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2007-09-19sched: fix invalid sched_class useHiroshi Shimamoto
When using rt_mutex, a NULL pointer dereference is occurred at enqueue_task_rt. Here is a scenario; 1) there are two threads, the thread A is fair_sched_class and thread B is rt_sched_class. 2) Thread A is boosted up to rt_sched_class, because the thread A has a rt_mutex lock and the thread B is waiting the lock. 3) At this time, when thread A create a new thread C, the thread C has a rt_sched_class. 4) When doing wake_up_new_task() for the thread C, the priority of the thread C is out of the RT priority range, because the normal priority of thread A is not the RT priority. It makes data corruption by overflowing the rt_prio_array. The new thread C should be fair_sched_class. The new thread should be valid scheduler class before queuing. This patch fixes to set the suitable scheduler class. Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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>
2007-09-05sched: fix xtensa build warningIngo Molnar
rename RSR to SRR - 'RSR' is already defined on xtensa. found by Adrian Bunk. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-09-05sched: debug: fix cfs_rq->wait_runtime accountingIngo Molnar
the cfs_rq->wait_runtime debug/statistics counter was not maintained properly - fix this. this also removes some code: text data bss dec hex filename 13420 228 1204 14852 3a04 sched.o.before 13404 228 1204 14836 39f4 sched.o.after Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2007-09-05sched: fix MC/HT scheduler optimization, without breaking the FUZZ logic.Suresh Siddha
First fix the check if (*imbalance + SCHED_LOAD_SCALE_FUZZ < busiest_load_per_task) with this if (*imbalance < busiest_load_per_task) As the current check is always false for nice 0 tasks (as SCHED_LOAD_SCALE_FUZZ is same as busiest_load_per_task for nice 0 tasks). With the above change, imbalance was getting reset to 0 in the corner case condition, making the FUZZ logic fail. Fix it by not corrupting the imbalance and change the imbalance, only when it finds that the HT/MC optimization is needed. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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: s/sched_latency/sched_min_granularityIngo Molnar
runtime limit and wakeup granularity used to be a function of granularity and that was incorrect changed to sched_latency. Fix this to make wakeup granularity a function of min-granularity, and the runtime limit equal to latency. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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>
2007-08-24sched: simplify can_migrate_task()Sven-Thorsten Dietrich
Remove trivial conditional branch in Linux scheduler's can_migrate_task() function. text data bss dec hex filename 34770 2998 24 37792 93a0 sched.o.before 34757 2998 24 37779 9393 sched.o.after Signed-off-by: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <sven@thebigcorporation.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-24sched: remove HZ dependency from the granularity defaultIngo Molnar
remove HZ dependency from the granularity default. Use 10 msec for the base granularity, 1 msec for wakeup granularity and 25 msec for batch wakeup granularity. (These defaults are close to the values that the default HZ=250 setting got previously, and thus it's the most common setting.) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-23sched: tweak the sched_runtime_limit tunableIngo Molnar
Michael Gerdau reported reniced task CPU usage weirdnesses. Such symptoms can be caused by limit underruns so double the sched_runtime_limit. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-23sched: skip updating rq's next_balance under null SDSuresh Siddha
Was playing with sched_smt_power_savings/sched_mc_power_savings and found out that while the scheduler domains are reconstructed when sysfs settings change, rebalance_domains() can get triggered with null domain on other cpus, which is setting next_balance to jiffies + 60*HZ. Resulting in no idle/busy balancing for 60 seconds. Fix this. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> 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: fix sysctl directory permissionsEric W. Biederman
There are two remaining gotchas: - The directories have impossible permissions (writeable). - The ctl_name for the kernel directory is inconsistent with everything else. It should be CTL_KERN. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.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>
2007-08-12sched: run_rebalance_domains: s/SCHED_IDLE/CPU_IDLE/Oleg Nesterov
rebalance_domains(SCHED_IDLE) looks strange (typo), change it to CPU_IDLE. the effect of this bug was slightly more agressive idle-balancing on SMP than intended. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-12sched: make global code staticAdrian Bunk
This patch makes the following needlessly global code static: - arch_reinit_sched_domains() - struct attr_sched_mc_power_savings - struct attr_sched_smt_power_savings Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-10sched: improve rq-clock overflow logicIngo Molnar
improve the rq-clock overflow logic: limit the absolute rq->clock delta since the last scheduler tick, instead of limiting the delta itself. tested by Arjan van de Ven - whole laptop was misbehaving due to an incorrectly calibrated cpu_khz confusing sched_clock(). Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2007-08-09sched: round a bit betterIngo Molnar
round a tiny bit better in high-frequency rescheduling scenarios, by rounding around zero instead of rounding down. (this is pretty theoretical though) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09sched: make the multiplication table more accurateIngo Molnar
do small deltas in the weight and multiplication constant table so that the worst-case numeric error is better than 1:100000000. (8 digits) the current error table is: nice mult * inv_mult error ------------------------------------------ -20: 88761 * 48388 -0.0000000065 -19: 71755 * 59856 -0.0000000037 -18: 56483 * 76040 0.0000000056 -17: 46273 * 92818 0.0000000042 -16: 36291 * 118348 -0.0000000065 -15: 29154 * 147320 -0.0000000037 -14: 23254 * 184698 -0.0000000009 -13: 18705 * 229616 -0.0000000037 -12: 14949 * 287308 -0.0000000009 -11: 11916 * 360437 -0.0000000009 -10: 9548 * 449829 -0.0000000009 -9: 7620 * 563644 -0.0000000037 -8: 6100 * 704093 0.0000000009 -7: 4904 * 875809 0.0000000093 -6: 3906 * 1099582 -0.0000000009 -5: 3121 * 1376151 -0.0000000058 -4: 2501 * 1717300 0.0000000009 -3: 1991 * 2157191 -0.0000000035 -2: 1586 * 2708050 0.0000000009 -1: 1277 * 3363326 0.0000000014 0: 1024 * 4194304 0.0000000000 1: 820 * 5237765 0.0000000009 2: 655 * 6557202 0.0000000033 3: 526 * 8165337 -0.0000000079 4: 423 * 10153587 0.0000000012 5: 335 * 12820798 0.0000000079 6: 272 * 15790321 0.0000000037 7: 215 * 19976592 -0.0000000037 8: 172 * 24970740 -0.0000000037 9: 137 * 31350126 -0.0000000079 10: 110 * 39045157 -0.0000000061 11: 87 * 49367440 -0.0000000037 12: 70 * 61356676 0.0000000056 13: 56 * 76695844 -0.0000000075 14: 45 * 95443717 -0.0000000072 15: 36 * 119304647 -0.0000000009 16: 29 * 148102320 -0.0000000037 17: 23 * 186737708 -0.0000000028 18: 18 * 238609294 -0.0000000009 19: 15 * 286331153 -0.0000000002 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09sched: optimize update_rq_clock() calls in the load-balancerIngo Molnar
optimize update_rq_clock() calls in the load-balancer: update them right after locking the runqueue(s) so that the pull functions do not have to call it. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09sched: optimize activate_task()Ingo Molnar
optimize activate_task() by removing update_rq_clock() from it. (and add update_rq_clock() to all callsites of activate_task() that did not have it before.) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09sched: move the __update_rq_clock() call to scheduler_tick()Ingo Molnar
move the __update_rq_clock() call from update_cpu_load() to scheduler_tick(). ( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. ) this allows the direct use of rq->clock in ->task_tick() functions. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09sched: remove the 'u64 now' local variablesIngo Molnar
final step: remove all (now superfluous) 'u64 now' variables. ( 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 deactivate_task()Ingo Molnar
remove the 'u64 now' parameter from deactivate_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 dec_nr_running()Ingo Molnar
remove the 'u64 now' parameter from dec_nr_running(). ( 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 inc_nr_running()Ingo Molnar
remove the 'u64 now' parameter from inc_nr_running(). ( 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 dec_load()Ingo Molnar
remove the 'u64 now' parameter from dec_load(). ( 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 inc_load()Ingo Molnar
remove the 'u64 now' parameter from inc_load(). ( 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 update_curr_load()Ingo Molnar
remove the 'u64 now' parameter from update_curr_load(). ( 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 ->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 ->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 'now' use from assignmentsIngo Molnar
change all 'now' timestamp uses in assignments to rq->clock. ( this is an identity transformation that causes no functionality change: all such new rq->clock is necessarily preceded by an update_rq_clock() call. ) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09sched: remove __rq_clock()Ingo Molnar
remove the (now unused) __rq_clock() function. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09sched: eliminate __rq_clock() useIngo Molnar
eliminate __rq_clock() use by changing it to: __update_rq_clock(rq) now = rq->clock; identity transformation - no change in behavior. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09sched: remove rq_clock()Ingo Molnar
remove the now unused rq_clock() function. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09sched: eliminate rq_clock() useIngo Molnar
eliminate rq_clock() use by changing it to: update_rq_clock(rq) now = rq->clock; identity transformation - no change in behavior. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09sched: add [__]update_rq_clock(rq)Ingo Molnar
add the [__]update_rq_clock(rq) functions. (No change in functionality, just reorganization to prepare for elimination of the heavy 64-bit timestamp-passing in the scheduler.) 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: remove binary sysctls from kernel.sched_domainAlexey Dobriyan
kernel.sched_domain hierarchy is under CTL_UNNUMBERED and thus unreachable to sysctl(2). Generating .ctl_number's in such situation is not useful. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09sched: schedule() speedupIngo Molnar
speed up schedule(): share the 'now' parameter that deactivate_task() was calculating internally. ( this also fixes the small accounting window between the deactivate call and the pick_next_task() call. ) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09sched: uninline rq_clock()Ingo Molnar
uninline rq_clock() to save 263 bytes of code: text data bss dec hex filename 39561 3642 24 43227 a8db sched.o.before 39298 3642 24 42964 a7d4 sched.o.after Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09sched: clean up sched_getaffinity()Ulrich Drepper
here's another tiny cleanup. The generated code is not affected (gcc is smart enough) but for people looking over the code it is just irritating to have the extra conditional. Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>