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Thomas Gleixner
a468d38934 sched: fix load average accounting vs. cpu hotplug
The new load average code clears rq->calc_load_active on
CPU_ONLINE. That's wrong as the new onlined CPU might have got a
scheduler tick already and accounted the delta to the stale value of
the time we offlined the CPU.

Clear the value when we cleanup the dead CPU instead. 

Also move the update of the calc_load_update time for the newly online
CPU to CPU_UP_PREPARE to avoid that the CPU plays catch up with the
stale update time value.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-07-18 14:19:52 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
4b0a84043e Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/linux-2.6-sched
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/linux-2.6-sched:
  sched: Fix bug in SCHED_IDLE interaction with group scheduling
  sched: Fix rt_rq->pushable_tasks initialization in init_rt_rq()
  sched: Reset sched stats on fork()
  sched_rt: Fix overload bug on rt group scheduling
  sched: Documentation/sched-rt-group: Fix style issues & bump version
2009-07-16 10:18:29 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
d86ee4809d sched: optimize cond_resched()
Optimize cond_resched() by removing one conditional.

Currently cond_resched() checks system_state ==
SYSTEM_RUNNING in order to avoid scheduling before the
scheduler is running.

We can however, as per suggestion of Matt, use
PREEMPT_ACTIVE to accomplish that very same.

Suggested-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-10 14:24:05 -07:00
Fabio Checconi
c20b08e398 sched: Fix rt_rq->pushable_tasks initialization in init_rt_rq()
init_rt_rq() initializes only rq->rt.pushable_tasks, and not the
pushable_tasks field of the passed rt_rq.  The plist is not used
uninitialized since the only pushable_tasks plists used are the
ones of root rt_rqs; anyway reinitializing the list on every group
creation corrupts the root plist, losing its previous contents.

Signed-off-by: Fabio Checconi <fabio@gandalf.sssup.it>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20090615185638.GK21741@gandalf.sssup.it>
CC: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-10 10:43:30 +02:00
Lucas De Marchi
7793527b90 sched: Reset sched stats on fork()
The sched_stat fields are currently not reset upon fork.
Ingo's recent commit 6c594c21fc
did reset nr_migrations, but it didn't reset any of the
others.

This patch resets all sched_stat fields on fork.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <193b0f820907090457s7a3662f4gcdecdc22fcae857b@mail.gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-10 10:43:29 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
a1ba4d8ba9 sched_rt: Fix overload bug on rt group scheduling
Fixes an easily triggerable BUG() when setting process affinities.

Make sure to count the number of migratable tasks in the same place:
the root rt_rq. Otherwise the number doesn't make sense and we'll hit
the BUG in set_cpus_allowed_rt().

Also, make sure we only count tasks, not groups (this is probably
already taken care of by the fact that rt_se->nr_cpus_allowed will be 0
for groups, but be more explicit)

Tested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <1247067476.9777.57.camel@twins>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-10 10:43:29 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
12e24f34cb Merge branch 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (49 commits)
  perfcounter: Handle some IO return values
  perf_counter: Push perf_sample_data through the swcounter code
  perf_counter tools: Define and use our own u64, s64 etc. definitions
  perf_counter: Close race in perf_lock_task_context()
  perf_counter, x86: Improve interactions with fast-gup
  perf_counter: Simplify and fix task migration counting
  perf_counter tools: Add a data file header
  perf_counter: Update userspace callchain sampling uses
  perf_counter: Make callchain samples extensible
  perf report: Filter to parent set by default
  perf_counter tools: Handle lost events
  perf_counter: Add event overlow handling
  fs: Provide empty .set_page_dirty() aop for anon inodes
  perf_counter: tools: Makefile tweaks for 64-bit powerpc
  perf_counter: powerpc: Add processor back-end for MPC7450 family
  perf_counter: powerpc: Make powerpc perf_counter code safe for 32-bit kernels
  perf_counter: powerpc: Change how processor-specific back-ends get selected
  perf_counter: powerpc: Use unsigned long for register and constraint values
  perf_counter: powerpc: Enable use of software counters on 32-bit powerpc
  perf_counter tools: Add and use isprint()
  ...
2009-06-20 11:29:32 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1eb51c33b2 Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: Fix out of scope variable access in sched_slice()
  sched: Hide runqueues from direct refer at source code level
  sched: Remove unneeded __ref tag
  sched, x86: Fix cpufreq + sched_clock() TSC scaling
2009-06-20 10:57:40 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
e5289d4a18 perf_counter: Simplify and fix task migration counting
The task migrations counter was causing rare and hard to decypher
memory corruptions under load. After a day of debugging and bisection
we found that the problem was introduced with:

  3f731ca: perf_counter: Fix cpu migration counter

Turning them off fixes the crashes. Incidentally, the whole
perf_counter_task_migration() logic can be done simpler as well,
by injecting a proper sw-counter event.

This cleanup also fixed the crashes. The precise failure mode is
not completely clear yet, but we are clearly not unhappy about
having a fix ;-)

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-19 13:43:12 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
371cbb387e kthreads: simplify migration_thread() exit path
Now that kthread_stop() can be used even if the task has already exited,
we can kill the "wait_to_die:" loop in migration_thread().  But we must
pin rq->migration_thread after creation.

Actually, I don't think CPU_UP_CANCELED or CPU_DEAD should wait for
->migration_thread exit.  Perhaps we can simplify this code a bit more.
migration_call() can set ->should_stop and forget about this thread.  But
we need a new helper in kthred.c for that.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Vitaliy Gusev <vgusev@openvz.org
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-18 13:03:54 -07:00
Li Zefan
fd5e1b5dba sched: Remove unneeded __ref tag
Those two functions no longer call alloc_bootmmem_cpumask_var(),
so no need to tag them with __init_refok.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
LKML-Reference: <4A35DD5B.9050106@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-17 16:08:04 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
19035e5b5d Merge branch 'timers-for-linus-migration' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-for-linus-migration' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  timers: Logic to move non pinned timers
  timers: /proc/sys sysctl hook to enable timer migration
  timers: Identifying the existing pinned timers
  timers: Framework for identifying pinned timers
  timers: allow deferrable timers for intervals tv2-tv5 to be deferred

Fix up conflicts in kernel/sched.c and kernel/timer.c manually
2009-06-15 10:06:19 -07:00
Rusty Russell
b43e352139 sched: export kick_process
lguest needs kick_process: wake_up_process() does nothing if a process
is running, which isn't sufficient (we need it in the kernel).

And lguest support is usually modular.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-12 22:27:01 +09:30
Linus Torvalds
8a1ca8cedd Merge branch 'perfcounters-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perfcounters-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (574 commits)
  perf_counter: Turn off by default
  perf_counter: Add counter->id to the throttle event
  perf_counter: Better align code
  perf_counter: Rename L2 to LL cache
  perf_counter: Standardize event names
  perf_counter: Rename enums
  perf_counter tools: Clean up u64 usage
  perf_counter: Rename perf_counter_limit sysctl
  perf_counter: More paranoia settings
  perf_counter: powerpc: Implement generalized cache events for POWER processors
  perf_counters: powerpc: Add support for POWER7 processors
  perf_counter: Accurate period data
  perf_counter: Introduce struct for sample data
  perf_counter tools: Normalize data using per sample period data
  perf_counter: Annotate exit ctx recursion
  perf_counter tools: Propagate signals properly
  perf_counter tools: Small frequency related fixes
  perf_counter: More aggressive frequency adjustment
  perf_counter/x86: Fix the model number of Intel Core2 processors
  perf_counter, x86: Correct some event and umask values for Intel processors
  ...
2009-06-11 14:01:07 -07:00
Pekka Enberg
0fb5302916 sched: use slab in cpupri_init()
Lets not use the bootmem allocator in cpupri_init() as slab is already up when
it is run.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-11 19:27:12 +03:00
Pekka Enberg
4bdddf8ff9 sched: use alloc_cpumask_var() instead of alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var()
Slab is initialized when sched_init() runs now so lets use alloc_cpumask_var().

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-11 19:27:11 +03:00
Pekka Enberg
36b7b6d465 sched: use kzalloc() instead of the bootmem allocator
Now that kmem_cache_init() happens before sched_init(), we should use kzalloc()
and not the bootmem allocator.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-11 19:27:04 +03:00
Ingo Molnar
940010c5a3 Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/core
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/irqinit.c
	arch/x86/kernel/irqinit_64.c
	arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
	arch/x86/mm/fault.c
	include/linux/sched.h
	kernel/exit.c
2009-06-11 17:55:42 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
8623661180 Merge branch 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (244 commits)
  Revert "x86, bts: reenable ptrace branch trace support"
  tracing: do not translate event helper macros in print format
  ftrace/documentation: fix typo in function grapher name
  tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT(), fix !CONFIG_BLOCK
  tracing: add protection around module events unload
  tracing: add trace_seq_vprint interface
  tracing: fix the block trace points print size
  tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT()
  ring-buffer: fix ret in rb_add_time_stamp
  ring-buffer: pass in lockdep class key for reader_lock
  tracing: add annotation to what type of stack trace is recorded
  tracing: fix multiple use of __print_flags and __print_symbolic
  tracing/events: fix output format of user stack
  tracing/events: fix output format of kernel stack
  tracing/trace_stack: fix the number of entries in the header
  ring-buffer: discard timestamps that are at the start of the buffer
  ring-buffer: try to discard unneeded timestamps
  ring-buffer: fix bug in ring_buffer_discard_commit
  ftrace: do not profile functions when disabled
  tracing: make trace pipe recognize latency format flag
  ...
2009-06-10 19:53:40 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
be15f9d63b Merge branch 'x86-xen-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-xen-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (42 commits)
  xen: cache cr0 value to avoid trap'n'emulate for read_cr0
  xen/x86-64: clean up warnings about IST-using traps
  xen/x86-64: fix breakpoints and hardware watchpoints
  xen: reserve Xen start_info rather than e820 reserving
  xen: add FIX_TEXT_POKE to fixmap
  lguest: update lazy mmu changes to match lguest's use of kvm hypercalls
  xen: honour VCPU availability on boot
  xen: add "capabilities" file
  xen: drop kexec bits from /sys/hypervisor since kexec isn't implemented yet
  xen/sys/hypervisor: change writable_pt to features
  xen: add /sys/hypervisor support
  xen/xenbus: export xenbus_dev_changed
  xen: use device model for suspending xenbus devices
  xen: remove suspend_cancel hook
  xen/dev-evtchn: clean up locking in evtchn
  xen: export ioctl headers to userspace
  xen: add /dev/xen/evtchn driver
  xen: add irq_from_evtchn
  xen: clean up gate trap/interrupt constants
  xen: set _PAGE_NX in __supported_pte_mask before pagetable construction
  ...
2009-06-10 16:16:27 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
082b63ae45 Merge branch 'sched-docs-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-docs-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: Document memory barriers implied by sleep/wake-up primitives
2009-06-10 15:48:53 -07:00
Paul Mackerras
3f731ca60a perf_counter: Fix cpu migration counter
This fixes the cpu migration software counter to count
correctly even when contexts get swapped from one task to
another.  Previously the cpu migration counts reported by perf
stat were bogus, ranging from negative to several thousand for
a single "lat_ctx 2 8 32" run.  With this patch the cpu
migration count reported for "lat_ctx 2 8 32" is almost always
between 35 and 44.

This fixes the problem by adding a call into the perf_counter
code from set_task_cpu when tasks are migrated.  This enables
us to use the generic swcounter code (with some modifications)
for the cpu migration counter.

This modifies the swcounter code to allow a NULL regs pointer
to be passed in to perf_swcounter_ctx_event() etc.  The cpu
migration counter does this because there isn't necessarily a
pt_regs struct for the task available.  In this case, the
counter will not have interrupt capability - but the migration
counter didn't have interrupt capability before, so this is no
loss.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <18979.35006.819769.416327@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-02 13:10:54 +02:00
Paul Mackerras
f38b082081 perf_counter: Initialize per-cpu context earlier on cpu up
This arranges for perf_counter's notifier for cpu hotplug
operations to be called earlier than the migration notifier in
sched.c by increasing its priority to 20, compared to the 10
for the migration notifier.  The reason for doing this is that
a subsequent commit to convert the cpu migration counter to use
the generic swcounter infrastructure will add a call into the
perf_counter subsystem when tasks get migrated.  Therefore the
perf_counter subsystem needs a chance to initialize its per-cpu
data for the new cpu before it can get called from the
migration code.

This also adds a comment to the migration notifier noting that
its priority needs to be lower than that of the perf_counter
notifier.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <18981.1900.792795.836858@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-02 13:10:54 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
e220d2dcb9 perf_counter: Fix dynamic irq_period logging
We call perf_adjust_freq() from perf_counter_task_tick() which
is is called under the rq->lock causing lock recursion.
However, it's no longer required to be called under the
rq->lock, so remove it from under it.

Also, fix up some related comments.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090523163012.476197912@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-23 19:37:44 +02:00
Paul Mackerras
564c2b210a perf_counter: Optimize context switch between identical inherited contexts
When monitoring a process and its descendants with a set of inherited
counters, we can often get the situation in a context switch where
both the old (outgoing) and new (incoming) process have the same set
of counters, and their values are ultimately going to be added together.
In that situation it doesn't matter which set of counters are used to
count the activity for the new process, so there is really no need to
go through the process of reading the hardware counters and updating
the old task's counters and then setting up the PMU for the new task.

This optimizes the context switch in this situation.  Instead of
scheduling out the perf_counter_context for the old task and
scheduling in the new context, we simply transfer the old context
to the new task and keep using it without interruption.  The new
context gets transferred to the old task.  This means that both
tasks still have a valid perf_counter_context, so no special case
is introduced when the old task gets scheduled in again, either on
this CPU or another CPU.

The equivalence of contexts is detected by keeping a pointer in
each cloned context pointing to the context it was cloned from.
To cope with the situation where a context is changed by adding
or removing counters after it has been cloned, we also keep a
generation number on each context which is incremented every time
a context is changed.  When a context is cloned we take a copy
of the parent's generation number, and two cloned contexts are
equivalent only if they have the same parent and the same
generation number.  In order that the parent context pointer
remains valid (and is not reused), we increment the parent
context's reference count for each context cloned from it.

Since we don't have individual fds for the counters in a cloned
context, the only thing that can make two clones of a given parent
different after they have been cloned is enabling or disabling all
counters with prctl.  To account for this, we keep a count of the
number of enabled counters in each context.  Two contexts must have
the same number of enabled counters to be considered equivalent.

Here are some measurements of the context switch time as measured with
the lat_ctx benchmark from lmbench, comparing the times obtained with
and without this patch series:

		-----Unmodified-----		With this patch series
Counters:	none	2 HW	4H+4S	none	2 HW	4H+4S

2 processes:
Average		3.44	6.45	11.24	3.12	3.39	3.60
St dev		0.04	0.04	0.13	0.05	0.17	0.19

8 processes:
Average		6.45	8.79	14.00	5.57	6.23	7.57
St dev		1.27	1.04	0.88	1.42	1.46	1.42

32 processes:
Average		5.56	8.43	13.78	5.28	5.55	7.15
St dev		0.41	0.47	0.53	0.54	0.57	0.81

The numbers are the mean and standard deviation of 20 runs of
lat_ctx.  The "none" columns are lat_ctx run directly without any
counters.  The "2 HW" columns are with lat_ctx run under perfstat,
counting cycles and instructions.  The "4H+4S" columns are lat_ctx run
under perfstat with 4 hardware counters and 4 software counters
(cycles, instructions, cache references, cache misses, task
clock, context switch, cpu migrations, and page faults).

[ Impact: performance optimization of counter context-switches ]

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <18966.10666.517218.332164@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-22 12:18:20 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
4200efd9ac sched: properly define the sched_group::cpumask and sched_domain::span fields
Properly document the variable-size structure tricks we are doing
wrt. struct sched_group and sched_domain, and use the field[0] GCC
extension instead of defining a vla array.

Dont use unions for this, as pointed out by Linus.

[ Impact: cleanup, un-confuse Sparse and LLVM ]

Reported-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0905180850110.3301@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-19 09:22:19 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
dc3f81b129 Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc6' into perfcounters/core
Merge reason: this branch was on an -rc4 base, merge it up to -rc6
              to get the latest upstream fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-18 07:37:49 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
2d02494f5a sched, timers: cleanup avenrun users
avenrun is an rough estimate so we don't have to worry about
consistency of the three avenrun values. Remove the xtime lock
dependency and provide a function to scale the values. Cleanup the
users.

[ Impact: cleanup ]

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
2009-05-15 15:32:45 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
dce48a84ad sched, timers: move calc_load() to scheduler
Dimitri Sivanich noticed that xtime_lock is held write locked across
calc_load() which iterates over all online CPUs. That can cause long
latencies for xtime_lock readers on large SMP systems. 

The load average calculation is an rough estimate anyway so there is
no real need to protect the readers vs. the update. It's not a problem
when the avenrun array is updated while a reader copies the values.

Instead of iterating over all online CPUs let the scheduler_tick code
update the number of active tasks shortly before the avenrun update
happens. The avenrun update itself is handled by the CPU which calls
do_timer().

[ Impact: reduce xtime_lock write locked section ]

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
2009-05-15 15:32:45 +02:00
Arun R Bharadwaj
eea08f32ad timers: Logic to move non pinned timers
* Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [2009-04-16 12:11:36]:

This patch migrates all non pinned timers and hrtimers to the current
idle load balancer, from all the idle CPUs. Timers firing on busy CPUs
are not migrated.

While migrating hrtimers, care should be taken to check if migrating
a hrtimer would result in a latency or not. So we compare the expiry of the
hrtimer with the next timer interrupt on the target cpu and migrate the
hrtimer only if it expires *after* the next interrupt on the target cpu.
So, added a clockevents_get_next_event() helper function to return the
next_event on the target cpu's clock_event_device.

[ tglx: cleanups and simplifications ]

Signed-off-by: Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-05-13 16:52:42 +02:00
Arun R Bharadwaj
cd1bb94b4a timers: /proc/sys sysctl hook to enable timer migration
* Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [2009-04-16 12:11:36]:

This patch creates the /proc/sys sysctl interface at
/proc/sys/kernel/timer_migration

Timer migration is enabled by default.

To disable timer migration, when CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG = y,

echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/timer_migration

Signed-off-by: Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-05-13 16:52:42 +02:00
Arun R Bharadwaj
5c333864a6 timers: Identifying the existing pinned timers
* Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [2009-04-16 12:11:36]:

The following pinned hrtimers have been identified and marked:
1)sched_rt_period_timer
2)tick_sched_timer
3)stack_trace_timer_fn

[ tglx: fixup the hrtimer pinned mode ]

Signed-off-by: Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-05-13 16:52:42 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
7961386fe9 Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc5' into sched/core
Merge reason: sched/core was on .30-rc1 before, update to latest fixes

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-11 12:59:37 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
f066a15533 Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/xen
Conflicts:
	arch/frv/include/asm/pgtable.h
	arch/x86/include/asm/required-features.h
	arch/x86/xen/mmu.c

Merge reason: x86/xen was on a .29 base still, move it to a fresher
              branch and pick up Xen fixes as well, plus resolve
              conflicts

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-08 10:50:00 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
0ad5d703c6 Merge branch 'tracing/hw-branch-tracing' into tracing/core
Merge reason: this topic is ready for upstream now. It passed
              Oleg's review and Andrew had no further mm/*
              objections/observations either.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-07 13:36:22 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
44347d947f Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/core
Merge reason: tracing/core was on a .30-rc1 base and was missing out on
              on a handful of tracing fixes present in .30-rc5-almost.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-07 11:17:34 +02:00
David Rientjes
aa47b7e0f8 sched: emit thread info flags with stack trace
When a thread is oom killed and fails to exit, it's helpful to know which
threads have access to memory reserves if the machine livelocks.  This is
done by testing for the TIF_MEMDIE thread info flag and should be
displayed alongside stack traces to identify tasks that have access to
such reserves but are still stuck allocating pages, for instance.

It would probably be helpful in other cases as well, so all thread info
flags are emitted when showing a task.

( v2: fix warning reported by Stephen Rothwell )

[ Impact: extend debug printout info ]

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0905040136390.15831@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-07 09:36:28 +02:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
de1d728606 tracepoint: trace_sched_migrate_task(): remove parameter
The orig_cpu parameter in trace_sched_migrate_task() is not necessary,
it can be got by using task_cpu(p) in the probe.

[ Impact: micro-optimization ]

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
[ modified from Mathieu's patch. The original patch is at:
  http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123791201716239&w=2 ]
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
LKML-Reference: <49FFFDB7.1050402@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-06 12:15:51 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
60aa605dfc sched: rt: document the risk of small values in the bandwidth settings
Thomas noted that we should disallow sysctl_sched_rt_runtime == 0 for
(!RT_GROUP) since the root group always has some RT tasks in it.

Further, update the documentation to inspire clue.

[ Impact: exclude corner-case sysctl_sched_rt_runtime value ]

Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20090505155436.863098054@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-05 20:07:57 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
0d905bca23 perf_counter: initialize the per-cpu context earlier
percpu scheduling for perfcounters wants to take the context lock,
but that lock first needs to be initialized. Currently it is an
early_initcall() - but that is too late, the task tick runs much
sooner than that.

Call it explicitly from the scheduler init sequence instead.

[ Impact: fix access-before-init crash ]

LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-04 19:30:32 +02:00
Eric Dumazet
f5f293a4e3 sched: account system time properly
Andrew Gallatin reported that IRQ and SOFTIRQ times were
sometime not reported correctly on recent kernels, and even
bisected to commit 457533a7d3
([PATCH] fix scaled & unscaled cputime accounting) as the first
bad commit.

Further analysis pointed that commit
79741dd357 ([PATCH] idle cputime
accounting) was the real cause of the problem.

account_process_tick() was not taking into account timer IRQ
interrupting the idle task servicing a hard or soft irq.

On mostly idle cpu, irqs were thus not accounted and top or
mpstat could tell user/admin that cpu was 100 % idle, 0.00 %
irq, 0.00 % softirq, while it was not.

[ Impact: fix occasionally incorrect CPU statistics in top/mpstat ]

Reported-by: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@myri.com>
Re-reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: rick.jones2@hp.com
Cc: brice@myri.com
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
LKML-Reference: <49F84BC1.7080602@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-29 15:02:28 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
e7fd5d4b3d Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/core
Merge reason: This brach was on -rc1, refresh it to almost-rc4 to pick up
              the latest upstream fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-29 14:47:05 +02:00
David Howells
50fa610a3b sched: Document memory barriers implied by sleep/wake-up primitives
Add a section to the memory barriers document to note the implied
memory barriers of sleep primitives (set_current_state() and wrappers)
and wake-up primitives (wake_up() and co.).

Also extend the in-code comments on the wake_up() functions to note
these implied barriers.

[ Impact: add documentation ]

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090428140138.1192.94723.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-29 14:15:55 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
416dfdcdb8 Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc3' into tracing/hw-branch-tracing
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c

Merge reason: fix the conflict above, and also pick up the CONFIG_BROKEN
              dependency change from upstream so that we can remove it
	      here.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-24 10:11:23 +02:00
Gautham R Shenoy
6e29ec5701 sched: Replace first_cpu() with cpumask_first() in ILB nomination code
Stephen Rothwell reported this build warning:

>  kernel/sched.c: In function 'find_new_ilb':
>  kernel/sched.c:4355: warning: passing argument 1 of '__first_cpu' from incompatible pointer type
>
> Possibly caused by commit f711f6090a
> ("sched: Nominate idle load balancer from a semi-idle package") from
> the sched tree.  Should this call to first_cpu be cpumask_first?

For !(CONFIG_SCHED_MC || CONFIG_SCHED_SMT), find_new_ilb() nominates the
Idle load balancer as the first cpu from the nohz.cpu_mask.

This code uses the older API first_cpu(). Replace it with cpumask_first(),
which is the correct API here.

[ Impact: cleanup, address build warning ]

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
LKML-Reference: <20090421031049.GA4140@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-21 08:06:05 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
ff743345bf sched: remove extra call overhead for schedule()
Lai Jiangshan's patch reminded me that I promised Nick to remove
that extra call overhead in schedule().

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20090313112300.927414207@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-20 20:49:53 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
f1f9b3b179 perfcounters, sched: remove __task_delta_exec()
This function was left orphan by the latest round of sw-counter
cleanups.

[ Impact: remove unused kernel function ]

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-20 20:38:21 +02:00
Gautham R Shenoy
381512cf3d sched: Avoid printing sched_group::__cpu_power for default case
Commit 46e0bb9c12 ("sched: Print sched_group::__cpu_power
in sched_domain_debug") produces a messy dmesg output while
attempting to print the sched_group::__cpu_power for each
group in the sched_domain hierarchy.

Fix this by avoid printing the __cpu_power for default cases.
(i.e, __cpu_power == SCHED_LOAD_SCALE).

[ Impact: reduce syslog clutter ]

Reported-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Fixed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
LKML-Reference: <20090414033936.GA534@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-17 00:46:05 +02:00
Miao Xie
13318a7186 sched: use group_first_cpu() instead of cpumask_first(sched_group_cpus())
Impact: cleanup

This patch changes cpumask_first(sched_group_cpus()) to group_first_cpu()
for maintainability.

Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-15 13:34:07 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
ad8d75fff8 tracing/events: move trace point headers into include/trace/events
Impact: clean up

Create a sub directory in include/trace called events to keep the
trace point headers in their own separate directory. Only headers that
declare trace points should be defined in this directory.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-14 22:05:43 -04:00