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Andrea Parri
a14d11a0f5
membarrier: Create Documentation/scheduler/membarrier.rst
To gather the architecture requirements of the "private/global
expedited" membarrier commands.  The file will be expanded to
integrate further information about the membarrier syscall (as
needed/desired in the future).  While at it, amend some related
inline comments in the membarrier codebase.

Suggested-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240131144936.29190-3-parri.andrea@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
2024-02-15 08:04:12 -08:00
Andrea Parri
d6cfd1770f
membarrier: riscv: Add full memory barrier in switch_mm()
The membarrier system call requires a full memory barrier after storing
to rq->curr, before going back to user-space.  The barrier is only
needed when switching between processes: the barrier is implied by
mmdrop() when switching from kernel to userspace, and it's not needed
when switching from userspace to kernel.

Rely on the feature/mechanism ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS and on the
primitive membarrier_arch_switch_mm(), already adopted by the PowerPC
architecture, to insert the required barrier.

Fixes: fab957c11e ("RISC-V: Atomic and Locking Code")
Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240131144936.29190-2-parri.andrea@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
2024-02-15 08:04:11 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
78273df7f6 header cleanups for 6.8
The goal is to get sched.h down to a type only header, so the main thing
 happening in this patchset is splitting out various _types.h headers and
 dependency fixups, as well as moving some things out of sched.h to
 better locations.
 
 This is prep work for the memory allocation profiling patchset which
 adds new sched.h interdepencencies.
 
 Testing - it's been in -next, and fixes from pretty much all
 architectures have percolated in - nothing major.
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Merge tag 'header_cleanup-2024-01-10' of https://evilpiepirate.org/git/bcachefs

Pull header cleanups from Kent Overstreet:
 "The goal is to get sched.h down to a type only header, so the main
  thing happening in this patchset is splitting out various _types.h
  headers and dependency fixups, as well as moving some things out of
  sched.h to better locations.

  This is prep work for the memory allocation profiling patchset which
  adds new sched.h interdepencencies"

* tag 'header_cleanup-2024-01-10' of https://evilpiepirate.org/git/bcachefs: (51 commits)
  Kill sched.h dependency on rcupdate.h
  kill unnecessary thread_info.h include
  Kill unnecessary kernel.h include
  preempt.h: Kill dependency on list.h
  rseq: Split out rseq.h from sched.h
  LoongArch: signal.c: add header file to fix build error
  restart_block: Trim includes
  lockdep: move held_lock to lockdep_types.h
  sem: Split out sem_types.h
  uidgid: Split out uidgid_types.h
  seccomp: Split out seccomp_types.h
  refcount: Split out refcount_types.h
  uapi/linux/resource.h: fix include
  x86/signal: kill dependency on time.h
  syscall_user_dispatch.h: split out *_types.h
  mm_types_task.h: Trim dependencies
  Split out irqflags_types.h
  ipc: Kill bogus dependency on spinlock.h
  shm: Slim down dependencies
  workqueue: Split out workqueue_types.h
  ...
2024-01-10 16:43:55 -08:00
Kent Overstreet
932562a604 rseq: Split out rseq.h from sched.h
We're trying to get sched.h down to more or less just types only, not
code - rseq can live in its own header.

This helps us kill the dependency on preempt.h in sched.h.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
2023-12-27 11:49:56 -05:00
Vincent Guittot
9c0b4bb7f6 sched/cpufreq: Rework schedutil governor performance estimation
The current method to take into account uclamp hints when estimating the
target frequency can end in a situation where the selected target
frequency is finally higher than uclamp hints, whereas there are no real
needs. Such cases mainly happen because we are currently mixing the
traditional scheduler utilization signal with the uclamp performance
hints. By adding these 2 metrics, we loose an important information when
it comes to select the target frequency, and we have to make some
assumptions which can't fit all cases.

Rework the interface between the scheduler and schedutil governor in order
to propagate all information down to the cpufreq governor.

effective_cpu_util() interface changes and now returns the actual
utilization of the CPU with 2 optional inputs:

- The minimum performance for this CPU; typically the capacity to handle
  the deadline task and the interrupt pressure. But also uclamp_min
  request when available.

- The maximum targeting performance for this CPU which reflects the
  maximum level that we would like to not exceed. By default it will be
  the CPU capacity but can be reduced because of some performance hints
  set with uclamp. The value can be lower than actual utilization and/or
  min performance level.

A new sugov_effective_cpu_perf() interface is also available to compute
the final performance level that is targeted for the CPU, after applying
some cpufreq headroom and taking into account all inputs.

With these 2 functions, schedutil is now able to decide when it must go
above uclamp hints. It now also has a generic way to get the min
performance level.

The dependency between energy model and cpufreq governor and its headroom
policy doesn't exist anymore.

eenv_pd_max_util() asks schedutil for the targeted performance after
applying the impact of the waking task.

[ mingo: Refined the changelog & C comments. ]

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231122133904.446032-2-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
2023-11-23 11:32:01 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
194600008d sched/timers: Explain why idle task schedules out on remote timer enqueue
Trying to avoid that didn't bring much value after testing, add comment
about this.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231114193840.4041-3-frederic@kernel.org
2023-11-15 09:57:52 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
63ba8422f8 sched/deadline: Introduce deadline servers
Low priority tasks (e.g., SCHED_OTHER) can suffer starvation if tasks
with higher priority (e.g., SCHED_FIFO) monopolize CPU(s).

RT Throttling has been introduced a while ago as a (mostly debug)
countermeasure one can utilize to reserve some CPU time for low priority
tasks (usually background type of work, e.g. workqueues, timers, etc.).
It however has its own problems (see documentation) and the undesired
effect of unconditionally throttling FIFO tasks even when no lower
priority activity needs to run (there are mechanisms to fix this issue
as well, but, again, with their own problems).

Introduce deadline servers to service low priority tasks needs under
starvation conditions. Deadline servers are built extending SCHED_DEADLINE
implementation to allow 2-level scheduling (a sched_deadline entity
becomes a container for lower priority scheduling entities).

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/4968601859d920335cf85822eb573a5f179f04b8.1699095159.git.bristot@kernel.org
2023-11-15 09:57:51 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
9e07d45c52 sched/deadline: Collect sched_dl_entity initialization
Create a single function that initializes a sched_dl_entity.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/51acc695eecf0a1a2f78f9a044e11ffd9b316bcf.1699095159.git.bristot@kernel.org
2023-11-15 09:57:50 +01:00
Paul E. McKenney
d6111cf45c sched: Use WRITE_ONCE() for p->on_rq
Since RCU-tasks uses READ_ONCE(p->on_rq), ensure the write-side
matches with WRITE_ONCE().

Signed-off-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e4896e0b-eacc-45a2-a7a8-de2280a51ecc@paulmck-laptop
2023-11-15 09:57:45 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
8f6f76a6a2 As usual, lots of singleton and doubleton patches all over the tree and
there's little I can say which isn't in the individual changelogs.
 
 The lengthier patch series are
 
 - "kdump: use generic functions to simplify crashkernel reservation in
   arch", from Baoquan He.  This is mainly cleanups and consolidation of
   the "crashkernel=" kernel parameter handling.
 
 - After much discussion, David Laight's "minmax: Relax type checks in
   min() and max()" is here.  Hopefully reduces some typecasting and the
   use of min_t() and max_t().
 
 - A group of patches from Oleg Nesterov which clean up and slightly fix
   our handling of reads from /proc/PID/task/...  and which remove
   task_struct.therad_group.
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Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-11-02-14-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "As usual, lots of singleton and doubleton patches all over the tree
  and there's little I can say which isn't in the individual changelogs.

  The lengthier patch series are

   - 'kdump: use generic functions to simplify crashkernel reservation
     in arch', from Baoquan He. This is mainly cleanups and
     consolidation of the 'crashkernel=' kernel parameter handling

   - After much discussion, David Laight's 'minmax: Relax type checks in
     min() and max()' is here. Hopefully reduces some typecasting and
     the use of min_t() and max_t()

   - A group of patches from Oleg Nesterov which clean up and slightly
     fix our handling of reads from /proc/PID/task/... and which remove
     task_struct.thread_group"

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-11-02-14-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (64 commits)
  scripts/gdb/vmalloc: disable on no-MMU
  scripts/gdb: fix usage of MOD_TEXT not defined when CONFIG_MODULES=n
  .mailmap: add address mapping for Tomeu Vizoso
  mailmap: update email address for Claudiu Beznea
  tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh: lower the ptrace permissions
  .mailmap: map Benjamin Poirier's address
  scripts/gdb: add lx_current support for riscv
  ocfs2: fix a spelling typo in comment
  proc: test ProtectionKey in proc-empty-vm test
  proc: fix proc-empty-vm test with vsyscall
  fs/proc/base.c: remove unneeded semicolon
  do_io_accounting: use sig->stats_lock
  do_io_accounting: use __for_each_thread()
  ocfs2: replace BUG_ON() at ocfs2_num_free_extents() with ocfs2_error()
  ocfs2: fix a typo in a comment
  scripts/show_delta: add __main__ judgement before main code
  treewide: mark stuff as __ro_after_init
  fs: ocfs2: check status values
  proc: test /proc/${pid}/statm
  compiler.h: move __is_constexpr() to compiler.h
  ...
2023-11-02 20:53:31 -10:00
Linus Torvalds
1e0c505e13 asm-generic updates for v6.7
The ia64 architecture gets its well-earned retirement as planned,
 now that there is one last (mostly) working release that will
 be maintained as an LTS kernel.
 
 The architecture specific system call tables are updated for
 the added map_shadow_stack() syscall and to remove references
 to the long-gone sys_lookup_dcookie() syscall.
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Merge tag 'asm-generic-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic

Pull ia64 removal and asm-generic updates from Arnd Bergmann:

 - The ia64 architecture gets its well-earned retirement as planned,
   now that there is one last (mostly) working release that will be
   maintained as an LTS kernel.

 - The architecture specific system call tables are updated for the
   added map_shadow_stack() syscall and to remove references to the
   long-gone sys_lookup_dcookie() syscall.

* tag 'asm-generic-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic:
  hexagon: Remove unusable symbols from the ptrace.h uapi
  asm-generic: Fix spelling of architecture
  arch: Reserve map_shadow_stack() syscall number for all architectures
  syscalls: Cleanup references to sys_lookup_dcookie()
  Documentation: Drop or replace remaining mentions of IA64
  lib/raid6: Drop IA64 support
  Documentation: Drop IA64 from feature descriptions
  kernel: Drop IA64 support from sig_fault handlers
  arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture
2023-11-01 15:28:33 -10:00
Linus Torvalds
63ce50fff9 Scheduler changes for v6.7 are:
- Fair scheduler (SCHED_OTHER) improvements:
 
     - Remove the old and now unused SIS_PROP code & option
     - Scan cluster before LLC in the wake-up path
     - Use candidate prev/recent_used CPU if scanning failed for cluster wakeup
 
  - NUMA scheduling improvements:
 
     - Improve the VMA access-PID code to better skip/scan VMAs
     - Extend tracing to cover VMA-skipping decisions
     - Improve/fix the recently introduced sched_numa_find_nth_cpu() code
     - Generalize numa_map_to_online_node()
 
  - Energy scheduling improvements:
 
     - Remove the EM_MAX_COMPLEXITY limit
     - Add tracepoints to track energy computation
     - Make the behavior of the 'sched_energy_aware' sysctl more consistent
     - Consolidate and clean up access to a CPU's max compute capacity
     - Fix uclamp code corner cases
 
  - RT scheduling improvements:
 
     - Drive dl_rq->overloaded with dl_rq->pushable_dl_tasks updates
     - Drive the ->rto_mask with rt_rq->pushable_tasks updates
 
  - Scheduler scalability improvements:
 
     - Rate-limit updates to tg->load_avg
     - On x86 disable IBRS when CPU is offline to improve single-threaded performance
     - Micro-optimize in_task() and in_interrupt()
     - Micro-optimize the PSI code
     - Avoid updating PSI triggers and ->rtpoll_total when there are no state changes
 
  - Core scheduler infrastructure improvements:
 
     - Use saved_state to reduce some spurious freezer wakeups
     - Bring in a handful of fast-headers improvements to scheduler headers
     - Make the scheduler UAPI headers more widely usable by user-space
     - Simplify the control flow of scheduler syscalls by using lock guards
     - Fix sched_setaffinity() vs. CPU hotplug race
 
  - Scheduler debuggability improvements:
     - Disallow writing invalid values to sched_rt_period_us
     - Fix a race in the rq-clock debugging code triggering warnings
     - Fix a warning in the bandwidth distribution code
     - Micro-optimize in_atomic_preempt_off() checks
     - Enforce that the tasklist_lock is held in for_each_thread()
     - Print the TGID in sched_show_task()
     - Remove the /proc/sys/kernel/sched_child_runs_first sysctl
 
  - Misc cleanups & fixes
 
 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'sched-core-2023-10-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Fair scheduler (SCHED_OTHER) improvements:
   - Remove the old and now unused SIS_PROP code & option
   - Scan cluster before LLC in the wake-up path
   - Use candidate prev/recent_used CPU if scanning failed for cluster
     wakeup

  NUMA scheduling improvements:
   - Improve the VMA access-PID code to better skip/scan VMAs
   - Extend tracing to cover VMA-skipping decisions
   - Improve/fix the recently introduced sched_numa_find_nth_cpu() code
   - Generalize numa_map_to_online_node()

  Energy scheduling improvements:
   - Remove the EM_MAX_COMPLEXITY limit
   - Add tracepoints to track energy computation
   - Make the behavior of the 'sched_energy_aware' sysctl more
     consistent
   - Consolidate and clean up access to a CPU's max compute capacity
   - Fix uclamp code corner cases

  RT scheduling improvements:
   - Drive dl_rq->overloaded with dl_rq->pushable_dl_tasks updates
   - Drive the ->rto_mask with rt_rq->pushable_tasks updates

  Scheduler scalability improvements:
   - Rate-limit updates to tg->load_avg
   - On x86 disable IBRS when CPU is offline to improve single-threaded
     performance
   - Micro-optimize in_task() and in_interrupt()
   - Micro-optimize the PSI code
   - Avoid updating PSI triggers and ->rtpoll_total when there are no
     state changes

  Core scheduler infrastructure improvements:
   - Use saved_state to reduce some spurious freezer wakeups
   - Bring in a handful of fast-headers improvements to scheduler
     headers
   - Make the scheduler UAPI headers more widely usable by user-space
   - Simplify the control flow of scheduler syscalls by using lock
     guards
   - Fix sched_setaffinity() vs. CPU hotplug race

  Scheduler debuggability improvements:
   - Disallow writing invalid values to sched_rt_period_us
   - Fix a race in the rq-clock debugging code triggering warnings
   - Fix a warning in the bandwidth distribution code
   - Micro-optimize in_atomic_preempt_off() checks
   - Enforce that the tasklist_lock is held in for_each_thread()
   - Print the TGID in sched_show_task()
   - Remove the /proc/sys/kernel/sched_child_runs_first sysctl

  ... and misc cleanups & fixes"

* tag 'sched-core-2023-10-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (82 commits)
  sched/fair: Remove SIS_PROP
  sched/fair: Use candidate prev/recent_used CPU if scanning failed for cluster wakeup
  sched/fair: Scan cluster before scanning LLC in wake-up path
  sched: Add cpus_share_resources API
  sched/core: Fix RQCF_ACT_SKIP leak
  sched/fair: Remove unused 'curr' argument from pick_next_entity()
  sched/nohz: Update comments about NEWILB_KICK
  sched/fair: Remove duplicate #include
  sched/psi: Update poll => rtpoll in relevant comments
  sched: Make PELT acronym definition searchable
  sched: Fix stop_one_cpu_nowait() vs hotplug
  sched/psi: Bail out early from irq time accounting
  sched/topology: Rename 'DIE' domain to 'PKG'
  sched/psi: Delete the 'update_total' function parameter from update_triggers()
  sched/psi: Avoid updating PSI triggers and ->rtpoll_total when there are no state changes
  sched/headers: Remove comment referring to rq::cpu_load, since this has been removed
  sched/numa: Complete scanning of inactive VMAs when there is no alternative
  sched/numa: Complete scanning of partial VMAs regardless of PID activity
  sched/numa: Move up the access pid reset logic
  sched/numa: Trace decisions related to skipping VMAs
  ...
2023-10-30 13:12:15 -10:00
Peter Zijlstra
984ffb6a43 sched/fair: Remove SIS_PROP
SIS_UTIL seems to work well, lets remove the old thing.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231020134337.GD33965@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
2023-10-24 10:38:44 +02:00
Barry Song
b95303e0ae sched: Add cpus_share_resources API
Add cpus_share_resources() API. This is the preparation for the
optimization of select_idle_cpu() on platforms with cluster scheduler
level.

On a machine with clusters cpus_share_resources() will test whether
two cpus are within the same cluster. On a non-cluster machine it
will behaves the same as cpus_share_cache(). So we use "resources"
here for cache resources.

Signed-off-by: Barry Song <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com>
Signed-off-by: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@hisilicon.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy <gautham.shenoy@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Tested-and-reviewed-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Tested-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231019033323.54147-2-yangyicong@huawei.com
2023-10-24 10:38:42 +02:00
Hao Jia
5ebde09d91 sched/core: Fix RQCF_ACT_SKIP leak
Igor Raits and Bagas Sanjaya report a RQCF_ACT_SKIP leak warning.

This warning may be triggered in the following situations:

    CPU0                                      CPU1

__schedule()
  *rq->clock_update_flags <<= 1;*   unregister_fair_sched_group()
  pick_next_task_fair+0x4a/0x410      destroy_cfs_bandwidth()
    newidle_balance+0x115/0x3e0       for_each_possible_cpu(i) *i=0*
      rq_unpin_lock(this_rq, rf)      __cfsb_csd_unthrottle()
      raw_spin_rq_unlock(this_rq)
                                      rq_lock(*CPU0_rq*, &rf)
                                      rq_clock_start_loop_update()
                                      rq->clock_update_flags & RQCF_ACT_SKIP <--
      raw_spin_rq_lock(this_rq)

The purpose of RQCF_ACT_SKIP is to skip the update rq clock,
but the update is very early in __schedule(), but we clear
RQCF_*_SKIP very late, causing it to span that gap above
and triggering this warning.

In __schedule() we can clear the RQCF_*_SKIP flag immediately
after update_rq_clock() to avoid this RQCF_ACT_SKIP leak warning.
And set rq->clock_update_flags to RQCF_UPDATED to avoid
rq->clock_update_flags < RQCF_ACT_SKIP warning that may be triggered later.

Fixes: ebb83d84e4 ("sched/core: Avoid multiple calling update_rq_clock() in __cfsb_csd_unthrottle()")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230913082424.73252-1-jiahao.os@bytedance.com
Reported-by: Igor Raits <igor.raits@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Hao Jia <jiahao.os@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/a5dd536d-041a-2ce9-f4b7-64d8d85c86dc@gmail.com
2023-10-24 10:38:42 +02:00
Alexey Dobriyan
68279f9c9f treewide: mark stuff as __ro_after_init
__read_mostly predates __ro_after_init. Many variables which are marked
__read_mostly should have been __ro_after_init from day 1.

Also, mark some stuff as "const" and "__init" while I'm at it.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: revert sysctl_nr_open_min, sysctl_nr_open_max changes due to arm warning]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style cleanups]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/4f6bb9c0-abba-4ee4-a7aa-89265e886817@p183
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-10-18 14:43:23 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
f0498d2a54 sched: Fix stop_one_cpu_nowait() vs hotplug
Kuyo reported sporadic failures on a sched_setaffinity() vs CPU
hotplug stress-test -- notably affine_move_task() remains stuck in
wait_for_completion(), leading to a hung-task detector warning.

Specifically, it was reported that stop_one_cpu_nowait(.fn =
migration_cpu_stop) returns false -- this stopper is responsible for
the matching complete().

The race scenario is:

	CPU0					CPU1

					// doing _cpu_down()

  __set_cpus_allowed_ptr()
    task_rq_lock();
					takedown_cpu()
					  stop_machine_cpuslocked(take_cpu_down..)

					<PREEMPT: cpu_stopper_thread()
					  MULTI_STOP_PREPARE
					  ...
    __set_cpus_allowed_ptr_locked()
      affine_move_task()
        task_rq_unlock();

  <PREEMPT: cpu_stopper_thread()\>
    ack_state()
					  MULTI_STOP_RUN
					    take_cpu_down()
					      __cpu_disable();
					      stop_machine_park();
						stopper->enabled = false;
					 />
   />
	stop_one_cpu_nowait(.fn = migration_cpu_stop);
          if (stopper->enabled) // false!!!

That is, by doing stop_one_cpu_nowait() after dropping rq-lock, the
stopper thread gets a chance to preempt and allows the cpu-down for
the target CPU to complete.

OTOH, since stop_one_cpu_nowait() / cpu_stop_queue_work() needs to
issue a wakeup, it must not be ran under the scheduler locks.

Solve this apparent contradiction by keeping preemption disabled over
the unlock + queue_stopper combination:

	preempt_disable();
	task_rq_unlock(...);
	if (!stop_pending)
	  stop_one_cpu_nowait(...)
	preempt_enable();

This respects the lock ordering contraints while still avoiding the
above race. That is, if we find the CPU is online under rq-lock, the
targeted stop_one_cpu_nowait() must succeed.

Apply this pattern to all similar stop_one_cpu_nowait() invocations.

Fixes: 6d337eab04 ("sched: Fix migrate_disable() vs set_cpus_allowed_ptr()")
Reported-by: "Kuyo Chang (張建文)" <Kuyo.Chang@mediatek.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: "Kuyo Chang (張建文)" <Kuyo.Chang@mediatek.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231010200442.GA16515@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
2023-10-13 09:56:29 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
fdb8b7a1af Linux 6.6-rc5
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Merge tag 'v6.6-rc5' into locking/core, to pick up fixes

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2023-10-09 18:09:23 +02:00
Vincent Guittot
7bc263840b sched/topology: Consolidate and clean up access to a CPU's max compute capacity
Remove the rq::cpu_capacity_orig field and use arch_scale_cpu_capacity()
instead.

The scheduler uses 3 methods to get access to a CPU's max compute capacity:

 - arch_scale_cpu_capacity(cpu) which is the default way to get a CPU's capacity.

 - cpu_capacity_orig field which is periodically updated with
   arch_scale_cpu_capacity().

 - capacity_orig_of(cpu) which encapsulates rq->cpu_capacity_orig.

There is no real need to save the value returned by arch_scale_cpu_capacity()
in struct rq. arch_scale_cpu_capacity() returns:

 - either a per_cpu variable.

 - or a const value for systems which have only one capacity.

Remove rq::cpu_capacity_orig and use arch_scale_cpu_capacity() everywhere.

No functional changes.

Some performance tests on Arm64:

  - small SMP device (hikey): no noticeable changes
  - HMP device (RB5):         hackbench shows minor improvement (1-2%)
  - large smp (thx2):         hackbench and tbench shows minor improvement (1%)

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231009103621.374412-2-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
2023-10-09 12:59:48 +02:00
Yajun Deng
bc87127a45 sched/debug: Print 'tgid' in sched_show_task()
Multiple blocked tasks are printed when the system hangs. They may have
the same parent pid, but belong to different task groups.

Printing tgid lets users better know whether these tasks are from the same
task group or not.

Signed-off-by: Yajun Deng <yajun.deng@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230720080516.1515297-1-yajun.deng@linux.dev
2023-10-07 11:33:28 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
ea41bb514f sched/core: Update stale comment in try_to_wake_up()
The following commit:

  9b3c4ab304 ("sched,rcu: Rework try_invoke_on_locked_down_task()")

... renamed try_invoke_on_locked_down_task() to task_call_func(),
but forgot to update the comment in try_to_wake_up().

But it turns out that the smp_rmb() doesn't live in task_call_func()
either, it was moved to __task_needs_rq_lock() in:

  91dabf33ae ("sched: Fix race in task_call_func()")

Fix that now.

Also fix the s/smb/smp typo while at it.

Reported-by: Zhang Qiao <zhangqiao22@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230731085759.11443-1-zhangqiao22@huawei.com
2023-10-07 11:33:28 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
8db30574db Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core, to pick up fixes and refresh the branch
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2023-10-07 11:32:24 +02:00
Yu Liao
d4d6596b43 sched/headers: Remove duplicate header inclusions
<linux/psi.h> and "autogroup.h" are included twice, remove the duplicate header
inclusion.

Signed-off-by: Yu Liao <liaoyu15@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230802021501.2511569-1-liaoyu15@huawei.com
2023-10-03 21:27:55 +02:00
Qais Yousef
15874a3d27 sched/debug: Add new tracepoint to track compute energy computation
It was useful to track feec() placement decision and debug the spare
capacity and optimization issues vs uclamp_max.

Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef (Google) <qyousef@layalina.io>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230916232955.2099394-4-qyousef@layalina.io
2023-09-29 10:29:18 +02:00
Wang Jinchao
3eafe22599 sched/core: Refactor the task_flags check for worker sleeping in sched_submit_work()
Simplify the conditional logic for checking worker flags
by splitting the original compound `if` statement into
separate `if` and `else if` clauses.

This modification not only retains the previous functionality,
but also reduces a single `if` check, improving code clarity
and potentially enhancing performance.

Signed-off-by: Wang Jinchao <wangjinchao@xfusion.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZOIMvURE99ZRAYEj@fedora
2023-09-24 12:15:06 +02:00
Liming Wu
dc461c48de sched/debug: Avoid checking in_atomic_preempt_off() twice in schedule_debug()
in_atomic_preempt_off() already gets called in schedule_debug() once,
which is the only caller of __schedule_bug().

Skip the second call within __schedule_bug(), it should always be true
at this point.

[ mingo: Clarified the changelog. ]

Signed-off-by: Liming Wu <liming.wu@jaguarmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230825023501.1848-1-liming.wu@jaguarmicro.com
2023-09-22 11:50:49 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
6b596e62ed sched: Provide rt_mutex specific scheduler helpers
With PREEMPT_RT there is a rt_mutex recursion problem where
sched_submit_work() can use an rtlock (aka spinlock_t). More
specifically what happens is:

  mutex_lock() /* really rt_mutex */
    ...
      __rt_mutex_slowlock_locked()
	task_blocks_on_rt_mutex()
          // enqueue current task as waiter
          // do PI chain walk
        rt_mutex_slowlock_block()
          schedule()
            sched_submit_work()
              ...
              spin_lock() /* really rtlock */
                ...
                  __rt_mutex_slowlock_locked()
                    task_blocks_on_rt_mutex()
                      // enqueue current task as waiter *AGAIN*
                      // *CONFUSION*

Fix this by making rt_mutex do the sched_submit_work() early, before
it enqueues itself as a waiter -- before it even knows *if* it will
wait.

[[ basically Thomas' patch but with different naming and a few asserts
   added ]]

Originally-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230908162254.999499-5-bigeasy@linutronix.de
2023-09-20 09:31:12 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
de1474b46d sched: Extract __schedule_loop()
There are currently two implementations of this basic __schedule()
loop, and there is soon to be a third.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230908162254.999499-4-bigeasy@linutronix.de
2023-09-20 09:31:12 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
28bc55f654 sched: Constrain locks in sched_submit_work()
Even though sched_submit_work() is ran from preemptible context,
it is discouraged to have it use blocking locks due to the recursion
potential.

Enforce this.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230908162254.999499-2-bigeasy@linutronix.de
2023-09-20 09:31:11 +02:00
Liam R. Howlett
cff9b2332a kernel/sched: Modify initial boot task idle setup
Initial booting is setting the task flag to idle (PF_IDLE) by the call
path sched_init() -> init_idle().  Having the task idle and calling
call_rcu() in kernel/rcu/tiny.c means that TIF_NEED_RESCHED will be
set.  Subsequent calls to any cond_resched() will enable IRQs,
potentially earlier than the IRQ setup has completed.  Recent changes
have caused just this scenario and IRQs have been enabled early.

This causes a warning later in start_kernel() as interrupts are enabled
before they are fully set up.

Fix this issue by setting the PF_IDLE flag later in the boot sequence.

Although the boot task was marked as idle since (at least) d80e4fda576d,
I am not sure that it is wrong to do so.  The forced context-switch on
idle task was introduced in the tiny_rcu update, so I'm going to claim
this fixes 5f6130fa52.

Fixes: 5f6130fa52 ("tiny_rcu: Directly force QS when call_rcu_[bh|sched]() on idle_task")
Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CAMuHMdWpvpWoDa=Ox-do92czYRvkok6_x6pYUH+ZouMcJbXy+Q@mail.gmail.com/
2023-09-19 10:48:04 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
e23edc86b0 sched/fair: Rename check_preempt_curr() to wakeup_preempt()
The name is a bit opaque - make it clear that this is about wakeup
preemption.

Also rename the ->check_preempt_curr() methods similarly.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
2023-09-19 10:40:10 +02:00
Elliot Berman
8f0eed4a78 freezer,sched: Use saved_state to reduce some spurious wakeups
After commit f5d39b0208 ("freezer,sched: Rewrite core freezer logic"),
tasks that transition directly from TASK_FREEZABLE to TASK_FROZEN  are
always woken up on the thaw path. Prior to that commit, tasks could ask
freezer to consider them "frozen enough" via freezer_do_not_count(). The
commit replaced freezer_do_not_count() with a TASK_FREEZABLE state which
allows freezer to immediately mark the task as TASK_FROZEN without
waking up the task.  This is efficient for the suspend path, but on the
thaw path, the task is always woken up even if the task didn't need to
wake up and goes back to its TASK_(UN)INTERRUPTIBLE state. Although
these tasks are capable of handling of the wakeup, we can observe a
power/perf impact from the extra wakeup.

We observed on Android many tasks wait in the TASK_FREEZABLE state
(particularly due to many of them being binder clients). We observed
nearly 4x the number of tasks and a corresponding linear increase in
latency and power consumption when thawing the system. The latency
increased from ~15ms to ~50ms.

Avoid the spurious wakeups by saving the state of TASK_FREEZABLE tasks.
If the task was running before entering TASK_FROZEN state
(__refrigerator()) or if the task received a wake up for the saved
state, then the task is woken on thaw. saved_state from PREEMPT_RT locks
can be re-used because freezer would not stomp on the rtlock wait flow:
TASK_RTLOCK_WAIT isn't considered freezable.

Reported-by: Prakash Viswalingam <quic_prakashv@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Elliot Berman <quic_eberman@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2023-09-18 08:14:36 +02:00
Elliot Berman
fbaa6a181a sched/core: Remove ifdeffery for saved_state
In preparation for freezer to also use saved_state, remove the
CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT compilation guard around saved_state.

On the arm64 platform I tested which did not have CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT,
there was no statistically significant deviation by applying this patch.

Test methodology:

perf bench sched message -g 40 -l 40

Signed-off-by: Elliot Berman <quic_eberman@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2023-09-18 08:13:57 +02:00
Uros Bizjak
4ff34ad3d3 sched/core: Use do-while instead of for loop in set_nr_if_polling()
Use equivalent do-while loop instead of infinite for loop.

There are no asm code changes.

Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230228161426.4508-1-ubizjak@gmail.com
2023-09-15 17:18:02 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
0e34600ac9 sched: Misc cleanups
Random remaining guard use...

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2023-09-13 15:01:48 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
6fb4546061 sched: Simplify tg_set_cfs_bandwidth()
Use guards to reduce gotos and simplify control flow.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2023-09-13 15:01:42 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
fa614b4feb sched: Simplify sched_move_task()
Use guards to reduce gotos and simplify control flow.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2023-09-13 15:01:38 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
af7c5763f5 sched: Simplify sched_rr_get_interval()
Use guards to reduce gotos and simplify control flow.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2023-09-13 15:01:33 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
7a50f76674 sched: Simplify yield_to()
Use guards to reduce gotos and simplify control flow.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2023-09-13 15:01:28 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
92c2ec5bc1 sched: Simplify sched_{set,get}affinity()
Use guards to reduce gotos and simplify control flow.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2023-09-13 15:01:24 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
febe162d4d sched: Simplify syscalls
Use guards to reduce gotos and simplify control flow.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2023-09-13 15:01:19 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
94b548a15e sched: Simplify set_user_nice()
Use guards to reduce gotos and simplify control flow.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2023-09-13 15:01:14 +02:00
Ard Biesheuvel
cf8e865810 arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture
The Itanium architecture is obsolete, and an informal survey [0] reveals
that any residual use of Itanium hardware in production is mostly HP-UX
or OpenVMS based. The use of Linux on Itanium appears to be limited to
enthusiasts that occasionally boot a fresh Linux kernel to see whether
things are still working as intended, and perhaps to churn out some
distro packages that are rarely used in practice.

None of the original companies behind Itanium still produce or support
any hardware or software for the architecture, and it is listed as
'Orphaned' in the MAINTAINERS file, as apparently, none of the engineers
that contributed on behalf of those companies (nor anyone else, for that
matter) have been willing to support or maintain the architecture
upstream or even be responsible for applying the odd fix. The Intel
firmware team removed all IA-64 support from the Tianocore/EDK2
reference implementation of EFI in 2018. (Itanium is the original
architecture for which EFI was developed, and the way Linux supports it
deviates significantly from other architectures.) Some distros, such as
Debian and Gentoo, still maintain [unofficial] ia64 ports, but many have
dropped support years ago.

While the argument is being made [1] that there is a 'for the common
good' angle to being able to build and run existing projects such as the
Grid Community Toolkit [2] on Itanium for interoperability testing, the
fact remains that none of those projects are known to be deployed on
Linux/ia64, and very few people actually have access to such a system in
the first place. Even if there were ways imaginable in which Linux/ia64
could be put to good use today, what matters is whether anyone is
actually doing that, and this does not appear to be the case.

There are no emulators widely available, and so boot testing Itanium is
generally infeasible for ordinary contributors. GCC still supports IA-64
but its compile farm [3] no longer has any IA-64 machines. GLIBC would
like to get rid of IA-64 [4] too because it would permit some overdue
code cleanups. In summary, the benefits to the ecosystem of having IA-64
be part of it are mostly theoretical, whereas the maintenance overhead
of keeping it supported is real.

So let's rip off the band aid, and remove the IA-64 arch code entirely.
This follows the timeline proposed by the Debian/ia64 maintainer [5],
which removes support in a controlled manner, leaving IA-64 in a known
good state in the most recent LTS release. Other projects will follow
once the kernel support is removed.

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAMj1kXFCMh_578jniKpUtx_j8ByHnt=s7S+yQ+vGbKt9ud7+kQ@mail.gmail.com/
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/0075883c-7c51-00f5-2c2d-5119c1820410@web.de/
[2] https://gridcf.org/gct-docs/latest/index.html
[3] https://cfarm.tetaneutral.net/machines/list/
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/all/87bkiilpc4.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de/
[5] https://lore.kernel.org/all/ff58a3e76e5102c94bb5946d99187b358def688a.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de/

Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
2023-09-11 08:13:17 +00:00
Linus Torvalds
3ca9a836ff Scheduler changes for v6.6:
- The biggest change is introduction of a new iteration of the
   SCHED_FAIR interactivity code: the EEVDF ("Earliest Eligible Virtual
   Deadline First") scheduler.
 
   EEVDF too is a virtual-time scheduler, with two parameters (weight
   and relative deadline), compared to CFS that had weight only.
   It completely reworks the base scheduler: placement, preemption,
   picking -- everything.
 
   LWN.net, as usual, has a terrific writeup about EEVDF:
 
      https://lwn.net/Articles/925371/
 
   Preemption (both tick and wakeup) is driven by testing against
   a fresh pick. Because the tree is now effectively an interval
   tree, and the selection is no longer the 'leftmost' task,
   over-scheduling is less of a problem. A lot of the CFS
   heuristics are removed or replaced by more natural latency-space
   parameters & constructs.
 
   In terms of expected performance regressions: we'll and can fix
   everything where a 'good' workload misbehaves with the new scheduler,
   but EEVDF inevitably changes workload scheduling in a binary fashion,
   hopefully for the better in the overwhelming majority of cases,
   but in some cases it won't, especially in adversarial loads that
   got lucky with the previous code, such as some variants of hackbench.
   We are trying hard to err on the side of fixing all performance
   regressions, but we expect some inevitable post-release iterations
   of that process.
 
 - Improve load-balancing on hybrid x86 systems: enable cluster
   scheduling (again).
 
 - Improve & fix bandwidth-scheduling on nohz systems.
 
 - Improve bandwidth-throttling.
 
 - Use lock guards to simplify and de-goto-ify control flow.
 
 - Misc improvements, cleanups and fixes.
 
 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'sched-core-2023-08-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - The biggest change is introduction of a new iteration of the
   SCHED_FAIR interactivity code: the EEVDF ("Earliest Eligible Virtual
   Deadline First") scheduler

   EEVDF too is a virtual-time scheduler, with two parameters (weight
   and relative deadline), compared to CFS that had weight only. It
   completely reworks the base scheduler: placement, preemption, picking
   -- everything

   LWN.net, as usual, has a terrific writeup about EEVDF:

      https://lwn.net/Articles/925371/

   Preemption (both tick and wakeup) is driven by testing against a
   fresh pick. Because the tree is now effectively an interval tree, and
   the selection is no longer the 'leftmost' task, over-scheduling is
   less of a problem. A lot of the CFS heuristics are removed or
   replaced by more natural latency-space parameters & constructs

   In terms of expected performance regressions: we will and can fix
   everything where a 'good' workload misbehaves with the new scheduler,
   but EEVDF inevitably changes workload scheduling in a binary fashion,
   hopefully for the better in the overwhelming majority of cases, but
   in some cases it won't, especially in adversarial loads that got
   lucky with the previous code, such as some variants of hackbench. We
   are trying hard to err on the side of fixing all performance
   regressions, but we expect some inevitable post-release iterations of
   that process

 - Improve load-balancing on hybrid x86 systems: enable cluster
   scheduling (again)

 - Improve & fix bandwidth-scheduling on nohz systems

 - Improve bandwidth-throttling

 - Use lock guards to simplify and de-goto-ify control flow

 - Misc improvements, cleanups and fixes

* tag 'sched-core-2023-08-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (43 commits)
  sched/eevdf/doc: Modify the documented knob to base_slice_ns as well
  sched/eevdf: Curb wakeup-preemption
  sched: Simplify sched_core_cpu_{starting,deactivate}()
  sched: Simplify try_steal_cookie()
  sched: Simplify sched_tick_remote()
  sched: Simplify sched_exec()
  sched: Simplify ttwu()
  sched: Simplify wake_up_if_idle()
  sched: Simplify: migrate_swap_stop()
  sched: Simplify sysctl_sched_uclamp_handler()
  sched: Simplify get_nohz_timer_target()
  sched/rt: sysctl_sched_rr_timeslice show default timeslice after reset
  sched/rt: Fix sysctl_sched_rr_timeslice intial value
  sched/fair: Block nohz tick_stop when cfs bandwidth in use
  sched, cgroup: Restore meaning to hierarchical_quota
  MAINTAINERS: Add Peter explicitly to the psi section
  sched/psi: Select KERNFS as needed
  sched/topology: Align group flags when removing degenerate domain
  sched/fair: remove util_est boosting
  sched/fair: Propagate enqueue flags into place_entity()
  ...
2023-08-28 16:43:39 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
7170509cad sched: Simplify sched_core_cpu_{starting,deactivate}()
Use guards to reduce gotos and simplify control flow.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230801211812.371787909@infradead.org
2023-08-14 17:01:27 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
b4e1fa1e14 sched: Simplify try_steal_cookie()
Use guards to reduce gotos and simplify control flow.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230801211812.304154828@infradead.org
2023-08-14 17:01:27 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
6dafc713e3 sched: Simplify sched_tick_remote()
Use guards to reduce gotos and simplify control flow.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230801211812.236247952@infradead.org
2023-08-14 17:01:26 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
4bdada79f3 sched: Simplify sched_exec()
Use guards to reduce gotos and simplify control flow.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230801211812.168490417@infradead.org
2023-08-14 17:01:26 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
857d315f12 sched: Simplify ttwu()
Use guards to reduce gotos and simplify control flow.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230801211812.101069260@infradead.org
2023-08-14 17:01:25 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
4eb054f92b sched: Simplify wake_up_if_idle()
Use guards to reduce gotos and simplify control flow.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230801211812.032678917@infradead.org
2023-08-14 17:01:25 +02:00