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2007-10-15sched: speed up and simplify vslice calculationsPeter Zijlstra
speed up and simplify vslice calculations. [ From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>: build fix ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-15sched: clean up schedstats, cnt -> countIngo Molnar
rename all 'cnt' fields and variables to the less yucky 'count' name. yuckage noticed by Andrew Morton. no change in code, other than the /proc/sched_debug bkl_count string got a bit larger: text data bss dec hex filename 38236 3506 24 41766 a326 sched.o.before 38240 3506 24 41770 a32a sched.o.after Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15sched: undo some of the recent changesIngo Molnar
undo some of the recent changes that are not needed after all, such as last_min_vruntime. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2007-10-15sched: add vslicePeter Zijlstra
add vslice: the load-dependent "virtual slice" a task should run ideally, so that the observed latency stays within the sched_latency window. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15sched: remove unneeded tunablesIngo Molnar
remove unneeded tunables. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15sched debug: BKL usage statisticsIngo Molnar
add per task and per rq BKL usage statistics. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15sched: add fair-user schedulerSrivatsa Vaddagiri
Enable user-id based fair group scheduling. This is useful for anyone who wants to test the group scheduler w/o having to enable CONFIG_CGROUPS. A separate scheduling group (i.e struct task_grp) is automatically created for every new user added to the system. Upon uid change for a task, it is made to move to the corresponding scheduling group. A /proc tunable (/proc/root_user_share) is also provided to tune root user's quota of cpu bandwidth. Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15sched: clean up code under CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHEDSrivatsa Vaddagiri
With the view of supporting user-id based fair scheduling (and not just container-based fair scheduling), this patch renames several functions and makes them independent of whether they are being used for container or user-id based fair scheduling. Also fix a problem reported by KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki (wrt allocating less-sized array for tg->cfs_rq[] and tf->se[]). Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15sched: revert recent removal of set_curr_task()Srivatsa Vaddagiri
Revert removal of set_curr_task. Use put_prev_task/set_curr_task when changing groups/policies Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri < vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2007-10-15sched: rework enqueue/dequeue_entity() to get rid of set_curr_task()Dmitry Adamushko
rework enqueue/dequeue_entity() to get rid of sched_class::set_curr_task(). This simplifies sched_setscheduler(), rt_mutex_setprio() and sched_move_tasks(). text data bss dec hex filename 24330 2734 20 27084 69cc sched.o.before 24233 2730 20 26983 6967 sched.o.after Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15sched: simplify sched_class::yield_task()Dmitry Adamushko
the 'p' (task_struct) parameter in the sched_class :: yield_task() is redundant as the caller is always the 'current'. Get rid of it. text data bss dec hex filename 24341 2734 20 27095 69d7 sched.o.before 24330 2734 20 27084 69cc sched.o.after Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15sched: do not keep current in the tree and get rid of sched_entity::fair_keyDmitry Adamushko
Get rid of 'sched_entity::fair_key'. As a side effect, 'current' is not kept withing the tree for SCHED_NORMAL/BATCH tasks anymore. This simplifies some parts of code (e.g. entity_tick() and yield_task_fair()) and also somewhat optimizes them (e.g. a single update_curr() now vs. dequeue/enqueue() before in entity_tick()). Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15sched: remove wait_runtime fields and featuresIngo Molnar
remove wait_runtime based fields and features, now that the CFS math has been changed over to the vruntime metric. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15sched: remove wait_runtime limitIngo Molnar
remove the wait_runtime-limit fields and the code depending on it, now that the math has been changed over to rely on the vruntime metric. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15sched: introduce se->vruntimeIngo Molnar
introduce se->vruntime as a sum of weighted delta-exec's, and use that as the key into the tree. the idea to use absolute virtual time as the basic metric of scheduling has been first raised by William Lee Irwin, advanced by Tong Li and first prototyped by Roman Zippel in the "Really Fair Scheduler" (RFS) patchset. also see: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/2/76 for a simpler variant of this patch. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15sched: remove stat_granIngo Molnar
remove the stat_gran code - it was disabled by default and it causes unnecessary overhead. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15sched: use constants if !CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUGIngo Molnar
use constants if !CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG. this speeds up the code and reduces code-size: text data bss dec hex filename 27464 3014 16 30494 771e sched.o.before 26929 3010 20 29959 7507 sched.o.after Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-15sched: debug: track maximum 'slice'Ingo Molnar
track the maximum amount of time a task has executed while the CPU load was at least 2x. (i.e. at least two nice-0 tasks were runnable) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-10[NETNS]: CLONE_NEWNET don't use the same clone flag as the pid namespace.Eric W. Biederman
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET]: Add network namespace clone & unshare support.Eric W. Biederman
This patch allows you to create a new network namespace using sys_clone, or sys_unshare. As the network namespace is still experimental and under development clone and unshare support is only made available when CONFIG_NET_NS is selected at compile time. As this patch introduces network namespace support into code paths that exist when the CONFIG_NET is not selected there are a few additions made to net_namespace.h to allow a few more functions to be used when the networking stack is not compiled in. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-07Don't do load-average calculations at even 5-second intervalsLinus Torvalds
It turns out that there are a few other five-second timers in the kernel, and if the timers get in sync, the load-average can get artificially inflated by events that just happen to coincide. So just offset the load average calculation it by a timer tick. Noticed by Anders Boström, for whom the coincidence started triggering on one of his machines with the JBD jiffies rounding code (JBD is one of the subsystems that also end up using a 5-second timer by default). Tested-by: Anders Boström <anders@bostrom.dyndns.org> Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-09-20signalfd simplificationDavide Libenzi
This simplifies signalfd code, by avoiding it to remain attached to the sighand during its lifetime. In this way, the signalfd remain attached to the sighand only during poll(2) (and select and epoll) and read(2). This also allows to remove all the custom "tsk == current" checks in kernel/signal.c, since dequeue_signal() will only be called by "current". I think this is also what Ben was suggesting time ago. The external effect of this, is that a thread can extract only its own private signals and the group ones. I think this is an acceptable behaviour, in that those are the signals the thread would be able to fetch w/out signalfd. Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-09-19sched: add /proc/sys/kernel/sched_compat_yieldIngo Molnar
add /proc/sys/kernel/sched_compat_yield to make sys_sched_yield() more agressive, by moving the yielding task to the last position in the rbtree. with sched_compat_yield=0: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2539 mingo 20 0 1576 252 204 R 50 0.0 0:02.03 loop_yield 2541 mingo 20 0 1576 244 196 R 50 0.0 0:02.05 loop with sched_compat_yield=1: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2584 mingo 20 0 1576 248 196 R 99 0.0 0:52.45 loop 2582 mingo 20 0 1576 256 204 R 0 0.0 0:00.00 loop_yield Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2007-09-19Fix user namespace exiting OOPsPavel Emelyanov
It turned out, that the user namespace is released during the do_exit() in exit_task_namespaces(), but the struct user_struct is released only during the put_task_struct(), i.e. MUCH later. On debug kernels with poisoned slabs this will cause the oops in uid_hash_remove() because the head of the chain, which resides inside the struct user_namespace, will be already freed and poisoned. Since the uid hash itself is required only when someone can search it, i.e. when the namespace is alive, we can safely unhash all the user_struct-s from it during the namespace exiting. The subsequent free_uid() will complete the user_struct destruction. For example simple program #include <sched.h> char stack[2 * 1024 * 1024]; int f(void *foo) { return 0; } int main(void) { clone(f, stack + 1 * 1024 * 1024, 0x10000000, 0); return 0; } run on kernel with CONFIG_USER_NS turned on will oops the kernel immediately. This was spotted during OpenVZ kernel testing. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org> Acked-by: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-09-19Convert uid hash to hlistPavel Emelyanov
Surprisingly, but (spotted by Alexey Dobriyan) the uid hash still uses list_heads, thus occupying twice as much place as it could. Convert it to hlist_heads. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-28sched: make the scheduler converge to the ideal latencyIngo Molnar
de-HZ-ification of the granularity defaults unearthed a pre-existing property of CFS: while it correctly converges to the granularity goal, it does not prevent run-time fluctuations in the range of [-gran ... 0 ... +gran]. With the increase of the granularity due to the removal of HZ dependencies, this becomes visible in chew-max output (with 5 tasks running): out: 28 . 27. 32 | flu: 0 . 0 | ran: 9 . 13 | per: 37 . 40 out: 27 . 27. 32 | flu: 0 . 0 | ran: 17 . 13 | per: 44 . 40 out: 27 . 27. 32 | flu: 0 . 0 | ran: 9 . 13 | per: 36 . 40 out: 29 . 27. 32 | flu: 2 . 0 | ran: 17 . 13 | per: 46 . 40 out: 28 . 27. 32 | flu: 0 . 0 | ran: 9 . 13 | per: 37 . 40 out: 29 . 27. 32 | flu: 0 . 0 | ran: 18 . 13 | per: 47 . 40 out: 28 . 27. 32 | flu: 0 . 0 | ran: 9 . 13 | per: 37 . 40 average slice is the ideal 13 msecs and the period is picture-perfect 40 msecs. But the 'ran' field fluctuates around 13.33 msecs and there's no mechanism in CFS to keep that from happening: it's a perfectly valid solution that CFS finds. to fix this we add a granularity/preemption rule that knows about the "target latency", which makes tasks that run longer than the ideal latency run a bit less. The simplest approach is to simply decrease the preemption granularity when a task overruns its ideal latency. For this we have to track how much the task executed since its last preemption. ( this adds a new field to task_struct, but we can eliminate that overhead in 2.6.24 by putting all the scheduler timestamps into an anonymous union. ) with this change in place, chew-max output is fluctuation-less all around: out: 28 . 27. 39 | flu: 0 . 2 | ran: 13 . 13 | per: 41 . 40 out: 28 . 27. 39 | flu: 0 . 2 | ran: 13 . 13 | per: 41 . 40 out: 28 . 27. 39 | flu: 0 . 2 | ran: 13 . 13 | per: 41 . 40 out: 28 . 27. 39 | flu: 0 . 2 | ran: 13 . 13 | per: 41 . 40 out: 28 . 27. 39 | flu: 0 . 1 | ran: 13 . 13 | per: 41 . 40 out: 28 . 27. 39 | flu: 0 . 1 | ran: 13 . 13 | per: 41 . 40 this patch has no impact on any fastpath or on any globally observable scheduling property. (unless you have sharp enough eyes to see millisecond-level ruckles in glxgears smoothness :-) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
2007-08-25sched: cleanup, sched_granularity -> sched_min_granularityIngo Molnar
due to adaptive granularity scheduling the role of sched_granularity has changed to "minimum granularity", so rename the variable (and the tunable) accordingly. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2007-08-25sched: adaptive scheduler granularityPeter Zijlstra
Instead of specifying the preemption granularity, specify the wanted latency. By fixing the granlarity to a constany the wakeup latency it a function of the number of running tasks on the rq. Invert this relation. sysctl_sched_granularity becomes a minimum for the dynamic granularity computed from the new sysctl_sched_latency. Then use this latency to do more intelligent granularity decisions: if there are fewer tasks running then we can schedule coarser. This helps performance while still always keeping the latency target. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-23sched: fix broken SMT/MC optimizationsSuresh Siddha
On a four package system with HT - HT load balancing optimizations were broken. For example, if two tasks end up running on two logical threads of one of the packages, scheduler is not able to pull one of the tasks to a completely idle package. In this scenario, for nice-0 tasks, imbalance calculated by scheduler will be 512 and find_busiest_queue() will return 0 (as each cpu's load is 1024 > imbalance and has only one task running). Similarly MC scheduler optimizations also get fixed with this patch. [ mingo@elte.hu: restored fair balancing by increasing the fuzz and adding it back to the power decision, without the /2 factor. ] Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-23sched: sched_clock_idle_[sleep|wakeup]_event()Ingo Molnar
construct a more or less wall-clock time out of sched_clock(), by using ACPI-idle's existing knowledge about how much time we spent idling. This allows the rq clock to work around TSC-stops-in-C2, TSC-gets-corrupted-in-C3 type of problems. ( Besides the scheduler's statistics this also benefits blktrace and printk-timestamps as well. ) Furthermore, the precise before-C2/C3-sleep and after-C2/C3-wakeup callbacks allow the scheduler to get out the most of the period where the CPU has a reliable TSC. This results in slightly more precise task statistics. the ACPI bits were acked by Len. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-08-09sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->task_new()Ingo Molnar
remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->task_new(). ( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. ) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->put_prev_task()Ingo Molnar
remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->put_prev_task(). ( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. ) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->pick_next_task()Ingo Molnar
remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->pick_next_task(). ( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. ) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->dequeue_task()Ingo Molnar
remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->dequeue_task(). ( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. ) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->enqueue_task()Ingo Molnar
remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->enqueue_task(). ( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. ) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from print_cfs_rq()Ingo Molnar
remove the 'u64 now' parameter from print_cfs_rq(). ( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. ) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09sched: fix bug in balance_tasks()Peter Williams
There are two problems with balance_tasks() and how it used: 1. The variables best_prio and best_prio_seen (inherited from the old move_tasks()) were only required to handle problems caused by the active/expired arrays, the order in which they were processed and the possibility that the task with the highest priority could be on either. These issues are no longer present and the extra overhead associated with their use is unnecessary (and possibly wrong). 2. In the absence of CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED being set, the same this_best_prio variable needs to be used by all scheduling classes or there is a risk of moving too much load. E.g. if the highest priority task on this at the beginning is a fairly low priority task and the rt class migrates a task (during its turn) then that moved task becomes the new highest priority task on this_rq but when the sched_fair class initializes its copy of this_best_prio it will get the priority of the original highest priority task as, due to the run queue locks being held, the reschedule triggered by pull_task() will not have taken place. This could result in inappropriate overriding of skip_for_load and excessive load being moved. The attached patch addresses these problems by deleting all reference to best_prio and best_prio_seen and making this_best_prio a reference parameter to the various functions involved. load_balance_fair() has also been modified so that this_best_prio is only reset (in the loop) if CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED is set. This should preserve the effect of helping spread groups' higher priority tasks around the available CPUs while improving system performance when CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED isn't set. Signed-off-by: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09sched: simplify move_tasks()Peter Williams
The move_tasks() function is currently multiplexed with two distinct capabilities: 1. attempt to move a specified amount of weighted load from one run queue to another; and 2. attempt to move a specified number of tasks from one run queue to another. The first of these capabilities is used in two places, load_balance() and load_balance_idle(), and in both of these cases the return value of move_tasks() is used purely to decide if tasks/load were moved and no notice of the actual number of tasks moved is taken. The second capability is used in exactly one place, active_load_balance(), to attempt to move exactly one task and, as before, the return value is only used as an indicator of success or failure. This multiplexing of sched_task() was introduced, by me, as part of the smpnice patches and was motivated by the fact that the alternative, one function to move specified load and one to move a single task, would have led to two functions of roughly the same complexity as the old move_tasks() (or the new balance_tasks()). However, the new modular design of the new CFS scheduler allows a simpler solution to be adopted and this patch addresses that solution by: 1. adding a new function, move_one_task(), to be used by active_load_balance(); and 2. making move_tasks() a single purpose function that tries to move a specified weighted load and returns 1 for success and 0 for failure. One of the consequences of these changes is that neither move_one_task() or the new move_tasks() care how many tasks sched_class.load_balance() moves and this enables its interface to be simplified by returning the amount of load moved as its result and removing the load_moved pointer from the argument list. This helps simplify the new move_tasks() and slightly reduces the amount of work done in each of sched_class.load_balance()'s implementations. Further simplification, e.g. changes to balance_tasks(), are possible but (slightly) complicated by the special needs of load_balance_fair() so I've left them to a later patch (if this one gets accepted). NB Since move_tasks() gets called with two run queue locks held even small reductions in overhead are worthwhile. [ mingo@elte.hu ] this change also reduces code size nicely: text data bss dec hex filename 39216 3618 24 42858 a76a sched.o.before 39173 3618 24 42815 a73f sched.o.after Signed-off-by: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-02[PATCH] sched: reduce task_struct sizeIngo Molnar
more task_struct size reduction, by moving the debugging/instrumentation fields to under CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS: (i386, nodebug): size ---- pre-CFS 1328 CFS 1472 CFS+patch 1376 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-02[PATCH] sched: ->task_new cleanupIngo Molnar
make sched_class.task_new == NULL a 'default method', this allows the removal of task_rt_new. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-02[PATCH] sched: remove cache_hot_timeIngo Molnar
remove the last unused remains of cache_hot_time. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-26[PATCH] sched: add above_background_load() functionCon Kolivas
Add an above_background_load() function which can be used by other subsystems to detect if there is anything besides niced tasks running. Place it in sched.h to allow it to be compiled out if not used. Unused for now, but it is a useful hint to the IO scheduler and to swap-prefetch. Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> Cc: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-26[PATCH] sched: arch preempt notifier mechanismAvi Kivity
This adds a general mechanism whereby a task can request the scheduler to notify it whenever it is preempted or scheduled back in. This allows the task to swap any special-purpose registers like the fpu or Intel's VT registers. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> [ mingo@elte.hu: fixes, cleanups ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-26[PATCH] sched: increase SCHED_LOAD_SCALE_FUZZIngo Molnar
increase SCHED_LOAD_SCALE_FUZZ that adds a small amount of over-balancing: to help distribute CPU-bound tasks more fairly on SMP systems. the problem of unfair balancing was noticed and reported by Tong N Li. 10 CPU-bound tasks running on 8 CPUs, v2.6.23-rc1: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2572 mingo 20 0 1576 244 196 R 100 0.0 1:03.61 loop 2578 mingo 20 0 1576 248 196 R 100 0.0 1:03.59 loop 2576 mingo 20 0 1576 248 196 R 100 0.0 1:03.52 loop 2571 mingo 20 0 1576 244 196 R 100 0.0 1:03.46 loop 2569 mingo 20 0 1576 244 196 R 99 0.0 1:03.36 loop 2570 mingo 20 0 1576 244 196 R 95 0.0 1:00.55 loop 2577 mingo 20 0 1576 248 196 R 50 0.0 0:31.88 loop 2574 mingo 20 0 1576 248 196 R 50 0.0 0:31.87 loop 2573 mingo 20 0 1576 248 196 R 50 0.0 0:31.86 loop 2575 mingo 20 0 1576 248 196 R 50 0.0 0:31.86 loop v2.6.23-rc1 + patch: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2681 mingo 20 0 1576 244 196 R 85 0.0 3:51.68 loop 2688 mingo 20 0 1576 244 196 R 81 0.0 3:46.35 loop 2682 mingo 20 0 1576 244 196 R 80 0.0 3:43.68 loop 2685 mingo 20 0 1576 248 196 R 80 0.0 3:45.97 loop 2683 mingo 20 0 1576 248 196 R 80 0.0 3:40.25 loop 2679 mingo 20 0 1576 244 196 R 80 0.0 3:33.53 loop 2680 mingo 20 0 1576 244 196 R 79 0.0 3:43.53 loop 2686 mingo 20 0 1576 244 196 R 79 0.0 3:39.31 loop 2687 mingo 20 0 1576 244 196 R 78 0.0 3:33.31 loop 2684 mingo 20 0 1576 244 196 R 77 0.0 3:27.52 loop so they now nicely converge to the expected 80% long-term CPU usage. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-19[PATCH] sched: implement cpu_clock(cpu) high-speed time sourceIngo Molnar
Implement the cpu_clock(cpu) interface for kernel-internal use: high-speed (but slightly incorrect) per-cpu clock constructed from sched_clock(). This API, unused at the moment, will be used in the future by blktrace, by the softlockup-watchdog, by printk and by lockstat. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-19coredump masking: add an interface for core dump filterKawai, Hidehiro
This patch adds an interface to set/reset flags which determines each memory segment should be dumped or not when a core file is generated. /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter file is provided to access the flags. You can change the flag status for a particular process by writing to or reading from the file. The flag status is inherited to the child process when it is created. Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19coredump masking: reimplementation of dumpable using two flagsKawai, Hidehiro
This patch changes mm_struct.dumpable to a pair of bit flags. set_dumpable() converts three-value dumpable to two flags and stores it into lower two bits of mm_struct.flags instead of mm_struct.dumpable. get_dumpable() behaves in the opposite way. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: export set_dumpable] Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16user namespace: add unshareSerge E. Hallyn
This patch enables the unshare of user namespaces. It adds a new clone flag CLONE_NEWUSER and implements copy_user_ns() which resets the current user_struct and adds a new root user (uid == 0) For now, unsharing the user namespace allows a process to reset its user_struct accounting and uid 0 in the new user namespace should be contained using appropriate means, for instance selinux The plan, when the full support is complete (all uid checks covered), is to keep the original user's rights in the original namespace, and let a process become uid 0 in the new namespace, with full capabilities to the new namespace. Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Acked-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Andrew Morgan <agm@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16user namespace: add the frameworkCedric Le Goater
Basically, it will allow a process to unshare its user_struct table, resetting at the same time its own user_struct and all the associated accounting. A new root user (uid == 0) is added to the user namespace upon creation. Such root users have full privileges and it seems that theses privileges should be controlled through some means (process capabilities ?) The unshare is not included in this patch. Changes since [try #4]: - Updated get_user_ns and put_user_ns to accept NULL, and get_user_ns to return the namespace. Changes since [try #3]: - moved struct user_namespace to files user_namespace.{c,h} Changes since [try #2]: - removed struct user_namespace* argument from find_user() Changes since [try #1]: - removed struct user_namespace* argument from find_user() - added a root_user per user namespace Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Andrew Morgan <agm@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16Audit: add TTY input auditingMiloslav Trmac
Add TTY input auditing, used to audit system administrator's actions. This is required by various security standards such as DCID 6/3 and PCI to provide non-repudiation of administrator's actions and to allow a review of past actions if the administrator seems to overstep their duties or if the system becomes misconfigured for unknown reasons. These requirements do not make it necessary to audit TTY output as well. Compared to an user-space keylogger, this approach records TTY input using the audit subsystem, correlated with other audit events, and it is completely transparent to the user-space application (e.g. the console ioctls still work). TTY input auditing works on a higher level than auditing all system calls within the session, which would produce an overwhelming amount of mostly useless audit events. Add an "audit_tty" attribute, inherited across fork (). Data read from TTYs by process with the attribute is sent to the audit subsystem by the kernel. The audit netlink interface is extended to allow modifying the audit_tty attribute, and to allow sending explanatory audit events from user-space (for example, a shell might send an event containing the final command, after the interactive command-line editing and history expansion is performed, which might be difficult to decipher from the TTY input alone). Because the "audit_tty" attribute is inherited across fork (), it would be set e.g. for sshd restarted within an audited session. To prevent this, the audit_tty attribute is cleared when a process with no open TTY file descriptors (e.g. after daemon startup) opens a TTY. See https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2007-June/msg00000.html for a more detailed rationale document for an older version of this patch. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Miloslav Trmac <mitr@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> Cc: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>