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2009-03-29sched: fix errors in struct & function commentsRandy Dunlap
Fix kernel-doc errors in sched.c: the structs don't have kernel-doc notation and the short function description needs to be one line only. Error(kernel/sched.c:3197): cannot understand prototype: 'struct sd_lb_stats ' Error(kernel/sched.c:3228): cannot understand prototype: 'struct sg_lb_stats ' Error(kernel/sched.c:3375): duplicate section name 'Description' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-03-27Merge branch 'core/percpu' into percpu-cpumask-x86-for-linus-2Ingo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/parisc/kernel/irq.c arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap_64.h arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h kernel/irq/handle.c Semantic merge: arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-25sched: Add comments to find_busiest_group() functionGautham R Shenoy
Impact: cleanup Add /** style comments around find_busiest_group(). Also add a few explanatory comments. This concludes the find_busiest_group() cleanup. The function is now down to 72 lines from the original 313 lines. Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: "Balbir Singh" <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: "Dhaval Giani" <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: "Vaidyanathan Srinivasan" <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090325091427.13992.18933.stgit@sofia.in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-25sched: Refactor the power savings balance codeGautham R Shenoy
Impact: cleanup Create seperate helper functions to initialize the power-savings-balance related variables, to update them and to check if we have a scope for performing power-savings balance. Add no-op inline functions for the !(CONFIG_SCHED_MC || CONFIG_SCHED_SMT) case. This will eliminate all the #ifdef jungle in find_busiest_group() and the other helper functions. Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: "Balbir Singh" <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: "Dhaval Giani" <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: "Vaidyanathan Srinivasan" <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090325091422.13992.73616.stgit@sofia.in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-25sched: Optimize the !power_savings_balance during fbg()Gautham R Shenoy
Impact: cleanup, micro-optimization We don't need to perform power_savings balance if either the cpu is NOT_IDLE or if the sched_domain doesn't contain the SD_POWERSAVINGS_BALANCE flag set. Currently, we check for these conditions multiple number of times, even though these variables don't change over the scope of find_busiest_group(). Check once, and store the value in the already exiting "power_savings_balance" variable. Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: "Balbir Singh" <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: "Dhaval Giani" <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: "Vaidyanathan Srinivasan" <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090325091417.13992.2657.stgit@sofia.in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-25sched: Create a helper function to calculate imbalanceGautham R Shenoy
Move all the imbalance calculation out of find_busiest_group() through this helper function. With this change, the structure of find_busiest_group() will be as follows: - update_sched_domain_statistics. - check if imbalance exits. - update imbalance and return busiest. Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: "Balbir Singh" <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: "Dhaval Giani" <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: "Vaidyanathan Srinivasan" <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090325091411.13992.43293.stgit@sofia.in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-25sched: Create helper to calculate small_imbalance in fbg()Gautham R Shenoy
Impact: cleanup We have two places in find_busiest_group() where we need to calculate the minor imbalance before returning the busiest group. Encapsulate this functionality into a seperate helper function. Credit: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: "Balbir Singh" <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: "Dhaval Giani" <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090325091406.13992.54316.stgit@sofia.in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-25sched: Create a helper function to calculate sched_domain stats for fbg()Gautham R Shenoy
Impact: cleanup Create a helper function named update_sd_lb_stats() to update the various sched_domain related statistics in find_busiest_group(). With this we would have moved all the statistics computation out of find_busiest_group(). Credit: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: "Balbir Singh" <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: "Dhaval Giani" <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090325091401.13992.88737.stgit@sofia.in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-25sched: Define structure to store the sched_domain statistics for fbg()Gautham R Shenoy
Impact: cleanup Currently we use a lot of local variables in find_busiest_group() to capture the various statistics related to the sched_domain. Group them together into a single data structure. This will help us to offload the job of updating the sched_domain statistics to a helper function. Credit: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: "Balbir Singh" <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: "Dhaval Giani" <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090325091356.13992.25970.stgit@sofia.in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-25sched: Create a helper function to calculate sched_group stats for fbg()Gautham R Shenoy
Impact: cleanup Create a helper function named update_sg_lb_stats() which can be invoked to calculate the individual group's statistics in find_busiest_group(). This reduces the lenght of find_busiest_group() considerably. Credit: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Aked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: "Balbir Singh" <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: "Dhaval Giani" <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090325091351.13992.43461.stgit@sofia.in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-25sched: Define structure to store the sched_group statistics for fbg()Gautham R Shenoy
Impact: cleanup Currently a whole bunch of variables are used to store the various statistics pertaining to the groups we iterate over in find_busiest_group(). Group them together in a single data structure and add appropriate comments. This will be useful later on when we create helper functions to calculate the sched_group statistics. Credit: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: "Balbir Singh" <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: "Dhaval Giani" <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090325091345.13992.20099.stgit@sofia.in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-25sched: Fix indentations in find_busiest_group() using gotosGautham R Shenoy
Impact: cleanup Some indentations in find_busiest_group() can minimized by using early exits with the help of gotos. This improves readability in a couple of cases. Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: "Balbir Singh" <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: "Dhaval Giani" <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: "Vaidyanathan Srinivasan" <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090325091340.13992.45062.stgit@sofia.in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-25sched: Simple helper functions for find_busiest_group()Gautham R Shenoy
Impact: cleanup Currently the load idx calculation code is in find_busiest_group(). Move that to a static inline helper function. Similary, to find the first cpu of a sched_group we use cpumask_first(sched_group_cpus(group)) Use a helper to that. It improves readability in some cases. Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: "Balbir Singh" <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: "Dhaval Giani" <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: "Vaidyanathan Srinivasan" <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090325091335.13992.55424.stgit@sofia.in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-24sched: remove unused fields from struct rqLuis Henriques
Impact: cleanup, new schedstat ABI Since they are used on in statistics and are always set to zero, the following fields from struct rq have been removed: yld_exp_empty, yld_act_empty and yld_both_empty. Both Sched Debug and SCHEDSTAT_VERSION versions has also been incremented since ABIs have been changed. The schedtop tool has been updated to properly handle new version of schedstat: http://rt.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Schedtop_utility Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <henrix@sapo.pt> Acked-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <20090324221002.GA10061@hades.domain.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-17sched: small optimisation of can_migrate_task()Luis Henriques
There were 3 invocations of task_hot() in can_migrate_task(). Replace these 3 invocations by only one invocation, cached in a local variable. Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <henrix@sapo.pt> LKML-Reference: <20090316195902.GA6197@hades.domain.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-17sched: fix typos in documentationLuis Henriques
Fixed typos in function documentation. Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <henrix@sapo.pt> LKML-Reference: <20090316195809.GA6073@hades.domain.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-11sched: add avg_overlap decayMike Galbraith
Impact: more precise avg_overlap metric - better load-balancing avg_overlap is used to measure the runtime overlap of the waker and wakee. However, when a process changes behaviour, eg a pipe becomes un-congested and we don't need to go to sleep after a wakeup for a while, the avg_overlap value grows stale. When running we use the avg runtime between preemption as a measure for avg_overlap since the amount of runtime can be correlated to cache footprint. The longer we run, the less likely we'll be wanting to be migrated to another CPU. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1236709131.25234.576.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-10sched: optimize ttwu vs group schedulingPeter Zijlstra
Impact: micro-optimization We can avoid the sched domain walk on try_to_wake_up() when we know there are no groups. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1236603381.8389.455.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-06sched: TIF_NEED_RESCHED -> need_reshed() cleanupLai Jiangshan
Impact: cleanup Use test_tsk_need_resched(), set_tsk_need_resched(), need_resched() instead of using TIF_NEED_RESCHED. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <49B10BA4.9070209@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-06Merge branch 'sched/core' into sched/cleanupsIngo Molnar
2009-03-05sched: don't rebalance if attached on NULL domainFrederic Weisbecker
Impact: fix function graph trace hang / drop pointless softirq on UP While debugging a function graph trace hang on an old PII, I saw that it consumed most of its time on the timer interrupt. And the domain rebalancing softirq was the most concerned. The timer interrupt calls trigger_load_balance() which will decide if it is worth to schedule a rebalancing softirq. In case of builtin UP kernel, no problem arises because there is no domain question. In case of builtin SMP kernel running on an SMP box, still no problem, the softirq will be raised each time we reach the next_balance time. In case of builtin SMP kernel running on a UP box (most distros provide default SMP kernels, whatever the box you have), then the CPU is attached to the NULL sched domain. So a kind of unexpected behaviour happen: trigger_load_balance() -> raises the rebalancing softirq later on softirq: run_rebalance_domains() -> rebalance_domains() where the for_each_domain(cpu, sd) is not taken because of the NULL domain we are attached at. Which means rq->next_balance is never updated. So on the next timer tick, we will enter trigger_load_balance() which will always reschedule() the rebalacing softirq: if (time_after_eq(jiffies, rq->next_balance)) raise_softirq(SCHED_SOFTIRQ); So for each tick, we process this pointless softirq. This patch fixes it by checking if we are attached to the null domain before raising the softirq, another possible fix would be to set the maximal possible JIFFIES value to rq->next_balance if we are attached to the NULL domain. v2: build fix on UP Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <49af242d.1c07d00a.32d5.ffffc019@mx.google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-02sched: kill unused parameter of pick_next_task()Wang Chen
Impact: micro-optimization Parameter "prev" is not used really. Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-02Merge branches 'sched/clock', 'sched/urgent' and 'linus' into sched/coreIngo Molnar
2009-02-27sched: don't allow setuid to succeed if the user does not have rt bandwidthDhaval Giani
Impact: fix hung task with certain (non-default) rt-limit settings Corey Hickey reported that on using setuid to change the uid of a rt process, the process would be unkillable and not be running. This is because there was no rt runtime for that user group. Add in a check to see if a user can attach an rt task to its task group. On failure, return EINVAL, which is also returned in CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED. Reported-by: Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org> Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-26sched_rt: don't start timer when rt bandwidth disabledHiroshi Shimamoto
Impact: fix incorrect condition check No need to start rt bandwidth timer when rt bandwidth is disabled. If this timer starts, it may stop at sched_rt_period_timer() on the first time. Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-26cpuacct: add a branch predictionLi Zefan
cpuacct_charge() is in fast-path, and checking of !cpuacct_susys.active always returns false after cpuacct has been initialized at system boot. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-24Merge branch 'tj-percpu' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc into core/percpu Conflicts: arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
2009-02-22Merge branch 'linus' into x86/apicIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/mach-default/setup.c Semantic conflict resolution: arch/x86/kernel/setup.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-20alloc_percpu: change percpu_ptr to per_cpu_ptrRusty Russell
Impact: cleanup There are two allocated per-cpu accessor macros with almost identical spelling. The original and far more popular is per_cpu_ptr (44 files), so change over the other 4 files. tj: kill percpu_ptr() and update UP too Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: mingo@redhat.com Cc: lenb@kernel.org Cc: cpufreq@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-02-16sched: use TASK_NICE for task_structAmérico Wang
#define TASK_NICE(p) PRIO_TO_NICE((p)->static_prio) So it's better to use TASK_NICE here. Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <wangcong@zeuux.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-15sched: idle_at_tick is only used when CONFIG_SMP is setHenrik Austad
Impact: struct rq size optimization The idle_at_tick in struct rq is only used in SMP settings and it does not make sense to have this in the rq in an UP setup. Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-15Merge branch 'sched/urgent'; commit 'v2.6.29-rc5' into sched/coreIngo Molnar
2009-02-13Merge branch 'linus' into x86/apicIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c arch/x86/mm/fault.c
2009-02-12sched: cpu hotplug fixIngo Molnar
rq_attach_root() does a kfree() with the runqueue lock held. That's not a very wise move, fix it. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-11Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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: revert recent sync wakeup changes
2009-02-11Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: timers: fix TIMER_ABSTIME for process wide cpu timers timers: split process wide cpu clocks/timers, fix x86: clean up hpet timer reinit timers: split process wide cpu clocks/timers, remove spurious warning timers: split process wide cpu clocks/timers signal: re-add dead task accumulation stats. x86: fix hpet timer reinit for x86_64 sched: fix nohz load balancer on cpu offline
2009-02-11sched: revert recent sync wakeup changesPeter Zijlstra
Intel reported a 10% regression (mysql+sysbench) on a 16-way machine with these patches: 1596e29: sched: symmetric sync vs avg_overlap d942fb6: sched: fix sync wakeups Revert them. Reported-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Bisected-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-11Merge commit 'v2.6.29-rc4' into sched/coreIngo Molnar
2009-02-09Merge commit 'v2.6.29-rc4' into core/percpuIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/mach-voyager/voyager_smp.c arch/x86/mm/fault.c
2009-02-08Merge branches 'sched/rt' and 'sched/urgent' into sched/coreIngo Molnar
2009-02-05Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/apicIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/mach-default/setup.c Semantic merge: arch/x86/kernel/irqinit_32.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-05wait: prevent exclusive waiter starvationJohannes Weiner
With exclusive waiters, every process woken up through the wait queue must ensure that the next waiter down the line is woken when it has finished. Interruptible waiters don't do that when aborting due to a signal. And if an aborting waiter is concurrently woken up through the waitqueue, noone will ever wake up the next waiter. This has been observed with __wait_on_bit_lock() used by lock_page_killable(): the first contender on the queue was aborting when the actual lock holder woke it up concurrently. The aborted contender didn't acquire the lock and therefor never did an unlock followed by waking up the next waiter. Add abort_exclusive_wait() which removes the process' wait descriptor from the waitqueue, iff still queued, or wakes up the next waiter otherwise. It does so under the waitqueue lock. Racing with a wake up means the aborting process is either already woken (removed from the queue) and will wake up the next waiter, or it will remove itself from the queue and the concurrent wake up will apply to the next waiter after it. Use abort_exclusive_wait() in __wait_event_interruptible_exclusive() and __wait_on_bit_lock() when they were interrupted by other means than a wake up through the queue. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Reported-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Mentored-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Cc: Chuck Lever <cel@citi.umich.edu> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> ["after some testing"] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-04sched: fix nohz load balancer on cpu offlineSuresh Siddha
Christian Borntraeger reports: > After a logical cpu offline, even on a complete idle system, there > is one cpu with full ticks. It turns out that nohz.cpu_mask has the > the offlined cpu still set. > > In select_nohz_load_balancer() we check if the system is completely > idle to turn of load balancing. We compare cpu_online_map with > nohz.cpu_mask. Since cpu_online_map is updated on cpu unplug, > but nohz.cpu_mask is not, the check fails and the scheduler believes > that we need an "idle load balancer" even on a fully idle system. > Since the ilb cpu does not deactivate the timer tick this breaks NOHZ. Fix the select_nohz_load_balancer() to not set the nohz.cpu_mask while a cpu is going offline. Reported-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-01sched: symmetric sync vs avg_overlapPeter Zijlstra
Reinstate the weakening of the sync hint if set. This yields a more symmetric usage of avg_overlap. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-01sched: fix sync wakeupsPeter Zijlstra
Pawel Dziekonski reported that the openssl benchmark and his quantum chemistry application both show slowdowns due to the scheduler under-parallelizing execution. The reason are pipe wakeups still doing 'sync' wakeups which overrides the normal buddy wakeup logic - even if waker and wakee are loosely coupled. Fix an inversion of logic in the buddy wakeup code. Reported-by: Pawel Dziekonski <dzieko@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-21Merge branch 'x86/mm' into core/percpuIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/mm/fault.c
2009-01-18Merge branch 'core/percpu' into stackprotectorIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/include/asm/pda.h arch/x86/include/asm/system.h Also, moved include/asm-x86/stackprotector.h to arch/x86/include/asm. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-15Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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: sched_slice() fixlet sched: fix update_min_vruntime sched: SCHED_OTHER vs SCHED_IDLE isolation sched: SCHED_IDLE weight change sched: fix bandwidth validation for UID grouping Revert "sched: improve preempt debugging"
2009-01-15sched: SCHED_IDLE weight changePeter Zijlstra
Increase the SCHED_IDLE weight from 2 to 3, this gives much more stable vruntime numbers. time advanced in 100ms: weight=2 64765.988352 67012.881408 88501.412352 weight=3 35496.181411 34130.971298 35497.411573 Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-15sched: fix bandwidth validation for UID groupingPeter Zijlstra
Impact: make rt-limit tunables work again Mark Glines reported: > I've got an issue on x86-64 where I can't configure the system to allow > RT tasks for a non-root user. > > In 2.6.26.5, I was able to do the following to set things up nicely: > echo 450000 >/sys/kernel/uids/0/cpu_rt_runtime > echo 450000 >/sys/kernel/uids/1000/cpu_rt_runtime > > Seems like every value I try to echo into the /sys files returns EINVAL. For UID grouping we initialize the root group with infinite bandwidth which by default is actually more than the global limit, therefore the bandwidth check always fails. Because the root group is a phantom group (for UID grouping) we cannot runtime adjust it, therefore we let it reflect the global bandwidth settings. Reported-by: Mark Glines <mark@glines.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>