of the arch/* file changes are for cpu_coregroup_map() implementation. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-27[PATCH] Small schedule() optimizationAndreas Mohr
small schedule() microoptimization. Signed-off-by: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-27[PATCH] sched: fix task interactivity calculationMartin Andersson
Is a truncation error in kernel/sched.c triggered when the nice value is negative. The affected code is used in the TASK_INTERACTIVE macro. The code is: #define SCALE(v1,v1_max,v2_max) \ (v1) * (v2_max) / (v1_max) which is used in this way: SCALE(TASK_NICE(p), 40, MAX_BONUS) Comments in the code says: * This part scales the interactivity limit depending on niceness. * * We scale it linearly, offset by the INTERACTIVE_DELTA delta. * Here are a few examples of different nice levels: * * TASK_INTERACTIVE(-20): [1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0] * TASK_INTERACTIVE(-10): [1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0] * TASK_INTERACTIVE( 0): [1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0] * TASK_INTERACTIVE( 10): [1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0] * TASK_INTERACTIVE( 19): [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0] * * (the X axis represents the possible -5 ... 0 ... +5 dynamic * priority range a task can explore, a value of '1' means the * task is rated interactive.) However, the current code does not scale it linearly and the result differs from the given examples. If the mathematical function "floor" is used when the nice value is negative instead of the truncation one gets when using integer division, the result conforms to the documentation. Output of TASK_INTERACTIVE when using the kernel code: nice dynamic priorities -20 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 -19 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 -18 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 -17 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 -16 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 -15 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 -14 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 -13 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 -12 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 -11 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 -10 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 -9 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 -8 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 -7 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -6 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -5 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -4 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -3 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -2 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 19 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Output of TASK_INTERACTIVE when using "floor" nice dynamic priorities -20 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 -19 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 -18 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 -17 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 -16 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 -15 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 -14 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 -13 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 -12 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 -11 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 -10 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 -9 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 -8 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 -7 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 -6 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 -5 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 -4 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -3 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -2 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 19 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Signed-off-by: Martin Andersson <martin.andersson@control.lth.se> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> Cc: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-26[PATCH] kretprobe instance recycled by parent processbibo mao
When kretprobe probes the schedule() function, if the probed process exits then schedule() will never return, so some kretprobe instances will never be recycled. In this patch the parent process will recycle retprobe instances of the probed function and there will be no memory leak of kretprobe instances. Signed-off-by: bibo mao <bibo.mao@intel.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <hiramatu@sdl.hitachi.co.jp> Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23[PATCH] make bug messages more consistentIngo Molnar
Consolidate all kernel bug printouts to begin with the "BUG: " string. Makes it easier to find them in large bootup logs. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23[PATCH] fix scheduler deadlockAnton Blanchard
We have noticed lockups during boot when stress testing kexec on ppc64. Two cpus would deadlock in scheduler code trying to grab already taken spinlocks. The double_rq_lock code uses the address of the runqueue to order the taking of multiple locks. This address is a per cpu variable: if (rq1 < rq2) { spin_lock(&rq1->lock); spin_lock(&rq2->lock); } else { spin_lock(&rq2->lock); spin_lock(&rq1->lock); } On the other hand, the code in wake_sleeping_dependent uses the cpu id order to grab locks: for_each_cpu_mask(i, sibling_map) spin_lock(&cpu_rq(i)->lock); This means we rely on the address of per cpu data increasing as cpu ids increase. While this will be true for the generic percpu implementation it may not be true for arch specific implementations. One way to solve this is to always take runqueues in cpu id order. To do this we add a cpu variable to the runqueue and check it in the double runqueue locking functions. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-22[PATCH] sched: remove sleep_avg multiplierMike Galbraith
Remove the sleep_avg multiplier. This multiplier was necessary back when we had 10 seconds of dynamic range in sleep_avg, but now that we only have one second, it causes that one second to be compressed down to 100ms in some cases. This is particularly noticeable when compiling a kernel in a slow NFS mount, and I believe it to be a very likely candidate for other recently reported network related interactivity problems. In testing, I can detect no negative impact of this removal. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-11[PATCH] remove __put_task_struct_cb export againChristoph Hellwig
The patch '[PATCH] RCU signal handling' [1] added an export for __put_task_struct_cb, a put_task_struct helper newly introduced in that patch. But the put_task_struct couldn't be used modular previously as __put_task_struct wasn't exported. There are not callers of it in modular code, and it shouldn't be exported because we don't want drivers to hold references to task_structs. This patch removes the export and folds __put_task_struct into __put_task_struct_cb as there's no other caller. [1] http://www2.kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e56d090310d7625ecb43a1eeebd479f04affb48b Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-08[PATCH] idle threads should have a sane ->timestamp valueIngo Molnar
Idle threads should have a sane ->timestamp value, to avoid init kernel thread(s) from inheriting it and causing miscalculations in try_to_wake_up(). Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-07Add early-boot-safety check to cond_resched()Linus Torvalds
Just to be safe, we should not trigger a conditional reschedule during the early boot sequence. We've historically done some questionable early on, and the safety warnings in __might_sleep() are generally turned off during that period, so there might be problems lurking. This affects CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY, which takes over might_sleep() to cause a voluntary conditional reschedule. Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-17[PATCH] Introduce CONFIG_DEFAULT_MIGRATION_COSTIngo Molnar
Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> wrote: The boot sequence on s390 sometimes takes ages and we spend a very long time (up to one or two minutes) in calibrate_migration_costs. The time spent there differs from boot to boot. Also the calculated costs differ a lot. I've seen differences by up to a factor of 15 (yes, factor not percent). Also I doubt that making these measurements make much sense on a completely virtualized architecture where you cannot tell how much cpu time you will get anyway. So introduce the CONFIG_DEFAULT_MIGRATION_COST method for an architecture to set the scheduler migration costs. This turns off automatic detection of migration costs. Makes sense on virtual platforms, where migration costs are hard to measure accurately. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-15[PATCH] sched: revert "filter affine wakeups"Chen, Kenneth W
Revert commit d7102e95b7b9c00277562c29aad421d2d521c5f6: [PATCH] sched: filter affine wakeups Apparently caused more than 10% performance regression for aim7 benchmark. The setup in use is 16-cpu HP rx8620, 64Gb of memory and 12 MSA1000s with 144 disks. Each disk is 72Gb with a single ext3 filesystem (courtesy of HP, who supplied benchmark results). The problem is, for aim7, the wake-up pattern is random, but it still needs load balancing action in the wake-up path to achieve best performance. With the above commit, lack of load balancing hurts that workload. However, for workloads like database transaction processing, the requirement is exactly opposite. In the wake up path, best performance is achieved with absolutely zero load balancing. We simply wake up the process on the CPU that it was previously run. Worst performance is obtained when we do load balancing at wake up. There isn't an easy way to auto detect the workload characteristics. Ingo's earlier patch that detects idle CPU and decide whether to load balance or not doesn't perform with aim7 either since all CPUs are busy (it causes even bigger perf. regression). Revert commit d7102e95b7b9c00277562c29aad421d2d521c5f6, which causes more than 10% performance regression with aim7. Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-10[PATCH] sched: remove smpniceNick Piggin
I don't think the code is quite ready, which is why I asked for Peter's additions to also be merged before I acked it (although it turned out that it still isn't quite ready with his additions either). Basically I have had similar observations to Suresh in that it does not play nicely with the rest of the balancing infrastructure (and raised similar concerns in my review). The samples (group of 4) I got for "maximum recorded imbalance" on a 2x2 SMP+HT Xeon are as follows: | Following boot | hackbench 20 | hackbench 40 -----------+----------------+---------------------+--------------------- 2.6.16-rc2 | 30,37,100,112 | 5600,5530,6020,6090 | 6390,7090,8760,8470 +nosmpnice | 3, 2, 4, 2 | 28, 150, 294, 132 | 348, 348, 294, 347 Hackbench raw performance is down around 15% with smpnice (but that in itself isn't a huge deal because it is just a benchmark). However, the samples show that the imbalance passed into move_tasks is increased by about a factor of 10-30. I think this would also go some way to explaining latency blips turning up in the balancing code (though I haven't actually measured that). We'll probably have to revert this in the SUSE kernel. Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-05[PATCH] sched: only print migration_cost once per bootChuck Ebbert
migration_cost prints after every CPU hotplug event. Make it print only once at boot. Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-05[PATCH] percpu data: only iterate over possible CPUsEric Dumazet
percpu_data blindly allocates bootmem memory to store NR_CPUS instances of cpudata, instead of allocating memory only for possible cpus. As a preparation for changing that, we need to convert various 0 -> NR_CPUS loops to use for_each_cpu(). (The above only applies to users of asm-generic/percpu.h. powerpc has gone it alone and is presently only allocating memory for present CPUs, so it's currently corrupting memory). Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Acked-by: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01[PATCH] sys_sched_getaffinity() & hotplugJack Steiner
Change sched_getaffinity() so that it returns a bitmap that indicates the legally schedulable cpus that a task is allowed to run on. Without this patch, if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is enabled, sched_getaffinity() unconditionally returns (at least on IA64) a mask with NR_CPUS bits set. This conveys no useful infornmation except for a kernel compile option. This fixes a breakage we obseved running recent kernels. We have MPI jobs that use sched_getaffinity() to determine where to place their threads. Placing them on non-existant cpus is problematic :-) Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-31[PATCH] Fix boot-time slowdown for measure_migration_costIngo Molnar
This reduces the amount of time the migration cost calculations cost during bootup. Based on numbers by Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2006-01-19[PATCH] fix sched_setscheduler semanticsJason Baron
Currently, a negative policy argument passed into the 'sys_sched_setscheduler()' system call, will return with success. However, the manpage for 'sys_sched_setscheduler' says: EINVAL The scheduling policy is not one of the recognized policies, or the parameter p does not make sense for the policy. Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-15[PATCH] Unlinline a bunch of other functionsArjan van de Ven
Remove the "inline" keyword from a bunch of big functions in the kernel with the goal of shrinking it by 30kb to 40kb Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-15[PATCH] sched: add new SCHED_BATCH policyIngo Molnar
Add a new SCHED_BATCH (3) scheduling policy: such tasks are presumed CPU-intensive, and will acquire a constant +5 priority level penalty. Such policy is nice for workloads that are non-interactive, but which do not want to give up their nice levels. The policy is also useful for workloads that want a deterministic scheduling policy without interactivity causing extra preemptions (between that workload's tasks). Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12[PATCH] sched: filter affine wakeupsakpm@osdl.org
) From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Track the last waker CPU, and only consider wakeup-balancing if there's a match between current waker CPU and the previous waker CPU. This ensures that there is some correlation between two subsequent wakeup events before we move the task. Should help random-wakeup workloads on large SMP systems, by reducing the migration attempts by a factor of nr_cpus. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12[PATCH] scheduler cache-hot-autodetectakpm@osdl.org
) From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> This is the latest version of the scheduler cache-hot-auto-tune patch. The first problem was that detection time scaled with O(N^2), which is unacceptable on larger SMP and NUMA systems. To solve this: - I've added a 'domain distance' function, which is used to cache measurement results. Each distance is only measured once. This means that e.g. on NUMA distances of 0, 1 and 2 might be measured, on HT distances 0 and 1, and on SMP distance 0 is measured. The code walks the domain tree to determine the distance, so it automatically follows whatever hierarchy an architecture sets up. This cuts down on the boot time significantly and removes the O(N^2) limit. The only assumption is that migration costs can be expressed as a function of domain distance - this covers the overwhelming majority of existing systems, and is a good guess even for more assymetric systems. [ People hacking systems that have assymetries that break this assumption (e.g. different CPU speeds) should experiment a bit with the cpu_distance() function. Adding a ->migration_distance factor to the domain structure would be one possible solution - but lets first see the problem systems, if they exist at all. Lets not overdesign. ] Another problem was that only a single cache-size was used for measuring the cost of migration, and most architectures didnt set that variable up. Furthermore, a single cache-size does not fit NUMA hierarchies with L3 caches and does not fit HT setups, where different CPUs will often have different 'effective cache sizes'. To solve this problem: - Instead of relying on a single cache-size provided by the platform and sticking to it, the code now auto-detects the 'effective migration cost' between two measured CPUs, via iterating through a wide range of cachesizes. The code searches for the maximum migration cost, which occurs when the working set of the test-workload falls just below the 'effective cache size'. I.e. real-life optimized search is done for the maximum migration cost, between two real CPUs. This, amongst other things, has the positive effect hat if e.g. two CPUs share a L2/L3 cache, a different (and accurate) migration cost will be found than between two CPUs on the same system that dont share any caches. (The reliable measurement of migration costs is tricky - see the source for details.) Furthermore i've added various boot-time options to override/tune migration behavior. Firstly, there's a blanket override for autodetection: migration_cost=1000,2000,3000 will override the depth 0/1/2 values with 1msec/2msec/3msec values. Secondly, there's a global factor that can be used to increase (or decrease) the autodetected values: migration_factor=120 will increase the autodetected values by 20%. This option is useful to tune things in a workload-dependent way - e.g. if a workload is cache-insensitive then CPU utilization can be maximized by specifying migration_factor=0. I've tested the autodetection code quite extensively on x86, on 3 P3/Xeon/2MB, and the autodetected values look pretty good: Dual Celeron (128K L2 cache): --------------------- migration cost matrix (max_cache_size: 131072, cpu: 467 MHz): --------------------- [00] [01] [00]: - 1.7(1) [01]: 1.7(1) - --------------------- cacheflush times [2]: 0.0 (0) 1.7 (1784008) --------------------- Here the slow memory subsystem dominates system performance, and even though caches are small, the migration cost is 1.7 msecs. Dual HT P4 (512K L2 cache): --------------------- migration cost matrix (max_cache_size: 524288, cpu: 2379 MHz): --------------------- [00] [01] [02] [03] [00]: - 0.4(1) 0.0(0) 0.4(1) [01]: 0.4(1) - 0.4(1) 0.0(0) [02]: 0.0(0) 0.4(1) - 0.4(1) [03]: 0.4(1) 0.0(0) 0.4(1) - --------------------- cacheflush times [2]: 0.0 (33900) 0.4 (448514) --------------------- Here it can be seen that there is no migration cost between two HT siblings (CPU#0/2 and CPU#1/3 are separate physical CPUs). A fast memory system makes inter-physical-CPU migration pretty cheap: 0.4 msecs. 8-way P3/Xeon [2MB L2 cache]: --------------------- migration cost matrix (max_cache_size: 2097152, cpu: 700 MHz): --------------------- [00] [01] [02] [03] [04] [05] [06] [07] [00]: - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) [01]: 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) [02]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) [03]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) [04]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) [05]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) [06]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) [07]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - --------------------- cacheflush times [2]: 0.0 (0) 19.2 (19281756) --------------------- This one has huge caches and a relatively slow memory subsystem - so the migration cost is 19 msecs. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Cc: <wilder@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12[PATCH] x86_64: Make the cpu_*_maps in kernel/sched.c read mostlyAndi Kleen
They are referred to often so avoid potential false sharing for them. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>