commit 5ec2481b7b upstream.
smp_call_function_* must not be called from softirq context.
But clock_was_set() which calls on_each_cpu() is called from softirq
context to implement a delayed clock_was_set() for the timer interrupt
handler. Though that almost never gets invoked. A recent change in the
resume code uses the softirq based delayed clock_was_set to support
Xens resume mechanism.
linux-next contains a new warning which warns if smp_call_function_*
is called from softirq context which gets triggered by that Xen
change.
Fix this by moving the delayed clock_was_set() call to a work context.
Reported-and-tested-by: Artem Savkov <artem.savkov@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>,
Cc: Konrad Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit e5248a111b upstream.
Prevent automatic system suspend from happening during system
shutdown by making try_to_suspend() check system_state and return
immediately if it is not SYSTEM_RUNNING.
This prevents the following breakage from happening (scenario from
Zhang Yanmin):
Kernel starts shutdown and calls all device driver's shutdown
callback. When a driver's shutdown is called, the last wakelock is
released and suspend-to-ram starts. However, as some driver's shut
down callbacks already shut down devices and disabled runtime pm,
the suspend-to-ram calls driver's suspend callback without noticing
that device is already off and causes crash.
[rjw: Changelog]
Signed-off-by: Liu ShuoX <shuox.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit 8e2e2fa471 upstream.
Commit a695cb5816 "tracing: Prevent deleting instances when they are being read"
tried to fix a race between deleting a trace instance and reading contents
of a trace file. But it wasn't good enough. The following could crash the kernel:
# cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances
# ( while :; do mkdir foo; rmdir foo; done ) &
# ( while :; do echo 1 > foo/events/sched/sched_switch 2> /dev/null; done ) &
Luckily this can only be done by root user, but it should be fixed regardless.
The problem is that a delete of the file can happen after the write to the event
is opened, but before the enabling happens.
The solution is to make sure the trace_array is available before succeeding in
opening for write, and incerment the ref counter while opened.
Now the instance can be deleted when the events are writing to the buffer,
but the deletion of the instance will disable all events before the instance
is actually deleted.
Reported-by: Alexander Lam <azl@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit 2a6c24afab upstream.
While analyzing the code, I discovered that there's a potential race between
deleting a trace instance and setting events. There are a few races that can
occur if events are being traced as the buffer is being deleted. Mostly the
problem comes with freeing the descriptor used by the trace event callback.
To prevent problems like this, the events are disabled before the buffer is
deleted. The problem with the current solution is that the event_mutex is let
go between disabling the events and freeing the files, which means that the events
could be enabled again while the freeing takes place.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit 7b85af6303 upstream.
When a trace file is opened that may access a trace array, it must
increment its ref count to prevent it from being deleted.
Reported-by: Alexander Lam <azl@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit ff451961a8 upstream.
Commit a695cb5816 "tracing: Prevent deleting instances when they are being read"
tried to fix a race between deleting a trace instance and reading contents
of a trace file. But it wasn't good enough. The following could crash the kernel:
# cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances
# ( while :; do mkdir foo; rmdir foo; done ) &
# ( while :; do cat foo/trace &> /dev/null; done ) &
Luckily this can only be done by root user, but it should be fixed regardless.
The problem is that a delete of the file can happen after the reader starts
to open the file but before it grabs the trace_types_mutex.
The solution is to validate the trace array before using it. If the trace
array does not exist in the list of trace arrays, then it returns -ENODEV.
There's a possibility that a trace_array could be deleted and a new one
created and the open would open its file instead. But that is very minor as
it will just return the data of the new trace array, it may confuse the user
but it will not crash the system. As this can only be done by root anyway,
the race will only occur if root is deleting what its trying to read at
the same time.
Reported-by: Alexander Lam <azl@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit 6e94a78037 upstream.
Running the following:
# cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
# echo p:i do_sys_open > kprobe_events
# echo p:j schedule >> kprobe_events
# cat kprobe_events
p:kprobes/i do_sys_open
p:kprobes/j schedule
# echo p:i do_sys_open >> kprobe_events
# cat kprobe_events
p:kprobes/j schedule
p:kprobes/i do_sys_open
# ls /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kprobes/
enable filter j
Notice that the 'i' is missing from the kprobes directory.
The console produces:
"Failed to create system directory kprobes"
This is because kprobes passes in a allocated name for the system
and the ftrace event subsystem saves off that name instead of creating
a duplicate for it. But the kprobes may free the system name making
the pointer to it invalid.
This bug was introduced by 92edca073c "tracing: Use direct field, type
and system names" which switched from using kstrdup() on the system name
in favor of just keeping apointer to it, as the internal ftrace event
system names are static and exist for the life of the computer being booted.
Instead of reverting back to duplicating system names again, we can use
core_kernel_data() to determine if the passed in name was allocated or
static. Then use the MSB of the ref_count to be a flag to keep track if
the name was allocated or not. Then we can still save from having to duplicate
strings that will always exist, but still copy the ones that may be freed.
Reported-by: "zhangwei(Jovi)" <jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com>
Reported-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit 058ebd0eba upstream.
Jiri managed to trigger this warning:
[] ======================================================
[] [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
[] 3.10.0+ #228 Tainted: G W
[] -------------------------------------------------------
[] p/6613 is trying to acquire lock:
[] (rcu_node_0){..-...}, at: [<ffffffff810ca797>] rcu_read_unlock_special+0xa7/0x250
[]
[] but task is already holding lock:
[] (&ctx->lock){-.-...}, at: [<ffffffff810f2879>] perf_lock_task_context+0xd9/0x2c0
[]
[] which lock already depends on the new lock.
[]
[] the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:
[]
[] -> #4 (&ctx->lock){-.-...}:
[] -> #3 (&rq->lock){-.-.-.}:
[] -> #2 (&p->pi_lock){-.-.-.}:
[] -> #1 (&rnp->nocb_gp_wq[1]){......}:
[] -> #0 (rcu_node_0){..-...}:
Paul was quick to explain that due to preemptible RCU we cannot call
rcu_read_unlock() while holding scheduler (or nested) locks when part
of the read side critical section was preemptible.
Therefore solve it by making the entire RCU read side non-preemptible.
Also pull out the retry from under the non-preempt to play nice with RT.
Reported-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Helped-out-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit 734df5ab54 upstream.
Currently when the child context for inherited events is
created, it's based on the pmu object of the first event
of the parent context.
This is wrong for the following scenario:
- HW context having HW and SW event
- HW event got removed (closed)
- SW event stays in HW context as the only event
and its pmu is used to clone the child context
The issue starts when the cpu context object is touched
based on the pmu context object (__get_cpu_context). In
this case the HW context will work with SW cpu context
ending up with following WARN below.
Fixing this by using parent context pmu object to clone
from child context.
Addresses the following warning reported by Vince Weaver:
[ 2716.472065] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 2716.476035] WARNING: at kernel/events/core.c:2122 task_ctx_sched_out+0x3c/0x)
[ 2716.476035] Modules linked in: nfsd auth_rpcgss oid_registry nfs_acl nfs locn
[ 2716.476035] CPU: 0 PID: 3164 Comm: perf_fuzzer Not tainted 3.10.0-rc4 #2
[ 2716.476035] Hardware name: AOpen DE7000/nMCP7ALPx-DE R1.06 Oct.19.2012, BI2
[ 2716.476035] 0000000000000000 ffffffff8102e215 0000000000000000 ffff88011fc18
[ 2716.476035] ffff8801175557f0 0000000000000000 ffff880119fda88c ffffffff810ad
[ 2716.476035] ffff880119fda880 ffffffff810af02a 0000000000000009 ffff880117550
[ 2716.476035] Call Trace:
[ 2716.476035] [<ffffffff8102e215>] ? warn_slowpath_common+0x5b/0x70
[ 2716.476035] [<ffffffff810ab2bd>] ? task_ctx_sched_out+0x3c/0x5f
[ 2716.476035] [<ffffffff810af02a>] ? perf_event_exit_task+0xbf/0x194
[ 2716.476035] [<ffffffff81032a37>] ? do_exit+0x3e7/0x90c
[ 2716.476035] [<ffffffff810cd5ab>] ? __do_fault+0x359/0x394
[ 2716.476035] [<ffffffff81032fe6>] ? do_group_exit+0x66/0x98
[ 2716.476035] [<ffffffff8103dbcd>] ? get_signal_to_deliver+0x479/0x4ad
[ 2716.476035] [<ffffffff810ac05c>] ? __perf_event_task_sched_out+0x230/0x2d1
[ 2716.476035] [<ffffffff8100205d>] ? do_signal+0x3c/0x432
[ 2716.476035] [<ffffffff810abbf9>] ? ctx_sched_in+0x43/0x141
[ 2716.476035] [<ffffffff810ac2ca>] ? perf_event_context_sched_in+0x7a/0x90
[ 2716.476035] [<ffffffff810ac311>] ? __perf_event_task_sched_in+0x31/0x118
[ 2716.476035] [<ffffffff81050dd9>] ? mmdrop+0xd/0x1c
[ 2716.476035] [<ffffffff81051a39>] ? finish_task_switch+0x7d/0xa6
[ 2716.476035] [<ffffffff81002473>] ? do_notify_resume+0x20/0x5d
[ 2716.476035] [<ffffffff813654f5>] ? retint_signal+0x3d/0x78
[ 2716.476035] ---[ end trace 827178d8a5966c3d ]---
Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1373384651-6109-1-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit 1f73a9806b upstream.
When the system switches from periodic to oneshot mode, the broadcast
logic causes a possibility that a CPU which has not yet switched to
oneshot mode puts its own clock event device into oneshot mode without
updating the state and the timer handler.
CPU0 CPU1
per cpu tickdev is in periodic mode
and switched to broadcast
Switch to oneshot mode
tick_broadcast_switch_to_oneshot()
cpumask_copy(tick_oneshot_broacast_mask,
tick_broadcast_mask);
broadcast device mode = oneshot
Timer interrupt
irq_enter()
tick_check_oneshot_broadcast()
dev->set_mode(ONESHOT);
tick_handle_periodic()
if (dev->mode == ONESHOT)
dev->next_event += period;
FAIL.
We fail, because dev->next_event contains KTIME_MAX, if the device was
in periodic mode before the uncontrolled switch to oneshot happened.
We must copy the broadcast bits over to the oneshot mask, because
otherwise a CPU which relies on the broadcast would not been woken up
anymore after the broadcast device switched to oneshot mode.
So we need to verify in tick_check_oneshot_broadcast() whether the CPU
has already switched to oneshot mode. If not, leave the device
untouched and let the CPU switch controlled into oneshot mode.
This is a long standing bug, which was never noticed, because the main
user of the broadcast x86 cannot run into that scenario, AFAICT. The
nonarchitected timer mess of ARM creates a gazillion of differently
broken abominations which trigger the shortcomings of that broadcast
code, which better had never been necessary in the first place.
Reported-and-tested-by: Stehle Vincent-B46079 <B46079@freescale.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.02.1307012153060.4013@ionos.tec.linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit 07bd117290 upstream.
The recent implementation of a generic dummy timer resulted in a
different registration order of per cpu local timers which made the
broadcast control logic go belly up.
If the dummy timer is the first clock event device which is registered
for a CPU, then it is installed, the broadcast timer is initialized
and the CPU is marked as broadcast target.
If a real clock event device is installed after that, we can fail to
take the CPU out of the broadcast mask. In the worst case we end up
with two periodic timer events firing for the same CPU. One from the
per cpu hardware device and one from the broadcast.
Now the problem is that we have no way to distinguish whether the
system is in a state which makes broadcasting necessary or the
broadcast bit was set due to the nonfunctional dummy timer
installment.
To solve this we need to keep track of the system state seperately and
provide a more detailed decision logic whether we keep the CPU in
broadcast mode or not.
The old decision logic only clears the broadcast mode, if the newly
installed clock event device is not affected by power states.
The new logic clears the broadcast mode if one of the following is
true:
- The new device is not affected by power states.
- The system is not in a power state affected mode
- The system has switched to oneshot mode. The oneshot broadcast is
controlled from the deep idle state. The CPU is not in idle at
this point, so it's safe to remove it from the mask.
If we clear the broadcast bit for the CPU when a new device is
installed, we also shutdown the broadcast device when this was the
last CPU in the broadcast mask.
If the broadcast bit is kept, then we leave the new device in shutdown
state and rely on the broadcast to deliver the timer interrupts via
the broadcast ipis.
Reported-and-tested-by: Stehle Vincent-B46079 <B46079@freescale.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.02.1307012153060.4013@ionos.tec.linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit 1c8158eeae upstream.
commit 5db9a4d99b
Author: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Date: Sat Jul 7 16:08:18 2012 -0700
cgroup: fix cgroup hierarchy umount race
This commit fixed a race caused by the dput() in css_dput_fn(), but
the dput() in cgroup_event_remove() can also lead to the same BUG().
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch adds system wide workqueues aligned towards power saving. This is
done by allocating them with WQ_UNBOUND flag if 'wq_power_efficient' is set to
'true'.
tj: updated comments a bit.
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
(cherry picked from commit 0668106ca3)
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
Workqueues can be performance or power-oriented. Currently, most workqueues are
bound to the CPU they were created on. This gives good performance (due to cache
effects) at the cost of potentially waking up otherwise idle cores (Idle from
scheduler's perspective. Which may or may not be physically idle) just to
process some work. To save power, we can allow the work to be rescheduled on a
core that is already awake.
Workqueues created with the WQ_UNBOUND flag will allow some power savings.
However, we don't change the default behaviour of the system. To enable
power-saving behaviour, a new config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT needs to
be turned on. This option can also be overridden by the
workqueue.power_efficient boot parameter.
tj: Updated config description and comments. Renamed
CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT to CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
(cherry picked from commit cee22a1505)
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
Updates:
-------
- Rebased over 3.10 final
- Differences from big-LITTLE-MP-master-v18
- New Patches:
- master-config-fragments: 1 new patch
- "config: Disable priority filtering for HMP Scheduler"
- master-misc-patches: 1 new patch
- "mm: make vmstat_update periodic run conditional"
- New Branches:
- master-task-placement-v2-updates: 7 patches
New patches from ARM added in a new topic branch stacked on top
of master-task-placement-v2-sysfs...
- Revert "sched: Enable HMP priority filter by default"
- "HMP: Use unweighted load for hmp migration decisions"
- "HMP: Select least-loaded CPU when performing HMP Migrations"
- "HMP: Avoid multiple calls to hmp_domain_min_load in fast path"
- "HMP: Force new non-kernel tasks onto big CPUs until load stabilises"
- "sched: Restrict nohz balance kicks to stay in the HMP domain"
- "HMP: experimental: Force all rt tasks to start on little domain."
Commands used for merge:
-----------------------
$ git checkout -b big-LITTLE-MP-master-v19 v3.10
$ git merge master-arm-multi_pmu_v2 master-config-fragments \
master-hw-bkpt-fix master-misc-patches master-task-placement-v2 \
master-task-placement-v2-sysfs master-task-placement-v2-updates
This patch restricts the allowed cpu mask for rt tasks initially started
with a full cpu mask to the little domain.
An rt task is specified as real time in __setscheduler() which is finally
called for all rt tasks (kernel and user land). In this function we
restrict the allowed cpu mask to the little domain.
This also prevents that a rt tasks can later be pushed to the big domain
because the function find_lowest_rq() will only recognize the allowed cpu
mask of a task to find the new cpu the task runs on.
Current kludges of the patch:
* Since we do not have an API to get the cpu mask of the A7 cluster,
hmp_slow_cpu_mask is made global in arm/kernel/topology.c for now.
* The watchdog_enable() function calls sched_setscheduler() before
kthread_bind() for the cpu specific watchdog kernel threads. The order of
these two calls has to be changed to make this patch work.
Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
There is little point in doing a nohz balance kick on a CPU from a
different HMP domain, since the unset SD_LOAD_BALANCE flag on the CPU
domain level prevents tasks from being balanced across clusters
except through the per-task load driven hmp_migrate/hmp_offload paths.
Further, the nohz balance kick is actively harmful to power usage if
all the tasks fit into the little domain since it causes the big
domain to wake up and do a lot of calculation to determine that
there is nothing to do.
A more generic solution is to walk the sched domain tree and determine
the intersection of potential idle balance cpus with visibility of
tasks on the current CPU, however HMP domains are more easily
accessible.
Signed-off-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
Initialise the load stats for new tasks so that they do not
see the instability in early task life which makes it so hard to
decide which CPU is appropriate.
Also, change the fork balance algorithm so that the least loaded of
the CPUs in the big cluster is chosen regardless of the bigness of
the parent task.
This is intended to help performance for applications which use
many short-lived tasks. Although best practise is usually to use
a thread pool, apps which do not do this should not be subject to
the randomness of the early stats.
We should ignore real-time threads for forking on big CPUs, but
it is not possible to figure out if a new thread is real-time or
not at the fork stage. Instead, we prevent kernel threads from
getting the initial boost - when they later become real-time they
will only be on big if their compute requirements demand it.
Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
When evaluating a migration we make two calls to hmp_domain_min_load.
This is unnecessary if we pass on the target CPU information from the
hmp_up_migration path.
In hmp_down_migration, we don't consider the load of the target CPUS.
Signed-off-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
The reference patch set always selects the first CPU in an HMP
domain as a migration target. In busy situations, this means that
the migrated thread cannot make immediate use of an idle CPU but
must share a busy one until the load balancer runs across the big
domain.
This patch uses the hmp_domain_min_load function introduced in
global balancing to figure out which of the CPUs is the least busy
and selects that as a migration target - in both directions.
This essentially implements a task-spread strategy and is intended
to maximise performance of migrated threads but is likely
to use more power than the packing strategy previously employed.
Signed-off-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
Normal task and runqueue loading is scaled according to priority
to end up with a weighted load, known as the contribution.
We want the CPU time to be allotted according to priority, but
we also want to make big/little decisions based upon raw load.
It is common, for example, for Android apps following the dev
guide to end up with all their long-running or async action
threads as low priority unless they override the AsyncThread
constructor. All these threads are such low priority that they
become invisible to the hmp_offload routine.
Using unweighted load here allows us to maximise CPU usage in busy
situations.
Signed-off-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
rq->nr_running is the actual number of runnable tasks we wish to use
to determine if a task is alone on a CPU.
Change-Id: Icaf3022e02924ecdc94e14d4146c6fadd9580e2b
Signed-off-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
This patch introduces an extra-check at task up-migration to
prevent overloading the cpus in the faster hmp_domain while the
slower hmp_domain is not fully utilized. The patch also introduces
a periodic balance check that can down-migrate tasks if the faster
domain is oversubscribed and the slower is under-utilized.
Signed-off-by: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
Evaluation Patch to investigate using load as a representation of the
amount of POTENTIAL cpu compute capacity used rather than a representation
of the CURRENT cpu compute capacity.
If CPUFreq is enabled, scales load in accordance with frequency.
Powersave/performance CPUFreq governors are detected and scaling is
disabled while these governors are in use. This is because when a
single-frequency governor is in use, potential CPU capacity is static.
So long as the governors and CPUFreq subsystem correctly report the
frequencies available, the scaling should self tune.
Adds an additional file to sysfs to allow this feature to be disabled
for experimentation.
/sys/kernel/hmp/frequency_invariant_load_scale
write 0 to disable, 1 to enable.
Signed-off-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
These functions allow to change the load average period used
in the task load average computation through
/sys/kernel/hmp/load_avg_period_ms. This period is the time
in ms to go from 0 to 0.5 load average while running or the
time from 1 to 0.5 while sleeping.
The default one used is 32 and gives the same load_avg_ratio
computation than without this patch. These functions also allow
to change the up and down threshold of HMP using
/sys/kernel/hmp/{up,down}_threshold. Both must be between 0 and
1024. The thresholds are divided by 1024 before being compared
to the load_avg_ratio.
If /sys/kernel/hmp/load_avg_period_ms is 128 and
/sys/kernel/hmp/up_threshold is 512, a task will be migrated
to a bigger cluster after running for 128ms. Because after
load_avg_period_ms the load average is 0.5 and real up_threshold
us 512 / 1024 = 0.5.
Signed-off-by: Olivier Cozette <olivier.cozette@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
Previously, an offline CPU would always appear to have a zero load
and this would distort the offload functionality used for balancing
big and little domains.
Maintain a mask of online CPUs in each domain and use this instead.
Change-Id: I639b564b2f40cb659af8ceb8bd37f84b8a1fe323
Signed-off-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
If the entity is not a task, it is a cfs group rq. Iterate up to
find the task entity.
Change-Id: I7cab7aba0798f6f14e38ad32e566d90e5937ffbc
Signed-off-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
Adds an extra check intersection of the task affinity mask and the slower
hmp_domain cpumask before down migrating low priority tasks.
Signed-off-by: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
We need a way to prevent tasks that are migrating up and down the
hmp_domains from migrating straight on through before the load has
adapted to the new compute capacity of the CPU on the new hmp_domain.
This patch adds a next up/down migration delay that prevents the task
from doing another migration in the same direction until the delay
has expired.
Signed-off-by: Morten Rasmussen <Morten.Rasmussen@arm.com>
Adds ftrace events for key variables related to the entity
load-tracking to help debugging scheduler behaviour. Allows tracing
of load contribution and runqueue residency ratio for both entities
and runqueues as well as entity CPU usage ratio.
Signed-off-by: Morten Rasmussen <Morten.Rasmussen@arm.com>
Introduces a priority threshold which prevents low priority task
from migrating to faster hmp_domains (cpus). This is useful for
user-space software which assigns lower task priority to background
task.
Signed-off-by: Morten Rasmussen <Morten.Rasmussen@arm.com>
